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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

Nursery before pictures + plans

February 3, 2017

Tackling my guest room in January went so well, I’m moving on to another room for February – finishing up the nursery!   It’s been mostly done except finishing touches and 2 projects I wanted to do so my goal is to show you what I have done so far + complete the remaining projects […]

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Industrial Farmhouse Guest Bedroom Makeover

January 31, 2017

Well I am officially calling phase 1 of the guest room DONE!  There is still several things I eventually want to tackle in here in phase 2–  new fan/lighting, an accent wall behind the bed, new paint on the wall, and some better art but for now it is put together, pretty, and functional enough […]

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Guest room headboard and dresser redo

January 27, 2017

So remember when I found this black headboard for $20 at a yard sale?   And spray painted it white to go in our guest room at our previous house?   And I found this French Provincial dresser for $25 off a yard sale site…. And painted it navy for our spare bedroom at our […]

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Gray nightstand for the guest room

January 24, 2017

A while back (like a LONG while back) I picked up this little nightstand or side table for $6 at a yard sale.  I just couldn’t pass it up for $6!  I never did find a place for it in our last home and so it sat in the garage.  When we moved I *almost* […]

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Farmhouse style kids table and chair makeover

January 19, 2017

I have been hard at work in our guest room giving several pieces of furniture a makeover.  And this one might be my very favorite!  I knew I would eventually want a kids table and chair set for our little girl to use in our office so it was on my “to find” yard sale […]

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DIY Farmhouse LOVE baby footprint sign

January 16, 2017

I am a DecoArt Core blogger for 2016-2017.  This post and paint is sponsored by DecoArt, but the cute baby and styling is all mine! 🙂 My daughter Katelyn is here today guest posting on a super cute craft she did recently for her room!   This Farmhouse Love sign would be perfect to use […]

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Starting work on guest room–before pictures + new paint

January 10, 2017

Nothing like having guests coming to move tackling the guest room to #1 on the list.   I work harder and faster when I have a deadline so this was great motivation to work on getting to phase 1 in this room.  Here’s the room when we closed on the house.  Purple accent wall, light […]

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My plan for tackling our fixer upper in 2017

January 9, 2017

Happy New Year to you!  I had hoped to get this post up this past week but our family got away for a little winter getaway in TN and I just concentrated on enjoying our time together.    You can check out Instagram to see some beautiful snowy scenes that we got to enjoy in […]

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2016 recap and top posts

December 29, 2016

I hope you had a wonderful Christmas with your family!  We had such a sweet Christmas celebrating with our little girl! Here she is about to open presents on Christmas morning… And on Christmas evening playing with a present from her cousins – her very own Little People Nativity set.  So thankful for the gift […]

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Merry Christmas from our home to yours!

December 23, 2016

Just a note to say Merry Christmas from our family to yours this season!  Here’s the pictures I took for our Christmas card this year… oh how I love our little family!  We are so looking forward to celebrating our first Christmas with our little girl. She is 6 months old now (oh how time […]

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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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