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| By Sherry Petersik | December 24, 2009 | 69 Comments

Baby Announcement Christmas Card Idea

By now you’re all probably off with your family eating gingerbread and tearing into some presents but we just wanted to share the holiday card we whipped up for our loved ones (since you’re all on our virtual mailing list). We wish you guys a very happy and sweet holiday with the ones you love. And speaking of love, we adore every last one of you for dropping in to see what we’re up to over here at Casa Petersik. Your support and encouragement never fail to put smiles on our faces each and every day, and we’re full of gratitude for the amazing year we’ve been fortunate enough to share with all of you.

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Filed Under: Holiday & Entertaining, Kids & Pets, Our First House

| By Sherry Petersik | December 23, 2009 | 54 Comments

Holiday Roundup: 18 Christmas Decorating Ideas & Projects

With Christmas right around the corner we thought we’d toss together a fun little roundup of a bunch of holiday projects (both old and new) that we’ve whipped up over our last three Christmases as bloggers. Let the festivus begin! Our first stop is a fun table decorating post from last year. Here are just a few of our favorite seasonal set-ups (see more arrangements and additional details here): Here’s how we decorated our tree the last two years, full of tone on tone texture and gleaming metallics (see more pics and get more details here): And here’s a little treat Martha Stewart my sweet hubby tossed together for us while we decorated back in

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Filed Under: Decorating, Holiday & Entertaining, Our First House

| By Sherry Petersik | December 22, 2009 | 38 Comments

A White On White Room Color Palette For A Cottage Vibe

When Sarah sent over her dramatic sitting room makeover we couldn’t wait to share it. Here’s her letter: I gotta tell you I was in a makeover blip with our old cottage here Down Under but you’ve given me back my zing! Here’s our transformation of the worst sitting room eva! We snapped the before photos of this delightful room at the open house when we bought our beach cottage a year ago, complete with wall art and two tv’s. Now it’s a lot more cozy and current. To see more you can check out my blog. Keep up the good work. Here’s to DIY!  -Sarah in Australia Here’s the crazy and cluttered before: And

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Filed Under: Reader Redesigns

| By Sherry Petersik | December 22, 2009 | 75 Comments

Our Affordable Basement Makeover

We’re back with the full rundown of basement projects that we took on to totally transform our spooky bug graveyard into clean and functional storage space. First let’s take a walk down memory lane to reminisce about the creepy jail-cell-looking room that we started with: Gross eh? The worst was that although the exterior of the basement’s foundation was equipped with drains and graded to reduce water flow, we still had a bit of moisture seepage through those porous unsealed cinder block walls every time we got a good amount of rain. It wasn’t as if the room flooded by any means, but it was damp and nasty because water slowly oozed through the walls

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Filed Under: Decorating, Home Improvement, Our First House

| By John Petersik | December 21, 2009 | 1,449 Comments

Fab Freebie: (Anything But) A White Christmas

Christmas is coming a few days early for five winners who will be getting a free gallon of Glidden paint to make sure their 2010 is a colorful year.

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| By John Petersik | December 21, 2009 | 107 Comments

How To Hang Cement Board & Fix The Subfloor

As if our bathroom didn’t already make it abundantly clear during the demo process, the act of putting things back together certainly proved that renovating an old bathroom is a lot of work. And it’s almost always full of surprises. Nothing we couldn’t handle though. Let’s just say we were kept on our toes. As you may recall from this post, my dad just DIYed two separate bathroom remodels this year in his own home and kindly volunteered his time, expertise and tools to help us with ours (hooray free labor – although there was some obligatory feeding involved). So I took two days off of work to give the three of us a four-day-long-mega-weekend

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Filed Under: Home Improvement, Our First House

| By Sherry Petersik | December 18, 2009 | 53 Comments

Advice For First-Time DIYers

Q: I have a HUGE question for you! My husband and I have now lived in our first house for close to a year. We share your motivation, but are very intimidated by the projects that we’d like to tackle. Neither one of us is super handy, and I guess we’re afraid of “breaking” our little nest. What did you two do to get past the hump of “how on earth do we do this and not cause an even bigger problem in the end?” Thanks! -Amy A: This is a great question! Especially because when we moved into our house just three short years ago we knew nothing. We were beyond beginners. We literally

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| By Sherry Petersik | December 17, 2009 | 100 Comments

Ripping Up Carpet And Renovating A White Kitchen

When Barbara sent us her almost-too-good-to-be-true before and after photos we couldn’t wait to share the eye candy. Here’s her letter: I have been enjoying your blog and thought I would send over my most recent remodeling project. My parents bought a home that was built in the 70’s and gave me and my husband the project of remodeling it. Here are the before and after pictures of the kitchen. As you can see this home stayed in the 70’s until about a few months ago. Dark seemed to play a theme in the entire house. And wanna know what was hiding beneath all that brown carpet? Beautiful wood floors. We were so excited! Here

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| By Sherry Petersik | December 17, 2009 | 113 Comments

Seriously?!

Yesterday we learned that Young House Love was named one of the World’s Best Design Blogs by The London Times when we shockingly noticed our name on their top fifty list. Insanely enough we came in at number twelve. As in, they think we’re the 12th best design blog in the world. Isn’t that kind of mind blowing? We’re still pinching ourselves. And we’re thrilled to be in good company with a slew of stateside and international blogs that we know and love (like Apartment Therapy, Desire To Inspire, Decor8, Design Sponge, Making It Lovely, Chez Larsson, SF Girl By Bay, and Brooklyn Limestone to name a few). Here’s a link to the page with

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| By Sherry Petersik | December 16, 2009 | 117 Comments

How To Frost An Exterior Window

We’re back to share a quick and easy window-frosting tutorial as promised last week. We knew our basement windows were completely devoid of privacy and therefore could use a bit of cover, but we didn’t want to hang heavy blinds that we kept perpetually closed since that would definitely rob the room of tons of light. Enter the idea of window film. We actually used it to frost our original bathroom window after we moved in. Then we later replaced all of our windows and realized our private backyard didn’t provide a good view of the bathroom since it’s up so high, so we opted not to redo the frosting treatment afterwards. But the basement

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Filed Under: Home Improvement, Our First House

| By Sherry Petersik | December 15, 2009 | 39 Comments

Making A Cardboard Snowflake Wreath

Let’s get wreath the program, shall we? Forgive the bad pun, I’m just a little (ok, a lot) hyper about our latest holiday project. You may remember Cardboard Safari from our recent Sponsor Shout-Out post. Well, they generously sent over two of their amazing white cardboard snowflake wreaths and we couldn’t wait to put them together. One of the most fun things about everything from Cardboard Safari is that it arrives flat in a box, and all the laser cut pieces of recycled cardboard can then be punched out by the lucky recipient and put together, like a highly entertaining 3-D puzzle for adults. It really is our idea of a good time. Especially since

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Filed Under: Shopping & Thrifting

| By John Petersik | December 15, 2009 | 137 Comments

How To Demo Tile, Mortar, & Metal Mesh In Bathroom Walls

When we say we’re “tackling a room” it’s usually a figure of speech, but in this case it’s pretty close to being a literal description of our big bathroom demolition weekend (check out this post for more info on why we’re doing it and this post for our plan for the space). The biggest surprise from our weekend of knocking stuff out and gutting the room? Well, the bathroom sorta tackled back. Before we could be all “in with the new” we had to take care of that pesky “out with the old” part. Here’s what the bathroom looked like once we cleared all the simple stuff out (baskets, shower curtain, mirror, rug, etc). We told

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Filed Under: Home Improvement, Our First House

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