DIY
Stairwell Lighting : Drum Vs. Cube
Ah, I am coming up for air after a bout of food poisoning. Glad to be on the mend! During my down time, I think I finally nailed down a fixture for our stairwell. Well, top two at least. We have been on the hunt for the past 3 months and I wasn't in a […]
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January 14, 2015
Decor
Pantone's Color of the year, Marsala, for your Interior: I'm a Fan.
Pantone announced their color of the year for 2015 and a whole bunch of house-fanatics lost it. "I would never use this color in my home." "The 90s want their color back." You get the idea. It is a departure from the bright hues that have been thrown at us the past few years. Purple! […]
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December 4, 2014
DIY
The Prettiest Blue Paint for an Exterior + A Giveaway!
Our backyard neighbor's house is the most beautiful blue. One of the first times we met them, I told them how much I loved the color of their house and how it reminded me of the east coast, where I grew up. She laughed and said they went to medical school on the east coast […]
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November 20, 2014
Inspiration
What Are Your Master Closet Must-Haves?
The staircase railing is coming along and we hope to have lots of pictures of that for Thursday's post, but today I wanted to give you an idea of where we're headed project-wise in the coming weeks. We are very eager to get started on our master bedroom, but feel like we need to get a plan […]
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November 11, 2014
DIY
A New Project + 25 of the Best Modern Barn-Style Doors
After we made plans for the new laundry room/mudroom area (you can see those here), we realized we needed to think of a new door situation. Our current door swings left into the room which felt like it could get a little cramped to us. Especially since that would be the mudroom side of the […]
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August 1, 2014
Inspiration
Learn From My Mistake Before You Paint Your Cabinets
Every day the kitchen plans come up over here. We'd love to start the big renovation (new cabinets, appliances, countertops, lots of windows!) next year and it's one of our favorite things to talk about these days. Endless drawings and plans and discussions. In those discussions, I almost always end up frustrated at myself. You […]
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July 16, 2014
Inspiration
Good Fences Make Sane Parents
Our next major project is something we've been on the fence about for 9 months. To fence or not to fence. We need a fence for Charly (and most recently, Gretaaaaaa!!!). We knew that when we first purchased this house. But, our neighborhood is so beautifully open, we didn't want to move in and change all that […]
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June 11, 2014
Inspiration
Have you Found a House Twin?
My pinboards are filled with inspiration from textiles to paint colors to just the way a room feels. But sometimes, it's difficult to see that beautiful room on your favorite blogs or Pinterest with high ceilings and lots of windows and implement the same ideas into your own space. Or maybe you have, and it […]
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March 19, 2014
DIY
Upgrading the Boob Light
Our home has standard height ceilings. We have looked into having the great room vaulted, but at a staggering cost of no less than $30K due to the way our roof is supported, our 8' ceilings are suddenly looking a-okay. But the boob fixtures, you know the ones, are not okay and we have them everywhere. Chances are, you […]
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February 27, 2014
Inspiration
Celebrating at Home
We're reaching the end of our party-every-week season. The holidays for us start in mid-October with Chris's birthday, then our Halloween party, then our anniversary at the beginning of November, Thanksgiving and my birthday at the end. And then Christmas, Christmas, Christmas. Then it is the New Year (I rarely see midnight by the time […]
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January 30, 2014
Inspiration
Project Book Shelving: The Plans
We mentioned after we painted the reading room, that we wanted to revisit it soon. Our books are still boxed up in the garage and we are anxious to give them a more permanent home. Now that our costume party is over and the bathroom is done-zo, we're ready to build some shelving in here. […]
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November 11, 2013
Inspiration
$1000 to Rejuvenation. Mmm, yeah.
Our friends at Rejuvenation, one of our first and long time partners, are holding a little instagram contest and we are their target market. I say "we," as in "us" as in "you!" We, that are constantly renovating and always striving to improve our spaces. The winner gets $1000 worth of lights and hardware from […]
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October 9, 2013
Inspiration
A Journey in Indecisiveness and also Deciding On Our Main Paint Color.
We are no strangers to dark paint. Painting a few walls in our last home's living room a blueish-greenish-almost black (Crave by Kwal Paint) made for one of our favorite before and afters. But I think there were a few things that made that dark paint really work. First, the huge window that let light […]
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September 25, 2013
Inspiration
Day One
We closed on our new-ish house yesterday! It was terribly anti-climatic, a formality really. Mostly because we had been living there for a few weeks anyway. We already had the keys. We've already started on a few little projects, but now that things are official--we're calling yesterday our "first day." Let the renovation calendar begin! […]
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September 24, 2013
Inspiration
A Functional Entryway
One thing this house isn't shy on is hooks. Perhaps you've gathered that from Instagram: As an update, I found two more sets in the garage. 16!! The slightly humorous thing about this all is that there is absolutely no convenient place to hang our bags when we walk in the house, whether through the […]
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August 29, 2013
Inspiration
An Update + Dream Laundry and Joint Closet
As you may have heard, read or gathered--we have had some bumps in our road--mainly we have yet to receive the money for the sale of our house and it all comes down to today. If we don't receive the money today, then we will lose our new house. And if we do, we can […]
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August 20, 2013
Inspiration
Dress + Dwell: Masculine Edge
Today we're launching a new series that relates the clothes we wear to the decor in our homes. Most of my wardrobe is casual and classic and that has translated into a lot of the choices we made in our home, or are planning on making. I pinned this photo of Alessandra Ambrosio a year […]
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August 5, 2013
Inspiration
10 Less Traditional Things To Fill Bare Walls
I have recently retired from offering mood boards after making them for hundreds of clients for the past two and a half years. There just isn't enough time these days and I would love to focus on other projects. In those two and a half years, I've learned a lot. I've hunted a lot. And […]
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May 16, 2013
Inspiration
The Next On-Deck Project
Our Joss & Main collection went live last night!! Ahhh!!! Thank you so much for the support with this project we've been working on for the past couple months. The sale will go through Thursday right here. If you aren't a member yet, feel free to use this link to get right in. Also, weird […]
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April 10, 2013
Inspiration
Kitchen Update--Already?
You know what is silly? Doing a kitchen update before demo has even started in there--but here we are. We have almost everything ordered--and some things have even arrived--but there have been a few changes to the original plan to catch you up on: First up, the backsplash. We were really excited about a moody […]
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February 20, 2013
