Design
Peer Review: Inspiration for Styling a Kitchen
Can you believe the end of summer school is here?! What a great ride! I loved sharing my tips for styling entries, bedrooms, living rooms, and kitchens to create rooms that you can enjoy season after season. One thing I'm seeing a lot in kitchen styling is making it feel and look like another living […]
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August 2, 2024
Design
Peer Review: Inspiration for Styling a Living Room
We're coming to the end of Week 3 of Summer School: Home Styling 101! Today I want to share some living room interiors that have stopped my scroll with their use of color, texture, and styling. This is somewhat beyond the realm of what conventionally falls under styling, but something I've been really looking for […]
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July 26, 2024
Design
Peer Review: Inspiration for Styling a Bedroom
Here's the crazy thing about me and inspiration: If you were to go into my bathroom inspiration board on Pinterest, there are bathrooms for sure, but there are also kitchens, there are closets, there are mudrooms, and there are hallways of houses! I'm not looking to copy and paste an inspirational image. I'm taking notes […]
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July 19, 2024
Design
Inspiration For The Upstairs Laundry Room
One of our biggest projects this year is building out an upstairs laundry room using borrowed space from the playroom. Chris and I have been drawing up and re-drawing floor plans and elevations that I can't wait to share. The biggest hurdle we're designing around is this great, big window which is a blessing and […]
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April 7, 2022
Design
Taupe Paint Colors I'm Loving and Inspired By
There was a time when taupe paint colors, (brown, tan, and beige) were found in your grandparents' homes and not in a good way. Well I'm happy to say (and sorry if this is news to you), that it's back and trending. And Studio Interiors, Photographer: Nicole Franzen Taupe cabinetry started trending first and for […]
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September 13, 2021
Design
Trend Alert: Mid-Tone Paint Colors!
For years now, we've been seeing a lot of high contrast tones in homes. Walls have been painted in either light and airy tones, or really dark and moody, and not much in-between. This trend has gone really hard and I've definitely happily been a part of that. In fact, I even remember painting the reading […]
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June 22, 2021
inspiration
All the Inspiration and Thought Process for choosing a stain for the white oak floors in our NC Home.
Inspiration
All the Inspiration and Thought Process for choosing a stain for the white oak floors in our NC Home.
We have really loved the lighter wood flooring in our house (we used Ingrid from Stuga) and I've been getting a lot of questions about if we're going to install the same flooring in our house in North Carolina. Well the short answer is no, and not because we've been unhappy with it. It's just […]
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June 7, 2021
Inspiration
How to use Pinterest to find Sources and Inspiration
You can see more of our bathroom here! Anytime I share inspiration images, I get a slew of questions about how to even FIND these kinds of beautiful imagery. I guess I'm still old school because I turn to Pinterest. But whenever I say that I usually hear a bunch about how Pinterest never shows […]
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May 5, 2021
Design
Trend Alert: Scenic Wall Murals (and where to buy them!)
Over a year ago, I saved an image on Instagram that stopped me in my tracks – a gorgeous mural wallpaper in a water closet, and I've had murals on my mind since. It also kind of turned into one of those things that once you start noticing something--you see it everywhere! Now I have […]
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May 3, 2021
inspiration
Introducing: Our laundry room!! The Before photos and the exciting plans I've been eager to try!
DIY
Introducing: Our laundry room!! The Before photos and the exciting plans I've been eager to try!
Every time I share our laundry room, or pass by it on Instagram stories, we get a plethora of questions about it. Our laundry room is one of the few rooms in our home that we haven't touched, with the exception of hanging a lantern in here after we moved the chandelier the was in […]
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February 23, 2021
DIY
Project Rewind - My Favorite Takeaways from the 6 Kitchens We have renovated!
With our upcoming kitchen remodel (our number one project on our 2021 to-do list), we've had kitchens on our minds. So I thought it would be fun to look back at the 6 kitchens we've renovated and documented in the past and revisit them and maybe even pick out a few things (if any) I […]
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February 10, 2021
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
DIY
Painting the Music Room + Jewel Toned Inspiration
We had a different project scheduled for this week, but the weather is so crappy (spoiler alert: it was an outdoor project) that we couldn’t carry it out. But I was so excited to check something off the list that I told Chris I’M DOING SOMETHING THIS WEEK. I HAVE to do something creative. To […]
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June 30, 2020
inspiration
Casual Friday: Art, Dinnerware, Versatile Spring Sneakers, Easter Dresses, Resort Discounts & More!
Art
Casual Friday: Art, Dinnerware, Versatile Spring Sneakers, Easter Dresses, Resort Discounts & More!
Things are getting serious around here. Seriously close! Every day so much happens that I could just sit and watch it all go down, completely entertained. Painting and Stair railings and beams and window and uncovering the floors! It's all coming together. Some things are coming together just the way I imagined they would. Some […]
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March 6, 2020
Decor
Hallway Inspiration + Ceiling Lights We're Crushing On.
One of the projects we're focusing on this year (as outlined in this post) is the hallways. Often forgotten about, and yet, passed through all. the. time. We have two significant hallways (upstairs and downstair) we want to make some intentional design decisions about and I always gather inspiration first. The thing I realized makes […]
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January 21, 2020
Inspiration
The Top Staircase Railing Inspiration Photos We're Using to Design Ours.
Our staircase railing was not on our list of projects to tackle right now but because we're doing our floors, which involve the wood on our staircases, we also need to address the railings and fast. Because once they take off our existing railings to lay the new floors, it's not a safe place for […]
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December 9, 2019
Decor
Inspiration: Why do you think you need to put something in that vase?
A friend recently shared a styling conundrum: She’s started a collection of pretty vases and urns, but is not sure what to put in them. “Oh, why do you think you need to put something in them?” I asked her. It’s true — I love a faux stem. And I’m guilty of cutting seasonal branches […]
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November 5, 2019
Design
Do or Don't: Wallpaper a Slanted Ceiling? (And the Wallpaper we got for Greta's room!)
The wallpaper I had been eyeing for Greta’s room went on sale a couple weeks ago and I snatched enough to wallpaper her entire room! Eeee! It arrived over the weekend and I can barely wait to get it hung. We'll get to the choice and all the runner ups in a minute, but there […]
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September 11, 2019
Design
10 Really Amazing Blue-Gray Paint Colors in action
I feel like gray paint colors were so incredibly overused a few years ago, but then a lot of people accidentally chose cool grays to paint entire rooms and instead of a trendy living room, they got a nursery and kind of swore off the color. But now cool gray is having a resurgence. We […]
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August 29, 2019
inspiration
Look up, Ceilings Matter: A Study of 10 Incredible Ceilings and Why Every Ceiling Needs an Intentional Plan
Design
Look up, Ceilings Matter: A Study of 10 Incredible Ceilings and Why Every Ceiling Needs an Intentional Plan
Years ago, we were over one of our friends' homes (we had visited several hundred times, I'm sure) and I noticed that there was a light missing in their ceiling! I pointed it out and said, "What happened to your light!?" And they responded, "We've never had one there since renovating, we should probably patch […]
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July 11, 2019
