Finally a new segment of Dupe It Yourself! I started this fun series over a year ago where I would find items that I love, but happened to be out of my budget, and recreate them for less. About a week ago at one of my normal Homegoods runs, I came across a beautiful dusty blue sofa. It was on clearance!!!! I knew I wanted it, the only issue was the legs were just not my style. They were shiny, chrome and modern. I knew the couch was a quality piece and I was determined to make it into my dream couch! BEFORE A few years ago I actually changed the couch legs on our sofas that we purchased when we first got married. We still have that couch in our front living room (seen below)! You can buy legs from home depot or amazon for less than $10 a piece and completely makeover your couch to feel more custom and beautiful! Below is a photo of my inspiration. I love EVERYTHING from Lulu & Georgia! They have a bunch of different wooden based sofas. The sofas below retail for around $3,000! I just KNEW we could make my clearance Homegoods find into a beautiful sofa like this one! We started by removing the chrome couch legs and adding in corner leg braces. Most sofas you purchase will already have these in place and you will simply unscrew the existing legs and replace with your new ones! I will link the 6″ unfinished, tapered legs that we purchased on Amazon below. Make sure that your twist your legs in so that they are really tight and snug! The couch already looked so much better! But I really wanted to full Lulu & Georgia look! We decided to use poplar wood for the next part. We ripped them into 1×2’s on the table saw and then held them up in place. We simply traced the angle of the tapered legs onto the 1×2 so we would know where to cut. We used a miter saw for this small angled cut. Once we had our 4 long pieces of wood, we added a little bit of wood glue to them and slid them into place. Since there is no weight going on these pieces we decided that wood glue would be plenty strong! Let it dry and you are done!! You can stain or finish your wooden sofa base to your liking. I chose to leave mine natural for a coastal feel. After!! Shop Below!

YAY! It’s finally time to chat about our kitchen design plans! I have changed my mind about paint colors, backsplash, cabinet placement so many times, and I am sure a couple of things may change here and there but I wanted to fill you in on what we are planning to do! BEFORE DRUMROLL PLEASE!!! Can you say PIGEON?! I went back and forth and back and forth but I am GOING FOR IT! I am so stinking excited and I think it’s going to be beautiful. I don’t want to make boring design decisions in this house and pigeon is practically a neutral for me 😉 I think we will have the color lightened by 25% for the cabinets. They will start the painting process the end of next week!! I fell in love with this star and cross pattern tile. You can find it at a few different places. The one I have pictured below is from Fireclay Tile! We are having two custom cabinets made for either side of the custom vent hood we plan to build. I really didn’t want to do floating shelves in our reno. One, because they aren’t practical for storage (no matter how much you try to convince yourself they will be ha!). Two, because I wanted to do something classic! I already ordered the beautiful pendant lights but they were way too big! I purchased the 20″ size but with our ceiling height in the kitchen I am going to order the smaller ones instead (13.5″). We ordered our appliances the other day!!! It’s stressful to spend so much money at once but it takes months for them to come in and I know they will be worth the splurge! Shop our appliances and lighting choices below! Our fridge wall was a big issue. The upper cabinets were shallow making even a counter depth fridge look like it is sticking out way too far. We decided to remove the countertop space, add two large drawers and bring the upper cabinets forward so the fridge will ultimately look built in. The new fridge that comes in in a few months will be counter depth and will look completely build in when we are finished! We got a head start on this project so it can be done before the cabinet painters come! BEFORE PROGRESS oh! And we plan to add beadboard to the entire ceiling of the kitchen area! A few other plans we have… Remove microwave and add in a custom vent hood – we plan to plaster it and possibly make it a unique shape! Remove upper cabinets next to microwave and replace with custom cabinets with glass fronts – (we will reuse these cabinets in the laundry room where I currently have NO storage, win win!) Rip out current subway tile backsplash and replace with new backsplash all the way to the ceiling! Add molding to the tops of the cabinets – all the way to the ceiling add a farmhouse sink Square off the island – (counter top and base) Possibly tile the front of the island with an accent tile I can HARDLY wait to get started! It already feels like Ive waited a lifetime. Who’s ready to see this pigeon kitchen come to life!? Shop The Post!

