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Design

Peer Review: Inspiration for Styling a Kitchen

Can you believe the end of summer school is here?! What a great ride! I loved sharing my tips for styling entries, bedrooms, living rooms, and kitchens to create rooms that you can enjoy season after season. One thing I'm seeing a lot in kitchen styling is making it feel and look like another living […]
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August 2, 2024

Decor

Transform Your Kitchen At $150, $350, Or $750

As I mentioned earlier this week, kitchen styling is about clearing the clutter and intentionally making the utilitarian workhorses of your kitchen into your most beautiful decor — whether that's the cutting board, the tea kettle, or the fruit bowl. Then you can layer in the elements that are typically found in more formal entertaining […]
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July 31, 2024

Decor

How to Style a Kitchen for Everyday Enjoyment

Shop The Kitchen Welcome to the last week of Summer School! We've talked all things styling the past few weeks, from how to style an entry, to how to style a bedroom, to how to style a living room. And here we are on week four, tackling perhaps the most unexpected room to style: the […]
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July 29, 2024

Design

Peer Review: Inspiration for Styling a Living Room

We're coming to the end of Week 3 of Summer School: Home Styling 101! Today I want to share some living room interiors that have stopped my scroll with their use of color, texture, and styling. This is somewhat beyond the realm of what conventionally falls under styling, but something I've been really looking for […]
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July 26, 2024

Decor

Transform Your Living Room at $150, $350, or $750

This week, we're styling living rooms, which is a place where you can really shine! Earlier in the week, I talked about the opportunities you have to style a lot of surfaces, from coffee tables and couches to shelves and mantles. Today I want to share some of my go-to styling products that can make […]
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July 24, 2024

Decor

How to Style a Living Room

Shop The Living Room Here's the honest truth: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Something that looks beautiful to me is going to look different from something that looks beautiful to you. We all have our own tastes. And early on, I realized that it's not enough for me to look at something […]
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July 22, 2024

Design

Peer Review: Inspiration for Styling a Bedroom

Here's the crazy thing about me and inspiration: If you were to go into my bathroom inspiration board on Pinterest, there are bathrooms for sure, but there are also kitchens, there are closets, there are mudrooms, and there are hallways of houses! I'm not looking to copy and paste an inspirational image. I'm taking notes […]
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July 19, 2024

Decor

Transform Your Bedroom At $150, $350, Or $750

This week we're talking all things bedrooms! In yesterday's post, How to Style a Bedroom, I talked about the surfaces that are available to layer onto, including the bed, dresser, and nightstand. Today we will layer on the styling tools that will make the room feel more put together. This is the room to think […]
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July 17, 2024

Decor

How to Style a Bedroom

Shop The Primary Bedroom Welcome to a new week of summer school as we continue our Home Styling 101 course! Last week we talked about how to style entryways — from front porches to mudrooms — and now we're going to tackle one of the most "inward-facing" rooms of the house: the bedroom. I want […]
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July 15, 2024

Design

Transform Your Entry at $150, $350, or $750

This week, we kicked off our summer school with How to Style an Entry, and now we want to give you the tools to do so! I always advocate shopping your own house first, and hopefully, you'll find some things you can use there. But I also love to add something fresh which can give […]
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July 10, 2024

Decor

How to Style an Entryway (Including the Front Porch & Powder Room!)

Yesterday I kicked off our Summer School with an introduction to how I approach styling every space in my home. If you missed that post, be sure to go back and get the foundations so you are ready to tackle one of the most important — yet often neglected — areas of the home. This […]
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July 9, 2024

Design

CLJ Summer School: Home Styling 101

Kitchen Desk (similar) | Glossy Ceramic Vase | Faux Snowball Flowers | Chair Stool | Laptop Cover | Copper Cookware Sharpen those No. 2 pencils and open those pretty notebooks, it's time to kick off Summer School 2024! Recently, we started diving deep into design principles during the month of July and calling it Summer […]
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July 8, 2024

Casual Friday

Casual Friday | Dear Diary: 1 month in North Carolina

This week marks 1 month in North Carolina so I thought I would share a journal-type post today sharing how I'm feeling. I’m so happy we’re here and we were able to move into our house just over a week ago. I'm really starting to fall in love with the area and with the arrival of our […]
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July 30, 2021

Entertaining

We Asked My Favorite Hostess, Kim Vargo, 5 Questions

If there was someone who hosts even more than we do, and probably more effortlessly--it's Kim and Scott Vargo of Yellow Brick Home: our dear friends with whom we wish we could share a charcuterie board and game night a lot more often! And Kim isn't a "hostess with the mostess" because she's doing over-the-top […]
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July 29, 2021

Inspiration

We Asked Lonika Chande 5 Questions about getting out of your comfort zone.

When you're gearing up to try something new, whether it be jumping off a cliff into a cool lake, expecting your first child, or buying a new home, you need a cheerleader in your corner. You know, a hype girl saying you got this! It's going to be great! You can do it! I'm here […]
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July 22, 2021

Design

A few small ways to get out of your comfort zone

This week, we're talking about how to fall in love with your home by getting out of your comfort zone. Making design decisions can feel scary, but it doesn't always have to be something as forward as painting a room a bold color. Start with something small, like patterned curtains or a bright colored lamp. […]
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July 21, 2021

Inspiration

Homework: How to Get out of your Comfort zone in your home

This week we're focusing on how to fall in love with your home by getting out of your comfort zone, and as you can imagine, the homework is going to be oh so fun. We really want you to put yourself out there and do something that pushes your limits of comfort. When we decided […]
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July 20, 2021

Design

Fall in love with your home by getting out of your comfort zone

I remember when I had the idea to paint Polly's room purple. I really wanted to do it, but I was nervous about it. The last time I painted a room purple, it was our living room and ten years ago and I still had queasy feelings about purple all these years later. But I […]
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July 19, 2021

Design

A few favorites to inspire (or enhance) new rituals

This week, we're talking about creating rituals in your home. I rounded up some things that bring comfort and joy in my home, along with a few rituals I would love to develop. We don't need a special occasion for fresh flowers or linen napkins. Light the candle. Turn on the lamps. Let's make every day feel […]
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July 14, 2021

Inspiration

CREATE A RITUAL: Inspo and Homework

Yesterday we talked about falling in love with your home by creating rituals, and today we're going to start putting some simple, meaningful rituals into practice. Practice, being the key word here, because no ritual was made overnight. It takes time to build your morning routine, your evening routine, your "weekend s'mores roasting" routine, but […]
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July 13, 2021
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