Casual Friday
Casual Friday
If you follow along on Instagram, you know that we made some major progress in the girls' room yesterday. The wallpaper went up! Chris got all the lighting installed (we'll talk about that on Monday) and I even figured out a fabric snafu I was having with the bench cushion. It felt like progress and for […]
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November 4, 2016
Casual Friday
Casual Friday
The first half of the week, it seemed like everything was going wrong...or in the very least, nothing was progressing on our projects which can feel frustrating with tight deadlines. But then, boom! Wednesday hit and everything turned around. Our stair railing got done--it feels as if it appeared out of thin air, the countertop […]
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October 21, 2016
Casual Friday
Casual Friday
What a week it has been around here! It's always fun to be deep into a project, like the girls' room, and our readers get invested, too. Thank you so much for all your comments and input on our One Room Challenge, both the bunkbeds and the wardrobes. We're having so much fun seeing this […]
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October 14, 2016
Casual Friday
Casual Friday
Chris and I had a wonderful weekend getaway. We just drove down to Salt Lake, stayed downtown and shopped, ate, slept in, swam! It was bliss. We headed a little farther south to hit up Ikea to pick up wardrobes for the girls' room and ate at Cubby's (above)--a place we always have to eat […]
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October 7, 2016
Casual Friday
Casual Friday
If you follow me on Instagram, the secret is out! We've been asked to participate in the One Room Challenge this season! If you aren't familiar with the One Room Challenge it is where 20 design bloggers tackle a room from start to finish in 6 weeks, sharing the progress every Wednesday during the challenge. […]
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September 30, 2016
Casual Friday
Casual Friday
The dining room in the lake house above is one of my favorites in Lauren Leiss's book Habitat, but when it was published in the Washingtonian last month it took my breath away all over again. Every time I look at it, I'm reminded that beautiful does not equal stuff. Every wall doesn't have to have something on it. […]
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September 23, 2016
Casual Friday
Casual Friday
This week I found myself shifting things around in the entry seen above. We moved that large print seen above the bench into the reading room. And if you remember from the video tour we did last week, I had moved the Edward Hopper print that was in the reading room, into the entry and then […]
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September 16, 2016
Casual Friday
An Autumn Stove Top Potpourri + Casual Friday!
Earlier this week, I shared my favorite fall candles, but Chris loves to whip up a stove top potpourri occasionally. Potpourri's are great if we are having friends or family over with sensitivities to candles or we're having a party with a lot of kids around and the candles might get knocked over or blown out (Faye […]
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September 9, 2016
Casual Friday
Casual Friday
We received an old comment on this post this week. I hadn't read that post since I wrote it so many years ago and as I reread it a few days ago, I couldn't help but tear up being on the other side of that huge trial. How wonderful our home feels with both of […]
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September 2, 2016
Casual Friday
Casual Friday: August 16, 2016
Where do you find inspiration? The General Muir Restaurant in Atlanta, Georgia, designed by Square Feet Studio, not only speaks to me--loudly!--but helped me make a lot of decisions this week, by simply representing a feeling I align my own design sense with. Although it's a restaurant and not a home office or side yard […]
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August 26, 2016
Casual Friday
Casual Friday
School starts next week, and in the evenings, we're already breaking out jackets. But, just when I feel like summer is all but over, I get this image in my inbox of the Pittsburgh kitchen renovation we did with Frigidaire Professional back in June. !!! Recently, photographer, Adam Milliron went over with stylist Quelcy Kogel and […]
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August 19, 2016
Casual Friday
Casual Friday
I love this photo of Faye and Charly so much. They truly adore each other. And, yes, Charly is a very good sport. But, besides Greta and Faye, she is more of an adult dog. Screaming, running kids freaks her out which usually scares the kids. She's never bitten anyone, ever. But when a 160 pound dog […]
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August 12, 2016
Casual Friday
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It's been 2.5 years since our last reader survey and did you know we actually need to know the demographics of our audience?! Almost every giveaway we're faced with or project we want to take on, we're asked "Who's your audience?" Although we have a pretty good idea of who you are--we talk about you all the time (all good […]
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August 5, 2016
Casual Friday
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I took the day on Wednesday to get out of the house and go on a hike with my girlfriends. We left early in the morning, before the sun came up, and got home after the kids were in bed. We hiked up the side of a mountain where there were a series of hot springs and […]
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July 29, 2016
Casual Friday
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This week, we're celebrating 3 years in our home. It's borderline confusing for me--How have we lived here for three years?! But on the other hand, it feels very comfortable and when I look back at the changes we have made--we've definitely been here for three years. I am planning to share lots of pictures in […]
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July 22, 2016
Casual Friday
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Sectional / Table / Chairs / Area Rug / Swing / Curtains / Toy Storage Drawers / Pendants / Painting / Mirror / Lamp / Play letters / Blinds Chris and I are making the 8 hour round trip to Ikea this weekend to pick up the parts to make our standing desk. After way too […]
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July 15, 2016
Casual Friday
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JavaScript is currently disabled in this browser. Reactivate it to view this content. It feels like we are in a renovating cyclone right now. While there aren't any huge projects going on, there are a lot of small things that we haven't finished up yet from past large projects. Some of these things I honestly […]
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July 8, 2016
Casual Friday
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How do you wind down at night? Chris's favorite thing to do after a long day of work is to wash his feet in cold water and he's instantly relaxed and refreshed. I love nothing more than to shut my computer, hide my phone, put my hair up and watch a short 20-30 minute show on […]
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July 1, 2016
Casual Friday
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Chris comes from a large family (he's the youngest of 8 kids) and last weekend we had them all over for a BBQ. Everyone was there but one of his brothers who lives across the country and it was almost emotional for me to see our home and deck filled to the brim with family. It's […]
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June 24, 2016
Casual Friday
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S'mores basket | Small Firepit | Loveseat | Weber grill | Grill-top Pizza Oven A few weeks ago, like the day after the deck was done, we had grilled pizza and s'mores with some friends out back and it was a dream. Chris made the best pizza dough ever--with a good chewy bite to it--and we made it in […]
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June 17, 2016
