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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

Farmhouse Plaid Christmas Tour

December 12, 2018

Happy Wednesday!  I’m excited to be joining 15 other bloggers in sharing our farmhouse style Christmas home decor ideas!  So grab a cup of coffee, and enjoy and be inspired! First off if you are new here, my name is Christina and I love all things frugal. home, family, with a bit of farmhouse thrown […]

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Buffalo Check Inspired Christmas Living Room

December 5, 2017

I am so excited to be sharing my Christmas Living Room as part of the Home for the Holidays blog hop! Thanks so much to Jenna from Wife in Progress for organizing this blog hop and welcome if you are coming from Postcards from the Ridge – if you missed her tour, hop over and […]

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Christmas Home Tour

December 22, 2016

Welcome to Christmas at our house!  This year’s tour is going to be a bit smaller/simpler than last year due to just moving (into a fixer upper house) and having a baby 6 months ago.  But I do love to decorate our home for Christmas and managed to get fseveral areas done this year.  Our […]

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Merry and Bright Christmas Home Tour – part 1 (plus giveaway!)

December 11, 2015

Disclosure: This post is sponsored by Home Decorators Collection. But all opinions and decorating ideas are all own! Welcome to our home!! I have teamed up with some of my blogger friends and the folks at Home Decorators Collection to share tours of our homes and lots of Christmas decorating inspiration with you this week.  […]

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House tour: Molly from Pennies’nGrace

February 4, 2015

I love a good house tour, don’t you?  And especially a house tour where I feel like I feel like the style and furnishings is attainable for me.  While I love taking a peek at fancy, expensive homes – that just won’t ever be in our budget or lifestyle and isn’t even my style.    So […]

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Entryway before and after (beige to GREIGE with Behr paint!)

July 29, 2014

So I have been plugging along in repainting our house.  If you missed it before, I am a partnering with Behr paint as a Behr DIY Expert again this year and it couldn’t have come at a better time.  We painted our entire house when we moved in 10 years ago and except for a […]

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House makeover – black painted shutters and front door

June 20, 2014

Ok, so this is probably one of my biggest transformations yet.   Not necessarily in the amount of work because it wasn’t that intensive but when you change the appearance of the entire front of your house that is pretty big! So here’s our house before… Not bad.  But I honestly was really wanting a […]

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House crashing: Molly from Pennies ‘n Grace

May 6, 2013

Last week when I was in NC, my husband and I actually stayed with Molly and her family.  Molly writes a fun lifestyle/family blog at Pennies ‘n Grace – where she shares delicious family recipes, her amazing yard sale and thrift store finds, DIY projects, how she decorates her house with pennies, and the grace […]

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House tour: Entryway

March 25, 2013

Today I am back with a feature in my house tour.  I also hope to get all of the rooms and pictures I have shared so far into a post/page linked on my menu bar at the top of the page this week. So today isn’t necessarily a “room” but it is a very busy […]

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House tour: Laundry Room

February 20, 2013

Today let’s take a tour of my laundry room!  But before I show you what it looks like today, let’s go back to the beginning. Our laundry room is upstairs in between the 3 bedrooms.  LOVE having it up there since most of the dirty laundry (except kitchen towels) are taken off and put away […]

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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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