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Casual Friday: The Best of July & Buyers' Remorse

July was filled with highs and lows. It was the month that really felt like summer filled with eating outside and swimming and soaking in family time. But it was also the month our emotions got the best of us. To be honest, we experienced heavy feelings of buyers' remorse as we looked around, an entire year […]
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July 31, 2020

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Casual Friday: Our Demo'd Bathroom!!!, Cottage Inspo, Exterior Paint Colors & More!

Demo on our bathroom happened this week and it was so shocking to see the space after it was completely cleared. I actually gasped. It seems to have grown 10x! My sister was so sure there must have been a wall cheated out somewhere. Our minds just couldn't get around the fact that this huge, open space […]
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July 24, 2020

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Casual Friday: Paint Drama, Hoarders, Our Dining Room as a Living Room & More!

Thank you so so much for all the love and support and shares from our closet reveal yesterday. It was such a labor of love and excitement and it means so much to us when we feel like you're celebrating the completion along with us. It was our followers that suggested we make it a […]
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July 17, 2020

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Casual Friday: The Painted Music Room & More

Piano bench | Tree art | Landscape | Fox art | Sconce | Pendant  In Tuesday's post I mentioned that I got the itch to paint something. We had been planning on turning the music room into a jewel box — a bold, color in the middle of our Alabaster-walled home. I was leaning toward blue/green/gray, […]
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July 3, 2020

Casual Friday

Casual Friday: A Few Favorites from the ORC, My Yellow Obsession, More Charly!, Sandals I love & more!

This week was the One Room Challenge Reveals and there were so many amazing spaces and stories. It feels like forever since we participated creating the girls' bunk room! This season there were a lot of setbacks and delays due to Covid-19, but watching all of these rooms evolve despite the state of the world […]
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June 26, 2020

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Casual Friday: Buying Furnishings that Work in Every Room, House Problems by year, My Lash Secrets, A fun new game and MORE!

Have you ever even seen our "music room"?! Maybe not. Probably not because up until yesterday the electricity hasn't worked in the room. We were finally able to have an electrician come back to look at the wiring and get it working and I feel like I'm seeing the space for the first time! This space is […]
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June 19, 2020

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Casual Friday: Has My Health Improved Since the Mold was removed?

SOURCES: Art | Bench | Rug | Jeans | Sandals | Tee I'm continually getting the same question in my inbox that makes me feel so cared for --How are you feeling now that the mold is gone?  First, wow, thank you so much for the concern. If you are just now catching up, a […]
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June 12, 2020

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Casual Friday: Disguising Wall Pimples, Tapestries, Chris Loves Julia Security is back + More!!

This week was monumental for me. Something shifted. I started feeling so much better and and after a long drought of feeling unmotivated and uncreative, I hung art and moved furniture and made plans. I'm starting to feel so much more like me which has been refreshing and rejuvenating. One of the places I hung art was […]
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May 15, 2020

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Casual Friday: The week we found mold covering our exterior, the Oneders!, Our Closet MVP and Vanity + More

After nearly finishing the first phase of our renovation just last month, I felt like I needed a bit of a mental break before diving into something else huge. I know most people wouldn't consider DIYing a closet renovation a "break." But it really has been that for us. (BTW, this DeWalt Gyroscopic Screwdriver has been […]
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April 17, 2020

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Casual Friday: What's the new bright spot in your daily routine?

Even though I have worked from home for the last 11 years, my daily/weekly schedule has changed drastically with the rest of the world's over the last month. I'm deeply missing the hour to myself at the gym every morning and the 20 minutes before and after where I got caught up with friends on […]
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April 10, 2020

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Casual Friday: The Beginning of March was a lifetime ago + A Video and Favorites.

The beginning of March feels like a lifetime ago. And in a lot of ways, it was. Life was different one month ago--and while we're settling in to a slower pace and leaning into a lot more time with our girls, and celebrating some quiet time in our home--a first since moving in--we're also grieving and scared […]
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April 3, 2020

Casual Friday

Casual Friday: Decor (or Lack thereof), THE denim jacket, Game Storage, Coronavirus Pressure, Swimming with Dolphins & MORE!

Most of this week, I was terribly sick trying to adjust to new medication, but yesterday I woke up feeling so great so I took advantage and tackled a few spaces in our home. It's been nice and peaceful to move around in our house with just us this week. Chris started our closet (more […]
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March 20, 2020

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Casual Friday: Coronavirus and Taking Care of Each Other + Deets on Our Big Shoot, Health, Whole 30 and more!

We're all exercising extreme caution around here in the wake of Coronavirus, disinfecting all of our surfaces and devices and staying home as much as we can. We know we're lucky to work from home, and we know so many of you don't. Our hearts are hurting for the too-many who are sick and for […]
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March 13, 2020

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Casual Friday: Art, Dinnerware, Versatile Spring Sneakers, Easter Dresses, Resort Discounts & More!

Things are getting serious around here. Seriously close! Every day so much happens that I could just sit and watch it all go down, completely entertained. Painting and Stair railings and beams and window and uncovering the floors! It's all coming together. Some things are coming together just the way I imagined they would. Some […]
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March 6, 2020

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Casual Saturday: Best of February

February flashed before my eyes. We were in San Diego, Kohler, Wisconsin, Scottsdale, Arizona. We tackled so many projects and flushed out designs, made progress on our home and celebrated Greta's birthday. There were ups and downs and missteps and successes and the days passed. No, they flew by! A little too fast for my […]
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February 28, 2020

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Casual Friday: Beams, Leanne Ford, Paranormal Activity, Beauty Counter & More!

It's been the most productive week around the house. With less than 3 weeks until the video shoot, it seems like everything is so close and every day we're seeing more and more progress. The latter half of this week Demo Dave (seen above) and Finisher Dave started installing the beams in the dining room. (Side note: […]
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February 21, 2020

Casual Friday

Casual Friday : A Kitchen hardware lesson, Greta is 10, My Travel Outfit, The Weird Thing I want for our House & More

This kitchen from Neal Beckstedt stopped me in my tracks this week. The warm peachy cabinets mixed with two different countertops (!!!) and the black and brass touches all made me weak in my knees. And then I started looking at the cabinet hardware--so striking! You know what it's not, but kind of looks like? […]
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February 14, 2020

Casual Friday

Casual Friday : Kids and Renovating & More

We get asked often if our girls are interested or involved in what we do and the answer has always been, "not really." They have their personal passions that we nurture and don't force design, renovating or home decor interests in their direction. But Polly. Polly, our sweet 2 and a half year old has […]
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February 7, 2020

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Casual Friday: My (Updated) Make-up and Skincare Routine

It’s been awhile since I updated you one my daily skincare/makeup routine so I thought today’s Casual Friday post would be a great time to chat about that! You know when you’re an adult when your skincare regimen starts taking longer than your makeup routine, but here we are. Welcome to 34, Julia.  I didn’t […]
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January 24, 2020

Casual Friday

Casual Friday: Back in Our Room, Hair Inspo, Taking A Year off from Working Out & More

After 2.5 months, we finally slept in our own bed in our own room last night. Halloween we moved into Faye's room (and Faye moved into the spare bed in Greta's room) and we were told it would be a couple weeks to take out the tray ceiling. But then there was no use in […]
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January 17, 2020
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