Inspiration
Casual Friday + Need Your Advice!
Thanks for all the love on our home office reveal yesterday! Finishing that room was like a huge weight lifted from my shoulders (unfinished projects give me major anxiety!) and the biggest gift at the same time. The hours between my "morning sickness" are starting to lengthen, sometimes even into a full day, and with […]
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March 10, 2017
Decor
5 BIG, Area Rugs for Cheap (And the one we chose for the Living Room!)
Lately, I've been talking (mostly on the podcast, I think) about changing up our living room rug. The truth is, I still love the big, blue beauty after 3 years, but I just feel the need for a change. Something lighter? More neutral? After adding the planked accent wall, it has felt darker and heavier than I […]
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February 1, 2017
Gift Guides!
The Complete CLJ 2016 Gift Guide: 149 Items for Everyone on Your List
Over the last couple weeks, we have compiled and shared 7 different gift guides, including a total of 149 gift ideas. With just 11 days until Christmas (!!), we put them all together right here so you can finish your shopping once and for all--isn't that the best feeling? Gifts for Him Gifts for Her Gifts […]
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December 14, 2016
Inspiration
A Night In the Kitchen (Plus, our favorite gluten free dessert recipe)
This A Night In is sponsored by Anolon. Welcome to the second installment of A Night In where we rally a few of our favorite bloggers together to share a space in their home after that photogenic afternoon light goes down. It's intimate. It's real. And in my opinion, it's incredibly cozy. Nothing is better than when the sun goes […]
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November 15, 2016
Inspiration
Casual Friday
While we all couldn't love Charly more around here, our girls are also kitten-lovers. For the past 6 months, we talked about getting a cat. We'd go to the pet store or shelters and friends' homes and our girls would cling to the kitties. So when my sister had one kitten left in the litter her cat […]
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October 28, 2016
DIY
One Room Challenge: Week 3 | The Makings of a Book Nook
It has been an intense week around here. The weather hasn't cooperated all that well, we have only had one decor item arrive (1!!), and we just realized we don't really have three more weeks to finish this like our minds have been telling us, we have three weeks until the reveal, so just over […]
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October 19, 2016
Decor
Mix And Match Layered Doormat Options + A Podcast Update
Before we get into the meat of today's post, I wanted to give you a podcast update. It's hard to believe we have been doing The Chris Loves Julia Podcast with Preston Pugmire for 5 months now! But even before that, it's been a year since Preston sat down at our dining room table and […]
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October 17, 2016
Inspiration
How to Find Product Sources on Pinterest
I shared this cool trick I discovered on Pinterest on my Instagram story, but since those disappear after 24 hours, and have had a few questions about it, I decided to share it here, too. So many times, our favorite inspiring spaces on Pinterest, are full of droll-worthy products and pieces that really make the space and […]
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October 10, 2016
DIY
One Room Challenge Week 1 | The Room, The Befores and The Plan
The One Room Challenge starts today! 20 design bloggers will be making over a space in 6 weeks and documenting it from start to finish. We're no strangers to a quick deadline around here--heck, this summer we did a whole kitchen renovation for a family in Pittsburgh in 6 days! And a year ago, we […]
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October 5, 2016
Inspiration
East Idaho Parade of Homes Highlights
This past weekend was the Parade of Homes in our area of Southeast Idaho. If you aren't familiar, the Parade of Homes is a showcase of homes held annually in several regions throughout the United States. It is often presented by the local Home Builders Association and typically showcases high-end designer homes, both new construction and remodeled homes. Ours […]
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September 20, 2016
DIY
Planning our Home Office
I mentioned last week that we'll be turning one of the downstairs bedrooms into a home office and today we're ready to share that blank-space-of-a-room that's about to get a whole lot of function for the first time since moving in to this home almost 3 years ago. It's a relatively small room, at just 10x11 and […]
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July 5, 2016
Inspiration
On Open Concept Living + Multi-Purpose Spaces
Hope you're having a good Memorial Day! We have a day of yard work ahead of us followed by a big BBQ with some friends--our first one on our deck! Whatever you're doing today: paying respects to loved ones who've passed, yard work, a road trip to some dreamy cabin, a day at the lake--we […]
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May 30, 2016
Inspiration
Finding Your Home Style
How would you describe your home style? What about your personal style? Are the two related? The fourth episode of The Chris Loves Julia Podcast is live (links for listening at the end of the post!) and we tackle this question we get all the time in a way that only three best friends (when two […]
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May 23, 2016
Design
How To Organize Your Fridge Like a Pro
What does the inside of your fridge look like? We are the type of household that try to get the main part of our fridge as empty as possible every week. This system started shortly after we finished the kitchen renovation last year. We felt inspired to get our refrigerator super organized and I can't […]
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April 14, 2016
Art
Well, I guess it's time to address the wall.
There's this wall that I crop out of almost every photo I take of the great room. It's awkward in and of itself, slightly recessed, large and blank and right in the middle of the living room. It's that far one that the fauxdenza used to be on: I say used to because over the weekend we moved the […]
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March 14, 2016
Inspiration
Tearing Up The Stairs
Well, the downstairs of our home is officially unliveable for the next couple weeks. Last night, we got all of the old carpet out in preparation for installing new baseboards before the new carpet gets in. We owe you a big update on everything else that has been happening down there--we've been busy with recessed lighting […]
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March 2, 2016
Inspiration
Bringing Wall-To-Wall Carpet Back
We have been ironing out details of our downstairs renovation over the past two weeks. Lowe's jumped on board to sponsor a lot of the big construction components we have planned and one of their corporate partners, Stainmaster carpet, was eager to work with us, too after hearing about our plans to carpet the whole […]
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January 29, 2016
Inspiration
HOW OUR FRIGIDAIRE PROFESSIONAL APPLIANCES TRANSFORMED OUR KITCHEN AND HOW WE USE IT + A VIDEO!
Inspiration
HOW OUR FRIGIDAIRE PROFESSIONAL APPLIANCES TRANSFORMED OUR KITCHEN AND HOW WE USE IT + A VIDEO!
Today we are so excited to finally share with you a little more about the Frigidaire Professional appliances we chose for the kitchen. We couldn't be more in love with how they transformed the way our kitchen looks, but more importantly, the way it functions and works for us. Along with a bunch of fresh photos and […]
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September 30, 2015
Inspiration
Lovable, Livable Home
Young House Love's new book, Lovable Livable Home came out this week! I was lucky enough to get my copy a little early (I know some people...THE people) and I can't say enough good things about this book. The Petersiks put into such eloquent, approachable and, naturally, funny words how we can all feel about […]
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September 25, 2015
Inspiration
7 Top Bloggers Share What's Trending (and what's over) in Their Homes for 2015
Today, I have an incredible treat for you! Over the past week, I asked several of my favorite home bloggers two simple questions: What is one thing you are absolutely bringing into your home in 2015? And what is something you are definitely getting rid of? Kind of like a trend watch, except more personal […]
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January 22, 2015
