Decor
Patio Zen
Decor
November 23, 2015
Patio Zen
This year has been a growing year for me. I have taken on a lot of extra freelancing and started to work for a big interior-inspiration website nearly full time. About half way through, I was so overjoyed with all of the opportunities but also feeling a little overwhelmed, too. My sister, Victoria, who still […]
November 23, 2015
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Gift Guides!
My Favorite Cooking Tools
Gift Guides!
November 19, 2015
My Favorite Cooking Tools
You can cook. This has been my whole thing, with every post I've written. Food is not some exclusive club you have to be on some list to get into, and we should never feel intimidated to try something new. It's all a matter of having the right tools, and understanding the basics. A few people […]
November 19, 2015
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DIY
How To Paint the Exterior of Your Home--Yourself!
DIY
November 18, 2015
How To Paint the Exterior of Your Home--Yourself!
Today, I have a long overdue update on the exterior of the Pugmire's home! Back in June, I shared that they had wrote an amazingly catchy song and entered their home in a contest to win an exterior makeover. My favorite line of the song is when they sang, "My favorite color isn't salmon, or […]
November 18, 2015
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Lifestyle
Our Holiday Card Photo Tips + $250 to Artifact Uprising to Send Your Best Cards Yet.
Lifestyle
November 12, 2015
Our Holiday Card Photo Tips + $250 to Artifact Uprising to Send Your Best Cards Yet.
We have teamed up with one of our favorite photo companies, Artifact Uprising, to introduce you to some really fantastic holiday card options and give one of our readers $250 to their site to spend on cards, prints, photo gifts, art--anything you'd like. Everything is so beautiful! Last weekend, we called up our friends, the […]
November 12, 2015
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DIY
The Finished Pantry!
DIY
November 11, 2015
The Finished Pantry!
The pantry is complete and I'm sharing a bunch of photos today! We actually finished it a couple weeks ago, and it has been a dream to have and use. It signifies the completion of a year of hard work and transformation in our home, but specifically this corner of the home. The best way […]
November 11, 2015
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Decor
A Gift Guide for The Home Lover + Giveaway!
Decor
November 9, 2015
A Gift Guide for The Home Lover + Giveaway!
We generally post gift guides closer to Black Friday, but when Lulu & Georgia asked if I would be interested in curating a gift guide for the Home Lover as a part of their 12 Days Of Giveaways, I jumped at the chance. It's taken Chris a few years to realize that the best gifts […]
November 9, 2015
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Art
The Evolution of The Entry + $500 to Minted
Art
November 5, 2015
The Evolution of The Entry + $500 to Minted
Our entry has evolved so much over the two years that we have lived here (check out the full evolution over on Instagram today! @chrislovesjulia), probably more than any other space, and with each tweak it gets functional for us and more beautiful, too. Most recently, we swapped out the mirror for a full length […]
November 5, 2015
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DIY
DIY Modern Traditional House Number Plaque
DIY
November 3, 2015
DIY Modern Traditional House Number Plaque
Over the summer, we swapped out the lights on our garage and added a pretty hanging basket of flowers. While we are continually smitten with the new lights, the flowers ran their course (pretty quickly!) and we were left with a big womp womp. We tried a few other flowers but our garage gets sun […]
November 3, 2015
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Recipes
My Best Chili Recipe: Grilled Pork Chili
Recipes
October 30, 2015
My Best Chili Recipe: Grilled Pork Chili
I can officially say that I have created an "award-winning" chili recipe. Sure the award was a $25 gift card, and the competition was my office's yearly chili cookoff, but don't let the small venue fool you. I think this chili could handle any crowd, and their various tastebuds. It's a little smoky, a little […]
October 30, 2015
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DIY
A New Table + The Dining Room Before & Afters!
DIY
October 28, 2015
A New Table + The Dining Room Before & Afters!
We got ourselves a new dining room table! When we shared the before and afters of our kitchen renovation, so many of you wanted to see how the rest of the great room worked into the new kitchen, specifically the dining room since they are so close in proximity. At the time, we were in […]
October 28, 2015
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DIY
DIY Harry Potter-esque Hanging Candles + Party Decor Details
DIY
October 26, 2015
DIY Harry Potter-esque Hanging Candles + Party Decor Details
We had our 5th annual costume party this weekend and, somehow, each year it manages to be even more fun. Most of our friends and family go all out with their costumes and some we even barely recognize when they show up. It's a complete riot and we are so grateful all of our different […]
October 26, 2015
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Mood Boards
All The Playroom Plans!
