renovations
Breaking News on Our 2025 Project List: Adding the Living Room & Dining Room STARTING NOW, Plus Why Our Timeline is Full Speed Ahead
North Carolina Home
Breaking News on Our 2025 Project List: Adding the Living Room & Dining Room STARTING NOW, Plus Why Our Timeline is Full Speed Ahead
You may have seen in Stories that Chris & I have been making drawings on our iPad for things we want to change about the living room. We've been casually doing this for 2 years now, actually. I had mentioned it as a "nice to have" update for our 2025 project list, but I hadn't […]
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March 5, 2025
Design
Let's Get Started: Our Primary Bathroom Layout Plans and Elevations!
It is time. No more false starts. We're diving head first into our primary bathroom renovation and taking you along for the entire thing. We've heard your fears--"you're going to renovate your bathroom and then move!" And while we have done that in the past two houses, (strange scenarios and had nothing to do with […]
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February 11, 2025
Lifestyle
The Chris Loves Julia Podcast Ep 3: Renovating with Kids
Renovating when you have kids is a real-life thing we have attempted to work through, sometimes failing and sometimes coming out feeling like proud parents. We've had a few reader and listener emails come in regarding how we manage to update our home when we have two kids: Do you try to squeeze everything into nap […]
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May 16, 2016
Lifestyle
How We Budget For Renovations
I know that talking about money is a little taboo and can be kind of uncomfortable, but renovating a home actually costs money (what?!) so we're going to make today's post a safe place to have a conversation about how our finances and budget have evolved to a place where we can afford to make […]
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March 15, 2016
