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Idaho Rambler

The Deck, One Year Later + What's Still to Come!

Idaho Rambler

The Deck, One Year Later + What's Still to Come!

Almost exactly one year ago, the deck as a structure was complete! It's been a wonderful addition to our home and we can barely remember life before it. But I figured it was time to check in on it again (before the stars come out, that is) since we've had a few new additions this […]
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June 7, 2017

Idaho Rambler

A Sweet, Serene and Sophisticated Nursery! | One Room Challenge - The REVEAL

Idaho Rambler

A Sweet, Serene and Sophisticated Nursery! | One Room Challenge - The REVEAL

For the last six weeks, we've been working on a nursery for the little girl we're expecting this summer and today we're so excited to share with you what it looks like now! This is our second time participating in the One Room Challenge (last time, we coincidentally tackled a bedroom for our other two daughters) and we're […]
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May 10, 2017

Idaho Rambler

How We Got Here: The Great Room

Idaho Rambler

How We Got Here: The Great Room

I love sharing before and after transformations of an area of our home under the hashtag #cljtransformations on Instagram (The new swipe feature has made the them even more fun), but rarely do here for some reason. This weekend, I pulled out my camera, referred to our before photos so I could match angles, and […]
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March 21, 2017

Decor

A Guest Room Update + Our Favorite Things to Include

Decor

A Guest Room Update + Our Favorite Things to Include

This post is sponsored by The Bouqs Co. Enjoy 20% site wide, for a limited time, with the promo code at the bottom of the post! Over the last few days, we've been working to get our guest room in shape for our family that is arriving this Friday for the holidays! You can see all the […]
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December 15, 2016

Idaho Rambler

A Half-bath refresh

Idaho Rambler

A Half-bath refresh

Earlier this year, I was asked to be a part of IKEA’s Ambassador program, which was the easiest “yes!” If you’ve been reading for any amount of time, you probably have caught on, we’re long-time IKEA fans. Not only did we use their cabinets for our kitchen (and the Pittsburgh kitchen), there is an IKEA […]
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December 1, 2016

DIY

A Dark Shiplap Accent Wall for under $75!

DIY

A Dark Shiplap Accent Wall for under $75!

We can't thank you enough for all your love on the reveal of our girls' room yesterday. It was so much work, but it was wonderful to see so many of you enjoyed following along and the end result as much as we loved sharing it. Today, we wanted to share all the details about […]
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November 10, 2016

Design

The Reveal! A Shared Girls' Room Complete with Built-In Bunks | One Room Challenge: Week 6

Design

The Reveal! A Shared Girls' Room Complete with Built-In Bunks | One Room Challenge: Week 6

Designing and building this room over the past 6 weeks with Chris has been a lot of hard work and late nights but most of all, a complete pleasure and an experience we'll remember forever. But even before Linda asked us to be a part of the One Room Challenge (we're so grateful!), we thought […]
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November 9, 2016

Idaho Rambler

Our Kitchen: One Year Later

Idaho Rambler

Our Kitchen: One Year Later

It's been a whole year since we finished our kitchen renovation (how!?) so we thought it would be fun to share how it looks today (not all that different) and how it has been wearing, as well as, some additions we've made and things we're thinking about changing or would do differently. 1. What's new? There have […]
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September 27, 2016

Design

Fall 2016 Video House Tour!

Design

Fall 2016 Video House Tour!

Once or twice a year, we like to film a video house tour. It started out as something for us, to keep a moving record of our progress--nothing is more fun/depressing than watching the first one. But sharing it with all of you has become equally rewarding. You get to see how the rooms in […]
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September 8, 2016

DIY

The Office Wall Treatment is Finished!

DIY

The Office Wall Treatment is Finished!

Today, we're excited to share our updated office walls. As a reminder, we're turning the 5th bedroom in our basement into a home office/studio space. We haven't done anything to that bedroom room since moving in, so it's especially fun to give life to a room that's been a bit of a wasted space the past three […]
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August 22, 2016

DIY

Before And After: Our Basement Family Room is Finished!

