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What's Going On With the Cabin Kitchen?!

I know. I knowwww. We were doing so well in the kitchen at the cabin! Making great strides! And then, well, I'm trying to pinpoint where we got side-tracked. I think it was the delay with the appliances before Christmas (remember how I mentioned the cabin was in a no delivery zone?!). With no appliances […]
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February 11, 2019

Inspiration

What Will Be the Design Style of our A-frame?

We hear all the time, "I can't wait to see what the design style will be in your cabin!" Which seriously warms my heart. While we have been enjoying our cabin and even tackled a couple small projects there (check out the reading nook here!), the big demo starts July 30th! A lot of our […]
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July 9, 2018

Inspiration

14 (more!) Inspiring Home Instagram Accounts with less than 10K followers!

Back in November, I felt inspired to share some Instagram accounts that are doing it all right, but still haven’t reached that magical number of 10,000 followers--and since, most all of those accounts have hit 10K or are really close! A few are almost at 50K! It’s not infrequent that I see a post pop up […]
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March 21, 2018

Casual Friday

Casual Friday: March 16, 2018

It was Spring for, like, 2 hours here and then it dumped 6 more inches of snow but it still lit a Spring cleaning purge fire under me. I emptied my closet of all the clothes I never wore this winter. I bagged up all my maternity clothes and 98% of the baby clothes that […]
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March 16, 2018

Lifestyle

Ep 58: Secrets From 4 Incredibly Successful, Self-Taught Designers

This is a very special episode of The Chris Loves Julia podcast. Instead of our usual banter about DIY, Home Design and family, we interviewed four successful interior designers that are all self taught. Amber Lewis, Jenny Komenda, Shea McGee and Brian Patrick Flynn all open up about everything from their education backgrounds (in some […]
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February 12, 2018

Casual Friday

Casual Friday + Favorite Frames!

Yesterday, we painted our bedroom. We prepped the room, held up swatches, picked up two samples, decided on a completely different color entirely (Benjamin Moore Olympic Mountains, FTW!) and then painted the whole room and all the trim. I documented most of the process on my stories and we'll definitely relay everything, including a lot […]
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January 19, 2018

Inspiration

15 Inspiring Home Instagram Accounts with Less than 10K Followers!

Last week, shortly after our podcast came out about How to Grow Your Instagram account, I felt inspired to share some Instagram accounts that are doing it all right, but still haven't reached that magical number of 10,000 followers. It's not infrequent that I see a post pop up in my feed about top instagrammers […]
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November 2, 2017

Inspiration

Would You Rather: Tub vs. Shower vs. Tub and Shower

We've polled our readers before here when we were planning the deck (we went composite!), and here when we were considering taking our our 4th bathroom for a laundry room (we went for it!) and now that we're in the initial planning stages of our bathroom renovation, we got another one for ya! Our current […]
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October 25, 2017

Casual Friday

Casual Friday + My 29 Home Picks from the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale

Faux Fiddle Leaf Fig | Side Table | Accent Stool | Couch | X Pillow | Rug | Foot Stool Earlier this week, I posted the above photo on my Instagram shortly after I accidentally cleaned the entire house instead of taking a nap...again. Nesting urges have definitely kicked in, but not in the form I'd like […]
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July 14, 2017

Inspiration

Casual Friday + An Exciting Announcement

This was a really huge week for us. The big announcement is we've been working on designing our own sofa line with Interior Define for almost a year and this week, after so many months of drawings and engineer specs and 3D renderings, we flew to Chicago to see the ACTUAL sofa for the first time and we […]
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May 26, 2017

Decor

25 REALLY Cute Crib Sheets

I'm so glad that one crib sheet is not enough, because even if it were...it could NEVER be. There are too many cute crib sheets out there to only buy one. And while I'm mostly content with white sheets in my own room, give me all the cutest patterns for the baby's. They add personality and a splash […]
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April 18, 2017

Decor

Mix And Match Layered Doormat Options + A Podcast Update

Before we get into the meat of today's post, I wanted to give you a podcast update. It's hard to believe we have been doing The Chris Loves Julia Podcast with Preston Pugmire for 5 months now! But even before that, it's been a year since Preston sat down at our dining room table and […]
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October 17, 2016

DIY

Would You Rather: Real Wood vs. Composite Decking

Our actual back-backyard is pretty small. We are anxious to get the fence finished in the next couple days because we know that will help define a larger backyard for our family that will include our expansive side yards, but as for the back--this is what we're working with: Womp, womp. That scalloped fence belongs […]
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July 28, 2014

DIY

Ask Julia: A Venture Into Painting Walls

Sometimes we get asked such a great, in depth question that can be helpful to so many others we have decided to answer such questions (with permission, of course) right here. Today's question comes from a couple that just moved into military housing--their first place they are allowed to paint:   Julia,   I am […]
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November 15, 2013

Inspiration

Project Book Shelving: The Plans

We mentioned after we painted the reading room, that we wanted to revisit it soon. Our books are still boxed up in the garage and we are anxious to give them a more permanent home. Now that our costume party is over and the bathroom is done-zo, we're ready to build some shelving in here. […]
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November 11, 2013

Inspiration

A Journey in Indecisiveness and also Deciding On Our Main Paint Color.

We are no strangers to dark paint.  Painting a few walls in our last home's living room a blueish-greenish-almost black (Crave by Kwal Paint) made for one of our favorite before and afters. But I think there were a few things that made that dark paint really work.  First, the huge window that let light […]
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September 25, 2013

Inspiration

A Functional Entryway

One thing this house isn't shy on is hooks. Perhaps you've gathered that from Instagram: As an update, I found two more sets in the garage. 16!! The slightly humorous thing about this all is that there is absolutely no convenient place to hang our bags when we walk in the house, whether through the […]
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August 29, 2013

Art

Art For the New House

Once we packed up all of the art, photos and frames in our last house, I suddenly felt disconnected from it.  It no longer felt like our house and now that we're here in this new house, with still blank walls, we are still feeling a sense of disconnect. Art warms a home, at least […]
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August 27, 2013

Inspiration

An Update + Dream Laundry and Joint Closet

As you may have heard, read or gathered--we have had some bumps in our road--mainly we have yet to receive the money for the sale of our house and it all comes down to today.  If we don't receive the money today, then we will lose our new house. And if we do, we can […]
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August 20, 2013

Inspiration

Dress + Dwell: Masculine Edge

Today we're launching a new series that relates the clothes we wear to the decor in our homes.  Most of my wardrobe is casual and classic and that has translated into a lot of the choices we made in our home, or are planning on making. I pinned this photo of Alessandra Ambrosio a year […]
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August 5, 2013
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