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Our Exterior House Tour | Fall 2024

North Carolina Home

Our Exterior House Tour | Fall 2024

This year has been the (slightly unexpected) year of our exterior renovation! And, honestly, the house has never felt more us. All the renovations we've done to our "Modern Colonial" North Carolina home feel like they represent the elements that I loved so much about our last house in Idaho. There's this moody exterior with […]
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September 30, 2024

North Carolina Home

Mudroom Exterior Renovation with New Pavers & Plants

North Carolina Home

Mudroom Exterior Renovation with New Pavers & Plants

Our mudroom renovation has been quite the journey... a year-long journey to be exact! One of the factors making this a more complex (and lengthy) project was that it involved significant changes to both the interior and the exterior of the space (if you remember, this was a laundry room before!). After adding an exterior […]
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September 23, 2024

DIY

I Covered a Switch Plate with Wallpaper and Here's How It Went

DIY

I Covered a Switch Plate with Wallpaper and Here's How It Went

Throughout my house, I'm always changing out switch plates to either 1) blend them into the rest of the room or 2) elevate them to reflect other accents in the room. One way to do that is with paintable switch plates. For instance, if your switch plates are on a baseboard where you don’t want […]
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September 2, 2024

DIY

Back in Black: The Front Door Color That Just Works

DIY

Back in Black: The Front Door Color That Just Works

If I could go back in time to over a year ago when I started mocking up colors for my front door, I would have told myself to just try painting the colors on the actual door! It was so much faster for me to paint the front door three times than just thinking about […]
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August 19, 2024

North Carolina Home

All About Our New Front Yard Landscape Lighting

North Carolina Home

All About Our New Front Yard Landscape Lighting

This post is sponsored by Neighborly, Your Hub for Home Services Our neighborhood has a lot of beautiful mature trees, but it can also make the houses, driveways, and streets feel darker at night. Which is great for sleep, but a little nerve-wracking when you're coming home late or leaving the house super early — like […]
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August 15, 2024

North Carolina Home

Turning a Window into a new Exterior Door for the Mudroom

North Carolina Home

Turning a Window into a new Exterior Door for the Mudroom

With every change we make to our house, we're always looking to solve problems and make our home work for us and our family in the most beautiful way we can think up. This time, a door was (literally) opened when we turned a window in the former laundry room/now mudroom into a functional entryway! […]
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August 12, 2024

DIY

Everything You Need to Paint A Front Door

DIY

Everything You Need to Paint A Front Door

I had been itching to paint our front door ever since we had our exterior trim painted back in May. I picked a color (Farrow & Ball De Nimes) and we applied for HOA approval (it's a long process and one we've had to do a lot...) that finally came in a couple weeks ago! […]
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July 13, 2024

Design

Choosing a Wallpaper and Trim Color for Greta's Room

Design

Choosing a Wallpaper and Trim Color for Greta's Room

Greta's room is the bedroom that I always knew would get another round of redesign. We did a few small updates right when we moved in, like updating the flooring and painting the walls as you can see in our last update. It's a beautiful space. But as an official teenager, Greta is over the […]
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June 26, 2024

Other Makeovers

The Hunt is On for a Beach House!

Other Makeovers

The Hunt is On for a Beach House!

A few weeks ago, I shared in Love Letter (sign up here so you don't miss any future revelations!) that I got this overwhelming feeling that I want to design a beach house. It happened while I was snorkeling on a recent trip to Bora Bora, and the colors that I saw just inspired me, […]
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June 10, 2024

Design

Unveiling Our Future Room Renovation Plans

Design

Unveiling Our Future Room Renovation Plans

It's hard to believe we're three years into designing our moody modern traditional home. Sometimes people will ask me, "What are you gonna do when you're done?" I can't think about that yet — I'm not even close! While I feel great about so many rooms in the house, some are still on the "to […]
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May 13, 2024

Design

Our Exterior Window Trim Color Reveal! (And the Whole Process of How We Finally Decided)

