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Old Meets New: Favorite Pairings
Old and new pairings for home decor styling to help achieve a timeless and collected design! Pair new products with antique favorites for an elevated yet timeless style in your space!
Antique inspired: Styling Items
Antique inspired styling items for shelf and counter decor including clocks, vases, throw pillows, framed art, mirrors, candles, and more! Perfect and timeless styling components for classic collected homes.
Our Entryway Inspiration
Entryway decor for timeless and collected interiors including entry runner rug that handles foot traffic well, an entry console table that offers storage and beauty, entry vases, blue and white vases, and wall art ideas.
Fall Flannels & Plaids
Found Friday: Fall Flannels & Plain Edition! Jumping into fall with that slow flannel transition!
6 Moody Paint Colors You Need in Your Home
These rich colors really do bring us back in time especially when they saturate an entire room from floor to ceiling - Covering the walls, the trim, the ceiling, and even the doors. If you’re thinking of going bold this year, just do it! But do it with one of these 6 moody paint colors that every home needs to have at least ONE of!
Mixing Wood Tones & Feeling Good Doing It
I thought I’d share some of my favorite tips for how we’ve created a seamless and bright aesthetic in our own home despite having the dark wood tones.
Are You Painting Your Trim??? This FAQ Answered!
Well, I’m happy to announce that I have come to somewhat of a compromise to all of this and couldn’t be happier with the direction that we have decided to go in.
About Kindred Homestead
We are so excited to have you here! We are Guy & Tessa Kirby and we are the faces behind Kindred Homestead! If you don’t already know, Kindred Homestead is an interior design and restoration company for the modern family. Through a combination of onsite and virtual services, we’re here to help clients create a space they long to be in.
Farmhouse Living Room Reveal
Take a peak at what my kids call "the white room." I hope you love it as much as we do!
WE'RE SELLING OUR HOUSE!
Another BIG announcement here in the Kirby fam (surprise, surprise!)...we are selling OUR HOUSE!
Flip House Update: We're Making Progress
Yay!! We're making progress at our flip house! I've had a lot of people ask about how everything is going and what our projected timeline is so I'm here to show off a few pictures and answer all the questions I have gotten so far!
Kirby Christmas Home Tour
I have been really contemplating this Christmas what I was going to do with my decor. Last year I made the red tones pop a lot and this year I just wanted to keep it more simple; tone it down a bit and decorate with more neutral tones with a "hint" of red here and there. I am super excited about how it turned out!
Thrifty Thursday: My Goodwill Finds
So I thought of this super catchy title, "Thrifty Thursday" (even though I'm sure it's already a "thing" but I'll still pretend I thought of it first) and I thought it would be fun to share with you all of my thrift store finds!
Guest Post: Decorating Skills For Those With Good Taste But No Skills
So what’s a gal to do when she desires to have a beautiful home but doesn’t have to talent to make it so? Well through plenty of trial and error I’m happy to share with you the secrets of how I finally have the living room makes my heart happy.
DIY Barn Door Shelving Unit: Part 1
I've had many people ask me to reveal this fun project, I thought what the heck! So without further ado here is our DIY barn door shelving unit from start to finish.
How To Makeover Old Furniture With Amy Howard Chalk Paint
This 6 foot long, green-stained, solid piece of wood weighed a ton and needed a lot of TLC but all I could see was the immense potential that it possessed (and did I mention I snagged it for $50?)!
How To Pick The Perfect Paint Color
If you are painting say a bedroom and it's rather small the LAST thing you want to do is make it feel even smaller! That's what will happen if you choose darker colors (red, brown, navy, etc). And I would even be leery of those brighter colors too (pink, baby blue, green, etc). It's important to know that in smaller rooms, whites and neutral tones are a MUST! Subtle is better!
How To Save Your Kitchen Cabinets and Make Them Look Like New
How to save your old kitchen cabinets with a little TLC and paint. Learn just how we transformed our kitchen here!
The Power of Spray Paint: 4 Ways To EASILY Transform Your Home
Spray paint gives you options to make something look the way you want it to look in a price range you can afford. It can also be a great temporary fix to hold you over until you can buy something that you really want.
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