Casual Friday
Casual Friday
Earlier this week, Chris and I went to lunch and got to talking about our house. The conversation turned into some interesting/quirky facts about it that I'm sure we'll share in a future post one day. But the funniest one, that we are reminded of almost daily, is when we hung wallpaper in the entry, we […]
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March 24, 2017
Casual Friday
Casual Friday + Facebook Live Today!
We'll be doing our first Facebook Live today at 11:15am MST, shopping for our new mattress! Join us here. This week got off to a rough start as we dealt with serious hackers from Japan. Within a matter of minutes, our site was redirected to a Japanese audience, they had set up shops under hidden […]
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March 17, 2017
Casual Friday
Casual Friday + President's Day Deals!
The new rug for the living room arrived this week (more on Monday!) and we love it so much. We got a lot of inquiries about purchasing our blue rug, but we rolled it up and put it in storage for now because we still love it so much, too, and will likely use it in the future somewhere. […]
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February 17, 2017
Casual Friday
Casual Friday
Many of you have noticed things have been different around here for awhile. We're still getting multiple emails and questions every day wondering when our post schedule is going to get back to its normal Monday-Friday. First, we couldn't be more grateful that we have such a strong and loyal readership that we get to share our […]
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February 10, 2017
Casual Friday
Where We're Headed for the Lowe's Spring Makeover + Casual Friday
Thank you for your patience this week as we read through all 2648 of your submissions for the Lowe's Spring makeover. We took our task really seriously and ultimately landed on the space above, belonging to Aura S. of Baltimore, Maryland. We're excited to share plans and progress and Instagram the project in real time when […]
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February 3, 2017
Casual Friday
Casual Friday
Can you spot the ghost in that photo?? (Haha) This week has been so filled, it's hard to know where to start. There have been some low points, like when we learned Greta was effectively deaf...again. We've been through this with her poor little ears when she was two, and unfortunately, although it's something a lot […]
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January 20, 2017
Casual Friday
Casual Friday
We always get emails about magazines or websites wanting permission to use photos of our home, and needing a high res version. Which means, I often get to revisit "older" versions of spaces in our home. Sometimes, I show them a more finished version of the room and they want that photo instead, but every once […]
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January 13, 2017
Casual Friday
Casual Friday
All the schools have been cancelled in the area the past two days (except the University) because of extreme cold weather. -25 to be exact. Greta was thrilled, even if she only started school again after the break on Tuesday! Ha! I still had a doctor's appointment to go to and the inside of the door […]
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January 6, 2017
Casual Friday
Casual Friday
JavaScript is currently disabled in this browser. Reactivate it to view this content. It's hard to believe there's essentially one work week left of the busiest, most surprising year of our lives. Although I've been blogging for nearly 8 years, it has changed so much every year and there have been many times where I […]
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December 16, 2016
Casual Friday
Casual Friday
A couple weeks ago, we got to make Christmas cookies with the girls and yesterday we shared our favorite recipe and a few photos over on Crate and Barrel's blog. Over the years we have learned it's not about the way the cookies taste (they WILL have too much frosting), or how they look (really, […]
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December 9, 2016
Casual Friday
Casual Friday
We left last Monday night, the 21st, for Florida to spend Thanksgiving with Chris's brother and family. It was an amazing time filled with food, that warm sun, swimming, and, yes, we took the girls to Disney World, too. We got home Wednesday night and these two went straight for their bunkbeds. There were a few questions […]
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December 2, 2016
Casual Friday
Casual Friday
Chris and I just got back from a 24 hour getaway and I'm feeling all sorts of refreshed and re-engerized. It was our 8th anniversary on Tuesday and we were both too busy finishing up projects and the one room challenge and watching the election to really celebrate. So as soon as the reveal went […]
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November 11, 2016
Casual Friday
Casual Friday
If you follow along on Instagram, you know that we made some major progress in the girls' room yesterday. The wallpaper went up! Chris got all the lighting installed (we'll talk about that on Monday) and I even figured out a fabric snafu I was having with the bench cushion. It felt like progress and for […]
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November 4, 2016
Casual Friday
Casual Friday
The first half of the week, it seemed like everything was going wrong...or in the very least, nothing was progressing on our projects which can feel frustrating with tight deadlines. But then, boom! Wednesday hit and everything turned around. Our stair railing got done--it feels as if it appeared out of thin air, the countertop […]
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October 21, 2016
Casual Friday
Casual Friday
What a week it has been around here! It's always fun to be deep into a project, like the girls' room, and our readers get invested, too. Thank you so much for all your comments and input on our One Room Challenge, both the bunkbeds and the wardrobes. We're having so much fun seeing this […]
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October 14, 2016
Casual Friday
Casual Friday
Chris and I had a wonderful weekend getaway. We just drove down to Salt Lake, stayed downtown and shopped, ate, slept in, swam! It was bliss. We headed a little farther south to hit up Ikea to pick up wardrobes for the girls' room and ate at Cubby's (above)--a place we always have to eat […]
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October 7, 2016
Casual Friday
Casual Friday
If you follow me on Instagram, the secret is out! We've been asked to participate in the One Room Challenge this season! If you aren't familiar with the One Room Challenge it is where 20 design bloggers tackle a room from start to finish in 6 weeks, sharing the progress every Wednesday during the challenge. […]
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September 30, 2016
Casual Friday
Casual Friday
The dining room in the lake house above is one of my favorites in Lauren Leiss's book Habitat, but when it was published in the Washingtonian last month it took my breath away all over again. Every time I look at it, I'm reminded that beautiful does not equal stuff. Every wall doesn't have to have something on it. […]
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September 23, 2016
Casual Friday
Casual Friday
This week I found myself shifting things around in the entry seen above. We moved that large print seen above the bench into the reading room. And if you remember from the video tour we did last week, I had moved the Edward Hopper print that was in the reading room, into the entry and then […]
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September 16, 2016
Casual Friday
An Autumn Stove Top Potpourri + Casual Friday!
Earlier this week, I shared my favorite fall candles, but Chris loves to whip up a stove top potpourri occasionally. Potpourri's are great if we are having friends or family over with sensitivities to candles or we're having a party with a lot of kids around and the candles might get knocked over or blown out (Faye […]
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September 9, 2016
