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Home Organization Course

Learn how you can get your home organized with my easy step-by-step organization course. My course is full of organization ideas as well as home organization tips and tricks to get your life and home organized and keep it that way.

ONLINE DECLUTTERING COURSE

For the past several months I have been putting together my Online Organization Course, The Balanced Home. I am excited to teach you my decluttering and cleaning process. These processes also teach you how to create simple routines and cleaning schedules which allow you to naturally maintain your clean and organized home.

No need to hire a professional organizer, or live with the clutter because you will have the skills and learn how to overcome any mental barriers or fears you might have to get started!

WHAT DOES THE ORGANIZATION COURSE COVER?

The Balanced Home Organization Core  

($1,000 Value)Contains my core Decluttering and Organization Processes, which shows you how to:

  • Learn how to declutter and organize your home–by learning processes and techniques that really work!
  • Deal with stuff you don’t know how to get rid of
  • Understand what qualifies as hoarding
  • Understand how to overcome hoarding tendencies
  • Deal with your junk room or junk drawer

The Tools

  • Workbook, Resources, Labels, and More ($250 Value). Contains everything you need to help guide you through each lesson, including:
  • An easy-to-follow workbook to guide you step-by-step through the lessons
  • Printable Labels
  • A vision sheet for your home
  • A working checklist of tasks you can accomplish in 30 minutes or less
  • Shopping and To-Do Lists
  • Monthly Calendar and Weekly Schedule

The Mental Foundation
 

The best processes to overcome mental barriers from Tony Robbins and Dean Graziosi’s Mastermind Course ($200 Value). Helps you to find the time, the energy and the motivation to organize your home by:

  • Discovering your “true, internal why” -> what motivates you to want an organized home
  • Helping you clearly identify what is holding you back from success
  • Teaching you how to organize your schedule to create new pockets of time
  • Helping you discover what is most important for you to accomplish with your time, as opposed to just urgent or habit
  • Helping you cut out the things that aren’t important and identify gaps in your schedule you can dedicate to working on your home

Your Ideal Home

The best processes to set and achieve your vision by breaking it down into actionable steps ($300 Value). Teaches you how to break down an overwhelming project into small, manageable steps, by:

  • Clearly defining your goal and vision for your home
  • Learning how to evaluate specific rooms and identify what you want to be improved
  • Identifying specific, easy to complete tasks in each room that will contribute to your overall goal without overwhelming you
  • Getting your family or others involved in the process

Cleaning and Maintaining

The best processes to clean and maintain your home after it has been organized ($200 Value).Teaches you how to maintain your home once it is clean and keep it organized, by:

  • Providing you with the basic cleaning routines you need to naturally stay in control of your home
  • Teaching you my amazing “Ten-Minute Clean-up” process, which allows you to clean an entire floor / room in ten minutes or less!
  • Showing you how to establish routines with your kids and other members of the family
  • Sharing important resources such as chore cards, favorite cleaning products, and a deep-cleaning checklist, and more
  • Explaining the laundry routine we use in our home to get our laundry done every week without even thinking about it
  • Teaching you how to deep clean your home after it has been decluttered and organized
  • Showing you how to help the other members of your household be on the same page and not “unclean” your home

During the course, we will:

  • Show you the process of how to go throughout your home decluttering, cleaning, and organizing. Then you can take this process and go throughout all the rooms in your home–including the bathrooms, kitchen, craft room, home office, basement, entryway, playroom, garage, attic, and all other rooms in your home–cleaning and organizing.
  • Clean out and organize not just the rooms themselves, but organization spaces such as closets, shelves, drawers, and bookshelves.
  • Learn how to properly use organization equipment, such as bins, drawer organizers, storage bins, food storage containers, lids, and baskets.

