Design
Casual Friday: My favorite short sleeved tops, an a+ grain free snack, hosting a friends viewing party and more!
Inspiration
Casual Friday: My favorite short sleeved tops, an a+ grain free snack, hosting a friends viewing party and more!
As someone who is chronically cold, I am easing into shorter sleeves over here. But after an application of my favorite self tanner--I get more excited about them!! Graphic tees and blouse-y tops and bodysuits are making a big splash this year, so I've been mixing those in with my go to (button ups for […]
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May 21, 2021
Design
My Must-Haves for Easing back into Traveling and Hosting!
Design
My Must-Haves for Easing back into Traveling and Hosting!
This post is sponsored by Walmart In the last few months we have traveled back and forth to Raleigh four times and it felt so different after not traveling for a whole year! But also invigorating. Now that it's safer to do so, travel and hosting are coming back! While your guest room might have functioned as […]
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May 19, 2021
Design
Designing A New Staircase (Everything you should ask yourself!)
Projects
Designing A New Staircase (Everything you should ask yourself!)
Designing our main staircase was something that crept up suddenly, but I am so honored and happy I am able to do! The original plan was just to swap out the treads and handrail for oak to match our new floors that will be going in, but when our contractor said, "anything else? now is the time […]
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May 18, 2021
Design
The First Video Tour of our Modern Colonial
Design
The First Video Tour of our Modern Colonial
Just about a week after our final video tour of our modern cottage, we wanted to share the FIRST video tour of our new home. (If you missed why we chose this house, you can check out this post!). There are several things we'll be doing before we move in at the end of next […]
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May 13, 2021
Design
Meet our Colonial home in North Carolina!
Design
Meet our Colonial home in North Carolina!
On Monday, we flew into Raleigh to close on our new home there! (If you missed why we're moving, you can check out this post and why we chose Raleigh right here.) The home is a beautiful, classic, red-brick Georgian-style colonial just outside of Raleigh. Right when we pulled up to it, we got that […]
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May 12, 2021
Design
Our Favorite Coffee Tables at Every Price Point!
Decor
Our Favorite Coffee Tables at Every Price Point!
We are honing in on what we're bringing with us with the move and what we're selling in our upcoming yard sale but let me tell ya what I know for sure, our coffee table is coming. I really fell hard for this coffee table a while back and I'm really hoping it fits well […]
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May 10, 2021
Design
Then and Now: The Girls' Rooms
Design
Then and Now: The Girls' Rooms
Welcome back to a little segment I like to call, "Then and Now" where we take a look back at different rooms in our house (you guessed it) then, and now. We've looked at our living rooms and our primary bathrooms, and today we're taking a peak at the girls' rooms in our last house […]
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May 6, 2021
Design
How to use Pinterest to find Sources and Inspiration
Inspiration
How to use Pinterest to find Sources and Inspiration
You can see more of our bathroom here! Anytime I share inspiration images, I get a slew of questions about how to even FIND these kinds of beautiful imagery. I guess I'm still old school because I turn to Pinterest. But whenever I say that I usually hear a bunch about how Pinterest never shows […]
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May 5, 2021
Design
Trend Alert: Scenic Wall Murals (and where to buy them!)
Design
Trend Alert: Scenic Wall Murals (and where to buy them!)
Over a year ago, I saved an image on Instagram that stopped me in my tracks – a gorgeous mural wallpaper in a water closet, and I've had murals on my mind since. It also kind of turned into one of those things that once you start noticing something--you see it everywhere! Now I have […]
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May 3, 2021
Design
Casual Friday: What Furniture the Buyers purchased, spring sandals, stairway inspiration and more!
Inspiration
Casual Friday: What Furniture the Buyers purchased, spring sandals, stairway inspiration and more!
