before and after
Before and After: A One Day Master Bedroom Makeover and 5 Tips To Transform Your Own!
Decor
Before and After: A One Day Master Bedroom Makeover and 5 Tips To Transform Your Own!
A couple weeks ago, we completed a one-day bedroom makeover for a couple that had been having trouble moving their bedroom from a post-college look to a more sophisticated, grown-up, cozy room. It all started when Ralph Lauren Home reached out and asked us to do an Instagram campaign with their bedding--which could have really […]
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August 8, 2017
Lifestyle
Ep. 43: Mailbag Monday--For Kitchen Noobs, Lighting Woes, Paint Colors and More
In this special Q&A episode, we start off talking about the progress of our big backyard project and how we're charting new territory with it. Julia reveals her neurosis when it comes to their third child's birth date and they open up the mail bag to answer as many of your questions as possible! You […]
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July 31, 2017
DIY
5 Amazing Playhouse / Playset Makeovers!
When we shared our plans for our own backyard play area a couple days ago, and subsequently the initial renderings of how we'd like to paint/makeover the playset we have headed our way--I made the mistake of saying that there's not a lot of great inspiration out there for good-looking outdoor kids' spaces. While there […]
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June 29, 2017
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
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
Design
Before and After: Our Home Office is Finished!
Our home office is done (for now) and we're excited to share the transformation, some details and a few tips and tricks with you today, along with so many photos! The room has actually been 95% there for quite awhile now, but because we were working on it in the very early stages of my […]
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March 9, 2017
Design
That's a Wrap on Guest Room 2.0
Our guest room is finished! We're excited to show you a bunch of photos today and I've linked all the sources at the very bottom of the post for you, too. This was a pretty simple, straightforward makeover with just paint and some new furnishings and accessories mixed in with a few things we already had. We […]
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January 10, 2017
Projects
Our 9 Big Project Before and Afters of 2016!
We hope everyone had a wonderful holiday! While we haven't been actively blogging, we did do some major behind-the-scenes upgrades over the past two weeks, switching hosts and moving to our own dedicated server that will hopefully make the blog quicker and more enjoyable for everyone this year. Every year, we lay out all of […]
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January 3, 2017
Decor
A Few Updates in the Entry
To know me, is to know our entry will never be done. It's alway evolving. So, don't take this post as, the entry reveal. This is more of a--we've made a lot of great updates in the past couple months and here is what it looks like now. The first big change was this long vintage runner […]
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November 22, 2016
before and after
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
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
Progress Report: 3 Years In
This week, we've lived in this home for 3 years. Three! I have been saying two and then Chris reminded me that I was just barely pregnant with Faye when we moved here and she is over 2 years old now--forget the fact that the year was 2013 (haha!), I do better with gauging my […]
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July 26, 2016
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
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
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
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
Before and After: Our New Front Door!
Our new front door is in and we have some photos to share with you today! First I should say that ordering a door online was a bit of a risk. Especially since we wanted a wood-toned one and tones are somewhat hard to read online. But as soon as it got here, we inspected […]
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March 29, 2016
DIY
How To Make An Outdated Fireplace Insert Look Like A Million Bucks
We haven't had a playroom update in some time, but we've made some real progress down there recently. We tore up all the carpet, painted the walls two different colors (I'll share that soon, but there's a peek on Instagram!), bought all the material for our built-ins and over the holiday, we revamped the fireplace. […]
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February 16, 2016
Projects
Yearly Report Card: 2015
We have made it a tradition around here to make a post in the first week of the year about what projects we’d like to get done over the course of the year--2016's is coming up next week! They are our very favorite to look back on (and sometimes laugh about) because although we have a general […]
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December 29, 2015
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
