Projects
Our Baby's Sleep Formula (and Adding Blackout Curtains to the Nursery)
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
Projects
Adding Marble Flooring to the Master Bathroom
Projects
Adding Marble Flooring to the Master Bathroom
Our bathroom floor is installed, heated, grouted and I’m over-the-moon with the outcome. When we were deciding what we wanted to do for our bathroom floors, once it clicked that our shower shouldn’t be marble (but a beautiful, varied green tile), it was clear our floors should be marble. I really envisioned something large format […]
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May 9, 2018
Projects
The Discovery We Made in the Reading Nook at the Cabin
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
Projects
The Start of Our First Project at the A-Frame | FrogTape® Paintover Challenge™ Week 1
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
Projects
10 Tips for Living Through a Home Renovation
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
Projects
New Abstract Art In the Bedroom
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
Projects
Our Master Bathroom Renovation, 2 Weeks In: On Plumbing and Choosing the Right Fixtures, Heights, Valves & Drains
Projects
Our Master Bathroom Renovation, 2 Weeks In: On Plumbing and Choosing the Right Fixtures, Heights, Valves & Drains
This Master Bathroom project is a doozy! The beauty of DIY is, in many cases, you can figure things out as you go. You do the work when you have the time, or you order the materials as you get the money, or you take it step-by-step and eventually see it all come together. This […]
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April 18, 2018
Projects
Our Master Bathroom Renovation, 1 week in: It Gets Worse Before it Gets Better (right?)
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
Projects
The Good, The Bad, Would We Do It Again?
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
Projects
To Baby Gate, or Not? (Plus, 18 Stylish Baby Gates)
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
Projects
How to Drill into Tile To Hang A Shower Curtain
DIY
How to Drill into Tile To Hang A Shower Curtain
Drilling into freshly laid tile is a little bit scary, even for seasoned DIYers like us. In fact, last year after we finished the girls' bathroom, we thought we'd bypass the whole project and just put a tension shower rod up and call it good. Fast forward and every two weeks since finishing, we were […]
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March 29, 2018
Projects
DIY Simple Easter Decor | Staining Wood Easter Eggs!
DIY
DIY Simple Easter Decor | Staining Wood Easter Eggs!
This post is sponsored by Minwax. Over the past year, we've really made an effort to simplify the decor in our home and that means holiday decor, too! While we generally go all out for Halloween (we host a big party every year), this past Christmas we went really simple with the decorations and I'm […]
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March 27, 2018
Projects
Voice-Enabled Lighting For the Bedroom
DIY
Voice-Enabled Lighting For the Bedroom
We've made a few lighting updates in the past couple months in our bedroom that aren't, maybe, as obvious as the new paint color, or rug, or bedding we've shared--but they have really changed the way our bedroom functions for us--I couldn't not share them. As always, lighting changes everything. The first thing we added was […]
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March 26, 2018
Projects
Small Bathroom Renovation How-To Videos
DIY
Small Bathroom Renovation How-To Videos
You may recall a few months ago when we helped our friends renovate their bathroom in about a week for $3000. It was a fun project that we did with Lowe's, and we absolutely love how it turned out. You can read about the project here, but this is what their bathroom looked like after […]
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March 14, 2018
Projects
Our Primary Bedroom Refresh
Decor
Our Primary Bedroom Refresh
This post is sponsored by Loloi. Over the last couple months, we've been slowly giving our bedroom a makeover. And although we're not completely done yet, I'm excited to give you a more pulled back view of our "new" light and serene room. After 3+ years of living (and loving) sleeping with dark walls, we […]
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March 13, 2018
Projects
Weekend Sales! March 10, 2018
DIY
Weekend Sales! March 10, 2018
This cute bathroom is from Sunny Circle Studio. We just ordered these same mirrors for our master bathroom and they are on sale right now! Rejuvenation: Mirror Sale - save 20% Target: 30% off bed & bath World Market: Dining Sale - save up to 60% Overstock: Semi-Annual Sale - save up to 70% […]
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March 10, 2018
Projects
The Master Bathroom Mood Board!
Inspiration
The Master Bathroom Mood Board!
It feels like a big day around here. After so much planning and preparation and mulling over photos and looking at samples and making so many decisions (and going back and forth on those decision)--we finally have the mood board for the master bathroom! And 99% of of it has been ordered and is on […]
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March 7, 2018
Projects
The First Video Tour of our A-Frame Cabin
DIY
The First Video Tour of our A-Frame Cabin
While we shared before photos of our new cabin back in November (check out those here), we realized we never took or shared a before video tour of the A-frame we bought last Fall. So last week, we drove up for that specific purpose. It's a quick hour to get there and the drive is […]
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March 5, 2018
Projects
Shopping For Stone For Our Bathroom (And What We Decided On!)
DIY
Shopping For Stone For Our Bathroom (And What We Decided On!)
Confession: We've never shopped for stone for countertops--ever. It has always felt like this super expensive, intimidating process. But for our bathroom, we're trying to do a lot of things we haven't done before: hire a contractor, shop for stone, design a custom vanity--and it's exciting! The first task in picking out our stone was actually […]
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March 1, 2018
Projects
Why Go "Smart" With Garage Door Openers
DIY
Why Go "Smart" With Garage Door Openers
This post is sponsored by Genie®. Last week we talked about our garage and how we'll be taking this space on over the next couple months. We shared the installation of our new garage doors, and now we're ready to show you the other part of that project - the openers. Since moving in to […]
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February 28, 2018
