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How To Organize Hot Tea

Learn how to organize hot tea with this simple and easy tutorial. If your cabinet is overflowing with hot tea flavors and boxes this is a solution for you! One little known fact about me, is that I love hot tea. It’s such a soothing way to unwind, to enjoy with breakfast, an afternoon snack […]

Learn how to organize hot tea with this simple and easy tutorial. If your cabinet is overflowing with hot tea flavors and boxes this is a solution for you! One little known fact about me, is that I love hot tea. It’s such a soothing way to unwind, to enjoy with breakfast, an afternoon snack […]

How I Organize My Spices by The Wood Grain Cottage

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How I Organize My Spices

Today’s post is yet another “helpful post”. It’s not necessarily filled with beautiful, jaw dropping pictures, but rather the simplified take on exactly how I organize my spices. In comparison to blog land with most people creating fancy labels, removing the “ugly” items and adding a whole lot of staging, my take is, well, simple.  […]

Today’s post is yet another “helpful post”. It’s not necessarily filled with beautiful, jaw dropping pictures, but rather the simplified take on exactly how I organize my spices. In comparison to blog land with most people creating fancy labels, removing the “ugly” items and adding a whole lot of staging, my take is, well, simple.  […]

How To Organize Baking Canisters For Your Pantry by The Wood Grain Cottage

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How I Organize Our Baking Canisters

See how I organize our baking canisters for gluten free baking. This simple method has helped keep all my ingredients organized. The pantry… it’s a room I’m in and out of all day long, and up until a few days ago, I had the biggest mess! Today, it’s all about how I organize our baking […]

See how I organize our baking canisters for gluten free baking. This simple method has helped keep all my ingredients organized. The pantry… it’s a room I’m in and out of all day long, and up until a few days ago, I had the biggest mess! Today, it’s all about how I organize our baking […]

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Adding Character with a Vintage Door Knob

Adding little bits of character and special details get me really excited. It’s so important to the overall big picture of a space, and it’s one of my favorite ways to really make a room feel special. Those small details truly make a difference. Since Anthony and I built and installed our new planked pantry […]

Adding little bits of character and special details get me really excited. It’s so important to the overall big picture of a space, and it’s one of my favorite ways to really make a room feel special. Those small details truly make a difference. Since Anthony and I built and installed our new planked pantry […]

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DIY Wood Planked Pantry Door

Hi there! A while back I mentioned that I had a few ideas to spruce up our pantry door since I  had just painted our mudroom door black. And since they’re both in the same small room, I didn’t feel like we’d need two accent doors. Long story short, I told Anthony about my idea […]

Hi there! A while back I mentioned that I had a few ideas to spruce up our pantry door since I  had just painted our mudroom door black. And since they’re both in the same small room, I didn’t feel like we’d need two accent doors. Long story short, I told Anthony about my idea […]

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DIY Recipe Box

Happy Thursday to ya! And since today is Thursday, April from House by Hoff and Jen from Migonis Home are joining forces with me to bring you a project that you can create for $30 or less! This month I’m sharing my DIY recipe box. And even though it’s really simple, it’s so full of […]

Happy Thursday to ya! And since today is Thursday, April from House by Hoff and Jen from Migonis Home are joining forces with me to bring you a project that you can create for $30 or less! This month I’m sharing my DIY recipe box. And even though it’s really simple, it’s so full of […]

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Chalkboard Pantry Door

We have this pantry door. Before we moved in I decided to paint it Palladian Blue by Benjamin Moore. It gave the mudroom a perfect punch of color, but also distinguished which door was the pantry. Several months later, I still love that blue door but wanted to spice it up even more. Fore a […]

We have this pantry door. Before we moved in I decided to paint it Palladian Blue by Benjamin Moore. It gave the mudroom a perfect punch of color, but also distinguished which door was the pantry. Several months later, I still love that blue door but wanted to spice it up even more. Fore a […]

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