The Private Balanced Home Community

(BONUS – Priceless). Provides a community that you can go to whenever you need a place where you…

  • Seek inspiration and ideas from others
  • Receive support and motivation from others
  • Share your successes and see the successes of others as we all work towards finding balance and clarity in our homes.
  • Can ask questions and let me know what you may still need help with so that I can continue to cater the course to your needs
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What Do People Have To Say About My Organization Course?

“This course was instrumental in helping me organize my space as well as my time. As a busy mom, I have a better grasp on what my days need to include so that I can enjoy my family rather than spend my time spinning my wheels cleaning up after everyone.”

“The Balanced Home Course helped me to be the “professional organizer” for my family! Simple steps to follow, check lists, printable labels, suggestions and worksheets will keep you on track to successfully maintain your own balanced home.”

“I am pretty sure I have solved more issues with the seven layers and clarity tool than I have in 6 months of therapy!! I think this course is going to help much more than my home. Thanks Amy!!!!”

When I realized I had been overcomplicating the idea of organization, that simplifying was a key component, then things really started to fall into place!”

When I realized I had been overcomplicating the idea of organization, that simplifying was a key component, then things really started to fall into place!””

HOW TO GET MOTIVATED TO ORGANIZE YOUR HOME

HOW TO OVERCOME FEARS AND MENTAL BARRIERS

I asked and these are the things that are holding you back from getting started! I made sure my course helped you overcome your specific fears and developed processes to address each of the concerns below. Have you ever had any of the same concerns?

  • “I don’t have the time.”
  • “I don’t know how to break it down into manageable chunks.”
  • “How do I balance other activities?”
  • “I don’t have enough energy / motivation.”
  • “I’m overwhelmed and don’t know where to start.”
  • “I’m scared / unable to commit.”
  • “I don’t trust myself.”
  • “I don’t have the confidence I will finish.” 
  • “How do I maintain / keep on top of it?”
  • “I have a hard time with inconsistency / finding balance.”
  • “I’m afraid of quitting too soon and having it be a mess.”
  • “How do I build the habits and routines?”
  • “Keeping it clean and organized”“Staying focused and not getting distracted.”
  • “What if I have physical limitations.”
  • “I don’t have the supplies / resources / money (i.e. containers etc.) / storage space.”
  • “I don’t want to part with things.”
  • “What Do I do with all the stuff? Donate? Kids?”
  • “What if I need it later?”
  • “My family has stuff they want to keep.”
  • “Family is not being helpful or even counterproductive… How do I get my family on board?”
  • “No sense of design / vision for what I want.”
  • “Lack of knowledge.”
  • “Afraid of not doing it right.”
  • “Being okay with not having it perfect.”

STILL NOT READY TO BUY?

Because I know that sometimes it can be difficult to take that initial leap of faith, I wanted to give you something that would allow you to get your feet wet a little, something that you could access RIGHT NOW.  I think you’ll like it.  I’ve opened up a “sneak peek” section of my course, where you can access one or two of the lessons that are a part of The Balanced Home Course.  If you click the button below you will be able to create your own personal account / log in for the course and access the “sneak peek” videos.

OTHER ORGANIZATION PROJECTS

If you are interested in taking a deeper look into some of the spaces in my home, check out the following posts!

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Kitchen Tour Updated

Home Decor· Home Remodeling

Over two years ago we remodeled our 30+ year old Kitchen, but you know how it goes…if you give a girl a paint brush…

And so after a lot of hard work, elbow grease and kids projects, homework, sports and life…we are almost officially finished with our kitchen.  Now, I am sure I will continue to make some small changes here and there because, let’s be honest…I really enjoy changing things up, but for the most part we can cross this project off our “to do” list.
kitchen-tour 1

When we started 2 years ago, we had plans to just repaint the fronts of the cabinets since we thought they were still in pretty good shape.   We knew we also needed to get new countertops. When we moved in the countertops were tiled with large floor tiles and the grout was in terrible condition…and even though I spent hours chlorox-ing every single grout line…I still kind of felt like the grout was filled with germs.

