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  • Gray Owl by Benjamin Moore

    Happy April! I hope you had an awesome Easter weekend! Kevin played guitar at our church’s Pike Road location, and we had a really great lunch with his family yesterday afternoon. His mom sent us home with a whole tub … Continue reading

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    Keith’s Living Room Makeover – Pick My Presto

    Meet Keith: He plays drums on the worship team at our church, and although we just met him last year, he’s one of those guys you just feel like you’ve known forever- ya know what I mean? One of the … Continue reading

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    Room Inspiration: Necessary Room at the Fairfield House

    I’ve got an e-friend named Deborah who is, hands down, one of the sweetest people I’ve ever e-met. Her blog (FairfieldHouseNJ.com) is always a pleasure to read, and one of her latest posts was about a “necessary room” they recently … Continue reading

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    Redos and Road Trips

    We made a trip down to Troy, Alabama to have lunch with our friends Shaunna and Matt on Friday, and after we got done chowin’ down, we got to see how things were coming along in their dining room. This … Continue reading

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    Purple Bedroom

    Kev and I surprised my Mom with a quick “happy birthday” guest bedroom makeover this past weekend, so I thought I’d share some pics of what we put together for her here on the blog today! It’s always fun to … Continue reading

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    The Tables

    Howdy! Hope you had a great weekend! I thought I’d blog about the tables we worked on for Kev’s parents porch makeover today. First up, there was this guy… He looked great as-is, so we didn’t do a thing to … Continue reading

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    Porch Ideas

    A couple weeks ago, I showed you a sneak peek of this guy… …and told you about our plan to make over the back porch at Kev’s parents house…which looked like this: Well, I’m happy to report that we finished everything up … Continue reading

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    The Brick Fireplace (#2!) – Pick My Presto

    Hey there- and welcome to another installment of Pick My Presto! I read this comment on Monday’s Pick My Presto post… …and was totally intrigued! I invited Julie to send me a photo of it, to see if I could … Continue reading

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    The Brick Fireplace – Pick My Presto

    Hey there- and welcome to another installment of Pick My Presto! This week, I picked a photo sent in by a gal named Jen. She wanted some design inspiration for her huge, off-centered brick fireplace… She said the beams weren’t … Continue reading

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    A Fireplace Pick My Presto

    Hey there- and welcome to another installment of “Pick My Presto”! I had fun with a photo of a lower level family room sent in by a gal named Heidi this week. Her email read… Hi Layla, Here’s my “Pick … Continue reading

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    A Few Of My Favorite: Room Re-do’s (2010)

    There’s nothing like the words “reveal” or “before & after” in the title of someones blog post to get my pulse a pumpin’!  Know what I mean? (Of course you do!) And while room re-do’s might seem to drag out … Continue reading

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    Traditional Style Dining Room Inspiration for the Brights, AND Beth!

    Do you remember when I did a dining room consultation for the Bright family awhile back? (Click on that link if ya wanna read, or re-read, all about it!) (Move your cursor back and forth over the photo below to … Continue reading

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    E-decking the halls at Just a Girl’s house

    She might think she’s “just a girl“- but to many of us out here in blogland she’s A-MA-ZA-ZING! Chris and I have been e-friends for a couple of years now, and I’ll never forget the day I received an email … Continue reading

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    Miss Mustard Seed’s Gorgeous Guest Bedroom

    Meet Miss Mustard Seed… She writes a fantastic blog… She was kind enough to share some photos of her newly re-done guest bedroom with us recently and we were truly blown away by the results of her makeover! She said … Continue reading

    Reader Re-do: Sandra’s Beautiful New Loo

    Hey friend! Thought I’d mix things up and publish three posts today! I know.I’m a real wild woman. Anywho…I receieved this letter from a friendly reader the other day, and I just had to show you her radical re-do! Check … Continue reading

    Aimee’s Nature-Inspired Nursery

    Hello and Happy Thursday! Today I’d like to introduce you to my new blog friend Aimee. Aimee is a self-proclaimed, “do-it-yourself girly-girl with a head full of ideas and fingernails perpetually splattered with paint”. I was so excited when she … Continue reading

    Reader Re-Design: Katie’s Fab New Fireplace

    Last year, I did a Photo Consultation for a sweet gal by the name ofKatie. She wanted some low cost/high impact ideas that would help spiff up her Living Room- so I sent her a bunch of suggestions and a … Continue reading

    Homeward Bound and Presto Chango’s

    Greetings! We’re visiting family in North Carolina today, and we plan to hit the road back to sweet home Alabama tomorrow afternoon. I can’t wait to sleep in our bed and see our furkids…it feels like we’ve been gone forever! … Continue reading

    Exciting news from Blogland and Sindy’s Master Bathroom Redesign

    We received a couple of emails from fellow bloggers this week and we wanted to share their exciting news here on TheLettered Cottage.net! The first email came from our friend Kimba at A Soft Place To Land about her new … Continue reading