– This classic technique is a great way to incorporate natural leaves into your indoor fall decor.

It’s not even a cool distressed chalk-paint antique white, in fact it’s the opposite.I went completely un-trendy and did it in a super duper glossy shiny bright white..

I needed that.. Here’s how it looked before:.Don’t you love how much junk fell out of the drawers in just the one year we’ve been here?We don’t even use this dresser that much, in fact it’s going to be going upstairs into the room we’ve just started working on..

It was given to us by a friend who was moving a couple of years ago and we were just holding on to it until we got around to fixing it up..Living in this house that’s mostly kind of trashed, hasn’t been renovated for about 30-40 years in a lot of the rooms, with all these dark finishes that never seem to be really clean kind of gets to me sometimes.

Or a lot of the time..

While I love rustic finishes on just about anything, I’ve been craving the feeling of a bright, clean house lately.I vacuum on a whim!

I vacuum just cause it’s there!It’s so easy to never have to bend down and plug anything in and this machine really does pick every single bit of weird toddler food debris, big or completely crushed, in a single pass.

It really helps that it comes with two full-sized motorized heads.There’s the usual carpet one, but there’s also one for hard floors!