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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

Shiplap wall in the nursery (how to install a faux shiplap wall for less than $30)

June 12, 2017

I’m so excited to finally share this!  (and plan to share the nursery final reveal next week).  It’s been done for a while but taking and editing pictures and getting them all blogged takes quite a process with a busy baby nowadays.    If you are new to my blog, we bought a fixer upper […]

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How to add character to your garage door (in 5 minutes and for less than $20!)

May 23, 2017

We’ve been working on our fixer upper house for quite a while now.  You have no idea how much of an improvement just this view of this side of the house is after removing over 40+ bushes from the front and this side of the house, and getting the house painted.  But it was still looking […]

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DIY Rustic Wood Floating Shelves

March 28, 2017

I finished up the last project in the guest bathroom!  And I just love how they turned out!  If you missed the last few posts I have been working on One Month, One Room, $100 challenge – making over my guest bathroom in one month with less than $100. I won’t share an entire tutorial […]

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DIY Floating Shelves in the Nursery

March 7, 2017

I really wanted to create some vertical storage/display space in the nursery and felt the best way to accomplish that is shelves.  And I just love how these turned out! I debated many different options from using shelving brackets, to IKEA brackets to building a hidden support type of floating shelves but finally settled on […]

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Little Pink Rocking Chair

February 20, 2017

Last spring when I was wanting to prepare for baby and decorate her room but we hadn’t moved yet, I kept myself busy by packing of course, but also by trying to go ahead and find and DIY some things for her room.  Like this DIY chicken wire hair bow holder.    Another thing I […]

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DIY Hair Bow Holder (plus where to find cute hairbands for cheap!)

February 8, 2017

I knew when we found out we were expecting a little girl that LOTS of hair bows and headbands were in our future.     So one of the very first projects I did before we moved and before she was even born was work on a hair bow holder!  I grabbed an old frame from […]

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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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Make an inexpensive Christmas pillow from a placemat

December 9, 2016

I have had several people comment on my cute red plaid flannel pillows on my Christmas front porch and even though this isn’t a new idea I thought I would share it anyways.  Sometimes we just need a fresh reminder of something that could work in a certain area or within a budget in our […]

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Early Fall/Halloween Front Porch with Wood Pallet Pumpkins

September 15, 2016

This post is sponsored by DecoArt.  I am a DecoArt Core blogger for 2016-2017 and enjoy using and sharing some of their products with you. All thoughts, opinions, and styling are all mine.  I am so excited to share my first fall post with you!  I have been doing a bit of decorating – mostly […]

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Guest bathroom refresh

April 14, 2016

Hi friends!  Yes I am still here, still expecting a little baby girl coming soon , and still living in our current home… The last few months have been unusually strange, totally unpredictable, and just hard for me as I am used to being busy doing house projects to share with you and just haven’t […]

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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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