Decor
11 Whimsical and Sophisticated Wallpaper Designs (Perfect for Kid Rooms!)
Decor
November 7, 2016
11 Whimsical and Sophisticated Wallpaper Designs (Perfect for Kid Rooms!)
Choosing the wallpaper for the girls' room was no simple task. In fact, it was probably the thing I agonized over most. I ordered samples, I changed my mind, the room evolved, the placement of the wallpaper evolved. And then I found this Forest Floor wallpaper from Hygge & West and everything just kind of clicked--it was the […]
November 7, 2016
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Art
Ep 24: Choosing The Best Art For Your Home
Art
November 7, 2016
Ep 24: Choosing The Best Art For Your Home
Listen to the latest episodes on: iTunes, GooglePlay, Stitcher. Title: Ep 24: Choosing The Best Art For Your Home Game: Defining Designing Show Notes: After eating as many tacos as we possibly could, we discuss Chris and Julia's epic Halloween party and give updates on the One Room Challenge project. We find out what big thing is next for the Marcums […]
November 7, 2016
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Casual Friday
Casual Friday
Casual Friday
November 4, 2016
Casual Friday
If you follow along on Instagram, you know that we made some major progress in the girls' room yesterday. The wallpaper went up! Chris got all the lighting installed (we'll talk about that on Monday) and I even figured out a fabric snafu I was having with the bench cushion. It felt like progress and for […]
November 4, 2016
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Design
Our Calacatta Marble countertop by Formica in the Home Office--Yeah, That's Laminate!
Design
November 3, 2016
Our Calacatta Marble countertop by Formica in the Home Office--Yeah, That's Laminate!
Our home office is inching closer to completion every day, but ever since our beautiful marble-look-alike Formica (!!!) countertop arrived last week, we've been using it daily. Yes it's laminate and yes, we love it. So I thought today I'll share a few quick details about it and then as soon as I can decide […]
November 3, 2016
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Projects
One Room Challenge: Week 5 | There's Nothing Like a Fresh Coat of Paint
Projects
November 2, 2016
One Room Challenge: Week 5 | There's Nothing Like a Fresh Coat of Paint
If you're just tuning in, we're renovating a shared room for our daughters in 6 weeks as part of the One Room Challenge! My sweet mom loves to make any object or situation instantly desirable and charming by starting a sentence with, "There's nothing like a _____." Insert warm cup of cocoa, fall leaves, a bowl […]
November 2, 2016
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Design
All the Details on our New Horizontal Stair Railing!
Design
November 1, 2016
All the Details on our New Horizontal Stair Railing!
It's hard to believe these stairs have been in limbo since March when we tore out all the carpet and hand rail in anticipation of getting a new one--see this post for those details. Although, that span of time was never the plan and I would never recommend going 7 months without a handrail (like, […]
November 1, 2016
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Entertaining
Happy Halloween! + A Party Recap
Entertaining
October 31, 2016
Happy Halloween! + A Party Recap
Our annual costume party was on Saturday night, but we're still recovering over here. I had planned to share details of the stair railing today, but since it's Halloween, we'll save that for tomorrow and share some details from this year's party with all of you! It was our biggest party yet. There were over […]
October 31, 2016
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Inspiration
Casual Friday
Inspiration
October 28, 2016
Casual Friday
While we all couldn't love Charly more around here, our girls are also kitten-lovers. For the past 6 months, we talked about getting a cat. We'd go to the pet store or shelters and friends' homes and our girls would cling to the kitties. So when my sister had one kitten left in the litter her cat […]
October 28, 2016
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Projects
One Room Challenge: Week 4 | Those Wardrobes
Projects
October 26, 2016
One Room Challenge: Week 4 | Those Wardrobes
This week, we finished facing the book nook, installed 4 can lights in the room, and ordered a pretty light for the middle (can't wait to show you!) and we also started on installing the wardrobes--week 4 was a busy one. That same angle used to look like this: A few weeks ago, we talked […]
October 26, 2016
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Chris Cooks
Top 5 Tips for Cooking With Kids
Chris Cooks
October 25, 2016
Top 5 Tips for Cooking With Kids
This post is sponsored by Blue Apron While Chris cooks 99.9% of all the meals around here, he doesn't always do it alone. A lot of Sundays, when we all want time to go a little slower, he enlists Greta as his "sous chef" (tiny chef!) and they make the meal together. This past Sunday, […]
October 25, 2016
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Design
Design Sponge House Tour + All the Features!
