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master bathroom renovation - the handmade home

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When we stumbled upon this house {almost a year ago!} this was the master bedroom and bath situation. Dusty brass ceiling fans , and all. Our now-home sat on the market for some time, and we believe this is one of the reasons why: People weren’t really sure what to do with such a tiny master bath . True to its age and style at the time the house was built, {circa 1976} the size and layout caused a bit of a conundrum. Good thing for us, we love conundrums. We originally purchased the house with the intent to redo, and then add an addition. Ideally, this will be Emerson’s space in the future. If you’ve been following for a while, then you know that we’ve had some real issues with the local septic inspectors. Wheeeeeeee! Codes here pride themselves on being difficult and taking a really long time. We hope to elaborate on an update soon.  Long story short , we may be getting super creative in the future. Stay tuned. After we purchased the house and decided to take on the renovation, we wor...

I Tried To Make My Apartment Look More Expensive On The Cheap

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Sian Butcher / BuzzFeed We hope you love the products we recommend! Just so you know, BuzzFeed may collect a share of sales from the links on this page. Like any member of the bourgeoisie, I demand to live a life surrounded by pretty things. I am an aesthetic creature . Forget grey communism , I want the gilded baubles and swishing silks of a doomed 19th- century Russian noble and I want them now. Unfortunately, my bourgeoisie lifestyle is being held up by a few little finance issues. Turns out that to be a bougie person, you need a bougie bank balance . It's not a sign-up-for-free kind of deal. So it's time to get good at faking it. As Marx says, to a bureaucrat the world is a mere object to be manipulated, but why just bureaucrats? Why can't a writer equipped with a basic editorial budget and a can of gold spray paint manipulate the world into believing she is a member of the 1%? Dream big and you can achieve anything, right? Besides, as they say, to make money you ne...