North Carolina Home
Our Exterior House Tour | Fall 2024
This year has been the (slightly unexpected) year of our exterior renovation! And, honestly, the house has never felt more us. All the renovations we've done to our "Modern Colonial" North Carolina home feel like they represent the elements that I loved so much about our last house in Idaho. There's this moody exterior with […]
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September 30, 2024
North Carolina Home
Mudroom Exterior Renovation with New Pavers & Plants
Our mudroom renovation has been quite the journey... a year-long journey to be exact! One of the factors making this a more complex (and lengthy) project was that it involved significant changes to both the interior and the exterior of the space (if you remember, this was a laundry room before!). After adding an exterior […]
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September 23, 2024
North Carolina Home
Turning a Window into a new Exterior Door for the Mudroom
With every change we make to our house, we're always looking to solve problems and make our home work for us and our family in the most beautiful way we can think up. This time, a door was (literally) opened when we turned a window in the former laundry room/now mudroom into a functional entryway! […]
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August 12, 2024
updates
Our Backyard Exterior Lighting
Our new exterior lights got installed in the backyard, and I'd like to say that while the backyard ambiance is coming together quite beautifully, even with our newly installed lights it still feels kind of dark. I’m not sure we even have enough light in the backyard to have a party. (Check out our past […]
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August 10, 2022
exterior renovation
How much is all this costing? Plus, 22 of your other Burning Budget Questions around our Renovation
Renovations
How much is all this costing? Plus, 22 of your other Burning Budget Questions around our Renovation
This post is sponsored by YNAB The other day on Instagram, we sent out a call for questions regarding the financials around renovating. There were so many amazing questions, so we tried to grab those most frequently asked (and juicy!) ones, so we can answer them here. We've learned so much over the last 12 […]
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September 21, 2020
Renovations
We're Back! A Big Life & Renovation Update!
There are ups and downs to every job, but I've always said one of the biggest downsides to this job--sharing our home online every day--is that the Internet never sleeps. It doesn't sleep when the baby sleeps or through illnesses or pandemics or summer. It's always there. So occasionally, we have to force ourselves to […]
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July 13, 2020