Design
October 24, 2016
Design Sponge House Tour + All the Features!
This past summer, we had the great opportunity to work with Sabrina Smelko at Design Sponge to feature a house tour. And today, it is finally live! You can read and see the whole thing, "A Family Home in Idaho Where Comfort, Function & Dinner Parties Reign" right here. Thanks to the whole D*S staff, […]
October 24, 2016
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Lifestyle
Ep 23: Upgrades, Deadlines, & Lawsuits
Lifestyle
October 24, 2016
Ep 23: Upgrades, Deadlines, & Lawsuits
Listen to the latest episodes on: iTunes, GooglePlay, Stitcher. Title: Ep 23: Upgrades, Deadlines, & Lawsuits Game: Guess That Crazy Lawsuit Fine Show Notes: Julia, Chris and Preston talk about what they have going on right now, a few hiccups they've experienced and the chaos resulting from trying to juggle so many projects at once. They also talk about how to […]
October 24, 2016
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Casual Friday
Casual Friday
Casual Friday
October 21, 2016
Casual Friday
The first half of the week, it seemed like everything was going wrong...or in the very least, nothing was progressing on our projects which can feel frustrating with tight deadlines. But then, boom! Wednesday hit and everything turned around. Our stair railing got done--it feels as if it appeared out of thin air, the countertop […]
October 21, 2016
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DIY
Favorite Halloween Ideas from the Archives
DIY
October 20, 2016
Favorite Halloween Ideas from the Archives
There's just a week and a half until Halloween and we're working double time to make sure everything is ready for our annual costume party. I realized I usually don't get around to posting about what we did for decorations or food until after the fact, so I thought it would be fun to compile […]
October 20, 2016
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DIY
One Room Challenge: Week 3 | The Makings of a Book Nook
DIY
October 19, 2016
One Room Challenge: Week 3 | The Makings of a Book Nook
It has been an intense week around here. The weather hasn't cooperated all that well, we have only had one decor item arrive (1!!), and we just realized we don't really have three more weeks to finish this like our minds have been telling us, we have three weeks until the reveal, so just over […]
October 19, 2016
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Decor
Mix And Match Layered Doormat Options + A Podcast Update
Decor
October 17, 2016
Mix And Match Layered Doormat Options + A Podcast Update
Before we get into the meat of today's post, I wanted to give you a podcast update. It's hard to believe we have been doing The Chris Loves Julia Podcast with Preston Pugmire for 5 months now! But even before that, it's been a year since Preston sat down at our dining room table and […]
October 17, 2016
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Casual Friday
Casual Friday
Casual Friday
October 14, 2016
Casual Friday
What a week it has been around here! It's always fun to be deep into a project, like the girls' room, and our readers get invested, too. Thank you so much for all your comments and input on our One Room Challenge, both the bunkbeds and the wardrobes. We're having so much fun seeing this […]
October 14, 2016
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Design
Tearing Out The Bedroom Closets!
Design
October 13, 2016
Tearing Out The Bedroom Closets!
A friend of mine was picking my brain earlier this week about how she could add more storage to her home. Closets and storage solutions make such huge difference in the quality of life in a home and it's not always something we think about when looking at a home. While that's all true, sometimes […]
October 13, 2016
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DIY
One Room Challenge: Week 2 | DIY Built-In Bunkbeds for Around $700
DIY
October 12, 2016
One Room Challenge: Week 2 | DIY Built-In Bunkbeds for Around $700
We're so excited to share how the shared room for our daughters progressed in just one week! As soon as we hit publish on last week's ORC (One Room Challenge) post, we headed straight to Lowe's to pick up supplies and get started on the largest project in the room--the built-in bunkbeds. Just yesterday, we […]
October 12, 2016
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Lifestyle
How We Paid off our Student Loans In One Lump Sum
Lifestyle
October 10, 2016
How We Paid off our Student Loans In One Lump Sum
This post is sponsored by Regions Bank. Did you have student loans while in college? How did you pay them off? Maybe you still are. A fresh fall semester just started here in the small university town where we live--which happens to be the same University Chris and I graduated from nearly ten years ago. […]
October 10, 2016
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