Casual Friday
Casual Friday
Casual Friday
December 2, 2016
Casual Friday
We left last Monday night, the 21st, for Florida to spend Thanksgiving with Chris's brother and family. It was an amazing time filled with food, that warm sun, swimming, and, yes, we took the girls to Disney World, too. We got home Wednesday night and these two went straight for their bunkbeds. There were a few questions […]
December 2, 2016
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Idaho Rambler
A Half-bath refresh
Idaho Rambler
December 1, 2016
A Half-bath refresh
Earlier this year, I was asked to be a part of IKEA’s Ambassador program, which was the easiest “yes!” If you’ve been reading for any amount of time, you probably have caught on, we’re long-time IKEA fans. Not only did we use their cabinets for our kitchen (and the Pittsburgh kitchen), there is an IKEA […]
December 1, 2016
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Gift Guides!
CLJ Gift Guides: Gifts for the Empty Nesters
Gift Guides!
November 28, 2016
CLJ Gift Guides: Gifts for the Empty Nesters
"What are we going to get our parents" is a topic of conversation between Chris and I and all of our friends during the holiday season. Because they always just want something like...a letter. (It's true, my mom always asks for a letter.) And while I love writing her a nice long card every year, it's also […]
November 28, 2016
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Gift Guides!
CLJ Gift Guides: Gifts For Him
Gift Guides!
November 26, 2016
CLJ Gift Guides: Gifts For Him
We've covered gifts for the home lover, gifts for her, and gifts for kids and now we're ready to share our gift picks for the guys in your life. Chris is the youngest of 7 boys in his family and over the holiday, we polled everyone to hear what their favorite gifts have been--meaning, these […]
November 26, 2016
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Gift Guides!
CLJ Gift Guides: Gifts for Kids
Gift Guides!
November 25, 2016
CLJ Gift Guides: Gifts for Kids
There's probably been one thing that your child (or niece or nephew or grandchild, etc) has been asking for (for Greta, it's this robot kitty--since she's allergic to real kitties) but there is nothing better than seeing a child's face on Christmas morning when you produce the most unexpected, best presents they'll love forever. Here […]
November 25, 2016
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Gift Guides!
CLJ Gift Guides: Gifts for Her
Gift Guides!
November 25, 2016
CLJ Gift Guides: Gifts for Her
Whether it's your best friend, sister, cool aunt or daily gym buddy (anyone that gets your butt to the gym every morning deserves a gift), these gifts are perfect for the women in your life this holiday season--they work for your own wish list, too. ;) I'm including the original price, but everything on this list is on […]
November 25, 2016
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Gift Guides!
CLJ Gift Guides: Gifts for the Home Lover
Gift Guides!
November 24, 2016
CLJ Gift Guides: Gifts for the Home Lover
Earlier this week, we flew to Florida to celebrate Thanksgiving with Chris's brother and his family. It's been warm and lovely and we're having the best time. Our house sitters are sending us daily Charly updates (she is loving the snow we're getting back home) and in between activities, Chris and I have been putting […]
November 24, 2016
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Lifestyle
Our Christmas Cards + An Artifact Uprising Giveaway!
Lifestyle
November 23, 2016
Our Christmas Cards + An Artifact Uprising Giveaway!