It’s finally time to dive into our Kitchen reno!! I feel like I’ve waited a lifetime for this! If are curious about all of our plans for our kitchen, you can read all about it on THIS blog post! We are hiring professional painters to paint the cabinets. It is a project I’ve told myself I will never try to do on my own. I know myself, and I don’t think I would be patient enough to do all the steps so that it would be durable. The painters are coming to pickup the cabinet doors and drawer fronts on Thursday! They will take them to their shop to paint them and then come back next week to paint the cabinet frames and install the doors. I can hardly wait to see the transformation!! Anywho, since they will be coming to paint the kitchen soon we wanted to go ahead and have everything in place that we are wanting painted. We went ahead and reconfigured the wall that the refrigerator is on. You can see a picture of what it currently looks like below. There will be two large drawers where those holes are. Brett did all of this himself! I am SO impressed. We also wanted to go ahead and have the molding installed above the cabinets. So today I want to give you a step-by-step on how we did that! This is a project that will TOTALLY transform your kitchen!! If your cabinets don’t go to the ceiling and you currently have decor placed above them… grab a ladder, remove the decor and follow the steps below! 😉 You’ll thank me later! What we used: primed pine boards (we used 1×3’s, 1×4’s, 1×6’s and 1×2’s) nail gun or trim screws wood clamps drill/impact driver miter saw & wood glue (if you need to make a corner piece) Measure We started by measuring the distance between the top of our cabinets to the ceiling. We made sure to take a few different measurements because ceilings aren’t always perfectly level. Our gap was about 12″. Design Then we decided on a design for our molding based on our measurements. In the photo below you will see how we stacked our boards to get to 12″. Build We attached the 1×6 by screwing straight through the bottom of the 1×3 into the 1×6. *Brett tip* Keep your wood clamped throughout this entire project! We also made sure that the 1×6 was placed 1 5/8″ from the “front” of the 1×3. This ensured that the overhang would be flush with the cabinet door fronts. Then, we attached the next board in our line up! We nailed a 1×2 into the 1×6. We made sure that it was pushed all the way to the front of the molding, as shown in the photo below. The next one was the trickiest! The next board to attach was a 1×4 on its side. We clamped it in place so that it wouldn’t move, drilled pilot holes at an angle on both ends (pictured below), and then secured with trim screws. We also nailed at an angle from the front of the 1×4 through the 1×2. We used 1 1/2″ nails instead of our normal 2″ nails to minimize them poking through the back of the molding. BUT, it’s okay if they come through the back. No one will ever see 😉 Back to easy pieces! YAY! We nailed the next 1×2, pushed all the way to the front again, and then nailed the last 1×3. We left a half inch overhang for this last piece to give a stacked effect. Install It was time to install! We lifted it into place and used a level on the front to make sure the bottom 1×3 was flush with the cabinet doors. Then, we nailed into the tops of the cabinet fronts at an angle. We also nailed into the walls and ceiling. Corner Molding If you have a space above your cabinets where you need to make a molding piece with a corner, here are a few things we did! We followed all steps above, going one level at a time, but this time attaching two mitered boards together. To attach them, we used wood glue, miter clamps and trim screws, in that order. Read about having our kitchen cabinets painted HERE!

YAY! This is the room we spend the most time in and I am so excited to share our plans! You have already seen quite a bit of it. I revealed the gallery wall on my Instagram this week (@thebloomingnest). Can you believe that large piece of “art” is our tv!!?! You can shop it below, worth every penny in my opinion. The cute art surrounding our TV is from Minted! I love their art selection and how they support real artists! Plus, you can get your art framed at any size and any frame option! I actually struggled quite a bit getting this gallery wall just right. If you have been around for a while you know I love symmetry! I wanted this to be an asymmetrical gallery wall while still being balanced. The key to making it something I love was adding in something other than frames to make it feel complete! I had some round wall planters in my decor room and I love the texture and shape they added to the wall! Things on our playroom to do list: Frame out the windows and french doors off the back of the room Hang two swings! We already have one from Lawson’s room at the old house, so I am saving my pennies to buy another. Hang curtains high and wide! I am still looking for the perfect ones. I linked some below that are gorgeous but aren’t long enough for my room. I may buy them and lengthen them like I normally do. No matter what I go with I know I want to pull a warm color from the rug! One of my goals I’ve written down for this house is “no boring curtains!” Add hardware to our tv/storage cabinet as well as add caning to the backs of the doors to hide the toys that are piled inside! Thats pretty much all the plans I have for now! I don’t want a lot of furniture in this room so there is a lot of space for playing!! If you want to read about the couch that we redid for this room click HERE! Scroll and shop!

