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Casual Friday: Give me all your road trip tips, our exterior reno in 5 minutes, my fav jeans, the perfect summer dessert and more!
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Casual Friday: Give me all your road trip tips, our exterior reno in 5 minutes, my fav jeans, the perfect summer dessert and more!
We're preparing for the cross country trip of our lifetime in 2 weeks where we move from Idaho to Raleigh. Not only am I trying to plan a 5 day road trip with 3 kids that's actually fun and memorable, but I'm also especially sensitive to the fact with each passing hour, we are […]
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June 4, 2021
Design
Then and Now: The Girls' Rooms
Welcome back to a little segment I like to call, "Then and Now" where we take a look back at different rooms in our house (you guessed it) then, and now. We've looked at our living rooms and our primary bathrooms, and today we're taking a peak at the girls' rooms in our last house […]
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May 6, 2021
DIY
Our Final House Tour
We're in the homestretch! Did you see that we're officially under contract? I mentioned in yesterday's blog post that it's a little bittersweet knowing our days are limited in this house. We move in June. I think it's okay to feel sad about leaving this house, AND happy for the new family that gets to […]
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April 28, 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
Decor
Our Holiday Home Video Tour
Photos are one thing, but there's nothing like a video to share our home. We are excited to share a short walk-through of our first floor all decked out for Christmas. Not only can you see all the decorations, but you can hopefully better understand the flow. Enjoy the video below and to see photos […]
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December 16, 2020
Design
Video: Our Fall Exterior House Tour 2020!!
We're VERY close to being finished with our exterior and sharing a bunch of before and after images, but despite being in-progress, we wanted to keep with our tradition of filming an exterior and interior house tour in the fall. (Interior house tour forth-coming!) We were about a week too late filming, because we kept […]
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October 21, 2020
DIY
How To: Laying Peel and Stick Tile over the Bathroom Floor!
We have been doing a quick phase 1 renovation of the girls' bathroom (read more about the plans here!) over the last week and it's coming along so well! We painted the countertops last week using the same countertop paint (and color--Putty!) as we used in our kitchen in our first house nearly a decade […]
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September 28, 2020
Casual Friday
Casual Friday: The Best of July & Buyers' Remorse
July was filled with highs and lows. It was the month that really felt like summer filled with eating outside and swimming and soaking in family time. But it was also the month our emotions got the best of us. To be honest, we experienced heavy feelings of buyers' remorse as we looked around, an entire year […]
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July 31, 2020
DIY
Video!! A Closet Walk through
"Open the drawers!!!" Okay, Okay, Okay!! Today, we're bringing you along for a casual walk-through every drawer and cabinet and detail in our closet. See my "secret stash" and my one regret. Chris's favorite shirt and see if you can make sense of his organization and lots more! Come check out the closet: A […]
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July 22, 2020
House Tours
Our first ever: Exterior House Tour!
Yesterday we shared the plans for the exterior of our home, but one request we consistently get is to share more of our property! We figured now would be a fun time to share that, plus a little view of the current state of our home's exterior since it's about to change! We live […]
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May 27, 2020
Casual Friday
Casual Friday: The Beginning of March was a lifetime ago + A Video and Favorites.
The beginning of March feels like a lifetime ago. And in a lot of ways, it was. Life was different one month ago--and while we're settling in to a slower pace and leaning into a lot more time with our girls, and celebrating some quiet time in our home--a first since moving in--we're also grieving and scared […]
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April 3, 2020
DIY
Behind-the-Scenes Reveal Video of our Lowe's Bedroom Makeover with The Makerista!
Two weeks ago, we shared the before and afters of the Lowe's bedroom makeover we did with The Makerista in Scottsdale, Arizona. But this week's behind-the-scenes video shows a lot more, including the powerful reveal to the homeowner, Cori. We're so grateful for this opportunity and experience. To the family for allowing us […]
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March 18, 2020
Design
Our New Bathroom Plans + Layout, and our trip to unforgettable Kohler, Wisconsin!
This post is sponsored by Kohler The plan is to start our master bathroom renovation in April. And if it seems like we're jumping from our closet to our bathroom and back again, we are. Right now, our closet is in the master bathroom so over the next few weeks we'll be building the closet out in […]
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March 9, 2020
Casual Friday
Casual Saturday: Best of February
February flashed before my eyes. We were in San Diego, Kohler, Wisconsin, Scottsdale, Arizona. We tackled so many projects and flushed out designs, made progress on our home and celebrated Greta's birthday. There were ups and downs and missteps and successes and the days passed. No, they flew by! A little too fast for my […]
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February 28, 2020
DIY
10 Tips to Start Loving Your Home Right Now
This month, I quietly celebrated 11 years of blogging. As part of that, last week, we watched the very first home tour video I ever did for this blog. It was of our first basement apartment that we were renting. The one we brought Greta home to and where I started the blog. Andi filmed […]
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February 20, 2020
DIY
How to Put on a Duvet Cover In Under 3 Minutes (Without crawling inside!) So EASY!
This post was created from a real life moment. We were getting our room ready to shoot an update last week and I asked Andi, our Visual Media Producer, to give me a hand putting the duvet cover on. To which she said, "Tell me I don't have to crawl inside. I ALWAYS crawl inside of mine." […]
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January 29, 2020
House Tours
An In-Progress Video Tour of the First Floor (and Floor plan!)
With so many changes happening on the first floor of our house, I get so many questions every day about how it's all connected. So we thought it would be fun to share a tour of our main floor along with a floorplan that Chris drew up. Can you believe the photo above is NOT […]
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January 15, 2020
Cleaning & Organization
A Video Tour inside our Newly Organized Pantry
Last week we shared our freshly painted and organized pantry and this week, we thought it would be fun to give a little video tour. There were a few skeptics that thought not everything came back in the pantry, and I can confidently say that all the major players and small appliances are here! We […]
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October 8, 2019
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A Video Walkthrough of our Completed Phase 1 Kitchen Renovation (And why there's going to be a phase 2!!)
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A Video Walkthrough of our Completed Phase 1 Kitchen Renovation (And why there's going to be a phase 2!!)
2 weeks ago we shared our phase 1 kitchen renovation before and after photos and besides it being one of the most fun projects we've ever shared, we also got a loot of questions about why we would you even DO a phase 2? What a nice compliment to our phase 1. The goal of phase 1 […]
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August 28, 2019
DIY
How to Build a Simple, Built-in, Sturdy Shelf For Your Kitchen (or anywhere, really)
We encourage all DIYers to know their own limits when they take on projects. This tutorial uses power tools that could cause serious harm if operated incorrectly, so please be safe, be smart, and hire a professional if needed. After posting our kitchen phase 1 update, we've had so many requests to share how we […]
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August 21, 2019