A few weeks ago, we drove 40 minutes up the road to Ashton, Idaho with our friends, the Pugmires, and we took our family photo for our Christmas Card. It's something we do every year, and it's such a fun tradition that keeps the whole family photo thing more casual and whole lot less stressful when […]
November 23, 2016
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Decor
A Few Updates in the Entry
Decor
November 22, 2016
A Few Updates in the Entry
To know me, is to know our entry will never be done. It's alway evolving. So, don't take this post as, the entry reveal. This is more of a--we've made a lot of great updates in the past couple months and here is what it looks like now. The first big change was this long vintage runner […]
November 22, 2016
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DIY
Building a Custom Standing Desk Using IKEA Cabinets
DIY
November 21, 2016
Building a Custom Standing Desk Using IKEA Cabinets
If you've been reading for the past few months, you're probably at least a little familiar with the standing desk we've been working on for our office. Well today we're gonna share how we did it, and it was actually pretty easy. Especially since IKEA did most of the hard stuff. You may be wondering […]
November 21, 2016
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Lifestyle
Ep 25: Storage Units, Asymmetry, and What We Screwed Up
Lifestyle
November 21, 2016
Ep 25: Storage Units, Asymmetry, and What We Screwed Up
Listen to the latest episodes on: iTunes, GooglePlay, Stitcher. Title: Ep 25: Storage Units, Asymmetry, and What We Screwed Up Game: Awkward Thanksgiving Show Notes: The gang discusses Julia's love/hate relationship with storage units and the Marcum's new upstairs bathroom. For our reader email, Julia breaks down the best way to handle and design around asymmetrical features already existing in […]
November 21, 2016
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Mood Boards
12 of the Best Flocked Christmas Trees in Every Size
Mood Boards
November 18, 2016
12 of the Best Flocked Christmas Trees in Every Size
Last year, we got a slim flocked tree for the living room, and I fell in love with the lightness and whimsy. And a lot of other people must have fell for it, too, since this photo circulated all through Pinterest, our readers have tagged me a number of times on Instagram when it popped […]
November 18, 2016
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Decor
A Kid-Friendly Christmas "Mantle" in the Playroom
Decor
November 17, 2016
A Kid-Friendly Christmas "Mantle" in the Playroom
This post is in partnership with Lowe's. Since this is the first holiday season that we'll have the playroom/family room completed, we wanted to deck it out a little bit since we spend so much time down here. Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to visit Lowe's headquarters and peek at their Holiday collections […]
November 17, 2016
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Decor
A Ceiling Mount Curtain Rod
Decor
November 16, 2016
A Ceiling Mount Curtain Rod
I think we've covered just about everything from the girls' room, but one question we keep getting over and over is regarding the curtains and the unobtrusive curtain rod we chose. So I thought dedicating a short post to the setup would be beneficial. Since the bunkbeds and the wardrobes went all the way up to […]
November 16, 2016
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Inspiration
A Night In the Kitchen (Plus, our favorite gluten free dessert recipe)
Inspiration
November 15, 2016
A Night In the Kitchen (Plus, our favorite gluten free dessert recipe)
This A Night In is sponsored by Anolon. Welcome to the second installment of A Night In where we rally a few of our favorite bloggers together to share a space in their home after that photogenic afternoon light goes down. It's intimate. It's real. And in my opinion, it's incredibly cozy. Nothing is better than when the sun goes […]
November 15, 2016
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DIY
When to DIY or Hire out Home Maintenance?
DIY
November 15, 2016
When to DIY or Hire out Home Maintenance?
This post is sponsored by Esurance While we definitely prefer the fixing-up-spaces side of home ownership, homes need constant care and maintenance. We've tried to insert a few of these realistic parts of owning a home sporadically in our content like when we shared how to trim back trees, replacing loose plugs, or the PSA […]
November 15, 2016
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Projects
A High/Low Budget Breakdown of the Girls' Room!
Projects
November 14, 2016
A High/Low Budget Breakdown of the Girls' Room!
Thanks for all the love for our One Room Challenge reveal last week! We had so much fun designing and DIYing this room for our girls. When we mentioned to some other ORC designers that we were going to do built-in bunks for this room, we were met with, "Are you sure you want to […]
November 14, 2016
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Casual Friday
Casual Friday
Casual Friday
November 11, 2016
Casual Friday
Chris and I just got back from a 24 hour getaway and I'm feeling all sorts of refreshed and re-engerized. It was our 8th anniversary on Tuesday and we were both too busy finishing up projects and the one room challenge and watching the election to really celebrate. So as soon as the reveal went […]
November 11, 2016
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DIY
A Dark Shiplap Accent Wall for under $75!
DIY
November 10, 2016
A Dark Shiplap Accent Wall for under $75!
We can't thank you enough for all your love on the reveal of our girls' room yesterday. It was so much work, but it was wonderful to see so many of you enjoyed following along and the end result as much as we loved sharing it. Today, we wanted to share all the details about […]
November 10, 2016
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Design
The Reveal! A Shared Girls' Room Complete with Built-In Bunks | One Room Challenge: Week 6
Design
November 9, 2016
The Reveal! A Shared Girls' Room Complete with Built-In Bunks | One Room Challenge: Week 6
Designing and building this room over the past 6 weeks with Chris has been a lot of hard work and late nights but most of all, a complete pleasure and an experience we'll remember forever. But even before Linda asked us to be a part of the One Room Challenge (we're so grateful!), we thought […]
November 9, 2016
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