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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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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