Lifestyle
Avoid Moving Fraud!: 10 Red Flags to Watch out for when Hiring a Moving Service
They say moving is one of the most challenging life transitions a person can go through. We believe that and have definitely felt that over the last couple months. Our new home state of North Carolina has been incredible, and we can see us living here indefinitely, but getting to this point has been nothing […]
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August 30, 2021
Lifestyle
Casual Friday: Security Blankets, Moving Woes, The Best Leave-in Conditioner, and more!
Last night we slept in our new house for the first time after spending the day setting up as many rooms as we could. After hotel hopping for a month, I think we were so excited to be at home and feel at home--we got quite a bit done! Even though the move has been […]
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July 23, 2021
moving
We made it to our new house!! The roller coaster of getting here and why we can't move in yet.
Lifestyle
We made it to our new house!! The roller coaster of getting here and why we can't move in yet.
We made it to our new home in North Carolina!! We're in Cary, just a few minutes outside of Raleigh. It was our daughters' first time seeing the area and the house and it was the best feeling seeing them run from room to room just squealing the whole time. My oldest said, "Can we […]
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June 28, 2021
Inspiration
The Best Tips for Road Trips with Kids!
(Above, the girls bags are from Walker Family Goods. I also got them each a matching backpack to use as their carry on. They're cute and I'm feeling very color-coded and organized! We got this cargo box.) Last Casual Friday I mentioned that we are preparing for our 5 day road trip across the country […]
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June 15, 2021
Design
Our Team's Moving Stories
Exterior Reveal, Faux Boxwoods It's hard to believe those two photos above are just two years apart. As much as the house behind us changed, we've been through a lot of change, too--beyond aging very quickly apparently. We talked about why we're moving to NC (back in this post), but we wanted to share the other sides […]
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June 11, 2021
Design
Meet our Colonial home in North Carolina!
On Monday, we flew into Raleigh to close on our new home there! (If you missed why we're moving, you can check out this post and why we chose Raleigh right here.) The home is a beautiful, classic, red-brick Georgian-style colonial just outside of Raleigh. Right when we pulled up to it, we got that […]
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May 12, 2021
moving
Casual Friday: What Furniture the Buyers purchased, spring sandals, stairway inspiration and more!
Inspiration
Casual Friday: What Furniture the Buyers purchased, spring sandals, stairway inspiration and more!
Paint Color: SW Accessible Beige, Wallpaper, Couch, Pillow, Rug, Lamp, Sconce, Pinboard, Pennant You can see more of our girls' office here! We've gotten a lot of questions over the last week about what furniture we'll be selling with the house or if we are selling the house furnished. You can read here about why we decided […]
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April 30, 2021
DIY
On Privately Selling our Home!!
You guys, we made it through! In case you missed our Instagram stories, we've been showing our house over the weekend, and I feel like I can breathe now. I let Chris do the honors of letting the potential buyers in, while the girls and I skipped town. This was my way of stepping away […]
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April 26, 2021
Lifestyle
Time's Up! Here's what we got done on our pre-sale to-do list (and what we didn't!)
A little over a month ago, on March 9th, we shared our list of projects to do before we sell our house. Well, showings start on Thursday and go through the weekend so time is about up! We didn't get to everything on the list but we did a LOT in the last month. Most […]
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April 20, 2021
Decor
The Great Purge: How to decide what to Sell, Donate, or Keep?
The time has come for the great "purge before you move" purge. We're figuring out what things we plan to sell, donate, and keep. We sold our last home with nearly all the furnishings and I had some minor regrets about that. You can read more about here. Our furnishings weren't going to transfer well […]
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April 19, 2021
DIY
Things To-Do Before You List Your House!
A week from now we have appointments lined up to show our house (eeeeek). At one point that felt so far away but now it's basically here and I have so many emotions. Mostly excited, but I'd be lying if I didn't say I had a little anxiety about people walking through our house, deciding […]
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April 15, 2021
DIY
10 Home Staging Takeaways from our House Hunting Trips!
Sources Back in February, we spent 2 separate weekends house hunting in Raleigh and it was such an eye-opening experience. Not only were we discovering an area for the very first time and, with that, admiring a new kind of architecture and landscape, but peeking into dozens of homes gave us so many ideas of […]
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March 29, 2021
moving
Casual Friday: The new house's style, spring dresses, an incredible kitchen, light in a home and more!
Inspiration
Casual Friday: The new house's style, spring dresses, an incredible kitchen, light in a home and more!
This was one of my favorite houses in Raleigh that we looked at, as far as the exterior went. Unfortunately the spaces inside and the backyard weren't right for us, but I'm so happy to see someone else snatched it up. It felt so cottage-y and traditional and cozy. All of my favorite things. One […]
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March 19, 2021
Lifestyle
We're moving to.......!!!
A couple weeks ago, we announced the difficult decision we made to leave our dream home here in Idaho – the house we thought was our “forever house;” the house we are inching more closely to finishing every day – for a warmer, more temperate climate where I can get better care and hopefully have […]
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March 18, 2021
DIY
Reader Poll: How should we stage our office to sell?
One of the major selling points of this house was the large bonus space right off of the entry. We designated it for the Chris Loves Julia office as soon as we saw the house. And over the last two years, as our team has grown, it has shifted into a lot of different configurations […]
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March 16, 2021
Projects
Our Project List For Selling Our Home
Swivel Chairs, Ceiling Light, Rug, Sconces, Floor Lamp, Vase, Faux Stems, Tree Art, Fox Our project list for 2021 no longer looks like a kitchen remodel or complete reconfiguration of the mud room or adding a bunch of box trim to the entry or any of the other projects we've mapped out here. Instead, we've turned […]
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March 9, 2021
Lifestyle
Our next chapter
Chris grew up here in southeast Idaho and I've lived here for almost 15 years (on and off) after being born and raised in Pittsburgh. We met and fell in love here. We had two of our three daughters here and we really thought we were going to be hosting their weddings in the backyard […]
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March 4, 2021
Decor
25 Housewarming Gift Ideas
There are at least 6 people that I'm close to in my life that are moving or have recently bought a house (and I'm sure at least a dozen more that have in the last year!). Every time I scramble to find something to send them as a housewarming gift. Buying a house or renting […]
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September 9, 2020
Design
Do We Regret Selling our Home Furnished? (and How did that work!?)
My sister is getting ready to take on a cross country move to Seattle and facing the decision whether to pay to move all of her things ($$$$!) or sell it and start over. She, along with many of you, asked if we regret selling our furnishings with our last home. After 6 weeks of […]
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July 17, 2019
DIY
We Sold Our House! + A Master (Printable!!) List of To-Dos before Listing Your House
This post is part of a paid partnership with Lowe's. We will be moving into a new home next week!! That's crazy and emotional and exciting to write. When my parents decided to downsize and move from next door, we started casually looking at Zillow at night. It took some time, but we found the […]
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May 29, 2019
