Casual Friday
Casual Friday: June 28, 2018
pendants | @chrislovesjulia | cabinets (Ikea Laxarby) | towel rod | stools | countertop (use CLJ for 20% off!) | vase | stools In the latter half of this week I turned a corner in my surgery recovery and am starting to feel so much better and even was able to get some normal clothes […]
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June 8, 2018
Casual Friday
Casual Friday: 10 Things That Made Me Happy This Week
1. I took 20 minutes and zhooshed the kitchen last Sunday, with a few new things and the freshness always makes me fall in love with a room all over again. It also inspires me to keep the counters clearer and invite someone new over. We added this printable equivalents chart (I tore the edges of like […]
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April 13, 2018
Chris Cooks
5 Tips For Getting Kids to Eat And Eat Healthier
This post is sponsored by Blue Apron. The first 50 people will receive $40 off their first two weeks of meals, here! One thing that Chris and I have always strived to do is feed our kids good, real food while sitting down together for dinner every night. But if you have children, you know […]
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March 20, 2018
Lifestyle
The 9 Things We Snagged From the Big Macy's Sale
This post is sponsored by Macy's. I mentioned a couple weeks ago, that Macy's was having a huge home sale where you can save, 30-50% + Extra 20% off Home with promo code PRES. It's the last week of the sale (ends 2/19) and I wanted to share the amazing steals we snagged before it's […]
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February 15, 2018
DIY
How We Refinished our Butcher block Countertop
It's been 2.5 years since we installed our black walnut countertop from CraftArt (more on that here) in our kitchen and this past weekend we took some time to refinish it. The wonderful thing about butcher block is it can be sanded down and made new over and over and over again and it's a pretty painless […]
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February 14, 2018
Decor
New Low Back, Modern Spindle Chairs for the Dining Room!
We got new dining chairs! We had our last beige eiffel chairs (I put a picture near the bottom of the post for you!) for three years and still loved them for how easy they are to wipe down, but were itching for a change. Over Thanksgiving, we hosted 30 Marcums and had to pull […]
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December 5, 2017
Lifestyle
Ep. 43: Mailbag Monday--For Kitchen Noobs, Lighting Woes, Paint Colors and More
In this special Q&A episode, we start off talking about the progress of our big backyard project and how we're charting new territory with it. Julia reveals her neurosis when it comes to their third child's birth date and they open up the mail bag to answer as many of your questions as possible! You […]
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July 31, 2017
DIY
Seeing Double Pocket Doors! (At last!)
We now have two matching pocket doors, mirroring each other, flanking the refrigerator wall in the kitchen and everything finally feels right. I know many of you will be sad to see our sliding barn door go--we really loved it, too. The quick back-story of the sliding door is: Three years ago, when we decided […]
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May 25, 2017
Projects
100 year old home gets a 3 Day Kitchen Makeover for less than $5K!
Back in February, we went through more than 2600 applications that poured in over 48 hours for a makeover, sponsored by Lowe's. It was our second time traveling anywhere in the country making over one of your spaces in a weekend, although this year was a little different. Last time we ended up on Long Island, transforming an entry/sitting […]
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April 10, 2017
Decor
Real Life: What's on Our Kitchen Counters
We've done a tour of what's inside all of our kitchen cabinets (way back here), and although you're probably used to catching peeks at what we keep on our kitchen counter, I thought it would be fun to give you more of a detailed impromptu tour! After all, what we leave on our kitchen counters […]
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February 15, 2017
Inspiration
A Night In the Kitchen (Plus, our favorite gluten free dessert recipe)
This A Night In is sponsored by Anolon. Welcome to the second installment of A Night In where we rally a few of our favorite bloggers together to share a space in their home after that photogenic afternoon light goes down. It's intimate. It's real. And in my opinion, it's incredibly cozy. Nothing is better than when the sun goes […]
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November 15, 2016
Idaho Rambler
Our Kitchen: One Year Later
It's been a whole year since we finished our kitchen renovation (how!?) so we thought it would be fun to share how it looks today (not all that different) and how it has been wearing, as well as, some additions we've made and things we're thinking about changing or would do differently. 1. What's new? There have […]
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September 27, 2016
Lifestyle
Ep 21: Life is a Mixing of All Kinds of Things - Blending Styles In Your Home
Listen to the latest episodes on: iTunes, GooglePlay, Stitcher. Title: Ep 21: Life is a Mixing of All Kinds of Things - Blending Styles In Your Home Game: Taboo Show Notes: In this episode, Chris and Julia celebrate one year in their new kitchen by revisiting some of the things they love most about it, as well as sharing a few […]
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September 26, 2016
Decor
Hanging Herbs in the Kitchen
The nights are starting to get cold and in the next town over, they had frost one evening so we knew it was time to get the last of our basil and rosemary from the garden inside to extend their use even longer. We thought about freezing the the leaves (this post has great tips about […]
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September 14, 2016
DIY
Behind the scenes of our Food Network Magazine Shoot!
Pinch me! We're in September's issue of Food Network Magazine, on stands now. Earlier this year, Food Network Magazine contacted us about featuring us in our kitchen after seeing it on Instagram. Chris's sister gifted us a year's subscription to Food Network Magazine for Christmas five years ago and we haven't missed an issue since. So, needless […]
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August 1, 2016
Art
Art Parade On The Range Hood
I've been thinking for some time it might be nice to have a piece of art hanging on the range hood cover we DIYed last year. It's a large, 60" wide hood that we added some slim, pencil trim to, but other than that it's pretty simple. On one hand, I don't think everything needs […]
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July 6, 2016
DIY
Before and After: A Small, Pittsburgh Kitchen Gets A Complete Makeover in 6 Days
My aunt and uncle's home in Pittsburgh is more than 90 years old and full of character, but the kitchen, like so many other kitchens, definitely had its fair share of challenges: the small 9x9 footprint, the outdated electrical, the radiator in the corner, no dishwasher, the in-swinging door that hindered so much usable space, the lack […]
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June 20, 2016
Projects
How to Renovate a Kitchen in 6 days + All the Details
It's crazy to think about leaving for Pittsburgh in just 3 days! We take off Friday to renovate an entire kitchen for Frigidaire Professional, on camera, in a handful of days (read more about how that came to be here). We did our own kitchen renovation in 7 weeks, which felt good and fast and something […]
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June 1, 2016
Decor
Little Workhorses Around our Home
Over the past couple months, as the larger areas of our home have finally taken shape and we really start using them as we have only dreamed of in the years since moving in, I have been especially mindful of the tiny little workhorses that help each room function, or have made our lives easier, or maybe just […]
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May 23, 2016
Chris Cooks
Five Great Smoothie Recipes!
Chris makes our whole family smoothies almost every single morning for years and years! By now, he has them down and I thought it would be fun to share a few of our go-to recipes he has come up with. We used to go through blenders every couple months and finally invested in a Blendtec in 2012 […]
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May 18, 2016
