Melanie & I became good friends our sophomore year of college when I latched onto her friendship with my girl Kelly The first time Justin met Melanie, she was baking cupcakes at a mutual friend’s apartment, which is so perfect if you know Melanie. They have one of those stories where you can say...
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It’s about time for an update on this bathroom renovation! Even though destruction has already commenced(!!!), all I have to show you today is Part 2 of this vanity saga. If you didn’t believe it was a saga after the beast of a Part 1, you will by the end of this post! And...
Read more →My apologies for the ridiculously long hiatus…redesigning my site & manually republishing every single post took FOREVER. For me, switching over to a WordPress.org server means that I’ll have way more options & flexibility, and a better structure at the same time. Unfortunately, there was no way to transfer my existing content over and...
Read more →For those of you looking for the original ShaunaMailloux.com… Bear with me please! I recently discovered that I need to rebuild my website from scratch but I’m taking this opportunity to redesign the site & hopefully improve it for the long-run. So hang on while I work behind the scenes to re-post (& back-date)...
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Sooo I know that it’s been forever since I’ve posted any updates on our bathroom renovation, even though I claimed I was ready to crack down on it ASAP. I have to admit…I may have been dragging my feet. Renovations are scary if you don’t know what you’re doing, haha. But in my defense,...
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I am so excited to share this newborn photo shoot of my first niece! Phil’s brother Matt & his wife Kristen welcome their little Ella into the world a couple weeks ago. She is healthy & adorable! You can see their maternity shoot here, and a few more that snuck in here. This was...
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Remember the gallery wall I put together in our kitchen a few months ago? Well, I did it again. Bigger & better! Gallery Wall 2.0 consumed the bare wall in our living room where the tv resides - I was hoping that if I surrounded the tv with art, hopefully it would blend in...
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I hope you all had a great weekend! I definitely did because my family came down to visit! I was super excited for them to come – especially because my sisters hadn’t seen our house yet, & my parents hadn’t seen it since it was filled with moving boxes. So it was fun to...
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Last weekend Phil & I went out on a big shopping trip to find tile for our bathroom reno. I shared the other week about our original design idea, based off of the green glass vessel sink we scored. It would be somewhat vintage-inspired with gray & mint green as the main colors, &...
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I feel a little bit silly about blogging about something so simple & obvious…but I wanted to show you the soap dispenser that I put together for our vintage-inspired bathroom reno - I’m sure you can figure out how easy it is to make one. Just steal the dispenser part from an ordinary plastic...
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We are just at the verrrry beginning stages of our bathroom renovation – our first major DIY undertaking! We have a PLAN…at least a tentative one. And even though there’s still lots of researching & learning & experimenting to be had, now I’m really excited to pump it out ASAP (although realistically, ASAP might...
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Our living room has a new (& much needed) addition - I snagged this guy from a thrift store for just $2.25. It was originally a whopping $4.50, but I was there on a half off day. Even better! I was just what I was looking for…fairly small (to fit on our tv cabinet)...
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