Decor
How Many Sheet Sets do you have per bed?
Decor
April 27, 2021
How Many Sheet Sets do you have per bed?
This post is sponsored by Brooklinen Linen Duvet Cover in Haze, Linen Core Sheet Set in White, Wallpaper, Bed, Table Lamp, Bowl When it comes to bedding, I've been loving a more relaxed vibe. Linen bedding has the perfect lived in look, and it's so soft and wrinkles only make it better (thank goodness!). Brooklinen bedding has […]
April 27, 2021
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DIY
On Privately Selling our Home!!
DIY
April 26, 2021
On Privately Selling our Home!!
You guys, we made it through! In case you missed our Instagram stories, we've been showing our house over the weekend, and I feel like I can breathe now. I let Chris do the honors of letting the potential buyers in, while the girls and I skipped town. This was my way of stepping away […]
April 26, 2021
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Decor
The Best Of: Walmart Home (You're not going to believe it!)
Decor
April 23, 2021
The Best Of: Walmart Home (You're not going to believe it!)
This post is sponsored by Walmart Walmart is kind of killing it in the decor department right now. Amazing price points, really cool collabs (with people like Drew Barrymore and Queer Eye!) and pieces that fit right into my favorite "modern cottage" vibe. I rounded up a few of my favorites and when we were […]
April 23, 2021
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Gift Guides!
Mother's Day Gift Guide 2021
Gift Guides!
April 22, 2021
Mother's Day Gift Guide 2021
You can see our bathroom reveal here! My dress is linked below, but here is my apple watch band, which would also make a great gift! Mother's Day is May 9th (just over 2 weeks away) and while my favorite gifts are quality time (last year I asked that we all go on a hike […]
April 22, 2021
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Lifestyle
Time's Up! Here's what we got done on our pre-sale to-do list (and what we didn't!)
Lifestyle
April 20, 2021
Time's Up! Here's what we got done on our pre-sale to-do list (and what we didn't!)
A little over a month ago, on March 9th, we shared our list of projects to do before we sell our house. Well, showings start on Thursday and go through the weekend so time is about up! We didn't get to everything on the list but we did a LOT in the last month. Most […]
April 20, 2021
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Decor
The Great Purge: How to decide what to Sell, Donate, or Keep?
Decor
April 19, 2021
The Great Purge: How to decide what to Sell, Donate, or Keep?
The time has come for the great "purge before you move" purge. We're figuring out what things we plan to sell, donate, and keep. We sold our last home with nearly all the furnishings and I had some minor regrets about that. You can read more about here. Our furnishings weren't going to transfer well […]
April 19, 2021
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DIY
Casual Friday: The girls' bathroom (minus peel and stick tile), new house sneak peek!, an inspiring kitchen, my new fav top and MORE!
DIY
April 16, 2021
Casual Friday: The girls' bathroom (minus peel and stick tile), new house sneak peek!, an inspiring kitchen, my new fav top and MORE!
Rug, Faux Lavender Stems, Sconce, Arch Mirror, Faucet, Cabinet Hardware, Curtains, Cafe Curtain Rod, Ceramic Canisters, hand towel This week, after a lot of back and forth, I peeled up the peel and stick floors we laid in the girls bathroom last year. You can check out this post from February about our review of […]
April 16, 2021
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DIY
Things To-Do Before You List Your House!
DIY
April 15, 2021
Things To-Do Before You List Your House!
A week from now we have appointments lined up to show our house (eeeeek). At one point that felt so far away but now it's basically here and I have so many emotions. Mostly excited, but I'd be lying if I didn't say I had a little anxiety about people walking through our house, deciding […]
April 15, 2021
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Design
What Light Bulb Should I Get?
Design
April 14, 2021
What Light Bulb Should I Get?
Back in 2017, we shared a very extensive posts about light bulbs. One of my favorite subjects. It's been a very popular post that people ask for a link to all the time except most of the bulbs we shared as favorites in that post are nowhere to be found now! So, we thought it was […]
April 14, 2021
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Idaho Cottage
2 Years of Making Our Modern Cottage
Idaho Cottage
April 13, 2021
2 Years of Making Our Modern Cottage
At the beginning of every year, we make a list of all the projects we plan to tackle that year, and in 2020 (even though we had only been in our house for about 6 months) we made a pretty hefty project list. We came to a realization that we don’t want to be renovating this house […]
April 13, 2021
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DIY
Our Loloi Rugs are Restocked!!!