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We also had plans to lay down new flooring.  We had already sanded down the floors and refinished them when we had first moved in 10 years earlier, but I wanted dark wood flooring and the wood we had would not stain as dark as I had wanted.  The other room you can see off to the right of the above picture is my home office/craft room if you are interested in checking that out.

kitchen before

(before)

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(before)

We also knew we had to fix a terrible patching job the previous owners had made on the kitchen ceiling.  They had removed a panel of cupboards that sat right above this bar but had not done a great job filling in the hole.  We knew it was going to take some serious elbow grease to repair and wondered how good the results would be.  So we decided to add a wood plank ceiling to hide the ugly and I have LOVED how it turned out.

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(before)

When decided to hire out for the countertops and the wood flooring and do all of the tear out and the rest of the remodel ourselves to save as much money as possible.  When we tore out the countertops, we realized that half of the cabinets were in terrible condition including the sink and dishwasher cabinets which were rotted out.  So we made the decision to replace the cabinets too.

old-wood-floor-tear-out

The big boys were great helpers and actually begged to help us with the tearing out process.  I think they were enjoying being destructive.

kitchen during remodel

After the flooring was in, the cabinets were put in…we had some drama with this when the guy installing our cabinets was upset about something at work unrelated to our job (we could hear him on the phone) and then stormed out in the middle of the job quitting right on the spot…#awkward.  So we had to call the company and work out getting a new installer.  Turns out the original installer had made some big mistakes on our install and others and someone had to come in and fix his mistakes.

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After finally getting them installed correctly, we were waiting on the countertop to be delivered, we had someone come and replace the kitchen window with a window that would actually open.  When the window installer was taking out the old window, he dropped it and it busted one of the top sections of the new sink cabinet.  Seriously?  So we had to wait for his company to pay the cabinet company and for the cabinet to be remade.  Oh…and did I mention that the husband was out of town during the entire floor laying and cabinet breaking fiascos?  I really don’t like dealing with stuff like that!

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(The opening to the other room (with the brick) is our Family Room.  I will be sharing the updates to that room soon as well).

When all of that drama got taken care of we were able to have the countertops installed.  The installation of that went flawless and I was so happy to have my kitchen almost back in order.  At least we were able to move the refrigerator (which was in the family room) and the stove (which was on the back porch) back into place!

kitchen-tour 7

We installed the backsplash by ourselves and went with a very practical and neutral white subway tile.  Since I love to change things up we wanted to be sure we had something that would be able to change with us.  I also LOVE how bright and clean it makes the kitchen feel.

kitchen-tour 10

During the whole process, we kept our eyes open for a kitchen table that would fit our entire family.  Our current kitchen table only fit 6 people around it and we needed space for 7.  The table had worked fine for us up to that point because we had the youngest in her high chair.  She had since outgrown the high chair and so we were forced to pull up an extra chair every meal for her to sit in and it wouldn’t work out much longer.  But our kitchen has a weird square space and a door that encroached on the dining area that made it hard to find a table that would be large enough for our family to fit on.  The ones we found that would work were WAY out of our budget…so we decided to make one!  Knowing our history, we knew we could make one to fit our needs and taste perfectly.

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 We will be sharing the tutorial for how we made the kitchen table here shortly.  I will add the link here when we have it.  We picked up the linen chairs from RC Willey (after much searching) and the cross back wood chairs from a small local furniture store who we LOVE! I can email you the information if you are interested.  She searched for the perfect chair and special ordered them for us!

kitchen-tour

We also made the white dish hutch.  I had always wanted a hutch to display some colorful dishes but because our space was so limited we couldn’t find anything in our price range that we loved.  So…we designed one according to our space and built it to fit our style.  I LOVE it!  We are also planning on sharing our plans and a tutorial here shortly.

