I mentioned when sharing my fall mantel that my three-year-old helped me paint some of the pumpkins for it… but the majority of the painted gourds actually landed on our entry table. I had a revelation this year (behind the times a bit?) that I didn’t have to use orange and red for my fall decor… and chalk paint helped…
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I’m loving the recent trends of any-colored fall decor. Though I have nothing personal against oranges, reds, and yellows, they don’t really complement my interior colors very well… So I decided this year to go with the colors that make me happiest. And thus was born my {mostly} neutral fall mantel. I decided to play off the warm grays already…
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This is the kind of laundry room we all dream of, isn’t it? Via But, all too often, this is our my reality: When we first moved into Maison de Pax, that was our laundry room. Since it’s located right by our back door and we don’t have a garage, it wears many hats: laundry, workshop, mudroom, and general catch-all……
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I realized this week that Maison de Pax’s Facebook page hit a milestone… we surpassed 200 “likes.” I know that may seem small stuff to some of you, but considering the fact that Maison de Pax has only been around for about six months, and I didn’t even join Facebook until after that (am I the most uncool, disconnected, under-30…
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I shared Mr. Pax’s awesome DIY bookshelves a few weeks ago, and I wanted to share with you today a little masculine accent I made for him. Enter DIY concrete letters. This summer, I had a ton of fun with friends and our random craft days, and this project was probably the most hectic and fun. And though they didn’t…
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