Decor
Casual Friday: Fall Decor, Soap Sets Roundup, Spending Billions of dollars, The Perfect (Affordable!) Oval Mirror, Dreamy Art and more!
Decor
Casual Friday: Fall Decor, Soap Sets Roundup, Spending Billions of dollars, The Perfect (Affordable!) Oval Mirror, Dreamy Art and more!
Yesterday on Instagram stories, I shared decorating our kitchen for fall in real time. I really focused on creating an autumn feeling with practical items--apples, branches cut from outside, a cookbook opened to a fall recipe displayed on a stand. It was so fun sharing with all of you and the response was motivating. I'll […]
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September 27, 2019
Inspiration
The New Dining Room's Floor: Inspiration and Samples (I can't decide!)
Demo is coming to a close and it's almost time to start rebuilding our new entertaining dining room, among other things. I'm cautiously optimistic that putting it all together is going to be faster because 1. we'll have a larger crew here, and 2. we ran into quite a few surprises in the demo process. […]
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September 17, 2019
Design
10 Really Amazing Blue-Gray Paint Colors in action
I feel like gray paint colors were so incredibly overused a few years ago, but then a lot of people accidentally chose cool grays to paint entire rooms and instead of a trendy living room, they got a nursery and kind of swore off the color. But now cool gray is having a resurgence. We […]
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August 29, 2019
Inspiration
Greta's new bed(s) are here and the start of my design process
Behind the scenes, we have been playing musical beds 'round here. First Greta's room had a king sized bed and Faye's had a queen and the guest room (in the basement) had a queen. Then Chris's brother's family came to stay with us and with three little kids, it made more sense for them to have […]
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August 19, 2019
Inspiration
Colors We're Considering for Our Phase 1 Kitchen Cabinets Makeover!
Next year sometime, we'd love to do a full kitchen remodel. We're taking notes as to what isn't working for us, but so far the main things are the interior of the cabinetry is too small, the oven behind the island (where the girls sit) feels out of the way and dangerous and we'd like […]
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July 29, 2019
Casual Friday
Casual Friday : Arched Mirror, New Beds for Greta's Room, What I actually bought from the Nordstrom sale, Demo begins, Our Favorite games and more!
Casual Friday
Casual Friday : Arched Mirror, New Beds for Greta's Room, What I actually bought from the Nordstrom sale, Demo begins, Our Favorite games and more!
Arched Mirror | Area Rug | Pouf | Heels | Jeans | Homebody Tee Well, I haven't ordered a bed for our master bedroom yet, but we did get this amazing arched floor mirror from Rejuvenation that has doubled the size of our room, I swear. Here are some other fun arch mirrors! 1. | […]
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July 26, 2019
Decor
4 Things I Bought on eBay this Month!
This post is sponsored by eBay eBay has been my favorite place to hunt for deals for a long time. It's just so amazing to be able to find brand new, vintage antiques, trendy and formerly out-of-budget pieces all on the same site. I don't generally bid on items (although that's a great way to […]
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July 25, 2019
Decor
Get the Fullmer Kitchen Look for Less
Last week, we broke down the full budget of the Fullmer kitchen--you can read about that right here. (You can see the full reveal right here) In the comments, there was a big request for a LOOK FOR LESS. The whole kitchen was full of splurge and save pieces, so we took the splurgiest items […]
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July 23, 2019
Design
Look up, Ceilings Matter: A Study of 10 Incredible Ceilings and Why Every Ceiling Needs an Intentional Plan
Design
Look up, Ceilings Matter: A Study of 10 Incredible Ceilings and Why Every Ceiling Needs an Intentional Plan
Years ago, we were over one of our friends' homes (we had visited several hundred times, I'm sure) and I noticed that there was a light missing in their ceiling! I pointed it out and said, "What happened to your light!?" And they responded, "We've never had one there since renovating, we should probably patch […]
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July 11, 2019
Design
The 8 Options We're Deciding Between for Our Exterior!
Last week, when I talked about the 6 projects we'll be tackling in the next six months, one of them was windows and the other big ones involved the living room and our new dining/entertaining space. ALL of these effect the exterior of our home. After meeting with an amazing contractor last Thursday, things are […]
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June 17, 2019
Casual Friday
Casual Saturday : What's In a (House) Name, Willow, An Inspiring interior paint combination, Weekend Sales and more!
Casual Friday
Casual Saturday : What's In a (House) Name, Willow, An Inspiring interior paint combination, Weekend Sales and more!
(via Amber Interiors) Does your house have a name? We have our own name for our home (that involves our address) but when we were trying to decide on a hashtag (#cljhouse represents our last home) we turned to all different sources. This article was a great starting point. "Once reserved for grand estates and […]
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June 15, 2019
Decor
Our Deck Styled by Studio McGee!
It's official, our deck has never looked better! The Studio McGee team drove/flew up a week and a half ago to style our deck and shoot a few of their new outdoor pieces. The furnishings are ours but they layered in all of their beautiful new outdoor pillows, rugs, planters and some fun entertaining pieces. […]
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May 27, 2019
Design
Our Next Project: The Fullmer Kitchen Befores and Mood Board
In last week's Vlog, you saw how we came to pretty much take over our friends' kitchen renovation. But the short version is after we withdrew from the flip house, it felt like another disappointment. Another roadblock and we were feeling pretty down--even though it was the right choice. Our friends, the Fullmers were already […]
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April 1, 2019
Decor
14 Popular Living Room Layouts + Accent Chairs Under $600
Our own living room (above) went through a few different variations until we landed on this layout--see the somewhat comical evolution here. In the end, this sofa with these two oversized leather chairs across from it worked so well with our large, open layout, defined the living room and allowed for lots of different kinds […]
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March 12, 2019
Inspiration
Fun Games to Play over the Holidays
Are you a game person/people? We have friends over almost weekly to eat, chat and play games and it's become one of our favorite, very chill, traditions. But over the Holidays, it seems like everybody becomes game people--and isn't that fun!? Here are a few of our favorites: Monopoly Deal --probably 100x more fun than regular Monopoly Skip-Bo […]
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November 15, 2018
Decor
October Favorites
Happy November! I've seen so many of my favorites looking back on the past month and sharing their top ___ favorite finds/things and I thought I'd jump on board. October was full of pumpkin patches and strict dieting (#hashimoto's oy!), but also some pretty incredible finds and family moments. Here are my top 13 October […]
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November 2, 2018
Inspiration
What Will Be the Design Style of our A-frame?
We hear all the time, "I can't wait to see what the design style will be in your cabin!" Which seriously warms my heart. While we have been enjoying our cabin and even tackled a couple small projects there (check out the reading nook here!), the big demo starts July 30th! A lot of our […]
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July 9, 2018
Inspiration
7 Different Kinds of Shower Niches (and Designing Ours!)
Designing our shower niche was something I spent an unusually long time thinking about. It could stem from the fact that we came from zero shower niches, just the smallest triangular shelf in the corner (worst, worst, worst) of our previous shower that we supplemented with one of those over-the-shower arm caddies. I was over […]
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May 22, 2018
Inspiration
Mother's Day Gift Guide
Mother's day is right around the corner on Sunday, May 13 and this is always one of my favorite gift guides to put together. Not because it's my own wish list--but rather, I'm a mom and these are things that have been gifted to me that absolutely made my day and put a smile on […]
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April 25, 2018
Inspiration
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 […]
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March 21, 2018