DIY

Before And After: Our Basement Family Room is Finished!

Before and After days are always fun around here, and this one is especially sweet since we have been working on our family room in the basement for at least 8 months, a surprising amount of time when I went back to see when we started. Now, we're calling it done (for now, I just can […]
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August 8, 2016

Decor

Before and After: Little Girls' room goes Tween + a Bedding Giveaway!

Decor

Before and After: Little Girls' room goes Tween + a Bedding Giveaway!

My nieces, Anna and Elsie ages 12 and 8, have shared a room their entire lives and a queen bed for the past 6 years. It works well for them and their family of 6 kids. But lately, although their room was nice, they have been expressing to their parents (and to cool Aunt Julia […]
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June 28, 2016

DIY

Before and After: A Small, Pittsburgh Kitchen Gets A Complete Makeover in 6 Days

DIY

Before and After: A Small, Pittsburgh Kitchen Gets A Complete Makeover in 6 Days

My aunt and uncle's home in Pittsburgh is more than 90 years old and full of character, but the kitchen, like so many other kitchens, definitely had its fair share of challenges: the small 9x9 footprint, the outdated electrical, the radiator in the corner, no dishwasher, the in-swinging door that hindered so much usable space, the lack […]
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June 20, 2016

Idaho Rambler

Our Finished Deck!

Idaho Rambler

Our Finished Deck!

Our deck is done! Our deck is done! We've been enjoying our outdoors for, what feels like, the first time since we moved here over 2 years ago. Today, I'm excited to share with you a bunch of photos, cost breakdown (while we paid for the sub-structure and labor, Trex supplied the decking, but we'll add […]
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June 2, 2016

Other Makeovers

Before and After Fireplace: From Squatty to Stacked Stone

Other Makeovers

Before and After Fireplace: From Squatty to Stacked Stone

Opportunities outside our home, to pay our time and sponsorships forward to our readers and friends are becoming more frequent and we couldn't be more excited about that. In all actuality, it feels like we've been working on this blog thing for the past 7 years to get to a point where we could help […]
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April 28, 2016

Other Makeovers

Lowe's Spring Makeover Afters: A Modern Lake House Entry/Sitting Room

Other Makeovers

Lowe's Spring Makeover Afters: A Modern Lake House Entry/Sitting Room

When we first saw the Freeman's application for the Lowe's Spring Makeover, we were immediately drawn to it. Although dark and dated, it felt warm and charming and there was definitely evidence that they had already poured their own sweat into the adjacent dining and tv room even though they had just moved in a […]
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April 18, 2016

DIY

The Finished Pantry!

DIY

The Finished Pantry!

The pantry is complete and I'm sharing a bunch of photos today! We actually finished it a couple weeks ago, and it has been a dream to have and use. It signifies the completion of a year of hard work and transformation in our home, but specifically this corner of the home. The best way […]
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November 11, 2015

DIY

A New Table + The Dining Room Before & Afters!

DIY

A New Table + The Dining Room Before & Afters!

We got ourselves a new dining room table! When we shared the before and afters of our kitchen renovation, so many of you wanted to see how the rest of the great room worked into the new kitchen, specifically the dining room since they are so close in proximity. At the time, we were in […]
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October 28, 2015

DIY

Before & After: We have a (Finished!) Coat Closet!

DIY

Before & After: We have a (Finished!) Coat Closet!

When we shared our laundry room before and afters, so many people wondered, well…what's on the other side of the room? Oh you mean on the other side of this?? (See all the before and afters of the laundry room here) We conveniently left those pictures out, because, well, it looked like this: Avert your […]
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October 6, 2015

DIY

It's Done! : The Full Kitchen Reveal

DIY

It's Done! : The Full Kitchen Reveal

The day has come! Our kitchen renovation is finished 7 weeks after we started tearing out our old tile countertops and I can't wait to share with you photos of what it looks like today. I've put all the sources at the bottom of the post for your convenience. When we moved into our home […]
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September 23, 2015
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