herb-box

We also built this fresh herbs box that we have in our kitchen window.  I shared with you the first phase of that herb box and will update you with the final tutorial in an upcoming post.  So you get a little sneak peek of the finished herb box.  I also made the herb sign below which I will be sharing in another upcoming tutorial (guess I better get writing some tutorials…).  It hangs right as you come in the kitchen from the front door which is to the left of the refrigerator.

kitchen-wood-sign

 The large sign we have hanging by the kitchen table is one that we got from Between You and Me Signs.  It has now become one of my favorite areas of the new kitchen.

wood-plank-ceiling

We put in the wainscoting in one of the earlier phases of our kitchen remodel several years ago which I shared in an earlier post.  We also added some crown molding.  The paint color is Benjamin Moore’s Quiet Moments which is a nice soft blue with gray undertones.  I LOVE it.  I LOVED it so much I used it to repaint my daughter’s room.

We bought our stools from Amazon here…Kitchen stools.

kitchen

The doorway you can see at the end of the above photo is the entrance to our Laundry Room, if you are interested in checking that out.

I made the GROCERY sign that is hanging over our pantry.  To see the tutorial for the Grocery Sign go here:

Wood Grocery Sign Tutorial

And finally, the sliding doors were replaced a few years earlier with the French Door.  We shared how we framed in the door in an earlier post.

farmhouse-table

The spice rack that you can see in the pictures by the stove is one that I made out of an old Dr. Pepper Soda Crate.   The labels on the flour and sugar glass canisters I have on the counter were purchased on Amazon here…Kitchen Labels.  But I swear I only paid half that amount…because I would have made my own for that price….

Anyways, I am so happy to finally have it finished.  But once, we finished the kitchen, everything else in my house didn’t “fit”.  Not the MAJOR expensive home furnishings, you know…but the paint colors.  You know…because if you give a mouse a cookie, she is going to want a glass of milk…. So I had to freshen up the other rooms by repainting  them.  Everything is almost finished and it feels so good.  We have been working on our first starter home and this home for about 17 years now and this momma is ready to be done.



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Amy Huntley is the owner/author of The Idea Room. A mother of five, who enjoys sharing her love of all things creative in hopes of inspiring other women and families. Never miss a creative idea that she shares by connecting with her here, or read more of her posts.

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    • Amy says

      Thank you so much Kerstin. No, you did not miss them. I have not posted them yet…but I will…hopefully soon! It will be quite the lengthy tutorial so I need to get some courage to write it :) I will be sure to share it and let you all know.

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  4. Emily says

    This is beautiful, I love the ceiling. I eventually want to do that to my kitchen and this just makes my decision that much easier. It is gorgeous!

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    • Amy says

      The ceiling is definitely one of our favorite parts as well! I LOVE the extra detail it adds to the whole room! You should totally do it!! Your neck will ache but it will be so worth it ;)!!

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      • Kristen says

        Do you think sheets of bead board would work for a less expensive and quicker way to do a wood planked look ceiling? Looking at your remodel makes me totally want to remodel mine. We have an extremely similar floor plan and your remodel gives me hope!

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        • Amy says

          You can do the bead board…although…I personally don’t love the bead board because you will have big seams where all the sheets of them connect. You could try and fill the cracks with painter’s caulk…and see…but personally it is one of the reasons we chose the planks.

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  5. Anjanette says

    I love your style. I am pretty sure that I have the exact same flooring in my kitchen and our countertops are pretty similar too. I would love to have the name of the small furniture store. I like buying from small local businesses.

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    • Amy says

      Well you have great taste haha! I LOVE my dark flooring. It does tend to show more dirt and crumbs but I don’t mind it because I love it overall!! I will email it to you.

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  7. Kimberly Crowe says

    I love your kitchen!!! Where did you find the stools beside the tables? I would love to find them!

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  8. Sara @ Mom Endeavors says

    SWOON! I LOVE everything about this! It’s beautiful! Can’t wait to see the table instructions. We have a REALLY long odd space and I’m thinking about making our own farm-style table for the space.

