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How We Live Through Home Renovations As a Family

“How do you live in a house under renovation, as a family?” Chris grew up building houses with his family during the summers, and I grew up doing lots of DIY projects with my family. My sisters and I still talk about the summer we hauled railroad ties from the driveway to the backyard and […]
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January 11, 2024

North Carolina Home

Put a Fork in it: The Study is Officially Finished!

Only two weeks have passed since I wrote this cautionary tale on using high-gloss paint. Which means just two weeks ago, I was in total agony, feeling defeated with the vision I had for the study. The study and I have been on quite the rollercoaster, but I'm beyond pleased and utterly relieved to say […]
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May 30, 2023

North Carolina Home

The Gradual Two-Year Transformation of the Living Room

Sometimes room renovations happen over the span of a few months, and sometimes they take time. Ever since painting the living room, we have been slowly making tweaks and adjustments to the layout and furnishings. The living room started off as a conglomeration of furniture and decor from our last house. But over the last […]
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May 18, 2023

Projects

Project Punch List: What's Left On Our To-Do List

I recently made a declaration that I'm not starting any more home projects until our current projects get all wrapped up. There's so many moving parts at the moment and I'm feeling a bit frazzled with all the loose ends. And so! I came up with a list of all the things left on our […]
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August 31, 2022

DIY

7 Renovation Projects We're Finishing This Year

At the beginning of every year we share a list of home renovation projects we want to work on for the year. You can really tell from our 2021 project list we shared in January that life can really change in an instant. We started the year off on the hunt to buy a little […]
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September 9, 2021

Projects

What projects are happening before we move in to our new house?

A week ago, we were flying to Raleigh to close on our new house, set up security, and meet with a slew of contractors before flying back home to Idaho on Thursday. It was a whirlwind week but by Friday, we already got photos from our contractor--the Brazilian cherry floors were already all removed on […]
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May 17, 2021

Idaho Cottage

2 Years of Making Our Modern Cottage

At the beginning of every year, we make a list of all the projects we plan to tackle that year, and in 2020 (even though we had only been in our house for about 6 months) we made a pretty hefty project list. We came to a realization that we don’t want to be renovating this house […]
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April 13, 2021

Renovations

What in the world is going on in the front entry?!

Anybody else trying to figure out how we're already a week into February? Last Monday we started demoing the front-entry/ entrance into the office/coat closet, and already, it's so much easier to envision what we have planned. The entry was one of our 10 projects to tackle this year, and although we've been documenting a […]
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February 9, 2021

DIY

"Why Is This Taking So Long?": An Update on our Renovation + A Hard Deadline

When last Friday afternoon rolled around, I had a lump in my throat. Looking around, there wasn't a lot of visual progress made in the house last week despite workers being on site every day. And being on month 7 of this (and 2 months over schedule), it's not all rainbows of positivity. That being […]
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February 10, 2020

Projects

A Check-In on Our Pre-Christmas Checklist + Will We Be Home For Christmas?

Last month, November 13th, we laid out all the projects we had lined up to complete before Christmas in this post. At the time, we were making plans to move out for two weeks and group a lot of these tasks together to really expedite things. I didn't realize how much time had passed since […]
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December 19, 2019

Renovations

Answering all of your burning questions about our Renovation.

What was the total cost? Can we see real numbers? How close have you stayed within budget? I can't share the total cost, because we aren't finished yet. But I'm happy to share a few insights around this subject. Before you begin a renovation project, it's essential to sit down and make a budget. This is […]
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December 3, 2019

DIY

Our Pre-Christmas Project Checklist

 While Chris and I were stuck in the airport for endless hours yesterday (we're STILL not home), we started making a list of allthe projects that need to happen before Christmas. Need is a strong word, because Christmas is going to come regardless, but our contractors are very confident they will be done with everything within the […]
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November 13, 2019

DIY

The Start of Our Office Renovation

This post is sponsored by Modsy. Our office was a big selling-point for our house. It’s just off of the entryway, it has a door, and it has enough space to host our growing team as well as visits from partners and sponsors. Truthfully, this space came to the forefront of our minds when 20 […]
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November 7, 2019

Casual Friday

Casual Friday: Trying To Find A Sanctuary in too Much Construction, We bought A Couch, Office Plans, Great Dome Lamps and More!

Happy November! What?! Was October the fastest month for anyone else? This week, we cleared out our bedroom again and right now, Chris and I are cuddled up in Faye's Queen size bed--which feels really significantly smaller than our King, I'm not going to lie--while she is currently sleeping in the extra bed in Greta's […]
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November 1, 2019
Fullmer Kitchen - CLJ

DIY

Things to Know When Planning Your IKEA Kitchen

This post is not in any way sponsored by IKEA. We've used their cabinetry on several projects and are answering questions we've received through all of that. Opinions are 100% ours.  Do IKEA Kitchen Cabinets Really Hold Up? This is probably the question we received most. And we totally get it. Straight up, IKEA is known […]
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April 25, 2019

Projects

All the Major Finishes in the A-frame Renovation

Big renovations started on our A-frame at the beginning of August and by the end of September, I think/hope all the major players will be in place. It's going to be another busy month up there but I thought I would give you a big update on everything that has been done and will be done […]
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September 10, 2018

DIY

10 Tips for Living Through a Home Renovation

We're currently remodeling our master bathroom, and by that I mean, we actually hired a team of contractors to do the work (our first time ever doing that!) This bathroom renovation isn't the first major remodel we lived through in our home, in fact--it's our last! But we've only done a couple like it, where […]
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April 23, 2018
The Chris Loves Julia Podcast - Episode 17

Lifestyle

Ep 17: No Money No Problems - Projects You Can Do Now, On The Cheap

Listen to the latest episodes on: iTunes, GooglePlay, Stitcher. Title: Ep 17: No Money No Problems - Projects You Can Do Now, On The Cheap Show Notes: Nearly every home owner who wants to renovate experiences that point where you simply don't have the money to do the things you want. And sometimes, when the furnace, water heater and AC […]
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August 29, 2016
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