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Fearless DIY. Sharing building project tutorials and interior design tips. Let’s build something beautiful together. For more projects, design tips and behind the scenes, follow me @designtobuild.nicole

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Christmas House Modern Holiday Home Tour 2023

Christmas House Modern Holiday Home Tour 2023

Drive down our street and I promise, you won't miss our house. It's lit up like a Christmas tree, but not in a Griswold's Christmas Vacation kind of way. Don't get me wrong, my kids would LOVE it if we decked our house out with all of the colorful lights. But I prefer...

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Elevate Your Christmas: Expanding Your Festivities

Elevate Your Christmas: Expanding Your Festivities

With the smell of pine filling the air and twinkling lights illuminating snowy fields, Christmas has arrived. Elevate your Christmas with heartfelt traditions and special celebrations. Doing so, offers you an opportunity for joy, reflection, and togetherness. So, this...

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Oh Christmas Tree! Holiday Home Tour 2023

Oh Christmas Tree! Holiday Home Tour 2023

Merry Christmas! I just realized, I never did a holiday home tour last year. Not sure why I dropped the ball on that. But here I am, back at it this year. Every year, I decorate earlier and earlier. This year, Halloween no sooner ended and the next day, I was lugging...

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19 Best Gift Ideas for Her That She’ll Love

19 Best Gift Ideas for Her That She’ll Love

The holiday season is upon us and our minds are whirring as we try to figure out the best gifts for our loved ones. Whether it's your wife, sister, mom or friend, this post has something for everyone. Interior design enthusiast? Fashionista? Tech savvy? Loves to cook?...

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Top Tips For Designing Your Own Home

Top Tips For Designing Your Own Home

Designing your own home can sound like a mammoth task - and one that not everyone wants to do! But there are a lot of great things that happen when you take control of projects like this. Even for those who wouldn’t normally be picking up a paintbrush, designing a...

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Best 15 Gift Ideas for Home Decor Lovers in 2023

Best 15 Gift Ideas for Home Decor Lovers in 2023

Are you looking for the perfect gift idea for a home decor lover? Or maybe you're the home decor lover. 🙂 As a design lover myself, I'm sharing my 15 favorite gift ideas for home decor lovers. Whether you're shopping for an interior designer or someone who just loves...

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The Best Gift Ideas for Him He’s Sure to Love

The Best Gift Ideas for Him He’s Sure to Love

It's that time of year again! When we ponder what to get the men in our life. Whether it's your dad, brother, husband, boyfriend, cousin, friend, this list of "best gift ideas for him" has something for everyone. From tech, to fashion, to DIY enthusiasts, this post...

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