DIY
April 12, 2021
Our Loloi Rugs are Restocked!!!
When we launched our rug line with Loloi in November, we were all blown away by how fast you all sold them out--everywhere!! So I'm really happy to announce there's a huge restock available now right here! Jules is restocked in all patterns and colors and sizes, so is Alice and some of the Rosemaries (more coming!) Run […]
April 12, 2021
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DIY
Casual Friday: What we're doing on our new house before moving in, fav sunnies under $25, the playroom, backyard inspo and more!
DIY
April 9, 2021
Casual Friday: What we're doing on our new house before moving in, fav sunnies under $25, the playroom, backyard inspo and more!
See all the playroom sources here. Chris and I are flying to Raleigh as you read this (well, if you're reading this on Friday morning-afternoon)! We close on our new house in May and we are meeting with a contractor to go over just a couple of projects we'd like to have done before moving […]
April 9, 2021
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Projects
Before and after and in between: The Entry has been through it all! And is finished!!
Projects
April 7, 2021
Before and after and in between: The Entry has been through it all! And is finished!!
The entry is the one space in our home that has been under a constant renovation ever since we moved in. From updating the floors to the banister. The upstairs looks dramatically different thanks to a wall (that's our new closet!). It got a new (old) HUGE door that was originally on the back […]
April 7, 2021
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Lifestyle
From where we started to now: How We Plan All of our Social Media Content
Lifestyle
April 7, 2021
From where we started to now: How We Plan All of our Social Media Content
This post is sponsored by PLANOLY I started Chris Loves Julia back in 2009. And from 2009 to 2016, I worked on it as my full time job. Writing posts 5 days a week. Taking all the photos. Editing. Scheduling content to go live on the blog and planning my Instagram posts when that finally […]
April 7, 2021
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Design
All The Paint Colors in Our House (and why paint colors you see online might look different in person!)
Design
April 6, 2021
All The Paint Colors in Our House (and why paint colors you see online might look different in person!)
Have you ever spotted a paint color you love online and tried it in person and it doesn't look the same? There are so many reasons this could happen. We get asked several hundred times a day "What paint color is that?!," so we thought it would be fun to do a complete post with all the […]
April 6, 2021
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DIY
Well, we finally finished the Fauxdenza in the Dining Room!
DIY
April 5, 2021
Well, we finally finished the Fauxdenza in the Dining Room!
An entire year ago, we hung a "fauxdenza" in the dining room as part of a video project for GM that actually never ended up seeing the light of day because Covid hit. We hung our first floating credenza ("fauxdenza") made from upper Ikea cabinets back in 2012--you can read about that right here--and to […]
April 5, 2021
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Casual Friday
Casual Friday: Best of March
Casual Friday
April 2, 2021
Casual Friday: Best of March
March was the busiest month of life and work, I think ever? We made some major decisions and announcements about moving across the country and then all the subsequent projects that came with that. The funny thing is, dozens of times a day I still get asked, "Wait?! You're moving! You guys just finished this […]
April 2, 2021
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Art
New DIY Art for the Living Room!!
Art
April 1, 2021
New DIY Art for the Living Room!!
Sources I loved the framed trees on the mantle in the living room, but for the sake of simplifying in preparation to sell, I thought one large canvas would be better to really show off the scale of the fireplace. Large art can be expensive so I decided to tackle this one myself. I'd thought […]
April 1, 2021
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DIY
Before and After: Our Small changes, Big Impact Laundry Room Redo
DIY
March 31, 2021
Before and After: Our Small changes, Big Impact Laundry Room Redo
When we decided that we were going to move, there were many spaces that weren't "done" in our house and we accepted they wouldn't be under our watch (we're definitely not moving for "content"). But most of the spaces in our home, we had at least done something to (I call these phase 1 makeovers) and our […]
March 31, 2021
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Decor
Essential Decor: 6 reasons you can never have too many BENCHES!
Decor
March 30, 2021
Essential Decor: 6 reasons you can never have too many BENCHES!
Sources We did a furniture reconfiguring in the entry now that the entry side is all finished (doors still need painted and we're missing a few baseboards in the office), and some people were very concerned that we got rid of our bench. Not true! We moved it around to the garage entrance of the […]
March 30, 2021
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