DIY
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 […]
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March 29, 2018
DIY
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 […]
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March 27, 2018
DIY
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 […]
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March 26, 2018
DIY
Small Bathroom Renovation How-To Videos
You may recall a few months ago when we helped our friends renovate their bathroom in about a week for $3000. It was a fun project that we did with Lowe's, and we absolutely love how it turned out. You can read about the project here, but this is what their bathroom looked like after […]
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March 14, 2018
Decor
Our Primary Bedroom Refresh
This post is sponsored by Loloi. Over the last couple months, we've been slowly giving our bedroom a makeover. And although we're not completely done yet, I'm excited to give you a more pulled back view of our "new" light and serene room. After 3+ years of living (and loving) sleeping with dark walls, we […]
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March 13, 2018
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Weekend Sales! March 10, 2018
This cute bathroom is from Sunny Circle Studio. We just ordered these same mirrors for our master bathroom and they are on sale right now! Rejuvenation: Mirror Sale - save 20% Target: 30% off bed & bath World Market: Dining Sale - save up to 60% Overstock: Semi-Annual Sale - save up to 70% […]
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March 10, 2018
DIY
The First Video Tour of our A-Frame Cabin
While we shared before photos of our new cabin back in November (check out those here), we realized we never took or shared a before video tour of the A-frame we bought last Fall. So last week, we drove up for that specific purpose. It's a quick hour to get there and the drive is […]
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March 5, 2018
DIY
Shopping For Stone For Our Bathroom (And What We Decided On!)
Confession: We've never shopped for stone for countertops--ever. It has always felt like this super expensive, intimidating process. But for our bathroom, we're trying to do a lot of things we haven't done before: hire a contractor, shop for stone, design a custom vanity--and it's exciting! The first task in picking out our stone was actually […]
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March 1, 2018
DIY
Why Go "Smart" With Garage Door Openers
This post is sponsored by Genie®. Last week we talked about our garage and how we'll be taking this space on over the next couple months. We shared the installation of our new garage doors, and now we're ready to show you the other part of that project - the openers. Since moving in to […]
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February 28, 2018
DIY
How to Replace a Garage Door
This post is in partnership with Lowe's. As we finish up this house and prepare to move our focus to renovating the cabin, we're really trying to figure out how we can maximize the function of this home so we can just settle in for awhile. Perhaps one of the least-functional spaces in our home […]
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February 21, 2018
DIY
How We Refinished our Butcher block Countertop
It's been 2.5 years since we installed our black walnut countertop from CraftArt (more on that here) in our kitchen and this past weekend we took some time to refinish it. The wonderful thing about butcher block is it can be sanded down and made new over and over and over again and it's a pretty painless […]
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February 14, 2018
Decor
Modern, Inexpensive, Large-Scale Portraits--Updated!
Over three years ago, I photographed our, then, two little girls in a simple and modern way, and blew them up as engineering prints and the result took the internet by storm. The project has been shared and duplicated hundreds of thousands of times and today, I thought I'd share a little update. Because they grew up […]
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February 7, 2018
DIY
Ep 57: CLJ Q&A - Privacy In the Bathroom, Office in the Bedroom, & The Top Tools for DIY
It's time for another CLJ Q&A! These episodes are shorter (around 30 minutes) and still have all the same fun and banter, but we answer YOUR questions. Although these are specific questions that come from real listeners, they are either questions we get a lot or we think can be applicable to many homes and […]
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February 5, 2018
DIY
How 6 Different Stains Look On 5 Popular Types of Wood
This post is sponsored by Minwax. We've been wanting to do a wood/stain study for years now and in my head, I wanted to do every type of wood with about 20 different stains each. But with limited resources (not to mention space), we settled on 5 popular species of wood commonly used by DIYers, with 6 […]
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February 1, 2018
DIY
Our Home Office 2.0
If you listen to our podcast, you've probably heard us talking about how the office just hasn't been working for us. Chris left his office job in June of 2016, and it was right after that when we really started working on it and planning everything out. I had this grand idea of the two […]
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January 30, 2018
DIY
Weekend Sales! January, 27, 2018
Each Saturday, we are posting any deals you won’t want to miss--like the big TV sale going on here. And there are some awesome home and clothing deals happening this weekend, too! Here are my favorites, along with a few picks from each! (You can use the arrows on the right and left to scroll […]
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January 27, 2018
DIY
Casual Friday: January 26, 2018
via Last night, we had a professional contractor come and take a look at our master bathroom. (See our most recent plans here!) Take measurements, give us advice, and write up a bid. The truth is, we are considering hiring out a good portion of the work. It's really difficult to get a big project, […]
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January 26, 2018
DIY
The Most DIY Friendly Bathroom Renovation We've Ever Done!
This project and post is sponsored by Lowe's Home Improvement. A couple months ago, we filmed a series of simple bathroom how-to videos for Lowe's Home Improvement (how to tile a floor, how to install a tub insert and surround, how to swap out a vanity, and how to hang a mirror and lighting) and […]
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January 25, 2018
DIY
Olympic Mountains in the Bedroom
Last week, we said goodbye to our dark and moody bedroom. We painted over the Chelsea Gray we had for three years and introduced a brighter beige with some warm, gray undertones called Olympic Mountains by Benjamin Moore--an appropriate name for this time of year, yes? We initially picked up two paint samples for the […]
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January 23, 2018
DIY
Our Plans to Revamp the Master Bedroom
In this week's podcast, we mentioned that we were going to paint our bedroom! But that's not all. Over the weekend we brought the speckled shag rug up to the cabin--you saw it in the main living room in yesterday's post. While it might not stay in that exact space forever, the cozy shag can […]
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January 17, 2018