It is amazing how much of a difference cabinet hardware can make in a kitchen! It really finishes off your cabinets, and makes them more functional! We finished installing our hardware this past week and I love the way it turned out. We went with champagne bronze hardware and the color contrasts so beautifully with our new Pigeon Cabinets!!! (You can read about having our cabinets painted HERE). The drawer pulls that we went with were super easy to install!! You drill holes for two screws and then slide the bar onto the screws and tighten! It also makes it really easy to level them perfectly. Brett was really impressed with them and they didn’t make him want to rip his hair out during install like most drawer pulls do. We chose to do double drawer pulls on the drawers that were wide and had two cabinets above or below them! We also made sure to add hardware to the “faux” drawer fronts below the sink and the gas cooktop. Even though these drawers aren’t functional, it is still important to add hardware to them, in my opinion. This will help make your cabinets look complete and have a more high end look! I will link both the pulls and the knobs below! They are different brands but are both champagne bronze and match each other perfectly! They are super affordable and come in packs! The only hardware we haven’t installed yet are the handles for the custom cabinets with glass fronts! I ordered 4 of the rattan pulls pictured below for these doors. I think they are going to make such a subtle and beautiful statement. Shop Our Hardware Below!

YAY! This is one of the spaces that kept me up at night before we moved into this house! I kept designing it over and over in my head. Did it turn out exactly like I thought it would? NOPE! It turned out even better!! I knew I wanted a large gallery wall that took the shape of the stairs. I wanted just a few large frames and for it to be very cohesive. I also really wanted to incorporate a lot of texture in the frames rather than filling each frame with art prints. I ordered a pack of dried palm leaves and framed them in some inexpensive poster frames! I love how they turned out. The pack came with 5 stems so I ended up doing them in two separate frames! The three square frames have vintage fabric fragments in them! I got these from a small shop called Sew & Cloth! They sell beautiful pillow covers and sometimes have leftover fragments that you can purchase! (The square frames are from Hearts in Colors). We are still working on the stair makeover so this space will look a little different very soon! We also have plans of ripping out the carpet on the stairs and adding beautiful white oak stair treads with a rug runner. I can hardly wait to see it all come together. Our wall color and trim is Alabaster by Sherwin. Our stairs are painted Accessible beige by Sherwin. Shop This Space Below!

Does your home have a weird nook like ours did? Why do builders think we need these? We knew when we purchased this home that we would be knocking this wall out. It was too rounded to hang art on and I knew we could make it into something really special! THE BEFORE: Our weird nook.. If you haven’t read THIS post yet, it talks about our kitchen plans and how they have changed. We originally were doing two custom, floating cabinets but decided we would rather have windows! So we needed to find a place to repurpose the custom cabinets we had already ordered. We decided to make them into built-ins! We started with demo! YIKES! The mess what BIG, but we got it all cleaned up! Brett built a base for the cabinets to sit on! Then, we stacked the cabinets on top of each other! We framed in both cabinets with primed pine from Home Depot. We found this beautiful running trim from Wayfair. I really wanted something that would make this look like a unique piece of furniture and I wanted it to have Anthropologie vibes. Nailed it, huh?! We added a 1×2 on its side across the bottom to act as the bottom of the piece. Then I sketched out the legs I wanted and Brett cut them out of a 1×8. We finished off the wall by adding small trim pieces in the corners and painting!! I smile when I walk by them, and I am so happy to have somewhere to display some of my favorite decor pieces!! Also, since we have a plug in the back of the bottom shelf, I plan to hide our Alexa in one of those baskets 😉 SCROLL & SHOP THE POST!