Design

Our Exterior Window Trim Color Reveal! (And the Whole Process of How We Finally Decided)

It’s been over a year in the making, but our exterior windows have been replaced and now painted!!! (The interior of the windows are black and the exterior we opted for paintable so we could paint them whatever color we wanted!) I have a slew of photos to show you, and I feel like the […]
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May 5, 2024

House Tours

Our Spring 2024 House Tour in Photos

House Tours

Our Spring 2024 House Tour in Photos

You know you're in April when every week I try to schedule our house tour to be filmed, we get clouds and showers. Plus, our contractors decided to start installing the windows on the same week we wanted to photograph, so we literally were working around ladders. (All the behind-the-scenes drama that you don't see!) […]
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April 26, 2024

House Tours

Our Spring 2024 House Tour Video!

House Tours

Our Spring 2024 House Tour Video!

It's always so much fun to do a house tour video for you to see things you may not catch when looking at photos. It feels like hosting a bunch of friends over to see what you've done to the place — without the clean-up afterwards....only lots and lots beforehand. As much as this house […]
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April 25, 2024

Other Makeovers

Solving a Layout Dilemma: Where to put the bed when the windows are off-center?

Other Makeovers

Solving a Layout Dilemma: Where to put the bed when the windows are off-center?

This post is sponsored by Article Becca, who runs our Good Influence(r) program, came to me with a dilemma: Her bedroom is very long and large — and, as a result, she's not sure about the layout. There are two windows, off center, on one wall and two closets on another wall. She originally positioned […]
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March 28, 2024

Color School

In My Red Era

Color School

In My Red Era

We recently painted the trim and hallway doors the most dramatic shade of red, and I find myself making excuses to pass through this part of our house. It's so rich and romantic and glossy and inspiring. It's like the hallway is wearing lipstick. She's feeling herself :) I can barely remember what it looked […]
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February 5, 2024

budget breakdown

The Evolution of Our Home Gym

budget breakdown

The Evolution of Our Home Gym

Chris and I both have gym memberships, but we still wanted (and get lots of use out of) our home gym. I like to go to the gym early in the morning (like 5 a.m.) when it's not too crowded, and I can have my pick of machines. I've found that going even an hour […]
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January 29, 2024

North Carolina Home

Before and Now: Take a Seat In The Dining Room

North Carolina Home

Before and Now: Take a Seat In The Dining Room

We have lived in this house for 2 1/2 years now, and the dining room has slowly evolved into what it is today. This room has taken many twists and turns since the beginning, and more specifically, we've played an accidental game of musical tables until we found THE one. Suddenly, the dining room feels […]
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December 6, 2023

North Carolina Home

Before and Now: Celebrating the Small Changes in Our Primary Bedroom

North Carolina Home

Before and Now: Celebrating the Small Changes in Our Primary Bedroom

There are some rooms in our home, like our bedroom, that have changed so gradually over the last two and a half years of living here that we never really do a before and now post. This feeling of needing to add value constantly has unknowingly caused me to dismiss sharing an update of our […]
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October 30, 2023

North Carolina Home

Before & Now: The Transformation of Greta's Room

North Carolina Home

Before & Now: The Transformation of Greta's Room

Back in February of 2022, I said (and I quote), "Greta's room is probably the most under-reported room in our house," and that still stands true. This certainly isn't intentional, but I just haven't been able to give it as much time and attention as it deserves. YET... Here's how it looked when we moved […]
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October 20, 2023

Decor

Fall Decor in the Bonus Room + Favorite Fall Movies

Decor

Fall Decor in the Bonus Room + Favorite Fall Movies

There's something about the kids going back to school that initiates the start of fall for me. I get the itch for cooler weather, cozy blankets, and pumpkins on porches. So, I'm inching my decor toward fall, room by room, to try and inspire some fall spirit. Today, we're visiting the bonus room to play […]
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August 28, 2023
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