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The Frugal Homemaker

Your guide to turning your house into a home... one DIY project and yard sale find at a time

Be Grateful for Your Home (31 Days to Love the Home You Have)

October 1, 2015

This post is part of a 31 day series – 31 days to Love the Home You Have.  I am blogging through the 31 day challenge in the back of the book “Love the Home You Have” by Melissa Michaels of The Inspired Room.  You can read all the posts in the series so far […]

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New paint in the Breakfast area

August 26, 2015

Thank you so much for all your opinions and weigh in options on my last post on what I should do in my eat-in-kitchen/breakfast area in my kitchen.  I am currently in the midst of a kitchen makeover which of course sort of extends into the attached breakfast area.  The kitchen has almost been completely […]

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Breakfast area paint colors–help me decide!

August 17, 2015

So I am just about done painting the kitchen cabinets  (not in this picture – I took these pictures when I had the kitchen all cleaned up to photograph the beadboard backsplash before I took installed the new $4 light fixture and took down all the doors to paint them.)  I want to still paint […]

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No-sew, inexpensive, long curtains made from SHEETS!

June 25, 2014

Some of you may have known right off what my new curtains in my eat-in-kitchen makeover post were made from.  If you guessed sheets you were right! I am all about hanging my curtains high and wide!  I had picked up the cheap sheers several years ago before I saw the difference that hanging your […]

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Eat in kitchen makeover (+ how to easily add more height to your room)

June 23, 2014

I love looking back at before/after pictures and boy, do I have some good ones for you today! Here is our eat-in-kitchen maybe 2 years after we bought our house.  We hadn’t done much except paint when we first moved in. So at some point, probably about 5 years ago… I added a chair rail […]

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House tour: Eat-in kitchen

January 24, 2013

Next up in our house tour is the eat-in kitchen.  Last week I showed you our living room and I loved all the feedback and advice you gave me!   And I am glad you are enjoying this home tour.  Our living room opens up to the kitchen and an eat-in kitchen area.  I am thankful […]

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Hi!  My name is Christina . . .

I love doing simple, frugal things to make our house feel like HOME! Come learn along with me how to have a beautiful home on a budget.

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