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Hi friend!  I’m so excited to share another room in our new house with you!  It’s been exactly one year that we’ve been here and I still love it so much!  Maybe even more now that we’ve lived here awhile and have really made it our own. I’ve shown you the full house tour here and my closet here, today I’m bringing you into the primary bathroom where I get to get ready everyday! MY NEW BATHROOM TOUR Cardigan • Tank • Jeans • Watch • Rug And you know Luke is never far behind me . . . Mirrors...

No more blind cabinets and climbing on counters for this homeowner. We often blame lack of organization on having too much stuff. However, when it comes to kitchen organization, the problem often comes down to faulty kitchen design. Once you’ve pared down the pie plates, souvenir cups, and expired spices, everything must be categorized and—most importantly—accessible. IKD customer Patricia was sick and tired of trying to maneuver in her vintage kitchen. It had three blind corner cabinets and an over-the-fridge cabinet. “My mother suggested I put rarely used items in the hard-to-reach spaces, but it was starting to feel like...

Photo by Florian Olivo on Unsplash I started hearing stories about Uncle Gum around the time my mother began disappearing. He was my mother’s uncle, and everyone called him Uncle Gum because his upper lip curled up when he smiled, like a fat worm rolling over, to reveal a set of dull red gums. My mother was just a young girl when Uncle Gum rode his bicycle into the river and drowned. She would have forgotten all about him were he not a recurrent topic during family reunions and festive occasions. Funerals and births. By the time I started hearing...

Who’s your favorite character on The Office? Maybe you’re partial to Michael’s hilarious antics or Jim’s wit. You might even love Dwight and his dedication to rules and authority. But I’m willing to bet that your favorite character is not Toby. Regardless of how you feel about Toby as a character, though, you have to admit that his job would not be for the faint of heart. And as ridiculous as the scenarios on this beloved sitcom seem, it appears that real life HR reps encounter shockingly similar situations. Human Resources employees have been sharing the most outrageous occurrences they’ve...

Cross these off your checklist and tackle grime, dust, and sneaky food bits that have built up on and inside your appliances By Perry Santanachote The kitchen is probably a room you spend a lot of your time in—while awake, anyways—which makes it one of the germiest. There are things like sponges and cutting boards that you must clean and replace regularly, but when was the last time you looked behind the refrigerator? And what is that dang smell taking over the sink area? Luckily, many kitchen cleanup tasks take hardly any time at all, as long as you’ve got...