Projects
Our Master Bathroom Renovation, 2 Weeks In: On Plumbing and Choosing the Right Fixtures, Heights, Valves & Drains
Projects
April 18, 2018
Our Master Bathroom Renovation, 2 Weeks In: On Plumbing and Choosing the Right Fixtures, Heights, Valves & Drains
This Master Bathroom project is a doozy! The beauty of DIY is, in many cases, you can figure things out as you go. You do the work when you have the time, or you order the materials as you get the money, or you take it step-by-step and eventually see it all come together. This […]
April 18, 2018
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Design
Good Looking Ugly Stuff: Dish Drying Racks, Plungers and Toilet Brushes
Design
April 17, 2018
Good Looking Ugly Stuff: Dish Drying Racks, Plungers and Toilet Brushes
Every Wednesday night, on Instagram Stories, Chris and I hop on and answer a bunch of questions for about 10-20 minutes. We call it CLJ Q&A. (Psst, it's saved to my highlights until the next one!) This past week, someone asked "What do you do about plungers and other horrible things that are necessary but […]
April 17, 2018
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Casual Friday
Casual Friday: 10 Things That Made Me Happy This Week
Casual Friday
April 13, 2018
Casual Friday: 10 Things That Made Me Happy This Week
1. I took 20 minutes and zhooshed the kitchen last Sunday, with a few new things and the freshness always makes me fall in love with a room all over again. It also inspires me to keep the counters clearer and invite someone new over. We added this printable equivalents chart (I tore the edges of like […]
April 13, 2018
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Design
Our Whole House Color Palette
Design
April 11, 2018
Our Whole House Color Palette
This post is sponsored by ColorReader by Datacolor. There's a discount code at the end of the post for our readers! "Do you mind sharing the color of your walls?" is a question we get all day long! There have been so many times I thought the same thing while scrolling through instagram or flipping […]
April 11, 2018
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DIY
Our Master Bathroom Renovation, 1 week in: It Gets Worse Before it Gets Better (right?)
DIY
April 10, 2018
Our Master Bathroom Renovation, 1 week in: It Gets Worse Before it Gets Better (right?)
Well, we're a week deep into our bathroom renovation--(the first time we've contracted a crew to do a full job like this in our house) and there's so much to share. Like, first of all, it doesn't look like this anymore. And I don't even miss it (yet)...talk to me in 2 weeks. Those are […]
April 10, 2018
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Design
The Good, The Bad, Would We Do It Again?
Design
April 9, 2018
The Good, The Bad, Would We Do It Again?
Every year, we tally up our most asked about questions regarding things in our home and give you our honest review of them, including the good, the bad, and would we really buy/do it again? In 2017, we covered our (old) living room coffee table that we wouldn't do again and since replaced, the craft […]
April 9, 2018
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Casual Friday
Casual Friday: April 6, 2018
Casual Friday
April 6, 2018
Casual Friday: April 6, 2018
What are you up to this weekend? Our little Faye Faye (Faye-Fee, Fayebelizer) is turning 4 tomorrow! She asked for a swimming party, so we rented out a local hotel's pool for two hours for her, a couple friends and cousins. Faye is love. She just exudes so much love. She never hit the terrible […]
April 6, 2018
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Entertaining
How to Host a Low-Key Game Night
Entertaining
April 5, 2018
How to Host a Low-Key Game Night
Last weekend, we hosted a low-key game night with 10 of our best friends and it was so much fun! I shared a few snippets on my Instagram stories and got so many questions about the logistics--how we pulled it off with kids, what did we do for food and what games we played. […]
April 5, 2018
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Decor
Sale Alert! Extra 30% off All Sale at Urban Outfitters
Decor
April 4, 2018
Sale Alert! Extra 30% off All Sale at Urban Outfitters
This Loft bed is on sale for $524! (originally $1879) Urban Outfitters is having a big ol' sale and it's my favorite kind, too. Sale on sale. All sale items are an ADDITIONAL 30% off at checkout, no code needed. Here are 18 things that I think are worth a look if you're in the […]
April 4, 2018
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DIY
To Baby Gate, or Not? (Plus, 18 Stylish Baby Gates)
DIY
April 3, 2018
To Baby Gate, or Not? (Plus, 18 Stylish Baby Gates)
We have a crawler, and she's getting fast! Polly is 8 months old now and I actually feel like she might be running before too long. The girl loves to move. She takes after our oldest in that respect. Greta (8) was a mover and an adventurer as a baby. She started climbing out of […]
April 3, 2018
