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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

DIY sponge wall design in hallway #spongewallmovement

January 26, 2021

I am still plugging away on the $100 room challenge on this boring hallway in our house… This is what I started with: Then I added board and batten trim and painted the walls – The top half of the wall color is Statuesque by Behr Marquee and bottom white portion is just Ultra Pure […]

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2019 house progress + favorite projects

January 3, 2020

Happy New Year!  I can’t believe it’s 2020 or even January again for that matter.  But I am excited about the fresh new start of a new year and all the possibilities ahead.  Before I jump into new projects I wanted to share my favorite projects from 2019 and do a recap of the year.   […]

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Office progress!

August 5, 2019

I made a good bit of progress on the office last week!  If you missed the before pictures + my plans post you can go back and see that here. But basically this room started like this when we bought the house… Last week it looked like this… and now it looks like this! Here […]

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Office/Craft room/School Room before + makeover plans

July 29, 2019

Today won’t be a super pretty post but I wanted to show the before till now and share with you what I hope to accomplish in my office in the next few weeks! So when we moved in this house there was a room off the front foyer with french doors and a closet – […]

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Farmhouse Master Bathroom Makeover ($100 room challenge)

September 26, 2018

I am SOO excited to share the reveal of the master bathroom with you today!  Whew.. I was coming down the wire with this one – so many projects!  But seeing the after makes it all worth it! So I did this bathroom makeover as part of the One month, One room, $100 challenge that […]

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DIY Faux German Schmear Brick Accent Wall ($100 room challenge)

September 19, 2018

When I last showed you the little toilet room in my master bathroom it looked like this.  I had already given it a fresh coat of paint and you can see the before/after of that in this post. Even though the fresh paint and cleaning up the nasty trim was a huge improvement, I wasn’t […]

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Master bathroom – new paint!

September 10, 2018

I am in the midst of a big master bathroom makeover!  If you missed the first post you can go here to see before pictures and how I plan to give this room a makeover in one month for $100 or less.  I have so many projects to do in this master bath that I […]

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One month, $100 room challenge – Master Bathroom edition!

September 5, 2018

I am so excited to begin another one month, $100 room challenge for the month of September.  If you are new to my blog or the challenge, basically this means I am going to give a room in my house a makeover in 1 month, for $100 or less.  The challenge was created by Erin […]

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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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