Now that our home renovation is completely done, we have a lot of blank walls and corners to fill up. We intentionally left some of the spaces vacant so that we could DIY some projects on the weekend. These are our house projects for the year.
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Our Home Transformation with Chase Freedom Unlimited
This post was written in collaboration with Chase Freedom Unlimited. Thank you for supporting the partnerships that help Darling Down South bring you content. All opinions are my own. We’ve done it! We’re finally home and the renovation is 95% complete. There are a few things left to do and our home is definitely a
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Our Patterned Tile and Wallpaper Half Bath Reveal
I truly cannot believe this room came together! I’m so excited to share our basically completed half bath with you today. This wallpaper half bath was the culmination of a birthday present (wallpaper) and my husband saying “you can go crazy with that room.” Basically had to get that in writing before I started drawing up
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Best Paint Colors to Use in a Transitional Home
When we were going through our renovation process, it was important to me to pick colors that wouldn’t be too trendy and would go with all the artwork we have planned to put in the house. The colors had to be on the more colorful side of neutral but not too colorful where we’d have
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Keep Your Sanity when Renovating with Chase Freedom Unlimited
This post was made in collaboration with Chase Freedom Unlimited. All thoughts and opinions are my own. We’re rolling into the last and final month of our home renovation, hopefully! It’s been a whirlwind of emotions as we worked through this process and we’ve learned a LOT about what went well and what didn’t work
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Home Remodeling Updates: Mold, Marble & More
This post was made in collaboration with Chase Freedom Unlimited, all opinions are my own. This past month of home restoration has been the rollercoaster you all had warned us about. Colorful mold lurked under the wallpapered plaster walls, rot caused by a leaking pipe from the top floor ruined a quarter of our 120-year-old
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Ruff Reno Update: Southern Living Home Renovation Problems
This post is created in collaboration with Chase Freedom Unlimited. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Well we are officially 8 weeks into our renovation and as any home renovator knows, we’ve got a few problems: namely mold and rot. As I will explain in this post, the walls of the house have seen
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Mid-Century Modern Lighting for a Bathroom
The most exciting and stressful part of our home renovation has come: selecting all of our fixtures and things for the house! I know this shouldn’t have stressed me out as much as it did, but it felt like a very permanent part of the process and I wanted to be sure that I selected
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One Month In with our Home Reno: The Bathroom
This post is in collaboration with Chase Freedom Unlimited. All opinions are my own. The renovations have started and we have officially moved out of our condo while the nasty work is being done. The hardest part about kicking off this entire renovation was the coordination of moving everything out and preparing so that our
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The Ruff Reno: Plans for Our Guest Bathroom
We are 4 weeks into our renovation journey and the workers are really making incredible progress! This week the guys are installing the tile in the bathrooms, which means the bathrooms are almost ready to be operational, which means I need to finally make some decisions on our paint, hardware, and sconces. I think one
