Decor
Molded Plastic Chairs for Every Style and Budget (and In Our Dining Room, Too!)
Over the holiday break, we got new dining room chairs! We were hosting my whole family on the 26th and our old dining set we bought when we got married was in rough shape. The table has scratches and paint on it, but even worse, the chairs were starting to break and a couple cross […]
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January 7, 2015
Sourcing & Planning
Wood Dipped Bench + $100 Giveaway!
We got this bench a while ago, and refinished it beautifully and it sat in our last home just fine. And then we moved here and somehow it got put outside one day and then it just stayed there day after day until it looked like this: So sad. The funny thing is, as worn […]
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July 1, 2014
DIY
DIY Industrial Step Stool
Greta is at that magic age, where she is actually capable of helping out in the kitchen--washing the grapes and picking them off the stems, making her own peanut butter banana, helping Chris by dumping ingredients into the bowl, and her current favorite (that takes place in the kitchen sink) is helping with Faye's bath. […]
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June 19, 2014
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A Nursery Update and The Graham Glider Review
The nursery is still progressing at snail speed, but even at that rate we should finish it up this weekend and hope to have lots of pictures for you by the beginning of next week. I am sticking to my goal of hanging one thing a day (lofty, I know!) and this week I've hung […]
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May 1, 2014
Decor
A Nursery Glider / Rocker at Every Budget
This weekend I went into a bit of a panic when I realized that the rocker I have been eyeing could take 10 weeks to arrive and this baby (Greta decided to call her "Lemon" this weekend) is due to arrive before then. Oy. And then I started looking around more and I was overwhelmed […]
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February 10, 2014
Decor
The Beaumont Coffee Table
It's interesting moving into a new house and trying to make your not-so-old (actually pretty new!) furniture work. Our living room has 99 problems and the coffee table was definitely one. One that we felt like we could address before adding a fireplace and window--which we still hope to do within the year. The coffee […]
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October 31, 2013
Decor
The Lily has Landed
What can I say, yesterday was like Christmas. Our countertops arrived--more on that tomorrow, exclamation point--and our new couch arrived. Our "old" one, the Klippan from Ikea, we have had for about two years. Ikea discontinued this longer model and all the slipcovers that accompanied it and we were ready to invest in a higher […]
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April 3, 2013
Decor
The Lily and Lessons In Chronic Couch Purchases
We have been married almost 4.5 years and we just bought our sixth couch to replace this one (that is still needing a new home): We knew this Klippan wasn't going to be a forever couch, or even a 10-year couch when we bought it--but I never imagined we would be on number six. Granted, […]
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March 12, 2013
Decor
The Bed (And Gold Dot Sheets) Has Landed.
We spent a portion of our new year's day doing something we have been itching to cross off our list. Hint. Big hint: We moved Greta's vintage twin bed from storage to her room and moved her crib-turned-toddler bed out. New Year. New bed. No more binky? One thing at a time! But let me […]
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January 2, 2013
Inspiration
A Colorful Couch--Would You?
Our hunt has officially begun for a new sofa for the living room. We always knew the Klippan was temporary. We had just bought a house and had next to no furniture, so shelling out $400 for a couch that took up a lot of room was just what we needed then. Now, we are […]
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October 9, 2012
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This Little Couch of Ours
Our Ikea Klippan 4-seater couch is turning out to be not quite the easy-peasy couch we thought it was when we bought it last year. Granted, it was only $400, which is in no way pocket change, but for a 4-person couch. It doesn't get much cheaper. In that $400, was also included a white […]
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October 8, 2012
Decor
Our $50 Quirky Cool Coffee Table Find
Remember how I had been diligently scouring the online classifieds for a credenza for the living room with no luck? Well, I have been doing the same thing looking for a coffee table. Except this time, I did have luck. Woot! I forgot to take a screenshot of the ad before it was sold (to […]
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September 17, 2012
Decor
The "His" Chair is Here
Last week, I mentioned we found a his chair for our her chair in the living room. A lot of you had fun guessing which one we went with--which seemed to be overwhelming for number 6: How do I say this? Wah Wahhhhh. Wrong. Most of the chairs in our round-up we were able to […]
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September 10, 2012
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The "His" Chair Round-up
This weekend, we shopped 'til we dropped (!!)--but we found the perfect "his chair" to go with our her. He is getting delivered a little later this week, but we couldn't let the opportunity pass us by for a teaser. Chris's new chair is in the round-up with five other stylish "his" chairs: Any guesses […]
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September 4, 2012
Decor
The HER Chair
You may remember back in this post, when our new jute rug arrived, that we decided our matching armchairs matched more than each other a little too well. Our living room became a sea of beige. So, we decided to sell them (we actually won a gift card to purchase these chairs 2 years ago, […]
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August 31, 2012
DIY
A Bench and 20 minutes in Ikea.
As promised in this pop-up weekend post, I am here to share with you our Ikea haul from Saturday. We only had a total of 20 minutes to shop (one day, ONE day I will get some quality time with that store) so there was no messing around. I had to stick to my list. But […]
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August 27, 2012
Decor
A Pop of Red
Our home's color scheme is filled with black, white, gray, green and blue--and then there is that red door of ours--which we absolutely love. Although it might seem a little out of place once you open our door and there is no other red in sight, it somehow fits in perfectly--especially now that we have […]
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August 23, 2012
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All Feet on Bench
There are just a few things left on our family room to-do list before we can do a final reveal with before and after photos. One of those things, that we reported on a couple weeks ago, was replacing this hand-me-down coffee table that was the most uncomfortable thing to prop your feet up on. […]
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July 13, 2012
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Our Love, Our Lounge
This weekend we really, REALLY weekended (it's a verb now). With the arrival of our new couch that we ordered months ago, we decided to take it for a major test drive. For the first time in 3 and a half months--we sat on a couch and watched television. Of course not alllll weekend--but […]
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May 7, 2012
Decor
Pretty Couches and almost Not Couch-less
Thanks for excusing my absence yesterday. We have had a few set backs this week--all three members of our little family got the flu. When it came and went with Greta on Monday, we thought we escaped it. Oh no. Wednesday night, it hit me hard and Chris followed suit shortly after. Thank goodness it […]
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May 4, 2012
