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    Painted Brick Reveal

    We finally have some sense of normalcy back on our lives so I thought I would share a little reveal with ya’ll. No, it’s not our kitchen! Half our furniture is still in the carport and our house is a disaster but we have what looks like a kitchen {we’ve actually been able to cook in it!}. We’ve still got a long way to go before it’s ready-ready to reveal, though. Over two months ago, I shared that Cory and I decided to stay put and make our house work for us, but making our house work for us meant some pretty drastic updates. Well, one of the first of those…

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    24 Paint Samples

    Choosing paint colors was the part I’ve been dreading most about this kitchen renovation. Any indecisive person can relate to my nightmare: having to choose from 17 million colors. I’ve been scouring Pinterest for weeks now and had a list of colors I wanted to try so when I left Home Depot on Saturday with 12 paint samples, I was pretty confident that I would have at least one color that I liked. After all, I only had 5 paint samples for the outside of the house and chose one almost immediately. Surely, finding a true gray wouldn’t be that hard. 14 paint samples later, one big meltdown, a few tears and maybe some…

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    Life Lately

    Happy Friday my long, lost friends! It’s been forever since I’ve update y’all on anything other than the kitchen, so let’s catch up. Graduation {our busiest week of the year} was last week. I had a couple long 12 hour days and I’m so glad it’s over! I didn’t get home until almost 9:00 o’clock Friday night and as soon as I got home, I crashed. Cory was so sweet and had dinner waiting for me. I was almost too tired to eat hibachi but I suffered through.

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    The Day It Finally Happened

    I knew it was coming, y’all. The tension in the Sloan household has been high for the past couple weeks. Everything has been a struggle. It seems like nothing has gone back up as smoothly as it came down and there really hasn’t been much I can do to help. My suggestions are always shot down- mainly because they’re always “who can we call? Your dad? Vince? John, the next door neighbor? He was a brick mason, he should know about plumbing, right?!” Apparently, those aren’t the suggestions he wants to hear. After 6 long weeks of renovating our kitchen, it finally happened.