Our one year houseaversary was yesterday. One year in our new house! Kinda hard to believe how fast that year went. Have I ever told you the story of how we found this house? Grab a cup of coffee, cozy in and let me tell you … We bought our last house when we just […]
You know those gorgeous front porches decorated for fall with cascading pumpkins and overflowing flower pots? (Maybe something like this?) Yeah, if you came over to our house, you wouldn’t see one of those. What you would see is my half-hearted attempt to bring life to our charming, yet totally dated front porch. Let me […]
I told myself I wasn’t going to get into Fall mode until after last weekend. Audrey had her first soccer game, we celebrated Brady’s 12th birthday (what?!) and the Seahawks played (sad loss, but I’m trying to forget it). I saw my first falling leaf of the season and our hydrangeas have changed into the […]
Today is National Make Your Bed day (did you even know there was such a thing?!). Several months ago, Crane & Canopy offered to send us a new Belgian linen duvet and sham set and I, of course, said yes. If you’ve been around here for long, you know that I have a longstanding thing […]
In our home, and in our main living areas, we have two couches. One is in the living room: couch | rug | coffee table (similar) | lamp (similar) | ikat fabric | leaf pillow The other is in the family room: sectional | ottoman | lamp | stripe basket | x pillow | pom pillow […]
Before and afters are the very best, aren’t they?! Our little guest bathroom has undergone a great transformation that I can’t wait to show you. Here’s a sneak peek of the after (because I just can’t handle leading the post with one of the before pictures!). Isn’t it pretty? Let’s start at the beginning. Our […]
You may remember that we dove headfirst into the country life and bought baby chicks this spring. Well, I’m happy to report that those sweet little fluffy chicks have grown into full-size, egg-laying hens. This is our first go at raising chickens and while we don’t know all there is to know, perhaps you’d like […]
I’ve shared this view of our most lived-in room of the house a handful of times: But what I haven’t shared are the other sides: We call this room the Family Room which sits off the kitchen and is the place where we do most of our hanging out. We chose the cushiest, deepest, most […]
We have now been in our house for all four seasons. As we have been working on the inside of the house, we have done very little to the exterior. I think part of us wanted to wait until we experienced the house in each season – to see how the sun comes through the […]
The last time I showed you the studio, the desks had just been finished and it was styled with hints of pink for spring. Since then, I have added a few new pieces of furniture and switched out the pink for summery blues so it felt like a good time to do an updated studio […]
If you remember from a couple of previous posts, we’ve been turning an open third floor bonus room into a functional space for our growing kids. Since moving in, we walled in a bedroom and closet, painted the walls, changed out the lighting, updated the trim and replaced the carpet (read all about the updates here). […]
At long last, we have new carpet, trim and paint on the second and third floors. This was a big project we were hoping to do before we moved in last fall … but you know how things go … sometimes plans change. Our closing kept getting pushed back and we were so anxious to […]
Today I’m joining a group of talented bloggers on a Cozy Spring Home Tour hosted by Rachel from Shades of Blue Interiors + Country Living Magazine and sponsored by HomeGoods. Country Living wrote a great roundup article with 22 ways to decorate for spring pulling from each space (read that here) and be sure to scroll […]
The drawers in the studio finally have hardware. It took forever to put them on and here’s why: I’m terrible at it. Seriously, terrible. I put the cabinet/drawer hardware on in the kitchen and pretty much every one is crooked. How is that possible when you have a template and measure over and over again […]
As we are beginning to meet people in our new town, we’re finding that when they drop by, we end up chatting in the entry. The problem is, the entry is not the best representation of our style and what we’re doing in the rest of the house. Here is the entry on the day […]
Since the studio desk situation was hurting my creative brain, I moved on to coming up with a design plan for the hangout space up on the third floor. This house is just one big project and even though it would be great to go one room at a time, I can’t help myself :) […]
I set up a temporary desk in the studio last week and have loved working in this new space. The light is so good, it is quiet, big and open and the perfect backdrop for creative work. Spending more time up there made me extra excited to get working on putting the studio together. After we […]
In our last house, the living room was open to the kitchen. It was our main hang-out space for hosting parties, hanging out with the kids and watching tv. If you’ve been reading the blog for a while, you’ll likely remember the shingled fireplace and tufted chesterfield sofa that lived in that room. The new house […]
Now that the shell of the studio is complete, it’s time to get to work on a design plan for how to best use the space. You would think that I would have had this all planned out for months, but nope. This is probably due to the fact that I’m simultaneously thinking about a bunch of other […]
Grab a cup of coffee and let’s chat! Today we’re in our newly made-over kitchen. I posted the full reveal with lots of before and after photos (read that here) and your comments were so fun to read through! Many questions were asked on repeat, so in today’s video, I thought it would be fun […]
