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Home wasn’t built in a day. Enjoy the journey.
We’re Robert & Lauren Shaver, a DIY-loving duo just fighting the good fight in making our house a home, one renovation and thrifted decorating adventure at a time. We believe the journey of turning a house into a home is half the fun. We’re so glad you’re here, and we hope you feel inspired to love the home you have. Hang out!
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All the Best Rated Fandeliers We Own and Love
A round up of the best rated fandeliers and what rooms to use them in. Even though the temperatures are cooling down outside, we’re a year-round fan-loving family. Maybe it’s a Southern thing, but here in South Carolina, it can be 25° one day and 75° the next. So ceiling fans aren’t just for summer,…
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Home is more than a place. It’s a feeling.
Our surroundings matter. In a world of packed calendars, long to-do lists, and noise, we believe now more than ever that home should be your soft place to land. It doesn’t require a large budget to make that happen. Our philosophy is you shouldn’t have to sacrifice style for the sake of a smaller price tag… it just takes an extra dose of out-of-the-box thinking. That’s why we’re here for you. We believe in creating beauty right where you are to love the home you already have so it can love you right back.
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Want a Cohesive Home? Here’s How to Make Every Room Flow
Do you ever walk from your living room to your kitchen and feel like you’ve landed in a totally different house? Like each room is doing its own thing, color, texture, style… they’re not talking to each other. It’s a question that pops up all the time in my DMs and in DIY Decorator School….
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Our Narrow Laundry Room Layout That Packs in Function
We’ve been in a whirlwind over the past several weeks giving our laundry room a much-needed makeover, and I can finally say it’s starting to look like the room we always knew it could be! This space has a funny backstory. When our house was built in the 1960s, this area wasn’t even a laundry…
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30+ Clever Ways to Use the Space Between Wall Studs
If there’s one thing I’ve learned after years of remodeling this old colonial house, it’s that walls hold secrets. Sometimes it’s an old layer of wallpaper. Sometimes it’s questionable 1960s wiring. And sometimes, if you’re lucky, it’s an opportunity for hidden storage. Case in point: during our current laundry room remodel, Robert and I discovered…
