Design
Faye's Nursery Reveal!
Decor
Faye's Nursery Reveal!
We finally finished the nursery and are excited to share a lot of photos with you today! It's hard to believe we started working on the this room back in December and here we are five months later with a one month old. This room is a great mix of DIY projects (like the huge […]
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May 7, 2014
Design
A Nursery Update and The Graham Glider Review
Decor
A Nursery Update and The Graham Glider Review
The nursery is still progressing at snail speed, but even at that rate we should finish it up this weekend and hope to have lots of pictures for you by the beginning of next week. I am sticking to my goal of hanging one thing a day (lofty, I know!) and this week I've hung […]
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May 1, 2014
Design
Here Comes The Sun
Decor
Here Comes The Sun
In case you missed our last post, or the dozens of recent instagrams of #sweetbabyfaye, I've been in newborn la-la-land for the past 2 weeks. All the days run together now and dust has been collecting on my laptop. I've opened it twice in the past two weeks. The first time I had all intentions […]
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April 22, 2014
Design
Big, New, and Blue in the Living Room
Decor
Big, New, and Blue in the Living Room
Earlier this week, the new area rug for our living room arrived. You can read more about our decision making process here, but ultimately we went with the 10x14 Baxter area rug from Crate and Barrel in Indigo. And, whew, it has made a really big difference. Here's how things were looking right before we […]
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April 3, 2014
Design
Measuring For A New Area Rug
Decor
Measuring For A New Area Rug
If you caught yesterday's post, you already know we're wrapping up the floors this week and moving all of our furniture back upstairs on Saturday and we can barely wait! The floors are looking beautiful and are a great launching pad for a lot of the other improvements we want to make in the house […]
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March 25, 2014
Design
Painting of the Week | 08 April Showers
Art
Painting of the Week | 08 April Showers
I know it is still March, but it's the first day of Spring and I am exhaling all the winter heaviness. This painting is inspired by our grass that is still sleeping and mostly brown, but all the snow has melted. And those rain showers we have been getting instead of snow! And those flowers […]
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March 20, 2014
Design
Have you Found a House Twin?
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
Design
A Flowery Light for the Nursery
Decor
A Flowery Light for the Nursery
We took a one day break from the floors to recoup, raise morale, and catch our breath. Even though the knee-pads had a rest, the light for baby Lemon (Greta's name for her little sister) arrived and we were anxious to get it up and get this tinged glass boob light outta there. You may […]
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March 12, 2014
Design
Painting of the Week | 07 Moody
Art
Painting of the Week | 07 Moody
As I mentioned in yesterday's post, these pregnancy hormones have me swinging from mood to mood with hardly any notice. It seems like I experience absolute joy, anger, frustration, heart-breaking sadness, peace--everything--every day! Since my paintings are inspired by my life that week, I put all of those feelings in one chaotic (but thoughtful) painting--which […]
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March 7, 2014
Design
Upgrading the Boob Light
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
Design
Painting of the Week | 06 Swept Away
Art
Painting of the Week | 06 Swept Away
Despite the dusty conditions surrounding me, I managed to lock myself in a room (keep Greta busy) and painted until I was swept away to another place. I almost took a break this week, because things are so crazy right now, but I am glad I pushed forward and went through with this painting--and a […]
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February 21, 2014
Design
Painting of the Week | 05 Sprung
Art
Painting of the Week | 05 Sprung
Up to this point, I've always shot the weekly paintings in our green reading room, but this week's looked so perfect against the backdrop of the Hale Navy walls in the hall bath. The addition of gold this week helped this whole painting come together. I bought four or five different metallic gold paints to […]
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February 14, 2014
Design
A Nursery Glider / Rocker at Every Budget
Decor
A Nursery Glider / Rocker at Every Budget
This weekend I went into a bit of a panic when I realized that the rocker I have been eyeing could take 10 weeks to arrive and this baby (Greta decided to call her "Lemon" this weekend) is due to arrive before then. Oy. And then I started looking around more and I was overwhelmed […]
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February 10, 2014
Design
Painting of the Week | 04 Cleansing Cry
Art
Painting of the Week | 04 Cleansing Cry
One night this week, I cried and cried and cried. I cried myself to sleep. I think it was definitely a mix of hormones and still being so sick with this pregnancy and having some more complications recently, too. I woke up the next morning with that puffy feeling in my eyes and felt so […]
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February 7, 2014
Design
Painting of the Week | 03 Larkspur
Art
Painting of the Week | 03 Larkspur
Before I get into this week's painting, I wanted to let you all know that after a lot of encouragement (thank you!), I have started selling fine art giclee prints of my weekly paintings, starting with last week's Night Fishing. The prints will be available for purchase in my Etsy shop within a week after the painting […]
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January 31, 2014
Design
Celebrating at Home
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
Design
DIY Huge Letter Art on the Cheap
Art
DIY Huge Letter Art on the Cheap
Even though the nursery has a long way to go and will be under construction while we install new floors in the coming weeks, continually collecting and adding pieces is still a priority. Furniture and fixtures are on their way! I recently added a huge DIYed typographic piece to the otherwise bare room that was […]
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January 28, 2014
Design
Painting of the Week | 02 Night Fishing
Art
Painting of the Week | 02 Night Fishing
This week's painting was such a positive experience. It was an emotional and difficult week with this pregnancy and with every brush stroke, I felt myself escaping more and more. It was therapeutic to continue to add layers of pigment and watch the painting transform half a dozen times until this composition showed itself and […]
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January 24, 2014
Design
The Nursery Mood Board: Sweet + Sophisticated
Mood Boards
The Nursery Mood Board: Sweet + Sophisticated
If you follow us on Instagram (@chrislovesjulia), you know that we had a little pre-term labor scare on Sunday that sent us to the hospital. I'm home and doing much better now resting in bed, but when the nurse asked us if we had a carseat for the baby with us--I fa-reaked. Because this baby […]
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January 22, 2014
Design
Painting of the Week | 01 The Takeoff
Art
Painting of the Week | 01 The Takeoff
I have never been one to name my works of art, but it's a new year and this is a new project--so here I am, naming paintings. This one I called, The Takeoff since it is the very first painting in my do-a-painting-a-week project this year. There are a few things I wanted to achieve […]
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January 17, 2014