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Decor
Spring Bedding
Decor
March 31, 2018
Spring Bedding
This post is sponsored by eBay. Lately, I feel like we've been tearing away a lot of elements in the guest room. We stole the art for our bedroom. The curtains for the office. And the rug, briefly, too. (It's made it's way back in here because I felt so bad. Really.) The room was […]
March 31, 2018
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Casual Friday
Casual Friday: March 30, 2018
Casual Friday
March 30, 2018
Casual Friday: March 30, 2018
Last week, we were in Austin at a conference and I missed Casual Friday. Like, truly missed it. But, at the same time, we learned so much at our conference that was put on by our ad network. It was our first time attending a blog conference (which shocked everyone!) and the blogging world is […]
March 30, 2018
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Recipes
Easy & Amazing Overnight Easter Ham
Recipes
March 29, 2018
Easy & Amazing Overnight Easter Ham
Easter is upon us, and everyone is scrambling to find that perfect ham recipe, stockpiling the 30 ingredients required for it, and preparing to realize late Saturday night that they have neglected the entire rest of the menu. That sentence is a little too specific for the writer of this post (*cough*) to not have […]
March 29, 2018
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DIY
How to Drill into Tile To Hang A Shower Curtain
DIY
March 29, 2018
How to Drill into Tile To Hang A Shower Curtain
Drilling into freshly laid tile is a little bit scary, even for seasoned DIYers like us. In fact, last year after we finished the girls' bathroom, we thought we'd bypass the whole project and just put a tension shower rod up and call it good. Fast forward and every two weeks since finishing, we were […]
March 29, 2018
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DIY
DIY Simple Easter Decor | Staining Wood Easter Eggs!
DIY
March 27, 2018
DIY Simple Easter Decor | Staining Wood Easter Eggs!
This post is sponsored by Minwax. Over the past year, we've really made an effort to simplify the decor in our home and that means holiday decor, too! While we generally go all out for Halloween (we host a big party every year), this past Christmas we went really simple with the decorations and I'm […]
March 27, 2018
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DIY
Voice-Enabled Lighting For the Bedroom
DIY
March 26, 2018
Voice-Enabled Lighting For the Bedroom
We've made a few lighting updates in the past couple months in our bedroom that aren't, maybe, as obvious as the new paint color, or rug, or bedding we've shared--but they have really changed the way our bedroom functions for us--I couldn't not share them. As always, lighting changes everything. The first thing we added was […]
March 26, 2018
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Inspiration
14 (more!) Inspiring Home Instagram Accounts with less than 10K followers!
Inspiration
March 21, 2018
14 (more!) Inspiring Home Instagram Accounts with less than 10K followers!
Back in November, I felt inspired to share some Instagram accounts that are doing it all right, but still haven’t reached that magical number of 10,000 followers--and since, most all of those accounts have hit 10K or are really close! A few are almost at 50K! It’s not infrequent that I see a post pop up […]
March 21, 2018
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Chris Cooks
5 Tips For Getting Kids to Eat And Eat Healthier
Chris Cooks
March 20, 2018
5 Tips For Getting Kids to Eat And Eat Healthier
This post is sponsored by Blue Apron. The first 50 people will receive $40 off their first two weeks of meals, here! One thing that Chris and I have always strived to do is feed our kids good, real food while sitting down together for dinner every night. But if you have children, you know […]
March 20, 2018
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Decor
Where is Your Dining Room Chandelier From? + 15 Look-a-Likes
Decor
March 19, 2018
Where is Your Dining Room Chandelier From? + 15 Look-a-Likes
Table | Chairs | Acrylic Wall Frames | Vase | Faux Branches Anytime I post a photo where our dining room is visible, especially the chandelier, I get flooded with questions about where it's from. It pains me every time, because it has been discontinued. Why?! Whhhyyyyyyy. We got it nearly 4 years ago from Lamps Plus (our great room looked SO DIFFERENT!!). It's called […]
March 19, 2018
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Casual Friday
Casual Friday: March 16, 2018
Casual Friday
March 16, 2018
Casual Friday: March 16, 2018
It was Spring for, like, 2 hours here and then it dumped 6 more inches of snow but it still lit a Spring cleaning purge fire under me. I emptied my closet of all the clothes I never wore this winter. I bagged up all my maternity clothes and 98% of the baby clothes that […]
March 16, 2018
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