Design
Our Plans for the Cabin Basement
Projects
Our Plans for the Cabin Basement
Last week marked the real beginning of renovations up at the cabin. Even though we have brought up a few furniture piecesbrought up a few furniture pieces, and even built the reading nook in one of the bedrooms, it's still felt very much on hold because of the heating and cooling issues up there (and all […]
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August 6, 2018
Design
How I Make Our Bed
Decor
How I Make Our Bed
This post is sponsored by Linen Market: an eBay exclusive. There are three things that I do every morning that vastly improve the outcome of my day. First is go to the gym or work up a sweat--even if it's just 30 minutes! The second is get ready for the day. Working from home, I […]
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July 31, 2018
Design
What Will Be the Design Style of our A-frame?
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
Design
A Big Sale on Butcher Block Countertops! (You can use them everywhere!)
Design
A Big Sale on Butcher Block Countertops! (You can use them everywhere!)
Here's some fun news--Craft Art Countertops contacted us last month and asked if our readers would be interested in a secret sale! We have used their butcher block countertops in so many spaces that we have renovated over the past 6 years and we always get a ton of questions about our kitchen island countertop, […]
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June 25, 2018
Design
Our $5 Living Room Make-Under
Decor
Our $5 Living Room Make-Under
I've been really craving a lightness in our home lately. I pulled up the Persian rug in the kitchen. I purged half the toy room. I tucked away a lot of baskets of throws and magazines. I took down a few pictures that were hanging on walls. I told Chris, "I just feel like I […]
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June 21, 2018
Design
10 Really Good Looking High Chairs that are also Safe and Functional (and convertible!)
Design
10 Really Good Looking High Chairs that are also Safe and Functional (and convertible!)
We have had the Ikea Antilop High Chair for 8 years now--the same $20 high chair has almost got us through all three of our girls. And before recently, it has served us perfectly. Even though the tray is impossible to take off and there's quite a bit of room between the tray and little baby […]
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June 19, 2018
Design
The Cabin Deck + Arhaus Giveaway!
Decor
The Cabin Deck + Arhaus Giveaway!
This post is sponsored by Arhaus, who we've partnered with to give away a $200 Arhaus gift card to one lucky reader! Details at the end of the post. Though we have some big things coming up for the cabin that are preventing full room renovations right now (lookin' at you, flooring), we love to […]
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June 11, 2018
Design
The Rewards Program Every Home Lover Should Be A Part Of
Decor
The Rewards Program Every Home Lover Should Be A Part Of
This post is sponsored by the best thing to happen to my online shopping, The Key Rewards. It's always cool to see which home brands are connected under the same umbrella and it's even cooler when they get together for a reward program. A bunch of my favorites--West Elm, Pottery Barn (kids, teen, baby--all of […]
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May 28, 2018
Design
21 Fine Art Pieces For The Bathroom
Art
21 Fine Art Pieces For The Bathroom
You know what I love in a bathroom? Art. Hard pass on punny prints or bathroom reminders (wash your hands!)--but give me all the fine art. For some reason, it's unexpected and it can elevate the (likely) smallest room in your house so quickly. Our entire master bathroom was inspired by a vintage waterscape painting […]
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May 23, 2018
Design
7 Different Kinds of Shower Niches (and Designing Ours!)
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
Design
Our New T-shirt Line is Live! ProperTee by Chris Loves Julia
Design
Our New T-shirt Line is Live! ProperTee by Chris Loves Julia
I love a good tee, half tucked into jeans. Tied in the front. Layered under a blazer or a little oversized to lounge in or paint in. As a homebody, I live in t-shirts, which is why we're so excited to announce we launched a line dedicated to home lovers everywhere. ProperTee is an ode […]
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April 25, 2018
Design
Mother's Day Gift Guide
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
Design
New Abstract Art In the Bedroom
Art
New Abstract Art In the Bedroom
A few weeks ago, we shared a big, fat bedroom progress post. It was actually sponsored by Loloi, who provided the rug for our room, and I felt like I needed to have something above our bed for those pictures. So I ran down to the guest room and grabbed my favorite cloud print that we have […]
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April 19, 2018
Design
Good Looking Ugly Stuff: Dish Drying Racks, Plungers and Toilet Brushes
Design
Good Looking Ugly Stuff: Dish Drying Racks, Plungers and Toilet Brushes
Every Wednesday night, on Instagram Stories, Chris and I hop on and answer a bunch of questions for about 10-20 minutes. We call it CLJ Q&A. (Psst, it's saved to my highlights until the next one!) This past week, someone asked "What do you do about plungers and other horrible things that are necessary but […]
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April 17, 2018
Design
Our Whole House Color Palette
Design
Our Whole House Color Palette
This post is sponsored by ColorReader by Datacolor. There's a discount code at the end of the post for our readers! "Do you mind sharing the color of your walls?" is a question we get all day long! There have been so many times I thought the same thing while scrolling through instagram or flipping […]
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April 11, 2018
Design
The Good, The Bad, Would We Do It Again?
Design
The Good, The Bad, Would We Do It Again?
Every year, we tally up our most asked about questions regarding things in our home and give you our honest review of them, including the good, the bad, and would we really buy/do it again? In 2017, we covered our (old) living room coffee table that we wouldn't do again and since replaced, the craft […]
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April 9, 2018
Design
Sale Alert! Extra 30% off All Sale at Urban Outfitters
Decor
Sale Alert! Extra 30% off All Sale at Urban Outfitters
This Loft bed is on sale for $524! (originally $1879) Urban Outfitters is having a big ol' sale and it's my favorite kind, too. Sale on sale. All sale items are an ADDITIONAL 30% off at checkout, no code needed. Here are 18 things that I think are worth a look if you're in the […]
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April 4, 2018
Design
Spring Bedding
Decor
Spring Bedding
This post is sponsored by eBay. Lately, I feel like we've been tearing away a lot of elements in the guest room. We stole the art for our bedroom. The curtains for the office. And the rug, briefly, too. (It's made it's way back in here because I felt so bad. Really.) The room was […]
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March 31, 2018
Design
14 (more!) Inspiring Home Instagram Accounts with less than 10K followers!
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
Design
Where is Your Dining Room Chandelier From? + 15 Look-a-Likes
Decor
Where is Your Dining Room Chandelier From? + 15 Look-a-Likes
Table | Chairs | Acrylic Wall Frames | Vase | Faux Branches Anytime I post a photo where our dining room is visible, especially the chandelier, I get flooded with questions about where it's from. It pains me every time, because it has been discontinued. Why?! Whhhyyyyyyy. We got it nearly 4 years ago from Lamps Plus (our great room looked SO DIFFERENT!!). It's called […]
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March 19, 2018
