DIY
Installing our IKEA Pax Wardrobes (plus, Tips for Planning and Shopping for Pax!)
The last time we talked about our closet, we showed you our plans to install IKEA's Pax system. We used their planner online--which is a lifesaver for so many reasons, but the best part is you can change your mind and change it all around. After our initial plans, we took some of your feedback […]
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July 18, 2018
DIY
How To Make your Grout Look New in an Afternoon for $10
This post is sponsored by Lowe's. We've partnered with them to share how-to's, from easy to elaborate. This one is an easy one! In preparation for summer guests, some of our friends were talking about replacing their tile in one of their bathrooms, because it looked "so dingy". When we looked at it, we realized, […]
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July 12, 2018
DIY
Our Moody A-frame Bedroom with Cozy Layers
We have lots of family coming in from out of town this month, so before Chris and I skip town ourselves tomorrow (we were invited to America's Mart in Atlanta!--will anyone else be there?), we spent yesterday finishing up the main floor bedroom at our cabin (that we actually only half painted and threw a […]
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July 10, 2018
DIY
Designing Our Ikea Closet Might Kill Me.
I need to be honest--we struggled designing our closet. I think we always assumed once we had squared off corners in an open space (something we did during our bathroom renovation), it would just be easy and everything would come together. But then it didn't. It could be that my brain from a lot of […]
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June 28, 2018
DIY
What We're Doing with IGTV!
Have you heard about Instagram's new IGTV platform? We have never gotten super into YouTube, although we have been uploading all of our videos there for years, but our community has never been super active on that platform. When Instagram announced that they were launching a platform that you could upload videos up to an hour to […]
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June 26, 2018
Decor
Our $5 Living Room Make-Under
I've been really craving a lightness in our home lately. I pulled up the Persian rug in the kitchen. I purged half the toy room. I tucked away a lot of baskets of throws and magazines. I took down a few pictures that were hanging on walls. I told Chris, "I just feel like I […]
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June 21, 2018
DIY
DIY Painted Swing Set
This project is sponsored by HANDy Paint Products. Our swingset is painted! At last! Last year we transformed our entire side yard with landscaping, an in-ground trampoline, and this Gorilla playset from Wayfair (read more about that transformation here!). The plan was always to paint over the orange-y cedar, but the project completed early fall, right […]
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June 18, 2018
DIY
A Backyard Makeover in a Weekend
Thank you to Troy-Bilt for sponsoring this backyard makeover, and providing us with a Hedge Trimmer, along with all the attachments you can imagine, to complete this project. If you follow us on Instagram, you probably already know about the backyard makeover we did, but we wanted to share a bit more on that project […]
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June 14, 2018
DIY
Soft Close (and open!) Pocket Doors: Life Changing!
We are nearing the end of our bathroom renovation--just waiting on a few final touches, lights and the glass for the shower enclosure and we can move in! (Truth: I did move some hand soap in so we could stop walking out of our room if we needed to use the restroom and I still do […]
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June 7, 2018
DIY
The Finished Reading Nook at the A-Frame!
This project is in partnership with FrogTape®. They allowed us to choose a small space to makeover and provided us with painting supplies and $1000 to execute our vision. Vote for your favorite here. We're so excited to share the after photos of our cabin reading nook today, as well as the budget breakdown and […]
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May 21, 2018
DIY
Ch-ch-ch-changes on the Deck
This post is sponsored by World Market. Warm weather is here to stay in Idaho now (it's May so I guess it's about time), and a couple weeks ago, we set up our deck for its third season. Like every space in our home, our deck has evolved year to year--which is something that has […]
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May 17, 2018
DIY
Painting and Adding Shelves to the Reading Nook - FrogTape® Paintover Challenge™ Week 2
This project is in partnership with FrogTape®. They allowed us to choose any space to makeover and provided us with painting supplies and $1000 to execute our vision. Last week we showed you our plans for this little nook, then showed you how they changed with the discovery that the ceiling in the nook was actually a […]
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May 14, 2018
DIY
Our Baby's Sleep Formula (and Adding Blackout Curtains to the Nursery)
This post is sponsored by Conair. I've touched on it before, but we're serious about sleep at our house. We start getting our girls on sleep schedules at 6 weeks--it's not always an easy process--but once they get it, they're set for life. Ours really thrive on lots of sleep and so do Chris and […]
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May 10, 2018
DIY
The Discovery We Made in the Reading Nook at the Cabin
Yesterday Jules mentioned a little surprise we discovered at the cabin that really ended up making the entire FrogTape® Paintover Challenge™ project and this post is about that incredible discovery. As a reminder, here’s a look at the space we’re doing. As we've worked on this project, we discovered a couple things about this cabin. […]
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May 8, 2018
DIY
The Start of Our First Project at the A-Frame | FrogTape® Paintover Challenge™ Week 1
This project is in partnership with FrogTape®. They allowed us to choose any space to makeover and provided us with painting supplies and $1000 to execute our vision. We're so excited to share that we have been selected to compete in the FrogTape Paintover Challenge® this year, alongside 5 other talented bloggers! We have been […]
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May 7, 2018
DIY
10 Tips for Living Through a Home Renovation
We're currently remodeling our master bathroom, and by that I mean, we actually hired a team of contractors to do the work (our first time ever doing that!) This bathroom renovation isn't the first major remodel we lived through in our home, in fact--it's our last! But we've only done a couple like it, where […]
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April 23, 2018
Art
New Abstract Art In the Bedroom
A few weeks ago, we shared a big, fat bedroom progress post. It was actually sponsored by Loloi, who provided the rug for our room, and I felt like I needed to have something above our bed for those pictures. So I ran down to the guest room and grabbed my favorite cloud print that we have […]
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April 19, 2018
DIY
Our Master Bathroom Renovation, 1 week in: It Gets Worse Before it Gets Better (right?)
Well, we're a week deep into our bathroom renovation--(the first time we've contracted a crew to do a full job like this in our house) and there's so much to share. Like, first of all, it doesn't look like this anymore. And I don't even miss it (yet)...talk to me in 2 weeks. Those are […]
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April 10, 2018
Design
The Good, The Bad, Would We Do It Again?
Every year, we tally up our most asked about questions regarding things in our home and give you our honest review of them, including the good, the bad, and would we really buy/do it again? In 2017, we covered our (old) living room coffee table that we wouldn't do again and since replaced, the craft […]
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April 9, 2018
DIY
To Baby Gate, or Not? (Plus, 18 Stylish Baby Gates)
We have a crawler, and she's getting fast! Polly is 8 months old now and I actually feel like she might be running before too long. The girl loves to move. She takes after our oldest in that respect. Greta (8) was a mover and an adventurer as a baby. She started climbing out of […]
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April 3, 2018
