0 Before Story: Friends make great guinea pigs

Now that I’ve been an official guest blogger for the fabulous At Home in Arkansas magazine for over a year—that’s a lot of DIYin’ folks!—I vote it’s time we mix it up a bit for my July post.



Day after day you see me piddling around my own construction site on Live The Home Life and month after month you see me rehabbing furniture for At Home’s blog, but for my next post in the works, I plan on taking a more hands off approach.

After each DIY/rehab/how-to project I post, I tend to get dozens of love-it!-but-I-could-never-do-what-you-just-did emails, Facebook comments and tweets. Last week’s DIY floor mirror was no exception.

So to prove just how simple it really is to recreate that stinkin’ mirror, I’m bringing in my good pal and super beginner DIYer, Meredith to show us how it’s done.

Craving a mirror of her own for her first home, I knew just how to wrangle her into my little experiment. Mere admits that she’s no handy gal but is excited to take on this DIY…with a little guidance from yours truly and a glass or two of wine.

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1 Sneak Peek

Hope you all had a fabulously long weekend! I know I did. Jam packed with family & friends, food & fantastic sunburns, I also spent my Memorial Day weekend wrapping up my latest rehab for my upcoming post on At Home in Arkansas’ blog. Care for a sneak peek? Let’s do it…

 

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