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    • Amy says

      You totally should and it would be so easy to make one to fit your specific needs! Thanks so much for the sweet comment! Hope you are doing well!

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  9. Jill says

    Amy, I love your ideas and your website! I just looked at your kitchen and it’s beautiful…I am a kitchen designer, I have my own business…and I think you did a wonderful job! God bless!

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    • Amy says

      Thank you so much Jill! I really appreciate that! I struggle with the little details! Thanks so much for the kind words!

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  11. Mel Louth says

    Well done, I love it.
    Especially the ceiling idea- genius. Also the microwave above the cooker.
    Stealing ideas galore!

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  14. Erin says

    So beautiful! Can I ask about how much it cost you to make the table and the skill level needed? Also, how big is it? I live it and an wondering if it’s something we could do and afford.

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  15. Alicia Cortes says

    Oh Amy! Your kitchen is gorgeous! I love it as it has a calm, clean and tidied atmosphere and looks elegant yet cozy ;-) I love your blog and all your ideas, you’re my idol ;-)

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  17. hula belle says

    beautiful kitchen…. Where did you get your light fixtures? I love the smaller ones.

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    • Amy says

      We picked up the lights from our local Duncan Lighting store. I will ask my husband if he can remember the manufacturer and get back to you!

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  20. Melody Wright says

    BEAUTIFUL JOB! I would love to do that in my kitchen. Your style is perfect and I love it!

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  21. Carrie says

    So beautiful! Well done! What are your countertops? Granite, Corian, etc.? We are planning a remodel and the biggest thing killing my budget is the countertop. Any affordable suggestions?

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    • Amy says

      The countertops are quartz. I LOVE them. They are a bit cheaper and because it is manufactured stone you can put hot plates right on it. No need to seal them either.

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  22. Cara Ford says

    What kind of flooring is that, oak? I love the dark wood look! Planning on one day doing the kitchen and dining :)

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  24. Lolly Jane says

    So cool to see how much DIY was involved- your space is so cheery and BRIGHT! Love it, Amy! Can’t wait to see the rest of the tutorials (: XO

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  27. Crystal says

    Gorgeous!!! I love it all!! You did a fabulous job!! Love the kitchen signs. Cabinets, floors, everything is so beautiful. Love, love, love it!!

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  28. Jayne says

    I LOVE the color of your wood floors and wanted to know what type of product (solid wood vs. engineered hard wood) it is and the color . Thanks!

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  29. Stephanie says

    Your kitchen is beautiful. We have a similar layout in our current kitchen (of course it looks like your old kitchen). We are discussing a remodel and I just mentioned a place for stools at the countertop to my husband. Would you mind sharing the dimensions of your kitchen up to the edge of the counter with stools?

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  31. todd says

    Love the remodel as we have the same situation you did and wan to do the same thing. Can you tell me what the make and model is of your cabinets?

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  33. Coni says

    I really love your kitchen!! I’d love the tutorial for the kitchen table but can’t seem to find it on your site, have you posted it yet?
    Thanks for all the great ideas & photos.
    Coni

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  34. Kim says

    I love your kitchen! The link for the stools keeps taking me to the labels on amazon. Do you have a link for the stools? Also would you mind sharing what cabinet company or brand you used.

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  35. H says

    Beautiful work!!! I would so greatly appreciate it if you could please email me the purchasing info re: your dining chairs (the ones w/the wooden “x” back) and your kitchen stools (the link you’ve provided takes me to the labels for the glass jars on your counter). Thank you for generously sharing!!!

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  36. Sue Kennedy says

    Accidentally happened upon your blog and have subscribed to it. We are starting a remodel of a kitchen of a home we moved into a little over a year ago. I am going with white cabinets….love love love your kitchen ideas…seems we have similar tastes. I love your chalkboard spice jar labels and have been searching for a download for the labels. Could you send me the link. Thanks!!!
    Sue

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  37. Teresa says

    I love your kitchen. I have one question, I noticed no electrical plugs in your back-splash. Do you have under cabinet plugs? If so what product did you use? We are in the middle of doing our kitchen now.

