Art
Mix it up! 10 Ways to Display Art in your Home.
I'm an art lover and firmly believe that hanging art in your home will give it more character and personality than just about anything else. But how many gallery walls can a home really handle, you know?! Another point to consider is mixing different types of displays of art in the same space. For instance, […]
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March 26, 2019
Design
2019 Reader Survey
It’s that time again! We want to hear from you. We need to hear from you. These anonymous reader surveys (100% anonymous!) help us not only understand and get to know a little bit about who checks in here every day, but it also guides our content and sponsor decisions. If you wouldn’t mind taking just a […]
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February 5, 2019
Decor
6 Years of Our Reading Room
<a href="https://www.bloglovin.com/blog/11577553/?claim=rg9w3qf3pnv">Follow my blog with Bloglovin</a> Last year, I shared an evolution over the years of our living room and then a few weeks ago, I found some old (low quality--sorry!) photos of our home before we bought it and I have been having so much fun walking down memory lane. You know how everyone […]
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January 21, 2019
Casual Friday
Casual Friday: March 9, 2018
Willow has been acting off. We brought her into the vet and discovered she slipped a disc in her back. We got medication for her and have been trying to help her rest, per her doctor's orders, but she's still not acting like herself. It's so hard to know that something is wrong with your […]
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March 9, 2018
Decor
IN STOCK ALERT: The Arteriors Jacob Coffee Table Look-A-Like is back!
Over a year ago, back in September 2016, I found an almost identical look-a-like to our very popular coffee table that now lives in the reading room: But, up until recently lived in our family room/playroom downstairs. It sold out that day, everywhere, and hasn't been back since. I set up an in-stock alert on […]
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January 22, 2018
Decor
Our Reading Room Refresh + 3D Family Doll Tutorial and a VIDEO!
We've wrapped up so many campaigns over the last couple months and it's fun to finally be able to spill some of the projects we've been working on. Before Polly was born, we were asked to be a part of a video campaign with HP to launch their new photo printer. A blog post was […]
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October 4, 2017
Casual Friday
Casual Friday: September 15, 2017
Rug | Sofa | Art | Pouf | Wall Color: Pine Grove by Clark+Kensington Fall arrived in Idaho this week, with cooler temperatures (in the 50s-60s), crisp mornings and lots of rain. It has me lighting all the candles (this Fig one is a new favorite!), and assessing my wardrobe because "I haven't worn that […]
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September 15, 2017
Decor
Our New Modern Chesterfield Black Leather Sofa
When we were still living in our last home, we purchased an off-white mid-century style sofa that has now lived in our reading room since we moved here. It fit nicely size-wise, but as the room and our style has evolved, it fit less and less in with the vision. We've been on the look out […]
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August 23, 2016
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A Night In
Today’s a big day, er night, on the blog. For years, I have felt there was a void in the home blogging world of photos and details of our spaces at night. You’ve seen bright, airy kitchens and light pouring into our bedrooms. We set our watches to photograph a room around the sun, and […]
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August 17, 2016
Decor
In My Own Little Corner (Office)
Last week, when I shared the evolution of our home after the three years moving in, I shared this current photo below of our study. It's at the very front of our house, directly to the right when you open the front door. It has a full wall of windows and although it's small in […]
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August 4, 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
Decor
The Evolution of the Study/Reading Room
The study in the front of our home has been evolving over the past nearly 2 years and we recently finished making some more tweaks so I thought it would be fun to look back at where we've been. The funny thing is, with each phase, I rarely thought about the next change we were […]
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June 3, 2015
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My New (Tiny, but Perfect) Office Space!
Over the past year, we've been trying to fit in a little desk somewhere for me. Not only am I the CFO of our family (bills, bills, billz), my workload for the blog and other projects I've taken on has expanded and I really needed a place that wasn't the dining room table for my […]
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May 7, 2015
Decor
Cowhide in the Reading Room. Whoop!
I opened my computer yesterday for the first time in two weeks. It was a painful experience, but regardless of the amount of unanswered emails in my inbox, the break was absolutely worth it. We flew our little family to Florida and it was the best (okay, maybe our first official) family vacation ever! We […]
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May 5, 2015
DIY
Studio Green, No, Pine Grove Green in the Reading Room. Yeah.
The reading room-turned-music room has been on our minds for a while now. It was the second room we worked on in this house (after the half bath) and it has kind of always been special to us. Greta and I (before Faye came along) used to read on the couch in here and watch […]
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March 30, 2015
Design
Leather Chairs for Every Budget + A new one in the Living Room!
A few months after we finished the reading room, we inherited a very beautiful piano passed down from Chris's great grandmother. So the reading room went from this: To this: And it's been like that ever since, while our cream Lily couch shuffled into the living room. Lots of shuffling. The problem with the set […]
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March 10, 2015
Decor
Quick Tip: Remove Your Jackets!
File this under: Something you could do right now that would instantly update your shelves. I was reloading the shelves in the reading room after Halloween--truthfully, Thanksgiving day--and it was all looking so busy. I didn't have the energy or time to really redecorate the shelves that day, but I did something simple that changed […]
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December 10, 2014
Decor
Halloween Shelves
Our halloween party is this Saturday and we have been in turbo drive trying to get a few things done around here. Of course, nothing goes as planned and there are always hiccups--like, maybe you didn't order enough wallpaper or something. #thelook So while there are, no less, than 4 house projects going on around […]
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October 21, 2014
Decor
Rearranging=Free Decorating
We have tried to live with just one couch in our main living area since moving in, but every time we have guests over (at least once a week!), we find ourselves scouring the house for extra chairs, while some friends end up sitting on the floor. A few weeks ago, we were having a […]
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May 30, 2014
DIY
The Reading Room Shelves: Fully Loaded
Friday, we left you with our finished and hung shelves: Which was lightyears away from where we started: But over the weekend, we got them loaded up and the room feels so much more complete. My entire family flew in for an early Christmas this weekend, and we were hosting dinner and games on Saturday […]
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December 23, 2013
