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Our Small Home Exterior Makeover: Before and After
I’m genuinely thrilled to share this update. Despite a couple of computer crashes while I was working on it, my excitement hasn’t faded—because this transformation is exactly the…
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Downsizing Renovation Progress: Small Home Before and After
Our Florida house renovation is progressing well, and while we haven’t visited in person yet, our contractor has been sending plenty of photos from the last two months.…
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Pre-Move Tour of Our Downsized Home
Eeeee! That’s my excited dolphin noise — a theatrical impression my kids mock me for whenever I’m extra enthusiastic. I’m so thrilled to share a tour of our…
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Downsized Beach House Ideas for Cozy Coastal Living
As promised, here are the photos and ideas inspiring our new Florida house. We’ve been leaning into beachy, relaxed coastal style for a long time, so it feels…
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How We House-Hunted: Two Completely Different Approaches
This week we dive into the two strategies we used to find our Florida house: how we separated wants from needs, sifted through hundreds of listings, and leaned…
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How to Downsize Your Stuff: Practical Steps for Decluttering
We’re getting ready to move into a house that’s less than half the size of our current home, so we’ve been carefully evaluating everything we own to decide…
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Top Rated LED Bulbs for Brighter, Longer-Lasting Light
I’m somewhat particular about my light bulbs. After switching our whole house to LEDs, I wanted to get the details right—especially since LEDs are meant to last for…
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Design a Kids’ Arts and Crafts Room: Space-Saving Ideas
Some of you might remember that back in January Sherry mentioned grabbing these wood chairs from Target on Instagram Stories for “a side project we’re working on that…
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Quick Bathroom Remodel Without Demolition
This upstairs hall bathroom came together so quickly it still feels a little unreal — we watched the whole thing happen. After a long-running renovation elsewhere in the…
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Why We’re Downsizing to a Smaller Home in a Warmer State
If you haven’t had a chance to listen to our latest podcast episode or read the transcript, we wanted to put our big news into a proper blog…
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