    Thank you,

    Teresa

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  40. Joyce says

    Love the remodel, you have a great eye! The link that you put up for the stools sends me to the flour/sugar labels. Could you give me a manufacturers name so I can research. . .I love them!
    Thanks :)

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  41. CarrieK says

    Hi! I am enjoying your remodel. I love the bar stools. The link you provided goes to some sort of labels. Do you remember the brand? I’ll search. Another question, now that you’ve lived with them a bit, how are they? Comfy for all sized people? Would you still recommend them?
    Thanks!

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  42. judy says

    I don’t usually comment on DIYs but this one is great! Good job! The only question I have is the sign that says “Always tell the truth”.

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  45. diane @smartmoneysimplelife says

    Jealous! I’ve been making do with a temporary kitchen for about five years, and when I say temporary, I mean temporary! Freestanding bits and pieces of furniture. A second hand oven (which is *really* old). A hole in the floor where a wall was removed…

    I am soooo jealous of your beautiful crisp clean kitchen and dining area. I especially love the ceiling. And the floor. And the subway tiles…

    Enjoy your beautiful kitchen!

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  46. Gail says

    I just discovered your web site and I absolutely love your kitchen/dining remodel. I love the paint color, Quiet Moments, and was wondering if you would share the paint colors for your other rooms.

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    • Amy says

      Thank you! My other paint colors are Winds Breath, Revere Pewter, Rockport Gray, and Rockport Gray reduced 50% (the paint store can do this for you when you order it).

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  47. Sue Gilbert says

    You have done amazing job! I love your kitchen! I want to renovate mine too. It is cozy but it also looks out of date so it really needs a little paint. Thank you for sharing your experience here!

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  54. Meg says

    I love this remodel. Is there anyway you can share the dimensions of your room? Thanks so much!

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  56. Michelle says

    Can you tell me what kind of smaller trim is around your plank ceiling is? We are doing Crown around our cabinets but I don’t want to run it around the entire plank ceiling. Absolutely love that you have broken up the crown with smaller trim. I’ve been searching for days and so excited to see someone doing it the way I want mine done!!

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  57. Josie says

    Beautiful! I was wondering if you could give me more info on the wood planks for the ceiling. We have textured ceiling and I absolutely hate it. There are a lot of patches that don’t match. Was it easy to install?

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  59. DeAnn says

    Enjoyed your kitchen. It shows all the love you put into details for your family. I’m looking for flooring like what you have. Can you tell me who makes your floor and what color it is? Many thanks!

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    • The Idea Room Assistant says

      Thank you. Not sure on the flooring. We got it installed by a local company.

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  61. Elyse Graber says

    I love your style and frugality!! We are planning our kitchen remodel and yours is the first kitchen I have seen with literally the same amount of doorways, on the exact same walls, in the same positions! Your pictures have helped me envision how it will work. Also, if you need seating for 7 you must have 5 children? Me too! It is just so funny how similar your space and needs are to mine. Keep up the beautiful fixes!!

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  62. Lori Pasheilich says

    I love the “family rules” sign by the kitchen table. Can you please share where you got it?

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  63. Nora says

    Mind if you share the dimensions of this space? This is exactly what I had in mind for our remodel.

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  64. Marla says

    Gorgeous! What is the size of your table and is there enough space comfortably for 8 people, enough room for plates at the corner seats? We are trying to decide if we should go with a square table.
    Thanks?

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    • The Idea Room Assistant says

      Marla- I will have to go measure it. I do feel like it seats 8 comfortably. We have loved it.

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  65. Craig says

    Would you be willing to share the overall length and width of the kitchen and dining area? Trying to determine if a similar layout would work for our upcoming remodel. Thank you, looks great!

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