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Dropping Your PMI & Lowering Your Mortgage Payment

When was the last time you checked in on your PMI? Your Private Mortgage Insurance. That $100-$200 extra fee in your mortgage payment that you’re paying because you didn’t put 20% down. Sound familiar?

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Monogrammed Gifts For the Holiday Season (or not!)

Any gift feels a little more special when it’s monogrammed. Any of theses gifts are great for Christmas, Hanukkah, birthdays, anniversaries, bridal showers, etc! You have the option to purchase any of these items without monogramming if you prefer.

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A Gender Neutral Nursery That Isn't Gray & Yellow

We didn’t find out the gender of our first baby until he was born. Crazy, right?! So much of the gender neutral nursery inspo I found was gray, yellow, and green. None of that tickled my fancy so I did my own thing and I love how it turned out. It has worked for over a year for my son and it definitely would have worked for a baby girl, too!

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8 Things I Learned While Renovating Our Fixer Upper

We have been in our home three and a half years now and we’ve been renovating it pretty much the whole way through. It started off with just a lot of scrubbing and a lot of painting, but over three years later, project by project, it’s a totally different different house! I have learned a lot along the way and I am sharing it with you!

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Ruggable Update | The Good, Bad & the Ugly

I bought my first Ruggable rug in September, and I wrote a mini review on my Instagram about how I liked it after a couple weeks. Here is a series of updates and reviews after about 8 months. It’s a rollercoaster!

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Coffee Tables - Safe for Baby on the Move

Ah yes. I am in the season of life where pretty much everything I do and buy and think about I must consider my child first (or is this going to be the rest of my life?? *panicked face*)

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Local Art in my Home | Charleston Artists

Charleston has so many incredibly talented artists here, it is easy to fill up a house quickly with just a fraction of their art. I’m running out of walls but I just can’t stop! Here is all the local Charleston art I currently have in my home. I hope it inspires you to support your local artists wherever you are.

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My 8 Tips for Refinishing Furniture

One of my favorite, yet most time consuming, patience-testing projects was this dresser for the baby’s bedroom closet. After spending over 3 weeks on it (during quarantine, no less!) I learned a few things that I want to share with you if you’re considering tackling refinishing a piece of furniture for the first time, too.

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Detoxing My Charleston Home | UPDATE

Last summer I started detoxing our home, partially for general health reasons but also because during my research when we were trying to conceive, I learned a lot about hormone disrupters in our homes that can affect fertility. So I wanted to tackle those, along with generally “cleaning up” the products in our home. This is the update on what products I’m still using and what I’ve changed up.

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Before & After | Guest Bathroom

The final room reveal is the guest bathroom! This one has actually gone through two transformations in the past year and a half. I’m so happy with how far it’s come.

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Before & After | Office, Guest Bedroom

When we bought this house, I was thrilled to finally have my own office space after about four years of working from home. This reveal is the guest bedroom and office, which will be transformed again in a few months into a nursery. Oh how I’ve loved this space all to myself the past two years!

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