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Before & After: A Bright, Affordable DIY Kitchen Update

January 27, 2017January 20, 2019Categories Home94 Comments on Before & After: A Bright, Affordable DIY Kitchen Update

My $250 kitchen update that started it all...

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This month’s issue of @countrylivingmag featured “summer camp” style spaces. I read it cover to cover this morning, and was inspired to give a space in my home a similar vibe. I’ve majorly simplified the “decor” on our main floor, which left me with a small guest room closet full of vintage treasures. I decided to see if I could create my own “vintage summer camp” style in this guest room to display the vintage goodies instead of hiding them away in the closet. This room was previously empty except for the bed and nightstand. All white bedding, nothing hanging on the walls, and nowhere for guests to sit. I gathered my favorite vintage treasures and a bunch of thrifted landscape paintings, and now this room feels like a journey back in time! The quilt on the bed was hand quilted by my great grandma. The yellow chair and green table were both free on our town’s junk day. The landscape gallery wall cost a total of $27. I think this new (old) guest suite needs a name worthy of its new look! What would you call this vintage suite?🛶⛺️🏞🏔🌲🦆 (Thanks, @countrylivingmag for the inspiration!)

Did you enter my giveaway with @frameiteasy ? You still have one more day for a chance to win $100 of custom framing credit! Just head to my post from earlier this week with the photo of my new gallery wall, tag two friends, and tell them what you would frame with your credit. Make sure you’re following @hollandavenuehome and @frameiteasy . I’ll randomly select a winner in my stories tomorrow (Sunday). Even if you don’t win, you can use the code ‘AVERY’ at checkout for 10% off your order! #frameiteasy #sponsored

Our sunroom is on @em_henderson ‘s blog today! 😮💛✨😍😭👏🏻🥰 If you’re finding my account through hers, welcome to Holland Avenue Home! My name is Avery, and I love sharing thrifty and resourceful decorating inspiration for your real-life home. My blog is an invitation to thoughtful homemaking, and it is my goal to give you the tools to love your home. I believe in doing what you love instead of following what is trendy, and that you don’t have to have a big budget to have “big style”. I transformed this sunroom from “crime scene” to “magazine” for $650. (Most of that budget was for paint and supplies for the bed swing). If you’re looking for someone to tell you where to buy all of the trendy stuff, you won’t find that here. But I hope that you WILL find inspiration to look at your home with a fresh perspective, motivation to be fearless with DIYs, and encouragement to be content with your home just as it is (everyday living included). Welcome to my “home” on the Internet, and thanks for stopping by! (Also thank you, @em_henderson , for sharing my design!💛)

🖼GIVEAWAY!🖼Three years later, and I finally printed some wedding photos💁‍♀️ Ben’s parents gave me this beautiful @emily_jeffords painting almost TWO years ago, and I never found the right frame for it. I knew it needed a custom frame because of its odd size, but I thought that would be too expensive. When @frameiteasy reached out about partnering together, I knew exactly what I would frame! Frame It Easy offers affordable and fast custom online framing. There are endless options to design your perfect frame, and their website really does make it easy! I planned to just frame my paintings, but then I saw that they will also print photos for you. 😮 I chose to create a custom gallery wall of family photos and my favorite artwork for our living room. I also framed an Emily Jeffords painting that Ben gave me for Christmas, and hung it on another wall in our living room. All six of these custom, matted frames (with four custom photo prints) cost $200. I am so impressed with the ordering process, printing, frames, and pricing, and will definitely be ordering through @frameiteasy in the future. They are generously offering a coupon code for you to get 10% off your entire order! Just use the coupon code “AVERY” for 10% off at checkout. I’m also hosting a giveaway for a $100 framing credit! To enter the giveaway, you must follow @hollandavenuehome and @frameiteasy . Tag two friends in a comment for your entry, and tell them what you would frame if you win! I will randomly select a winner on Sunday (June 16th) at 3:00pm CST. Good luck! #frameiteasy #sponsored

My favorite view of our sunroom. Morning coffee with Ben and Louie. ☕️🐾💛 We make our coffee and come out here to take our time waking up. We read the news and talk about the day ahead. The jute rug is perpetually wrinkled because Louie likes to use it as a launch pad for running out the door and catapulting onto the bed swing to make it move. The pillows are all smooshed behind me and the sheet is covered in dog hair. There is a stack of junk mail on the entry table. This is what a day in the life of our porch looks like, and it is better than I could have dreamed! I want my home to look good, but more than that I want it to feel good. It sounds silly, but I have to consciously remind myself that homes aren’t magazines. Do you need that reminder, too? Your home doesn’t have to and isn’t supposed to look like it is “straight out of a magazine” (or these days, “straight off of Instagram”). Everyone has junk mail. Everyone has smooshed pillows and wrinkly rugs and little piles of daily life stuff. My kitchen counters have bills, receipts, our vitamins, random hair ties, car keys, and other things that would never be in a magazine shoot. There is a pile of shoes by our back door and a tray of remotes on our coffee table. If you’re despairing today that your home isn’t “picture perfect”, allow me to remind you that it was never supposed to be anything other than a place for your family to live and love. Families have stuff. Pillows get smooshed. Rugs get wrinkled. Junk mail gets stacked right at the front door. Instead of shuffling and huffing and puffing that, “This place is a mess”, allow some space for “the everyday” to be at home in your home. I know I could use the reminder, and I bet I’m not the only one. What does your “everyday” home look like?

This @emily_jeffords painting is finally going to get the fancy frame it deserves.🖼 I couldn’t wait to put it up on the wall when Ben gave it to me at Christmas, so I just put it in an old frame I already had. It definitely serves its purpose, but it feels wrong to put such a valuable piece of art in an “afterthought” frame. I’m currently partnering with @frameiteasy to share their easy and affordable custom framing, and I can’t wait to share the post with you later this week! I received my custom frames in the mail a few days ago, and am really impressed with the quality. Stay tuned for a fun post and a GIVEAWAY later this week!

When I was still designing my sunroom for the @oneroomchallenge , I pictured vintage enamel house numbers next to the door. I scoured Etsy and EBay one afternoon with no luck. I resigned to either making them myself, or just skipping the detail altogether. The very next day, I saw an advertisement for the new Hearth and Hand @magnolia collection at @target and had to have a look. I couldn’t believe it when I saw these house numbers that were EXACTLY what I was picturing! I didn’t order them right away because I wanted to run it by Ben, and they were out of stock by the next day. I ended up ordering them one by one over the next two weeks as they slowly added stock. It was exasperating to keep checking for the “1” to come back in stock, and I was worried that it wouldn’t arrive before my photoshoot deadline. The UPS man brought it JUST in time for me to pop it in the frame and shoot this spot! I guess they were meant to be! I can always “count” on @magnolia to create the perfect mix of vintage and modern. (The door color is Early Riser by @magnolia Home Paints)🚪🌷✨

My anniversary peonies may have died, but I have photos of them in almost every room of the house to help remember them. 🌷💐✨

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