furnishing your new home when building featured

Furnishing your New Home (when Building)

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furnishing your new home when building featured

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Are you in the midst of building your dream home and now it’s time to start thinking about furnishing your new home?! I assume you are already a *tinch* overwhelmed with all of the design decisions … and now you have to make even MORE decisions on how to furnish your home?! Yikes! I’ll lay […]

Apr

03

Design + Decorate

Top Exterior Siding Materials Pros and Cons Tennessee Valley Homes FI

8 Top Exterior Siding Options: Pros and Cons

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Top Exterior Siding Materials Pros and Cons Tennessee Valley Homes FI

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Choosing your home exterior material is a BIG deal! Not only is it one of the most expensive line items when building a home, but your exterior is also everyone’s first impression of your home … and I know you want to make a traffic-stopping great first impression! If you are confused about your exterior siding options […]

Mar

27

Building a Home

Serena and Lily Spring Sale

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It’s that time of year … the Serena and Lily Spring Sale! EVERYTHING IS 20% off with code: INSPO (if reading this post in Spring of 2019)! Below are many of my favorites … including several things I own and LOVE! Enjoy! Affiliate links are used for your shopping convenience. Please read my full disclosure […]

Mar

23

Design + Decorate

Common light fixture types explained and where to use Serena and Lily

Common Light Fixture Types + Where to Use

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Common light fixture types explained and where to use Serena and Lily

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When choosing light fixtures for your home, it’s important to first have a basic understanding of the purpose of your lighting. This allows you to better determine which light fixture types belong in various rooms of your home. In this post, I’ll provide an overview of the three types (purposes) of lighting, six common (most used) light […]

Mar

20

Design + Decorate

Caroline's Five Finds Contemporary Floral Wallpaper

Caroline’s Five Finds: Contemporary Floral Wallpaper

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Caroline's Five Finds Contemporary Floral Wallpaper

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Do you see photos of beautiful floral wallpaper on Instagram and Pinterest and think to yourself, Where can I find that paper?! or Where do I even start with wallpaper?! In this issue of Caroline’s Five Finds (actually six finds because I couldn’t narrow it down!), I scoured the internet for all of my favorite contemporary floral wallpaper […]

Mar

11

Caroline's Five Finds

8 clever tricks to make your small home feel bigger

8 Clever Tricks to Make your Small Home feel Bigger

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8 clever tricks to make your small home feel bigger

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Do you live in a smaller home that you would like to feel more spacious? Or possibly you dream of building a custom home, but a large home isn’t a reality because of your budget and/or land size. Whether you’re building a smaller custom home (custom homes do NOT have to be large!), or you […]

Mar

06

Building a Home

hey there,

I designed my own custom home from the ground up, inside and out. A home that is cozy, comfy, laid out perfectly for the way my family lives, and makes us happy every single day. Oh, and did I mention I did this all without going over budget?! 

Yep, it’s true. I’ve been there, done that, and actually lived through it … and you will too. Pinkie promise!

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I’m Carrie Barker.

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