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Fall Around Our House 2024

Some years, I go very spooky, gothic, dramatic Halloween, but this year, you may notice that I didn’t really decorate for Halloween at all. I stuck more with fall-themed decor as opposed to Halloween, because I could feel my energy running thin. Just a reminder: You don't have to do it all! Decorating for fall […]
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October 9, 2024

House Tours

Our Modern Colonial House Tour Video - Fall 2024

There's nothing like kicking off fall with a new house tour! I love making these videos. They feel like a bookmark in time, capturing the mood and the feeling of our home in the season of life we're in now. I have some newly redone spaces to share (the mudroom! Greta's bedroom! The landing! The […]
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October 7, 2024

North Carolina Home

Our Exterior House Tour | Fall 2024

This year has been the (slightly unexpected) year of our exterior renovation! And, honestly, the house has never felt more us. All the renovations we've done to our "Modern Colonial" North Carolina home feel like they represent the elements that I loved so much about our last house in Idaho. There's this moody exterior with […]
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September 30, 2024

North Carolina Home

Mudroom Exterior Renovation with New Pavers & Plants

Our mudroom renovation has been quite the journey... a year-long journey to be exact! One of the factors making this a more complex (and lengthy) project was that it involved significant changes to both the interior and the exterior of the space (if you remember, this was a laundry room before!). After adding an exterior […]
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September 23, 2024

Projects

All About Our New Copper Gutters (And How Much They Cost)

As soon as we started our exterior trim makeover, we knew the gutters had to go. It was not even a discussion really. (They were purple? I don't even know how!) The old gutters were pulled down during the trim painting, and we worked with our contractors Kennon Construction to order the new copper gutters. […]
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August 26, 2024

DIY

Back in Black: The Front Door Color That Just Works

If I could go back in time to over a year ago when I started mocking up colors for my front door, I would have told myself to just try painting the colors on the actual door! It was so much faster for me to paint the front door three times than just thinking about […]
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August 19, 2024

North Carolina Home

All About Our New Front Yard Landscape Lighting

This post is sponsored by Neighborly, Your Hub for Home Services Our neighborhood has a lot of beautiful mature trees, but it can also make the houses, driveways, and streets feel darker at night. Which is great for sleep, but a little nerve-wracking when you're coming home late or leaving the house super early — like […]
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August 15, 2024

North Carolina Home

Turning a Window into a new Exterior Door for the Mudroom

With every change we make to our house, we're always looking to solve problems and make our home work for us and our family in the most beautiful way we can think up. This time, a door was (literally) opened when we turned a window in the former laundry room/now mudroom into a functional entryway! […]
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August 12, 2024

Design

Our Exterior Window Trim Color Reveal! (And the Whole Process of How We Finally Decided)

It’s been over a year in the making, but our exterior windows have been replaced and now painted!!! (The interior of the windows are black and the exterior we opted for paintable so we could paint them whatever color we wanted!) I have a slew of photos to show you, and I feel like the […]
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May 5, 2024

House Tours

One Year Later – Our Modern Colonial House Tour Video 2022

Pendants | Copper Bowls | Ceramic Bowls | Wood Bowls | White Canisters | Tagine | Glass Canisters | Wood Pedestal | Copper Kettle | Fluted Bowl | Faux Artichokes | Knobs  Bed | Bench | Chandelier | Rug | Candle | Vase | Peonies | Floor Lamp | Floor Mirror Linen Sofa | Double Floor Lamp | Side Table | Vase | Tree Art […]
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May 19, 2022

Design

How My Design Style Has Changed Since Moving to NC

Since moving to North Carolina, I've been asked if and how my home style has changed. What's really the difference between our last "modern cottage" and this "modern colonial?" That's a great question, I would love to tell you my thoughts. Paint Color: Pigeon by Farrow & Ball Dining Table | Vase | Stems | […]
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April 13, 2022

DIY

The 16 Before and Afters of 2021

At the end of every year we like to share before and afters of all the projects we got done within the year. I just looked back at 2020's end-of-year post, and giggled to myself because I was confident we would be staying in our last house for a very long time. Just goes to […]
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December 20, 2021

Design

Christmas Around Our Home 2021

When it came to decorating for Christmas, I really wanted to have a very merry first Christmas in our home. But I also was feeling really overwhelmed with finishing and cleaning up renovation dust, that I decided to concentrate our Christmas decor in a few key areas, telling myself--we can always add more in the […]
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December 13, 2021

Casual Friday

Casual Friday: Our Dining Room is Coming Together! (Plus, NPR, What I'm wearing on NYE, and more!)

Shop Our Dining Room JavaScript is currently disabled in this browser. Reactivate it to view this content. Table | Chairs | Hanging Lantern | Vase | Faux Stems | Ribbon | Brass Candlesticks | Candle Tapers | Tree Art Yesterday, Chris and I went around and blitzed as many spaces as we could. Hung lights that […]
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December 10, 2021

Design

How We're Mixing Metals in Our Kitchen

With the recent countertop install, and all the sharing I've been doing on my Instagram stories (click here to see the whole highlight) the buzz around our kitchen renovation has been alive! We're feeling all the love, and are excited to share more about what's next, including all the metals we'll be using. I had […]
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December 7, 2021
Chris Loves Julia Hidden Door

DIY

How We Made Our Hidden Door in the Bonus Room

When Jules gets an idea in her head, it's not a matter of "if" so much as "when". So when she brought up the idea of making the extra door in our family room, that leads into the playroom, hidden, I knew I had to figure a way to make it happen. Though this was […]
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November 30, 2021

Design

Our REVISED Backyard Landscape Plans

Chris and I have been busy finalizing the plans for our backyard landscaping, including our pool! The plan is to do the pool and other updates over the winter months and have it usable by next summer. A few months back we compared the pros and cons of hiring a local landscape designer vs. working […]
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November 9, 2021
Chris Loves Julia - Transom Window

DIY

Installing Our Pocket Door & Transom Window

Before removing or altering any walls in your home, please be sure to consult with a licensed structural engineer and, if required, obtain the proper permit from your city.  When we made the decision to add a transom window above the door between our family room and the girls' bedrooms, we kept our fingers crossed […]
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November 8, 2021

Design

Our Painted Living Room With Pigeon by Farrow & Ball

You saw it in Casual Friday first. We painted the living room–like all of it. I chose a trusted color, one I've used before and recommended to many–Pigeon by Farrow & Ball. We first used Pigeon in our home office, 5 years ago and decided it was time for it to make a comeback. I […]
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September 27, 2021

Decor

I moved our new bed just to entertain the idea...

We shared a sneak peak of our new skirted bed in our Instagram stories including the journey of getting our sleep number to fit inside of it, but we wanted to share a bunch more photos of it in our room today...with a new arrangement. EEEeee! Our new bed slipcovered bed came last week and […]
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September 8, 2021
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