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From the powerhouse couple behind the blog Probably This and #YourGayUncles, a comprehensive guide to living comfortably and beautifully on the cheap by and for millennialsIn Probably This Housewarming: A Guide to Creating a Home You Adore, Armato and Ciolino show you how to live your best, fullest, most beautiful life while dealing with all of the limitations that come with renting, working 40 hours-or more-a week, and having little-to-no disposable income. This fun, accessible guide is organized into three sections-Design, DIY, and Entertain-in the order you would naturally do them. First, you'll learn to design your space to look just right, then you'll find DIYs that will help add character and round out your home decor on a budget, and finally, you'll get hosting tips for when your home is ready for entertaining. Whether you need help picking out a paint color, refurbishing vintage furniture, or mixing a batch of cocktails that slap, Matt and Beau are here to help transform your house (or apartment) into a home. A no-nonsense introduction to homemaking written by and for millennials, Probably This Housewarming is all about embracing your true self in your home design, guiding readers to create a space that reflects their personality and fits their individual needs. And as your needs grow and expand with every new place you call home, this book will be there for you every step of the way. Full of charm and humor, Probably This Housewarming is a charismatic and comprehensive guide to making any house a home.

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Publié par	ABRAMS BOOKS
Date de parution	19 avril 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781647003029
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	8 Mo

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DEDICATION
To Meme, Ren e, and both our moms, whose love, support, and expertise made this book possible.
Contents
Introduction
Our Story
PART 1 Design
1 Our Design Philosophy: Make It Look Like People Live Here
2 Creating a Mood Board: Honing Your Design Direction, the Lazy Way
3 Making a Mock-Up: Finessing the Vision
4 Making It Happen: A Beginner s Guide to Furnishing Your Place
5 Colors That Feel Like Home: The Right Shades for Your Place
6 Designating Space
7 Finishing Touches to Make It *Chef s Kiss*
PART 2 DIY
8 Do It Your Dang Self! An Intro to DIY
9 Painting 101
10 Repairing and Refurbishing Vintage Furniture Pieces
11 Container Gardens: From Indoor Herb Gardens to Raised Beds
12 Three Easy and Affordable Planter DIYs and the Houseplants We Love to Fill Em With
13 Creating Personal Pieces for Your Home
14 Yes, You Should Change That: Light Fixtures and Other Stuff You re Maybe Not Thinking About
15 So, You Want to Renovate a Vintage Camper?
PART 3 Entertaining
16 Our Entertaining Philosophy
17 Cute Tablescapes for Cute Gatherings
18 How to Make a Thicc Snack Board
19 No BS Guide to Wine
20 Getting a Crowd Tipsy on a Budget with Sangria
21 Building a Home Bar: How to Get Your Friends to Stop Nagging You to Go Out
22 Favorites from Our Kitchen
Acknowledgments
Further Reading
Index of Searchable Terms
Introduction
Welcome to an all-encompassing guide to casual domesticity, by the lovable gay couple who has built a career out of making homemaking approachable. That s us! On our blog, Probably This , and now in this here book, we give you all the tools you need to make your home feel full of life (no matter how vacant you may be on the inside!). If you d told us when we first started our adventure together nine years ago that people would be reading a book about innovative homemaking that we wrote, we d have stared blankly at you from our messy, leaky attic apartment and rolled our eyes. But a lot has changed since then, and we want to share all of that growth with you!
So, what does all-encompassing encompass? We think of attainable homemaking as having three major tiers: putting intention into your home s aesthetic and function (Part 1: Design), using your own two hands to make your place uniquely yours (Part 2: DIY), and honing your hosting skills to make your guests say, Wow, that s that s really nice (Part 3: Entertaining).
Interesting spaces, handmade and heartfelt touches, and a table set with good food and drinks-all of that comes together to support the memories we make with friends, family, and-hell, maybe even strangers, we re not your parents. We re here to show you how to live your best, most beautiful, and fulfilling home life while dealing with the limitations that come with renting, working long hours, and/or not having a lot of expendable income-all of which applied to us when we first started. And even if it doesn t apply to you and never has, we think we ve still got some tips you could use.
Here are a few things you can expect from this book:
1 We won t be giving long dissertations on color theory, impractical DIY projects that no normal human wants to do, or lengthy cocktail recipes where you have to, like, flamb something. We re cutting the fat and getting straight to the basic needs of a home-that it s comfortable for you and suited to welcome the people you love, with, okay, some wow factors here and there.

2 The projects within this book are curated for renters and homeowners alike. Some of our projects may not be realistic for everybody or every home, but where possible we ve offered alternatives for people who are limited by either budget or lease restrictions.

