Design
Our Giveaway Winner's Bedroom Mood Board
I’m so excited to share with you the mood board for the winner of our 300K giveaway we hosted a few weeks ago. We had so many wonderful and deserving entries--we wish everyone could have won! In the end, a sweet nurse and school teacher's bedroom won. They had done some work on it already but […]
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September 10, 2019
Decor
300K! And We're Giving Away A Room!
Over the weekend, we hit 300,000 followers on Instagram! I remember, in fall of 2015, hitting 10,000 followers. We celebrated that — and every milestone since. But 300,000 is a number that's nearly unfathomable to us, and we couldn't be more excited or more grateful to be doing what we're doing and to be […]
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August 20, 2019
Decor
A Sectional For the A-frame, and an Article Sofa for You!
We haven't done any major renovations to our cabin yet--but we're learning, once again, there's so much you can do even before you dive into full renovations. And while the snow (so much snow!) is still falling in the Palisades--where our A-frame sits on the side of a steep hill--we're focusing on those things. The […]
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January 16, 2018
Inspiration
That Time I Got To Tour The HGTV® Dream Home
This past weekend, I was invited to tour the HGTV® dream home in Gig Harbor, Washington overlooking the Puget Sound and it was breathtaking! The whole house is unreal--and someone is going to win it! (You can enter for your chance to win twice a day right here.) The renovation (I loved seeing the before […]
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January 11, 2018
Decor
Our Thanksgiving Table, Tradition and $500 to Arhaus!
This post is sponsored by Arhaus. We're giving away $500 to one lucky reader at the bottom of this post! THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED. CONGRATS TO OUR WINNER, FELICITY! Do you have any special Thanksgiving traditions? Besides turkey and saying what you're grateful for? In our silly house of 5 girls growing up, after […]
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November 7, 2017
Decor
A Charly Sofa Giveaway!
Just weeks before we welcomed our new baby girl into our family, we launched our other baby--a sofa line with Interior Define! It's been amazing these past couple weeks to see the Charly (yes, we named the big, cozy sofa after our big, cuddly dog) pop up in your homes as sectionals or sleepers or […]
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September 28, 2017
Toolbox
Our Pressure Washer is Our Best Friend + A Giveaway!!
This post and giveaway is sponsored by Briggs and Stratton. Pressure washing is, pretty much, our favorite summer hobby around here. In our most recent podcast, it was only a half-joke when we say we pressure wash every day. So we were very excited when Briggs + Stratton asked if they could send us one of their […]
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June 1, 2017
DIY
Painting Our Shed + Our Favorite Paint Sprayer Giveaway
Last summer, we moved a rather large shed from our property to my parents' next door. You can see how that went down in this post. It was an exciting and absolutely nerve-wrecking couple hours with a huge crane and we were left with a pile of rocks. That is to say, things looked way […]
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August 9, 2016
Decor
Disguising Air Returns With Paint! + A Giveaway!
This post is sponsored by FilterEasy, an unforgettable air filters service we've used for the past year that’s smart and simple. We're giving away free filters to 150 readers + a chance to win a Target gift card at the end of the post. We've had the downstairs painted for a couple months, but I haven't talked […]
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April 6, 2016
Decor
A Gift Guide for The Home Lover + Giveaway!
We generally post gift guides closer to Black Friday, but when Lulu & Georgia asked if I would be interested in curating a gift guide for the Home Lover as a part of their 12 Days Of Giveaways, I jumped at the chance. It's taken Chris a few years to realize that the best gifts […]
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November 9, 2015
Art
The Evolution of The Entry + $500 to Minted
Our entry has evolved so much over the two years that we have lived here (check out the full evolution over on Instagram today! @chrislovesjulia), probably more than any other space, and with each tweak it gets functional for us and more beautiful, too. Most recently, we swapped out the mirror for a full length […]
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November 5, 2015
Decor
A Few Kitchen Details + $500 to Rejuvenation!!
Thank you for all the love last week when we shared our kitchen reveal. We wish we could have you ALL over for a big meal and to see it in real life! The goal was always to make our kitchen one that felt lived in and comfortable, and a lot of that came from […]
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September 28, 2015
Projects
Laundry Room Lighting & Hardware + $250 to Rejuvenation!
We partnered with Rejuvenation to outfit the laundry room with a few crowning moments, including two fabulous accent lights and unlacquered brass pulls for the cabinets. (And bonus! there's a honkin' Rejuvenation giveaway for you at the end!) Initially, we were just going to do recessed lights in the laundry room, but I couldn't get […]
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April 21, 2015
Projects
Our Fully Dressed (New) Windows + $100 West Elm Giveaway
Since our very first walk through of this house we are slowly making home, "There should be a big window to the left there" we said. It's the kind of comment that perked our realtor's ears up. He knew we were looking for a house in a good neighborhood that needed fixed up. Us already […]
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March 11, 2015
DIY
Wallpaper!! + $100 Ace Giveaway
We got the wallpaper in the entry up and it is dreamy and just what we hoped! It actually made the area look bigger (hard to portray in photos--you really must stop by) and so much more interesting. As a refresher, here's how the entry looked last month. For our Ace Hardware project for October, […]
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October 29, 2014
Fashion
The Best Diaper/Lifestyle Bag Ever + Giveaway
We never used a diaper bag before. An actual diaper bag, I guess. I've just never loved the look of them truthfully. My sister sent me a large red purse that I used as a diaper bag when Greta was younger and it worked well. It was simple (which I liked), but things did get […]
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January 6, 2014
DIY
White Mosaic in the Nursery
When we bought this home in the summer, we had plans to turn this room into an office, but we're so much happier to transform it into a nursery in the coming months. We have a direction for this room, but not a complete mood board put together yet. I think that will be one […]
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December 16, 2013
giveaway
5 Gifts a Foodie Would Totally Love But Might Not Buy For Themselves + A Wüsthof Cheese Knife Set Giveaway
Chris Cooks
5 Gifts a Foodie Would Totally Love But Might Not Buy For Themselves + A Wüsthof Cheese Knife Set Giveaway
Most people have things they want that they can't justify buying because they can get by with something not quite as good, that's still functional. Well, I use Christmas as an excuse to buy people the things they really want, not just the practical versions. So while browsing Williams-Sonoma's website the other day, I found […]
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December 10, 2013
Chris Cooks
Giveaway Gold: Wüsthof Classic IKON Carving Set
I can't explain to you how excited I am for this giveaway. As I mentioned in my post about Kitchen stuff I don't want to be without, Wüsthof is my favorite knife manufacturer. The balance of the blades, the shape of the handle, and the quality of the steel--Wüsthof has it mastered. And I refer to […]
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October 21, 2013
Inspiration
$1000 to Rejuvenation. Mmm, yeah.
Our friends at Rejuvenation, one of our first and long time partners, are holding a little instagram contest and we are their target market. I say "we," as in "us" as in "you!" We, that are constantly renovating and always striving to improve our spaces. The winner gets $1000 worth of lights and hardware from […]
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October 9, 2013