Paint Color: SW Accessible Beige, Wallpaper, Couch, Pillow, Rug, Lamp, Sconce, Pinboard, Pennant You can see more of our girls' office here! We've gotten a lot of questions over the last week about what furniture we'll be selling with the house or if we are selling the house furnished. You can read here about why we decided […]
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April 30, 2021
Design
3 Mood Boards featuring 3 different Charlys.
Decor
3 Mood Boards featuring 3 different Charlys.
I can't help myself. I've been staying up at night, browsing some furniture to put in our new house. There I said it. Online furniture shopping is one of my favorite things to do, but also I'm just trying to stay ahead of shipping lead times because some shops are a few months out. Yikes. As […]
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April 29, 2021
Design
How Many Sheet Sets do you have per bed?
Decor
How Many Sheet Sets do you have per bed?
This post is sponsored by Brooklinen Linen Duvet Cover in Haze, Linen Core Sheet Set in White, Wallpaper, Bed, Table Lamp, Bowl When it comes to bedding, I've been loving a more relaxed vibe. Linen bedding has the perfect lived in look, and it's so soft and wrinkles only make it better (thank goodness!). Brooklinen bedding has […]
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April 27, 2021
Design
The Best Of: Walmart Home (You're not going to believe it!)
Decor
The Best Of: Walmart Home (You're not going to believe it!)
This post is sponsored by Walmart Walmart is kind of killing it in the decor department right now. Amazing price points, really cool collabs (with people like Drew Barrymore and Queer Eye!) and pieces that fit right into my favorite "modern cottage" vibe. I rounded up a few of my favorites and when we were […]
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April 23, 2021
Design
The Great Purge: How to decide what to Sell, Donate, or Keep?
Decor
The Great Purge: How to decide what to Sell, Donate, or Keep?
The time has come for the great "purge before you move" purge. We're figuring out what things we plan to sell, donate, and keep. We sold our last home with nearly all the furnishings and I had some minor regrets about that. You can read more about here. Our furnishings weren't going to transfer well […]
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April 19, 2021
Design
What Light Bulb Should I Get?
Design
What Light Bulb Should I Get?
Back in 2017, we shared a very extensive posts about light bulbs. One of my favorite subjects. It's been a very popular post that people ask for a link to all the time except most of the bulbs we shared as favorites in that post are nowhere to be found now! So, we thought it was […]
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April 14, 2021
Design
All The Paint Colors in Our House (and why paint colors you see online might look different in person!)
Design
All The Paint Colors in Our House (and why paint colors you see online might look different in person!)
Have you ever spotted a paint color you love online and tried it in person and it doesn't look the same? There are so many reasons this could happen. We get asked several hundred times a day "What paint color is that?!," so we thought it would be fun to do a complete post with all the […]
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April 6, 2021
Design
New DIY Art for the Living Room!!
Art
New DIY Art for the Living Room!!
Sources I loved the framed trees on the mantle in the living room, but for the sake of simplifying in preparation to sell, I thought one large canvas would be better to really show off the scale of the fireplace. Large art can be expensive so I decided to tackle this one myself. I'd thought […]
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April 1, 2021
Design
Essential Decor: 6 reasons you can never have too many BENCHES!
Decor
Essential Decor: 6 reasons you can never have too many BENCHES!
Sources We did a furniture reconfiguring in the entry now that the entry side is all finished (doors still need painted and we're missing a few baseboards in the office), and some people were very concerned that we got rid of our bench. Not true! We moved it around to the garage entrance of the […]
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March 30, 2021
Design
Casual Friday: Why are we still doing projects?, Spring Sneakers, a fun game, and more!
Decor
Casual Friday: Why are we still doing projects?, Spring Sneakers, a fun game, and more!
This week we worked on painting our laundry cabinet, cleaning up the entry (the office/entry reconfiguration is 99% done!) and moved a few pieces of furniture around and placed a couple things that were ordered back in November. You can see the full list of things we'll be working on before moving right here. While sharing, we […]
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March 26, 2021
Design
We Tested 30 Hand Soaps to find the best of the best!
Design
We Tested 30 Hand Soaps to find the best of the best!
You can find our bathroom sources here! It's the great spring soap experiment! We bought 30 different hand soaps (a lot of them recommended by you) and put them to the test. I love a beautiful hand soap. I think it can really enhance the look of a room, but also, there's nothing better […]
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March 22, 2021