Did you hear!? I helped design two Blooming Nest inspired signs with the amazing Joyfully Said Team!!! I was so flattered when they reached out to me for this collaboration. They are a small business and I truly love what they stand for! They let me design the signs from start to finish. It was fairly easy because I know what I like. Surprise surprise, we went with “pigeon” and floral! ha! “Always be a little kinder than necessary” A quote that I have loved for a long time. I actually had it hanging in my dorm room in college. I think it is such a great thing to live by and definitely a reminder that I like having displayed in my home. You can shop both of these signs now at Joyfullysaidsigns.com AND use code REGAN20 for 20% off any signs on their site! WOOHOO!!! Thank you so much for always sharing in my joy with all the adventures that come along on this Blooming Nest journey! Love you always! shop the post

Hurry!! My BFF Vanessa is coming to visit in a couple of months so I am trying to get the guest bedroom/bathroom put together for her so she will feel at home! I know she would be perfectly fine with an air mattress or couch but it’s a good excuse to get it ready anyway!! She will be our first guest and I can’t wait!! BEFORE I knew the bathroom I could makeover fairly quickly while I wait on furniture and wallpaper to arrive for the bedroom! I had been wanting to try a new paint color by Farrow and Ball called Setting Plaster so I grabbed a quart and decided to try it out on the bathroom vanity! I used Behr paint in hi-gloss! Here is a photo of the exact color code I used. I loooove the color so much! It is very “blooming nest” and matches my home and style really well. I also feel like the guest bedroom is a fun place to experiment with unique design! If you try it out, just keep in mind it dries a little darker and warmer than when you first start painting. I checked in my handy dandy decor closet for some hardware and found exactly what I needed. I don’t know how I got that lucky! I will link the handles below. The knobs that i used on the top drawer are from Hobby Lobby. We removed the mirror by slowly prying it off. Most mirrors will be glued to the wall so you have to be careful. We added a piece of beadboard paneling behind the vanity to cover up the wall damage. I decided to repurpose the vanity mirror rather than spend hundreds on a new one, since this was supposed to be a quick and budget friendly makeover. I removed the glass shades and sprayed the fixture with two coats of Rustoleum Heirloom White and one coat of bleached stone textured spray paint. I will link both below for you! I love how this turned out! It gave it a really cool stone finish. I think I will replace the shades eventually though 😉 Here is an up close photo of the texture and color! Brett installed the new faucet that we ordered from amazon (linked below)! & framed out the window with 1×4’s. These were the finishing touches that really pulled it all together. I cleaned up and did my very favorite thing EVER! Decorated the space!! After planning and ordering and painting and building it is SO rewarding to style a space and step back and look at it!! What’s your favorite part? Click to Shop!

I was walking through target the other day and saw these super cute napkin rings! I instantly pictured them on the end of curtain rods, so I decided to make my own! What You’ll Need: Curtains Large Dowel Rod (They have them in the moulding section of Home Depot. Ours happened to be out of stock so I found them on the Closet organization isle!) Leather Strips Napkin Rings I had been eyeing these curtains from Anthro for months and finally decided to order them when I saw them go on sale! I bought two packs of genuine leather from Michaels. I linked some longer strips from Amazon below which may work better, but I was ready to tackle this project so I used what my local store had! I cut the leather into strips and sewed them together to make them longer. I had never sewn leather before but my sewing machine did great with it! I waited for Brett to get home to help me hang the straps. I chose to hang them from the ceiling rather than the wall so that the curtains wouldn’t be smooshed against the wall and would hang a couple of inches away from the windows. We predrilled holes through the leather and then used drywall screws with washers so they wouldn’t pull on the leather. We did two screws per strap for extra support and stability! Then we slid the large dowel rods on, and looped the curtains on! I planned to attach the napkin rings to the ends but for now they are just sitting on there ha! I may glue them eventually but no one can reach up there to touch them anyway! I did the math and each complete curtain rod came out to $41 each. They are 6 feet long so I think this is a great deal for something unique and I just love projects that you can get done from start to finish in one day! Shop The Post! Click HERE for a tutorial on how we hung our Serena & Lily hanging chair.

Hi, my name is Regan and I have an obsession with checking marshalls.com every single morning to see what new arrivals they have!!! I absolutely love that I can shop online and find unique pieces at great prices! I found some beautiful items recently to cozy up my front living room for Fall! You can shop the items I picked out below, plus a few more of my faves! Click To Shop