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Onyx and the Front Door
On our pre-party to-do list was the task of painting our front door. Ideally, we could replace the entire thing. It's terribly dented and it's not necessarily our favorite design. We have actually been pricing out a dutch door. I can't stop dreaming about the functionality of a dutch door--where I can open the top and […]
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October 22, 2013
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Well, This Looks Crazy
I nearly forgot how much painting happens when you first move into a house. So much painting! We mentioned revamping our half bath before our upcoming costume party and considering that is less than two weeks away, we figured it is time to dive in. A new light fixture, mirror and some accessories are on […]
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October 15, 2013
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Reading Room Green
When you first enter our house, there's a small room to the immediate right that has 5 great windows. We had no initial plans for this room since there was so much other space to tackle first, but when we (Greta, Charly and I) started spending a lot of time in here usually sitting on […]
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October 14, 2013
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Didn't That Used to be Yellow?
Yes, yes it did. More on that, soon. Just call me Teaser McTeaserson.
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October 3, 2013
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The Hall Half Bath Befores
Did you know the difference between a half bath and a powder room is just geographic jargon? Maybe when this room is done, I'll feel fancy enough to call it a powder room, but for now--it's a half bath. A very green half bath. As mentioned in this post, this little bathroom is on the […]
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October 1, 2013
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The Great Room is Painted!!!
Last week, we spent a couple hours two nights trimming out the entire great room, which took a long time considering so many doors and windows and cabinets and corners! And then Saturday, we knocked out all the rolling in a couple hours total. And we were left with a much lighter house that we're so […]
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September 30, 2013
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First House Tour: Second House
Over the weekend we realized we hadn't done a house tour video of our new home yet. In our last house, we did a new video every 6 months or so and loved watching our home evolve. In that spirit, and in preparations for our first projects (details to come), we thought we better get […]
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September 4, 2013
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How We Spent the First Weekend in Our New House
One of these days I'll have to write a post about the lessons we learned in our first house, because we would do more than one or two things differently. The number one thing that Chris and I both took away was, you can't take even a season off from exterior up-keep. When we moved […]
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August 26, 2013
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The Tile Shop Shoot!
Before we focus all of our efforts, and posts really, on the new house that still isn't 100% ours (the whole thing is quite ridiculous--hopefully we'll all have a good laugh about it next week #nervouslaughter), there is one last crowning, whirlwind event that took place at our last house to cover. A photoshoot of […]
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August 16, 2013
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Selling A Home Without an Agent or Attorney
Update: We chose to keep this post up since it was all part of the learning process, but given the outcome (update 1, update 2), if we could do it all over again, we would get an attorney. Get an attorney, people! Or "Saving the Big Buck$!" The plan was always to try to sell […]
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August 7, 2013
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Idaho House Tour: Lower Level
Here's where we left off yesterday: Down these stairs, is another 1700 square feet, and a cute little girl. To the left, there are four doorways, three bedrooms and a bathroom. The room to the immediate left will be the guest room. It doesn't share a wall with all other room and the closet has […]
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August 2, 2013
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Idaho House Tour: Main Level
Whatta day. Whatta month! We're feeling very exhausted--mentally and physically--but are happy to be where we are. Monday we closed on our Utah home and signed it over to its new owners, and yesterday we made the 4.5 hour drive to our new town and moved all of our stuff into our new home, with […]
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August 1, 2013
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Our House: Where we Started and Now.
We moved into our very first home April 2, 2011, and we're moving out officially on Wednesday (although we're loading everything up tonight--different post for a different day). Although we didn't "finish" the house, we thought it would be fun to go back through and look at before and afters of the spaces we did […]
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July 29, 2013
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The Kitchen: Before and Afters!
This kitchen has been two years in the making, constantly tweaking what we had (painting cabinets, painting countertops!, buying new appliances as we could afford them) until we were ready for a little bit more of a renovation a couple months ago. Here's what it looked like when we moved in: And here's how it […]
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July 24, 2013
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That Hampton Carrara Marble Backsplash--Done-zo!!
The tile is finally finished! The last time you saw it, we had just finished the installation process of our 3x6 Hampton Carrara subway tiles, which took us over 20 hours. Grouting went faster, but we ran out right before we left for Idaho. It was torture to be so close. But when we arrived […]
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July 23, 2013
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Before and After: Master Bathroom.
Before we left to house hunt, we were working on finishing a few projects. Namely, the master bathroom and the kitchen backsplash. The master bath revamp was done on a budget. Like $200, budget. Here's how it looked when we moved in...and, well, for the last two years #yikes: And here's how it looks now: […]
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July 22, 2013
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Peel and Stick Bathroom Floors
This post is a little late. Camera problems. Busy problems. But I wanted to update you on our weekend. Saturday we had two showings. We haven't listed our house yet because we still felt like there were things that need to be done, but word got out that we were moving and a couple people […]
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July 8, 2013
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The Marble Tile--Installed!
We still need to seal and grout and seal once more, but all of the tile is in place so as promised (even if our kitchen is in a chaotic condition), here's how it looks: The area on the left is where the fridge goes. We tiled back enough so the effect of a fully […]
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July 5, 2013
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Master Bath Reno: Paint Goes a Long Way
Thank you for all the support with our big announcement yesterday. Your energy and excitement for us is going to make this process so much easier. I'm sure of it. With that said, buckle up--it's been pretty crazy over here since we decided last Friday we were taking the job and moving. We have a […]
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July 3, 2013
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Hello Marble.
We had a wonderfully busy weekend tiling our hearts out in the kitchen. We've been waiting for the tile to come in (it was on backorder) and so when we arrived home from our most recent trip the same time the tile arrived, it was like marble Christmas waiting to get our hands dirty. Before […]
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July 1, 2013
