Inspiration
The Master Bathroom Mood Board!
It feels like a big day around here. After so much planning and preparation and mulling over photos and looking at samples and making so many decisions (and going back and forth on those decision)--we finally have the mood board for the master bathroom! And 99% of of it has been ordered and is on […]
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March 7, 2018
Inspiration
The 8 Vanities that Helped Us Design Our Vanity
We're going the custom route for the vanity in our master bathroom. It's something we've never done, but we really want to maximize the space we have (between 75"-80") so we met with a contractor who really gets our vision and he quoted us a $2500 allowance for a vanity. That doesn't mean we'll use […]
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February 13, 2018
Inspiration
Can We Just Talk about LiketoKnow.it?
If you have been on Instagram for any amount of time, you've most likely seen photos tagged with a LikeToKnow.it link or tag. They have been rampant among fashion bloggers for a long time, but over the past 2 years, Reward Style (the affiliate program behind LikeToKnow.it) has started bringing on a lot more brands […]
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February 8, 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
Inspiration
(More) Layout Options for the Master Bathroom
The master bathroom has been tricky, to say the least. We've gone around and around so many times, finally landed on something we felt good about, posted about it, then had over 100 comments that made us completely rethink and revisit. Which is a great thing, because what we were thinking just wasn't there yet. […]
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January 24, 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
Inspiration
That Time I Got To Tour The HGTV® Dream Home
This past weekend, I was invited to tour the HGTV® dream home in Gig Harbor, Washington overlooking the Puget Sound and it was breathtaking! The whole house is unreal--and someone is going to win it! (You can enter for your chance to win twice a day right here.) The renovation (I loved seeing the before […]
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January 11, 2018
DIY
10 Free (or nearly free) Things You Can Do To Refresh Your Home Right Now.
It's a new year and, if you're like me, as soon as all the holiday decor comes down and gets put away you feel an itch to clean, organize and refresh every inch of your house! But in my own rush to redo, I've learned it doesn't have to cost a dime! Here are 10 […]
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January 9, 2018
Inspiration
Named Best Renovation Blog by Domino Magazine!
A few weeks ago, we were named Best Renovation Blog by Domino Magazine!!! Thank you for everyone who nominated and voted for us. And especially for enduring all the rough pictures knowing there is always an after coming for the last 9 years! That’s at the core of what we do and what we love […]
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December 14, 2017
Inspiration
How We'd Decorate 5 Different Home Styles
This post is sponsored by James Hardie. When people ask for design advice or how to decorate their homes, the first thing I always say is, "listen to your house." Location, style and even time period should play a major role in developing a home's interior style and the best place to start getting a […]
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November 14, 2017
Inspiration
15 Inspiring Home Instagram Accounts with Less than 10K Followers!
Last week, shortly after our podcast came out about How to Grow Your Instagram account, 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. It's not infrequent that I see a post pop up in my feed about top instagrammers […]
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November 2, 2017
Inspiration
Would You Rather: Tub vs. Shower vs. Tub and Shower
We've polled our readers before here when we were planning the deck (we went composite!), and here when we were considering taking our our 4th bathroom for a laundry room (we went for it!) and now that we're in the initial planning stages of our bathroom renovation, we got another one for ya! Our current […]
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October 25, 2017
Inspiration
Our Costume Party Invites This Year + Halloween Projects from the Archives!
Happy October! It's hard to believe, this is our 7th year (!!) throwing our annual costume party. To be honest, I wasn't sure I was going to be up for it this year. Having just had Polly 2 months ago, and coming off a major photoshoot, I knew I was going to be tired. But, […]
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October 2, 2017
DIY
Mixing Metals in the Bathroom 101
When we were choosing the metal finishes for the room--faucets, lighting, towel rings and bars, toilet paper holders, mirrors and frames--I was all over the map. I knew I wanted to mix a few different metals, but I also wanted to make sure it didn't look crazy. There were a lot of choices to make […]
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September 13, 2017
DIY
5 Amazing Playhouse / Playset Makeovers!
When we shared our plans for our own backyard play area a couple days ago, and subsequently the initial renderings of how we'd like to paint/makeover the playset we have headed our way--I made the mistake of saying that there's not a lot of great inspiration out there for good-looking outdoor kids' spaces. While there […]
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June 29, 2017
Inspiration
The Chris Loves Julia Father's Day Gift Guide | 2017
Father's Day is just 10 days away and I had so much fun gathering a few favorite things for the guys in our lives. Some of these are tried and true favorites Chris personally loves. Some I have gifted previously, with great reception. And others, you just can't go wrong with! I tried to mix a variety […]
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June 8, 2017
Inspiration
Casual Friday + An Exciting Announcement
This was a really huge week for us. The big announcement is we've been working on designing our own sofa line with Interior Define for almost a year and this week, after so many months of drawings and engineer specs and 3D renderings, we flew to Chicago to see the ACTUAL sofa for the first time and we […]
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May 26, 2017
Inspiration
My Sister's Art-Filled, Eclectic Home
There are five girls in my family and we each live in wildly different homes. Somehow we all grew up under the same roof in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and now, decades later, we're spread out across the country (and globe) injecting our own style into our own homes. Last year, while I was visiting my sister, Victoria, […]
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May 23, 2017
Inspiration
A Night In (On the deck!)
This special series is sponsored by Article. Once May hit and we were pretty sure the snow was over (#idaholife), we started working on pulling our furnishings out from storage and setting our deck up for the season. In addition to the planter boxes we recently built, we also added two of Article's Sala white lounge chairs […]
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May 11, 2017
Gift Guides!
3 Mother's Day Ideas That Will Make Her Cry
Mother's Day is on Sunday (!!) and when I was compiling this year's gift guide, I thought of all the mothers in my life; my own mom, my mother in law, my sisters, my friends, other mother figures--and in thinking of them, I knew I wanted to really focus on ideas, with gifts linked below each […]
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May 8, 2017
