You can find all of the sources in Greta's Room here! More than anything, I want every room in our house to be functional and beautiful and livable. After living here for 18 months, I feel like we're just finding our stride and are able to make more concrete decisions about what could be working […]
Last week we revealed our modern cottage bathroom, and we always get a big request to share a Look For Less roundup. It's so fun to put together and share, but it can be tricky when labor varies from area to area, or if there are a lot of customizations. If you can remember where […]
Once we realized how differently each of our team members' homes are, we thought it would be fun to share them! You can catch Victoria's lake house here. Brooke's apartment here. A peek into Andi's kitchen here (we need to do a full tour of her first home soon!). And now, we bring you Derek's […]
You can find all of our bathroom sources here! One of the most asked questions is, "How do I put together an organic, vintage gallery wall?" We shared the family photo gallery wall we did in our hallway right here, but the gallery wall in our bathroom was different. Did you sense that, too? The […]
So many diets out there, it's so nice when you come across something that is safe for just about all of them. Chimichurri is one such thing. Chimichurri is a condiment made with fresh herbs, garlic, and olive oil (and a few other things) that is amazing on meats and vegetables alike. I add fresh […]
Is Valentine's Day a made-up holiday? Good news is, I don't really mind. Winters in Idaho are quite long, and Valentine's Day is a fun little celebration to get us through the cold months. Chris and I do a little gift exchange to ya know, keep the romance alive. Plus we love surprising the girls […]
Cabinet, Fauxdenza, Table Lamp, Glass Box, Vase, Ginger Jar, Candlesticks, Glasses After our bathroom reveal this week, I got this funny question on Instagram: "Did it turn out as planned or are you surprised with how good it looks?" I had to laugh because I think this was meant as a compliment--But it also got […]
This post is sponsored by Walmart Every week, I've been trying to tackle and organize one storage space in our house and this week, it was all about Polly's closet. None of our girls have a dresser in their rooms so we store all of their clothes, shoes, seasonal gear and extra sheets in their […]
It's safe to say that when we demo'd our bathroom last June (say it ain't so!!), we were not expecting the renovation to take this long. But here we are, at the end of January with a new bathroom that we're over the moon to be sharing with you today. We moved shortly after finishing […]
When I was ordering wallpaper samples for Faye’s room, I made sure to include a few options that I could consider for Polly’s ceiling. Wallpaper on the ceiling isn’t super common, and it’s not everybody’s cup-of-tea, but we had already installed the vertical paneling in her room and I really wanted to give the ceiling […]
Do you have a signature scent? I remember having this conversation while visiting our good friends in Chicago a couple years ago. Kim wears Clinique Happy--which couldn't be more her--and I smiled remembering stealing a spritz of my mom's when I was in high school. In between douses of Love Spell, of course...if you know, you know. […]
In our 2020 roundup, I slipped in the fact that we moved our apparel line, ProperTee, "in house" and renovated a warehouse and the office space attached to it to set up shop. Although it was casually said, it was actually a HUGE deal and we're super proud of it. And honestly, it deserves its […]
Andrea Ahedo, our Visual Media producer, is back for another tip! (Check out how to make a mood board here!) If you ever wished you could have your house try something on--whether it be a paint color, wallpaper, light fixture, art!--this post is for you! She's sharing 4 of her tips and tricks to try […]
You can find our living room sources here! After the holidays, I shared how I spent some time playing musical furniture (a favorite game of mine), and suddenly home never felt so good. Even our living room, which has already evolved entirely since we moved in, received some zhushing and now all I want to […]
We’ve been officially moved into our bathroom for about a month now (cue celebration music) but we still have a few details to finish up before the reveal. If you are doing any sort of renovating or redecorating right now, you know that shipping times are crazy long, so we're just being patient. Last week we […]
These past 19 months since moving into this house have been big. Bigger than we anticipated when we moved here - perhaps bigger than we would have knowingly taken on, so it's probably good we didn't know what we were getting ourselves into. Ha! But as the projects came up and we decided to just […]
Every so often, a flavor combination comes along that makes you tilt your head and squint your eyes, as you wonder, "Would that really be good?" This smoothie is like that, but it catches you off guard and is so delicious. A few great things about this smoothie - it's dairy free, grain and gluten […]
I came to the stark realization the other day that I own more workout leggings than any other pants in my closet. I've been collecting them, almost without purge for yeeeaaarsss. And with that realization, came the other very clear epiphany that I wear the same ones over and over--bypassing sometimes entire brands, for my tried […]
light fixture | maple tree | tub | tile We played a little game of musical lights this week around the house. The music room light (which was an extra from our home office) is now in the bathroom (see above! love it!). The lantern that was above the tub was so beautiful, but because […]
One of our most popular blog posts to date (like...ever) was when we tested to find the best gold spray paint and it was due for an update because the pictures aren't great and we (I) only tested 4 spray paints. Ahh, the early days of blogging. Luckily, this was a fun little experiment […]
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