DIY
The Honey x Chris Loves Julia Capsule Collection!!
This post is in collaboration with Honey! I was helping my friend shop for hardware for her cabinets last week, and after she put them in her cart, she went to go search for a promo code, and I stopped her in her tracks! "Do you really not have Honey installed?!" In two clicks, we […]
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March 25, 2021
DIY
Reader Poll: How should we stage our office to sell?
One of the major selling points of this house was the large bonus space right off of the entry. We designated it for the Chris Loves Julia office as soon as we saw the house. And over the last two years, as our team has grown, it has shifted into a lot of different configurations […]
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March 16, 2021
DIY
Removing the Wallpaper in the Laundry Room
Some of our readers were really apprehensive about us putting up wallpaper in the playroom, Greta's room, Faye's room, and Polly's room, and usually those people have had terrible experiences with removing wallpaper. Now that we have removed the wallpaper in the laundry room, we completely get it. What a pain! You're kind of at […]
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March 10, 2021
DIY
Painting our interior Doors Black - I can't believe it took us this long
Polly's Room Sources Something that was on our 2021 project list, was to replace all of our interior doors. But the truth is, they are actually really nice solid wood! So we went the more cost effective route and painted all the interior doors. I knew the moment we walked into this house that the […]
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March 10, 2021
DIY
Casual Friday: March 5, 2021
Wall Color: Greenblack by Sherwin Williams, Sectional, Rug, Olive Tree, Curtains We're completely overwhelmed with all of your support about our move and next chapter yesterday. "Thank you" is just not enough. So much positivity and advice and well wishes and suggestions on where we SHOULD move. Haha! The next couple months will be exciting! […]
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March 5, 2021
Decor
Casual Friday: Favorite Ceiling lights under $200, A must-watch show, Success, and more!
Chair (vintage), Wallpaper, Horse Print, Floater Frame, Pennant, Blinds, Accent Stool After Polly's room reveal we got a lot of questions about where the houndstooth thrifted chair that was in her room! No fear! It's in Greta's room now and doesn't it looks so great in there? After we sold the second bed in her room, there's a […]
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February 26, 2021
DIY
Introducing: Our laundry room!! The Before photos and the exciting plans I've been eager to try!
Every time I share our laundry room, or pass by it on Instagram stories, we get a plethora of questions about it. Our laundry room is one of the few rooms in our home that we haven't touched, with the exception of hanging a lantern in here after we moved the chandelier the was in […]
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February 23, 2021
Design
Then and Now: The differences and similarities between our two Primary Bathroom renovations
Shortly before moving into our current home, we had just finished renovating the primary bathroom in our last house. It was hard to say goodbye to such an incredible space, but it really put us in the bathroom mindset and gave us a head-start in knowing what we wanted when it came time to renovate […]
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February 18, 2021
DIY
How is the peel and stick flooring holding up?!
It seems to be only yesterday that we laid peel and stick tile over the girls bathroom floor. Anybody else? In reality, 5 months have flown by, and they have been put to the ultimate test so we thought it was time to spill the details - the answer to everyone’s burning question, “how is […]
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February 11, 2021
DIY
Project Rewind - My Favorite Takeaways from the 6 Kitchens We have renovated!
With our upcoming kitchen remodel (our number one project on our 2021 to-do list), we've had kitchens on our minds. So I thought it would be fun to look back at the 6 kitchens we've renovated and documented in the past and revisit them and maybe even pick out a few things (if any) I […]
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February 10, 2021
Art
5 Tips for Hanging a Collected Vintage Gallery Wall
You can find all of our bathroom sources here! One of the most asked questions is, "How do I put together an organic, vintage gallery wall?" We shared the family photo gallery wall we did in our hallway right here, but the gallery wall in our bathroom was different. Did you sense that, too? The […]
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February 1, 2021
DIY
7 Goals for Organizing my Toddler's Closet
This post is sponsored by Walmart Every week, I've been trying to tackle and organize one storage space in our house and this week, it was all about Polly's closet. None of our girls have a dresser in their rooms so we store all of their clothes, shoes, seasonal gear and extra sheets in their […]
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January 28, 2021
DIY
The ProperTee Office and Warehouse Reveal!
In our 2020 roundup, I slipped in the fact that we moved our apparel line, ProperTee, "in house" and renovated a warehouse and the office space attached to it to set up shop. Although it was casually said, it was actually a HUGE deal and we're super proud of it. And honestly, it deserves its […]
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January 22, 2021
DIY
Hiring Contractors vs DIY: Breaking down the Pros and Cons
These past 19 months since moving into this house have been big. Bigger than we anticipated when we moved here - perhaps bigger than we would have knowingly taken on, so it's probably good we didn't know what we were getting ourselves into. Ha! But as the projects came up and we decided to just […]
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January 18, 2021
DIY
Quest for the Best Gold Spray Paint
One of our most popular blog posts to date (like...ever) was when we tested to find the best gold spray paint and it was due for an update because the pictures aren't great and we (I) only tested 4 spray paints. Ahh, the early days of blogging. Luckily, this was a fun little experiment […]
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January 14, 2021
Decor
Before and After: Faye's Real Life Princess Room
This post is sponsored by Honey Faye's room is done and we're so excited to share a bunch of photos and a video with you today! I would say out of all the rooms in our home, we can feel this room's transformation the most. Although the bones were good to start with (see the […]
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January 7, 2021
DIY
The Painting Projects we tackled over the break
One of my Christmas presents this year was getting our ceilings painted (finally!) in the entry and all down the hallways. All of the ceilings and walls in our home were painted a gray color (before we bought the home) and although most of the walls have been painted in the main area, there was […]
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January 6, 2021
DIY
The 24 Projects We Got Done in 2020!
At the beginning of the year, we laid out the projects we wanted to get done in 2020 and proclaimed we'd rather not be living through a renovation for 10 years (aka, we were putting the gas on this!). Some we didn't get to (the kitchen/pantry/mudroom), but everything else we checked off and then some--the […]
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December 21, 2020
DIY
The Exterior of Our Home, Today
As the end of 2020 nears, we're working to close out a handful of projects before taking a break to spend time as a family and really enjoy our first Christmas Season living in our home full time (you may remember this time last year, when we were living in a hotel as our windows, […]
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December 15, 2020
DIY
A Ceiling treatment and box trim in Our Daughter's Bedroom!
Finish carpentry, though slow and enigmatic, is the definition of "craft." It really makes a room special, and we knew from the very beginning of our life in this home that we wanted every room to have some kind of special trim, moulding, paneling etc. that makes it feel like more than just a space […]
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December 14, 2020
