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Yep, that's right... I said "grout makeover".  I bet you didn't even know that was a thing, but it is.  Over the weekend, the grout in our bathroom got a major facelift.  Let me preface this entire post by admitting, this is certainly not the most glamorous "makeover" I've ever done, but I am super excited over it. Prepare your eyes people - the "befores" are pretty bad. Are you prepared?? If you were wondering, not that is not mold or mildew.  It's the cracked, peeling grout and caulking in our bathtub and surrounding areas that has been discolored over time. But it looks gross, doesn't it?? I was grossed out, even knowing that I'd scrubbed and bleached the hell out of it. What did we do?? We busted out some fresh caulk, and a little grout paint. The process of caulking is pretty simple, and there are lots of tutorials online - basically, clean the area to be caulked, and get off all the peeling stuff.  Make sure it's dry, tape...

So... I've sat on this post for just about a year now... Sorry about that. You've all seen the glamour shots of my beautiful upholstered headboard , but it took many comments, posts, and private emails from you guys asking me for a tutorial, to get me to put together my upholstered headboard tutorial!!!!! I've conquered my laziness, and prevailed. For anyone new to the blog, let me rewind a bit... before starting this project (which let me just add, was one of the biggest DIY undertakings I've done to date) I'd obsessed for months and months about having an upholstered headboard in our bedroom.  Pinterest was my best friend, and for a while all I was pinning was lovely pictures of bedrooms with overstuffed, soft upholstered headboards.  I loved them all - thick velvet headboards, classic linen headboards, dark headboards, light headboards, tufted headboards, rounded headboards.... headboards with nailheads... headboards with pattern... headboards with detailed c...

Oops... couldn't help myself. Anyway, I'd posted yesterday about how I made the blunder of painting our living room the wrong color of grey.  That is not going to happen to me a second time around, so I've invested many hours since Saturday into researching grey paint colors. You may remember that I already did quite a bit of legwork on the topic of grey paint last year when I painted the dining room of our last apartment  - I'm almost an expert on this topic at this point. My requisites for the perfect grey:    1. It must be a very light grey           * I don't want to make our living room that gets great light feel like a dark hole.    2. It cannot have ANY blue undertones           * I already made that mistake - blue undertones = cold With that list of requirements, I have narrowed it down to two options:     - Option 1: Benjamin Moore Grey Owl 2137-60 (but with half-strength tint)  ...