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Deuce Cities Henhouse

Cabin Enthusiast Gift Guide

Our family and friends all loving playing outdoors in the winter. Thankfully, everyone has been happy to come to the cabin to enjoy these activities with us. As hosts and all around encouragers of a good time, we have become well versed in offering the best of the outdoor fun, while also supplying a cozy place to curl up at the end of a energetic day outside. Here are a few of my all time favorite purchases we've made... READ MORE
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Straight Dippin'

Straight Dippin’

So I took my own advice and dove right into a new project after realizing I haven't been doing anything lately. My bathroom is halfway painted and it's a GD bathroom. It should take me about two seconds to paint but instead I am procrastinating like nobody's business, I mean ...
Fit bit

Fit bit

So I'm diving in again. I think I had one too many beers, one too many baked potatoes, and one too many brats this summer. My pants are getting tight and I don't like it! Losing a few LB's seems to always be a seasonal thing for me. After I ...
Mix Tape : Cold Weather Jamz

Mix Tape : Cold Weather Jamz

Hey E'rbody! Man, that cold that I had last week has really gotten me out of the blogging rhythm. Not only that, Finn's new preschool schedule in conjunction with having a fourth kid in the house on Monday's has put a wrench in my day-to-day life. I'm usually pretty good ...
Twemco Flip Clocks

Twemco Flip Clocks

We were watching 'Shut Up And Play The Hits' (a documentary about LCD soundsystem's last concert at Madison Square Garden) earlier this week. The documentary was not that great, but that didn't matter, I was hooked on something else. It showed up one of the first few scenes, the camera ...
3 Tips for Canning Pickles

3 Tips for Canning Pickles

Guys! All I have been doing with my free time (when I'm not spending it being sick) is canning veggies. It all started as a quest to create and can the perfect bloody mary mix and now has moved into pickles, beans, tomatoes and marinara. Every week we get a ...
It's Cocktail Time : French Basil 75

It’s Cocktail Time : French Basil 75

Hey Guys! I'm posting this straight from Sickville, USA. It only took one week of fall weather to get the whole fam sick. I just hope that this is not how the rest of the winter goes. Anyways I've had this post in the vaults for awhile and thought I'd ...
Etsy Finds

Etsy Finds

I'm on the hunt for a few simple brass accessories for the bathroom makeover to compliment these knobs which were the inspiration for the room. Of course the Etsy vintage section was my first place to look. It didn't take long to come up with some great brassy options, it ...
Preschool - what the what?

Preschool – what the what?

If you follow along on Instagram (@scoopers) and Facebook you already know that something big happened at our house yesterday; Finn went off to his first day of preschool. I'm so amped for this new phase of his life to start, and he is too. He's only expressed excitement about ...

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Hi! I’m Alison Allen

I started Deuce Cities Henhouse in 2009 – a blog about fixing up and restoring my 110-year-old Minneapolis home and updating our worn out and out, dated Wisconsin cabin. My family and I (my husband and two boys) moved into our current home nearly ten years ago, and since then I’ve been chronicling my journey of owning, renovating, decorating and DIY-ing our home.
 
I’m passionate about empowering women to take on projects that they might have normally not had the confidence to do, incorporating modern design and aesthetic into my home, thoughtful design solutions, and landscaping. I’ve done it all, from easy do-it-yourself home improvement projects to full on renovations and remodels.