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The end of summer and the start of the school year marks a big change in season for our homes. Maybe you spent the summer at home playing and entertaining the kiddos. Maybe it got a little crazy. Your regular cleaning schedule went out the window. You started to accept clutter as a part of life.

Maybe you’ve fallen out of love with your home.

The switch from kids home for the summer to back to school is a huge lifestyle change for our homes. Whenever your lifestyle changes dramatically it’s easy to feel a bit disconnected from your home.

I want you to fall back in love with you home!

There are four simple things you can do today to reconnect with your home and see it with loving eyes, again.

1. Remember Your First Loves

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The morning that my kids went back to school, I started working on my list of all the things I wanted to get done over the summer. Y’all, I had such high hopes of all of the stuff we would get done around the house when it was too hot to play outside. Ha ha. Post-summer Lindsay is having a good chuckle at pre-summer Lindsay.

One of the things that I’ve been meaning to do for a long time is to remove the vinyl lettering on Zack’s bedroom door. When I applied it 5 years ago, it said Zack’s Room and had cute little cars on either side. Over the years, he peeled off the car detail and started picking at the letters. It ended up looking like this.

Pretty, right?

I tried to remove the rest of the letters with just my fingernails, but the vinyl had aged and become brittle. Instead of it peeling up easily as new vinyl does, the old vinyl was coming off in tiny, chippy pieces.

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4 Ways to Fall Back in Love with Your Home Instantly

1. Remember Your First Loves

How to Remove Old Vinyl Lettering