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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Lifestyle
Ep 22: The Real World: Blogging Edition
Lifestyle
October 10, 2016
Ep 22: The Real World: Blogging Edition
Listen to the latest episodes on: iTunes, GooglePlay, Stitcher. Title: Ep 22: The Real World: Blogging Edition Show Notes: In this episode we discuss Chris and Julia's plans of the One Room Challenge and discuss adventures that happened on the way to IKEA. In our Hot Topic segment, we go behind the scenes to take a look at the real […]
October 10, 2016
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Inspiration
How to Find Product Sources on Pinterest
Inspiration
October 10, 2016
How to Find Product Sources on Pinterest
I shared this cool trick I discovered on Pinterest on my Instagram story, but since those disappear after 24 hours, and have had a few questions about it, I decided to share it here, too. So many times, our favorite inspiring spaces on Pinterest, are full of droll-worthy products and pieces that really make the space and […]
October 10, 2016
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Casual Friday
Casual Friday
Casual Friday
October 7, 2016
Casual Friday
Chris and I had a wonderful weekend getaway. We just drove down to Salt Lake, stayed downtown and shopped, ate, slept in, swam! It was bliss. We headed a little farther south to hit up Ikea to pick up wardrobes for the girls' room and ate at Cubby's (above)--a place we always have to eat […]
October 7, 2016
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Lifestyle
That Time My Family Got a Video Camera and We All Freaked Out
Lifestyle
October 6, 2016
That Time My Family Got a Video Camera and We All Freaked Out
Without trying to jump any guns, there are just 11 weeks until Christmas (!!) And even less until all of my sisters are reunited again. I wanted to do something special this year for our annual holiday reunion, so we partnered with Legacybox to pull it off (and scored a huge discount for all of you, too, at the […]
October 6, 2016
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DIY
One Room Challenge Week 1 | The Room, The Befores and The Plan
DIY
October 5, 2016
One Room Challenge Week 1 | The Room, The Befores and The Plan
The One Room Challenge starts today! 20 design bloggers will be making over a space in 6 weeks and documenting it from start to finish. We're no strangers to a quick deadline around here--heck, this summer we did a whole kitchen renovation for a family in Pittsburgh in 6 days! And a year ago, we […]
October 5, 2016
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Art
Color At Home is here!
Art
October 4, 2016
Color At Home is here!
Chris and I are headed home and back to reality today after an extended weekend away to relax and recharge before we start the One Room Challenge tomorrow. (Tomorrow! Come back tomorrow!) But I wanted to drop in really quick today because Color At Home, Young House Love's coloring book is being released today! (Right […]
October 4, 2016
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Casual Friday
Casual Friday
Casual Friday
September 30, 2016
Casual Friday
If you follow me on Instagram, the secret is out! We've been asked to participate in the One Room Challenge this season! If you aren't familiar with the One Room Challenge it is where 20 design bloggers tackle a room from start to finish in 6 weeks, sharing the progress every Wednesday during the challenge. […]
September 30, 2016
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Entertaining
Our Costume Party Invites this Year + Projects on Board!
Entertaining
September 28, 2016
Our Costume Party Invites this Year + Projects on Board!
We love Halloween around here and every year, for the past 6 years!, we have thrown a costume party. Everyone really goes all out with their costumes, we set up a photo booth, have lots of food and every year we dress up for the invites to really put the costume in costume party. This year, we channeled […]
September 28, 2016
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Idaho Rambler
Our Kitchen: One Year Later
Idaho Rambler
September 27, 2016
Our Kitchen: One Year Later
It's been a whole year since we finished our kitchen renovation (how!?) so we thought it would be fun to share how it looks today (not all that different) and how it has been wearing, as well as, some additions we've made and things we're thinking about changing or would do differently. 1. What's new? There have […]
September 27, 2016
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Chris Cooks
Must-Have Cookbooks
Chris Cooks
September 26, 2016
Must-Have Cookbooks
We have more cookbooks in our home than any other type of book. We have a small batch on the kitchen counter that get rotated out from the shelf in the study. Chris keeps a stack on his nightstand and then there's all the food magazine subscriptions we subscribe to filling our new sideboard and scattered […]
September 26, 2016
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