Cleaning & Organization
What We Keep in Our Office vs. the Kitchen Desk
Desk clutter. It happens to the best of us! I've been working hard at organizing my office supplies throughout my home, and I think I've landed on a good system. Like many people, we have multiple "drop zones" in our house, but I've found that assigning a purpose to each space has made life easier […]
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April 1, 2024
Design
Do you prefer to work at a desk or a table? (We changed our minds!)
As plans are underway for the kitchen and the powder room and a few other rooms in our house, our team has already moved into our new home's office space, piecing together a workspace from what we brought with us. The space above the guest house already went through some transformation since purchasing the house. […]
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August 12, 2021
Idaho Cottage
Before and After: The Girls' Office Reveal!
Over the last couple months, we've been working on the girls' office/homework/art room and we're excited to share some after photos with you today!! We get a lot of interesting comments when we say it's the "kids' office" because it's pretty grand of a space. But it's actually just the home office (very common in […]
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October 20, 2020
DIY
How we layered stain to take a wood countertop from dark cherry to a white oak look!
We still have a few finishing touches to put on the girls' office (see all the plans here!), but over the last week we tackled a really fun DIY that transformed the dark cherry stained wood countertop that was there into a white oak looking one that matches our floor a little better. And today, we wanted to […]
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October 7, 2020
Inspiration
The Kid Office Mood Board + Lots of Home Office Inspiration!
When we were looking for a house, one with a large space that we could turn into the Chris Loves Julia office for us and our employees was a must have. This house had a large room off of the entry (bonus!) with a door (double bonus!!) that the previous owners used as their den […]
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August 20, 2020
Decor
What are your favorite (healthy) snacks?!
(Full disclosure: I'm writing this at 2 p.m., and it's snacktime...) I haven't been the best at showing progress in the office much because we have SO MUCH shuffling to do in here, but I recently shared a story where we were stocking some snacks and drinks in our new SMEG fridge (we got the […]
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February 6, 2020
Casual Friday
Casual Friday: A Look Into Our Office, Kitchen Inspo, A Fun Gift I got and more!
It was an exciting first week back at our home! Painting started around the house. Flooring got laid in our office and we moved back into the space. Because, yes, we had to move EVERYTHING out of the office for two days while they did the floors. Let's just say the entry was crammed and […]
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January 10, 2020
Decor
Staging the Office as a Bedroom!
This post is sponsored by Walmart After our announcement Monday that we'll be selling our home and moving, we have been busy getting it prepped for listing this upcoming Monday. Fortunately, we have no major projects on our list, but hundreds of little projects. Paint touch ups, deep cleaning, de cluttering! The only room that […]
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May 9, 2019
DIY
Our Home Office 2.0
If you listen to our podcast, you've probably heard us talking about how the office just hasn't been working for us. Chris left his office job in June of 2016, and it was right after that when we really started working on it and planning everything out. I had this grand idea of the two […]
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January 30, 2018
Design
Before and After: Our Home Office is Finished!
Our home office is done (for now) and we're excited to share the transformation, some details and a few tips and tricks with you today, along with so many photos! The room has actually been 95% there for quite awhile now, but because we were working on it in the very early stages of my […]
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March 9, 2017
DIY
Building a Custom Standing Desk Using IKEA Cabinets
If you've been reading for the past few months, you're probably at least a little familiar with the standing desk we've been working on for our office. Well today we're gonna share how we did it, and it was actually pretty easy. Especially since IKEA did most of the hard stuff. You may be wondering […]
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November 21, 2016
Design
Our Calacatta Marble countertop by Formica in the Home Office--Yeah, That's Laminate!
Our home office is inching closer to completion every day, but ever since our beautiful marble-look-alike Formica (!!!) countertop arrived last week, we've been using it daily. Yes it's laminate and yes, we love it. So I thought today I'll share a few quick details about it and then as soon as I can decide […]
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November 3, 2016
Projects
Using Bookcases in a Bedroom Closet
So, did y'all know we're working on converting one of the downstairs bedrooms into an office? Just kidding, you most likely are completely aware because it's a major part of our renovation life right now. As a reminder, here's the last part of the office we worked on: Even though the wall treatment was an insanely […]
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September 7, 2016
Decor
How We Decided on Window Coverings for the Home Office
This post is sponsored by Blindster.com Now that all the paneling in our home office is done (I keep calling it the "hardscaping" even though I know that's an exterior term), we're focusing on bring in furnishings and soft textiles to soften the space a bit. I wafted between curtains and blinds or a combination for […]
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August 30, 2016
Mood Boards
A Peek at Our DIY Standing Desk + The Home Office Mood Board
We made some exciting strides in our studio over the weekend. After not being overly excited about the standing desks on the market, we decided to build our own. We wanted storage. We wanted it sided so there was room for both of us. And we wanted it about 45" high--the natural elbow height that […]
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August 29, 2016
DIY
The Office Wall Treatment is Finished!
Today, we're excited to share our updated office walls. As a reminder, we're turning the 5th bedroom in our basement into a home office/studio space. We haven't done anything to that bedroom room since moving in, so it's especially fun to give life to a room that's been a bit of a wasted space the past three […]
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August 22, 2016
Projects
Adding Wainscoting to the Home Office
A couple weeks ago we introduced one of our new room projects to you--a dedicated home office/studio--and this weekend, after a lot of planning and a trip to Ikea last weekend to pick up desk supplies, we finally got cracking on it. It's a pretty vanilla room to start with, and although it's in the […]
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July 25, 2016
DIY
Planning our Home Office
I mentioned last week that we'll be turning one of the downstairs bedrooms into a home office and today we're ready to share that blank-space-of-a-room that's about to get a whole lot of function for the first time since moving in to this home almost 3 years ago. It's a relatively small room, at just 10x11 and […]
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July 5, 2016
