Projects
The 9 Room Reveals we shared in 2023
This year, we didn't tackle all of the projects that hoped to (you can see our project predictions in this post), but we did manage to squeak out NINE reveals. Some of these were off-site. Some were small makeovers and some were larger scale. Let's dive in and see how many you remember, and maybe […]
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December 22, 2023
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
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
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
Idaho Rambler
Before and After: A Bathroom Turned Laundry Room
I am so thrilled to be sharing some after photos with you today of our laundry room we have been renovating. This project has been one of our favorite and a very new kind of project, because it wasn't a laundry room to begin with at all. Maybe you remember, it used to be a […]
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July 22, 2015
DIY
Before and After: Pugmire Laundry Room
The Pugmire's laundry room is done and today we're here to share a bunch of photos with you! For those of you just catching up, we were approached by Wayfair last month about sponsoring our laundry room renovation. Although our own laundry room is on our list this year (and ironically got semi-started throughout this […]
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February 23, 2015
Decor
The Guest Room is Finished!
We finished the guest room just in time for my sister, Victoria, to arrive last Saturday and we've been partying ever since. Maybe you've seen us on Instagram? Amidst the festivities, I found time to photograph the room for you that will be pulling a double shift this month with Chris's brother's family visiting in […]
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July 10, 2014
DIY
Hardware + The Kitchen Mini-Revamp is Done!
Wednesday night, we stayed up late and put all of our new hardware on the newly painted cabinets. A lot of our old knobs were bent or broken so we gave them to my parents since they don't have hardware on their cabinets now and have about half as many cabinets as we have so […]
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June 6, 2014
Decor
Faye's Nursery Reveal!
We finally finished the nursery and are excited to share a lot of photos with you today! It's hard to believe we started working on the this room back in December and here we are five months later with a one month old. This room is a great mix of DIY projects (like the huge […]
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May 7, 2014
DIY
Faux Wood Tile: The After Photos!
We're so excited to share with you our finished floors today! Replacing almost all of the flooring on our main floor (we opted out of doing our master bath since we'll be tackling a full renovation in there next year) was daunting beforehand, a lot of work during, but now we're on the other side […]
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March 31, 2014
DIY
Half Bath: Afters!
We're calling this bathroom done! ... For now. We still need to replace the faucet and eventually the tile floors, but those things will come. You can see lots of befores in this post, but here's a before and after side by side (and lots of photos following with sources at the end): The lines […]
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November 4, 2013
DIY
Our House: Where we Started and Now.
We moved into our very first home April 2, 2011, and we're moving out officially on Wednesday (although we're loading everything up tonight--different post for a different day). Although we didn't "finish" the house, we thought it would be fun to go back through and look at before and afters of the spaces we did […]
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July 29, 2013
DIY
The Kitchen: Before and Afters!
This kitchen has been two years in the making, constantly tweaking what we had (painting cabinets, painting countertops!, buying new appliances as we could afford them) until we were ready for a little bit more of a renovation a couple months ago. Here's what it looked like when we moved in: And here's how it […]
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July 24, 2013
DIY
Before and After: Master Bathroom.
Before we left to house hunt, we were working on finishing a few projects. Namely, the master bathroom and the kitchen backsplash. The master bath revamp was done on a budget. Like $200, budget. Here's how it looked when we moved in...and, well, for the last two years #yikes: And here's how it looks now: […]
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July 22, 2013
DIY
Our Walnut Countertops--Sanded, Sealed and Finished!
Those black walnut countertops we got from Craft Art are officially done and we can't wait to share a little bit about the process and a whole lot of photos with you today. First, here's how our painted countertops looked before we tore them out: And here's how the countertops look now: I'm whistling at […]
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April 12, 2013
DIY
Before And After: Greta's Big Girl Room
Today is the monumental day when we call Greta's "big girl room" done-zo. We have been working on it since the end of November. And now, four months later, we are so happy our girl has a beautiful room that makes her (and us) happy. It's warm and playful and calm and fitting for Greta […]
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March 26, 2013
DIY
An Easy Closet for Greta Part III: It's Finished!
Greta's closet is complete (!!) and we're stoked to share with you the outcome with lots and lots of pictures today. That's the same closet. That's the sa-ame closet! I'm going to say we helped it rise to its full potential. I'm also going to say that "before" photo is embarrassing. I am hanging my […]
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March 15, 2013
DIY
The Reveal: Family Room Before and Afters.
This post has been a long time coming. It was February, nine months ago (!), when we decided that we wanted/needed to completely renovate our family room. We installed new carpet, baseboards, built-ins, bought new furniture, installed recessed lighting and even a new window! This has really been the room of the year, and while […]
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November 14, 2012
DIY
Laundry Room/Half Bath Before and Afters
I'm glad we took the weekend to finish up the laundry room. That plumbing took Chris a little while to figure out--but he did it (!!) and having a new sink and faucet and all around easier-on-the-eyes room has made such a difference. Like every other before and after, it is fun to look at […]
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October 22, 2012
DIY
Stale Nursery to Lively Studio Reveal!!
The studio is done (!!) and now we get to marvel at how far we have come and pat ourselves on the back for making some seriously great decisions along the way. This was the perfect space to collaborate with you readers. We had a great time (although, admittedly, sometimes nerve-wrecking) seeing what you would […]
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June 20, 2012
