exterior
Casual Friday: Give me all your road trip tips, our exterior reno in 5 minutes, my fav jeans, the perfect summer dessert and more!
Inspiration
Casual Friday: Give me all your road trip tips, our exterior reno in 5 minutes, my fav jeans, the perfect summer dessert and more!
We're preparing for the cross country trip of our lifetime in 2 weeks where we move from Idaho to Raleigh. Not only am I trying to plan a 5 day road trip with 3 kids that's actually fun and memorable, but I'm also especially sensitive to the fact with each passing hour, we are […]
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June 4, 2021
Idaho Cottage
Our Exterior Reveal + Before and Afters (and the cost)!
Two years ago (almost to the day!), I took the before photos of the exterior of our home and today, I'm excited to share the very last reveal post of our Modern Cottage--the exterior. It was really finished sometime in the winter, but we wanted to wait for things to green up a bit. This […]
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May 26, 2021
Idaho Cottage
Before and After: The Balcony We Added Off Our Primary Suite!!
When we moved into this home, it had a (surprisingly dark) sun room, that we knew from the beginning needed to be a dining room. At the time we had no idea what would be involved in making that happen, but this is where we started: Of course, once we started tearing into the sun […]
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May 4, 2021
Decor
How I decorate seasonally + My Favorite Winter Decor
Last week on Instagram I shared how I gave my home the post-holiday reset it so badly craves at the end of the year. One of my followers actually commented “no winter decor?” It really got me thinking about seasonal decor and how I’m not typically the kind of person to decorate my home seasonally. […]
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January 13, 2021
exterior
Casual Friday: Our Family Grew, Greta's Room, Dining Chairs, The $3 gift I can't stop gifting, 2 favorite skincare picks, and MORE!
Casual Friday
Casual Friday: Our Family Grew, Greta's Room, Dining Chairs, The $3 gift I can't stop gifting, 2 favorite skincare picks, and MORE!
I still haven't sent our Christmas cards out--partly, okay mostly, because they haven't arrived yet--and half of our house is currently covered in plastic because the painters showed up YESTERDAY to paint the entry and Faye's room and the hallway and Polly's room and our ceilings, finally. We're still short a shower door and even […]
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December 18, 2020
DIY
The Exterior of Our Home, Today
As the end of 2020 nears, we're working to close out a handful of projects before taking a break to spend time as a family and really enjoy our first Christmas Season living in our home full time (you may remember this time last year, when we were living in a hotel as our windows, […]
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December 15, 2020
Idaho Cottage
When The Garage Becomes A Highlight of Your Home's Exterior
We purchased our garage doors at a discount from Cambek Designer Doors. All opinions are our own. The cold is rolling in quick here, but our exterior renovation is all but wrapped. We've been so excited to share all these details (like the gas lanterns we shared yesterday) and are ready to keep that rolling […]
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October 28, 2020
Design
Video: Our Fall Exterior House Tour 2020!!
We're VERY close to being finished with our exterior and sharing a bunch of before and after images, but despite being in-progress, we wanted to keep with our tradition of filming an exterior and interior house tour in the fall. (Interior house tour forth-coming!) We were about a week too late filming, because we kept […]
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October 21, 2020
Design
The Stone is Done on our Exterior!
Our exterior is this close to being done. It's been a long PROCESS getting to this point, but we have loved taking you along for the ride in real time on Instagram. Some of the siding (more about our siding here) and trim is still going up and everything needs a second coat of paint--but we've heard […]
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September 29, 2020
Projects
A Master List: What's Left to do on the Exterior??
Several weeks ago, we gave our contractors a hard end-of-September deadline to get the exterior done. We have a large video shoot here at the beginning of October and realistically, it could start snowing at ANY moment here in Idaho and we want to make sure we're sealed up before the weather turns. Our goal […]
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September 3, 2020
DIY
Our Almost-Black Painted Playset!
This week, we worked on a 3-day playset refresh in our backyard and we're all so excited with how it turned out. Our girls are always playing on this playset that was left here (and possibly built by) the previous owners. We gave the playset in our last house a refresh to match our home and we […]
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July 30, 2020
Inspiration
12 Dark Exterior Paint Colors We're Loving--In Action!
We're very close to choosing an exterior paint color. We have gone from wanting something charcoal to deep black and back to charcoal again. We're going to do a trial run of one of these colors today! But I couldn't keep all of our research to myself. Finding exterior photos (good ones!) with paint colors […]
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July 28, 2020
Casual Friday
Casual Friday: Our Demo'd Bathroom!!!, Cottage Inspo, Exterior Paint Colors & More!
Demo on our bathroom happened this week and it was so shocking to see the space after it was completely cleared. I actually gasped. It seems to have grown 10x! My sister was so sure there must have been a wall cheated out somewhere. Our minds just couldn't get around the fact that this huge, open space […]
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July 24, 2020
Design
Our Exterior Siding Decisions that might Surprise you!
Last week we met with our contractors to decide once and for all what siding we were going for on our house and my goodness, there were a lot of decisions. The original design plan called for James Hardie Aspyre siding but our contractors encouraged us to look into LP SmartSide. Normally, I would 100% […]
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July 20, 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
House Tours
Our first ever: Exterior House Tour!
Yesterday we shared the plans for the exterior of our home, but one request we consistently get is to share more of our property! We figured now would be a fun time to share that, plus a little view of the current state of our home's exterior since it's about to change! We live […]
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May 27, 2020
Design
Studio McGee's Design Plan for our Exterior!
The day has come. About a month ago, we announced that we had hired a designer for the first time--specifically STUDIO MCGEE (!!!!) to design our exterior. Below you can see our exterior as it looked when we first purchased our home in June 2019. During our renovation over the fall/winter, our contractor found that […]
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May 26, 2020
Projects
Our New Backyard Firepit!
This post is sponsored by Walmart Outside of the double dining room doors (those have existed from the beginning), we now have a gorgeous gas firepit area. It’s something we dreamed up and designed last year, sketched out and recently had installed by a local landscaping company, (Outback landscape for you locals). This is on […]
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May 22, 2020
Projects
Why we hired a designer for the first time
After a eight-month renovation to our new home, we were looking forward to a little downtime. We planned a summer of projects we could DIY. And with our house structurally where we want it, and we were excited to get our hands dirty making all of the inspiration we've gathered into a reality. And then […]
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April 20, 2020
exterior
Casual Friday: The week we found mold covering our exterior, the Oneders!, Our Closet MVP and Vanity + More
Casual Friday
Casual Friday: The week we found mold covering our exterior, the Oneders!, Our Closet MVP and Vanity + More
After nearly finishing the first phase of our renovation just last month, I felt like I needed a bit of a mental break before diving into something else huge. I know most people wouldn't consider DIYing a closet renovation a "break." But it really has been that for us. (BTW, this DeWalt Gyroscopic Screwdriver has been […]
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April 17, 2020