Mood Boards
October 19, 2015
All The Playroom Plans!
Since we moved here, two years ago, we've spent most of our blog talking about and renovating the upstairs of our house--with the exception of Greta's room and the guest room last year. We actually live in what is called a rambler style home, where the home is two levels of identical square footage (1700 […]
October 19, 2015
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DIY
Before & After: We have a (Finished!) Coat Closet!
DIY
October 6, 2015
Before & After: We have a (Finished!) Coat Closet!
When we shared our laundry room before and afters, so many people wondered, well…what's on the other side of the room? Oh you mean on the other side of this?? (See all the before and afters of the laundry room here) We conveniently left those pictures out, because, well, it looked like this: Avert your […]
October 6, 2015
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Chris Cooks
The First Recipe From Our New Kitchen - Fennel and Fig Roasted Chicken with Potatoes, Braised Cabbage and Lemon Pan Sauce
Chris Cooks
October 5, 2015
The First Recipe From Our New Kitchen - Fennel and Fig Roasted Chicken with Potatoes, Braised Cabbage and Lemon Pan Sauce
Our new kitchen is the greatest, non-living thing in my life right now. I can't adequately express how much fun it is to cook in this space, on these Frigidaire Professional appliances, and I'm excited to share my first recipe that came from this new place! Well, this "recipe" is actually 4 recipes, which come […]
October 5, 2015
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Entertaining
We'll bob for apples in the toilet…and you'll LIKE IT!!
Entertaining
October 2, 2015
We'll bob for apples in the toilet…and you'll LIKE IT!!
At the beginning of October, we have a family tradition of finding some sort of costume around the house and taking a photo for our annual costume party invitations. Yesterday we did just that! It's our 5th consecutaive year doing this and it's so fun seeing Greta, errr Squints!, get more and more into it. […]
October 2, 2015
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Inspiration
HOW OUR FRIGIDAIRE PROFESSIONAL APPLIANCES TRANSFORMED OUR KITCHEN AND HOW WE USE IT + A VIDEO!
Inspiration
September 30, 2015
HOW OUR FRIGIDAIRE PROFESSIONAL APPLIANCES TRANSFORMED OUR KITCHEN AND HOW WE USE IT + A VIDEO!
Today we are so excited to finally share with you a little more about the Frigidaire Professional appliances we chose for the kitchen. We couldn't be more in love with how they transformed the way our kitchen looks, but more importantly, the way it functions and works for us. Along with a bunch of fresh photos and […]
September 30, 2015
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Decor
A Few Kitchen Details + $500 to Rejuvenation!!
Decor
September 28, 2015
A Few Kitchen Details + $500 to Rejuvenation!!
Thank you for all the love last week when we shared our kitchen reveal. We wish we could have you ALL over for a big meal and to see it in real life! The goal was always to make our kitchen one that felt lived in and comfortable, and a lot of that came from […]
September 28, 2015
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Inspiration
Lovable, Livable Home
Inspiration
September 25, 2015
Lovable, Livable Home
Young House Love's new book, Lovable Livable Home came out this week! I was lucky enough to get my copy a little early (I know some people...THE people) and I can't say enough good things about this book. The Petersiks put into such eloquent, approachable and, naturally, funny words how we can all feel about […]
September 25, 2015
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DIY
It's Done! : The Full Kitchen Reveal
DIY
September 23, 2015
It's Done! : The Full Kitchen Reveal
The day has come! Our kitchen renovation is finished 7 weeks after we started tearing out our old tile countertops and I can't wait to share with you photos of what it looks like today. I've put all the sources at the bottom of the post for your convenience. When we moved into our home […]
September 23, 2015
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DIY
Sealing our White Concrete Countertops
DIY
September 17, 2015
Sealing our White Concrete Countertops
Definitely one of the most popular projects of our kitchen renovation so far has been our DIY white concrete countertops. You can read the whole post here (if you scroll down to the bottom of that post, Z Counterform has even offered up a discount code to our readers after the post went live). There was […]
September 17, 2015
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