3 We re oversimplifying basically everything we tell you here because, well, we re self-taught jacks-of-all-trades, not specialists. If you re an expert in any of the fields we re covering, thank you for joining us, and we re sorry for whatever thing we bastardized, but please do not worry about sending an email.

4 To keep this journey into the world of homemaking as approachable as possible, we re introducing you to some key terms that will be useful in further exploring the projects and concepts this book touches on. Whenever you see something STYLED LIKE THIS , that s lingo you can easily research online or use in conversation with a professional in that field, such as wine terms like C TES DU RH NE and paint finishes like SEMI-GLOSS .

Now if you re along for the ride, it feels like a good time to tell you just a little more about us and the places we ve called home, which have each shaped our approach to homemaking.
Our Story
We started dating in college (Beau saw Matt first; Matt said hello first), and we moved in together irresponsibly fast. Our first place was Beau s small apartment just off campus that had musty stained carpet and a sloped ceiling that made you feel like you were in someone s attic because it was actually an attic, haphazardly renovated by a money-grubbing real estate development company. Everything between us was just dandy, but everything around us made us want to die. We made the most of what we had, reorganizing our Target throw pillows, carefully building cheese boards from the under $4 bucket at Whole Foods, and tinkering with cocktail recipes.
As much as we tried, that first home together was pretty unremarkable. We had a lot of growing to do if we were going to blossom into the domestic angels we d always dreamed of being. Beau, growing up, would waltz down the aisles of Michaels crafts store to attend baking and cake decorating classes. When he was a preteen and his parents remarried, he put his skills on display by making his mom s wedding cake and his dad s groom cake. Each was a hit. Matt always had an interest in decor and design, solidified by a childhood trip to Graceland and an argument with his grandmother (a lifelong antiques collector and interior designer) about the merits of the green shag carpet in Elvis s Jungle Room. She expressed physical discomfort at the gaudy design choices there; Matt had a minor epiphany that decor boundaries existed to be broken.
We took on extra shifts at our jobs (late nights in swanky restaurants) and ditched the dingy apartment. Our next home was a modern apartment that felt fresh and new with an industrial edge to it, with a small loft bedroom and a large, high-ceilinged entertaining space. It became the perfect place for us to really dive into our interests in decorating and hosting. We curated our first home bar and then drank through it way too fast. We planned small, cozy gatherings and threw the occasional party-experimenting with tablescapes and mood lighting to set the tone for a relaxing evening of gossiping about all the people we didn t invite.
That s the apartment where, late one night, the idea for a blog came around. Neither of us was sure what our post-college lives would look like, but the future didn t look very promising, and neither of us had the talent or drive to pursue any traditional career paths. We took stock of our mutual love for home decor, kitchen things, and entertaining, combined with Beau s burgeoning interest in photography and Matt s experience as a writing tutor-and it felt like we had everything we needed to start a blog. At first it was just a side project to share recipes and decorating ideas with our friends and family, but it quickly became an all-consuming documentation of our lives and our journey in homemaking. And, for reasons we re still unsure of, a bunch of people besides just our moms started paying attention, which felt kind of nice!
We named the blog Probably This , because it captured our flippant We re figuring it out! approach to homemaking. What do you need for a better home? *shrug* Probably this? It also finally helped us answer the most anxiety-producing question in the world: What are you doing after college? Probably this became our response. We spent our days redecorating rooms, practicing photography, testing recipes, and writing for our newfound online community. In the evening we d go into our restaurant jobs, learning everything we could about creating moods, crafting cocktails, and pairing wine-often getting off at 2:00 a.m. and doing it over again the next day.
After a couple of years experimenting and blogging in our little loft apartment, we decided to expand our surroundings by looking for a bigger home with a little more room to breathe. A quick scan on Craigslist produced a bright pink shotgun home that made us both drool-we toured and started our lease that same week. When you live in a house that is painted bubblegum pink, it feels less unhinged, maybe even appropriate, to decorate the interior with the same level of intensity. So we did, and we ve brought a similar level of flair to all our subsequent homes, not thinking twice about splattering walls with colors like ochre and turquoise and peach. Around this time, we realized that if we really pinched our pennies we could blog, like, as a career. It wasn t the most responsible decision, but back then our dynamic tended to look like unconditional reinforcement of each other s risky long-shot ideas. So, we quit our jobs and started focusing all our professional energy into making home lifestyle content for the internet.
It was still just a few years into our relationship, but here we were committing not only to one another but also to a business and a brand. It should ve been scary or overwhelming, but to be honest, it was awesome.
So, with hearts full of hope and wallets that were completely empty, we turned to secondhand, vintage, and DIY elements to make our deranged, grandiose visions come to life-notably learning that sometimes, if you ask nicely, many landlords are cool with you changing things like paint colors and light fixtures (see this page ).
We loved the pink house, but all good things come to an end, and our time there