Easy (and Inexpensive) Cabinet Updates: Making Kitchen Cabinets Look Like Furniture

Easy (and Inexpensive) Cabinet Updates: Making Kitchen Cabinets Look Like Furniture

Today is day 4 of our Easy (and Inexpensive) Cabinet Updates where I share the 4 tricks I used to make my builder grade cabinets look custom (for around $100 total).

For our last quick and easy trick, we are going to make our kitchen cabinets look like furniture. I'm sure you've seen the countless cabinets with beautiful designs at the bottom on the cabinets.

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Easy (and Inexpensive) Cabinet Updates: Build Them Up

Easy (and Inexpensive) Cabinet Updates: Build Them Up

Your kitchen cabinets are the first thing most people see when they enter the room. Luckily, if you feel your builder basic cabinets look, well... basic, there are quick and easy ways to give your cabinets a custom look - without the custom price. In this four piece series, I will show you how I was able to give my basic kitchen cabinets a custom look - for less than $50/project.

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Hanging A Mirror (or Other Object) in the Corner

Hanging A Mirror (or Other Object) in the Corner

I'm not normally a wall sconce kind of girl but I really liked it. It wasn't terribly overpriced so I went ahead and bought it thinking it would look great in the dining room. And then I got home. I'm not sure where I thought I was going to put it since there is so little actual wall space in the dining room. I looked at my hubs with a puzzled look and said "I wish I could hang it in the corner."

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Airing My Dirty Laundry (Room)

Airing My Dirty Laundry (Room)

It's a cold and rainy evening here in the Austin area which means it's the perfect night for finally writing a post on the laundry room. When you see all of the pics, you will see why I've waited for so long. One, because there were a lot of pics of edit and two, because I don't love the quality of the photos. It was really, really hard to photograph this space because of the way it was set up. But I did and hope you like it!

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So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, audieu...

So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, audieu...

Adieu, adieu, to you and you and you! Ironically, none of those words play into this week's project, but for some reason the whole time I was working on it, that was playing in my head (you can all thank me for later for getting that song stuck in your head for the rest of the day. For those who don't know where that came from - I'm so, so sad for you!)

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