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Thrift Store Score: Vintage Seaside Artwork

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Happy Monday! Quick question for you: have you watched this video on my YouTube channel yet? It's the one where I take you room by room through our house talking through all of our very favorite secondhand furniture finds. In keeping with the tradition set by my #ThriftStoreScore series here on the blog (the first of which went live all the way back in 2012 !), I instinctively called the furniture throughout my video "thrifted." While most people in the comments let my careless wording slide, a few did call me out for naming some of our more expensive antique finds "thrifty." And, honestly, they were so right! The $500 dining room table we funded thanks to a generous wedding gift, for example, can hardly be placed in the same category as some of the retro tables that you guys score for just a handful of bucks at your own local charity shops. So, essentially, I wanted to make sure I started this post with the tiny disclaimer that our latest #ThriftStoreScore is...
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Beauty Out of Necessity: Landscape Drainage in Landscape Design

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