Most of the time, I usually try to share posts with y’all that will help you in your own homes and give you ideas and empower you. At least, I really hope that’s what you get from this whole DIY / decorating adventure. Today though, I’m having a moment of we-finally-have-green-grass-and-trees-and-the-weeds-are-pulled-and-we-have-new-porch-lights-and-doggone-it-I’m-showing-everybody. This past weekend, beautiful summer decided to arrive (on…
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True story: Back in 5th grade, I created my first room design board. I drew a diagram of my bedroom in a little notebook to plan the furniture layout, sketched out all of the decor and where I wanted it to go, and the theme was centered around one thing… butterflies. No idea why I suddenly developed a butterfly obsession…
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I’m hitting the 20 week mark in my pregnancy this week, which officially means we’re halfway to meeting this little nugget! What the what?! We haven’t started the nursery at all, so I’m starting to slightly panic. (Mainly because I’m not quite as able-bodied as I usually am.) So I started the official hunt for a crib this weekend, since…
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I get asked two questions pretty frequently… How is your painted sink/countertop/tub/shower holding up? How do you make paint splattered yoga pants and T-shirts look so dang good? I’m lying about one of those. Can you guess which one? 😉 It’s been 8 months since finishing our upstairs bathroom (that Olivia mostly uses but it’s also for guests). So I…
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It had been way too long since I painted a piece of furniture. Some people go jogging to clear their heads, others create art as their therapy, I paint dusty dressers bound for the trash heap. (Partly because I only run if something is chasing me and I can only draw stick people. So there’s that. Haha!) This dusty dresser…
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Welcome to the mullet summer party, y’all! The business in the front, party in the back kind. Because right now, when you walk in through the front door, our foyer and dining room is all decorated for company, but if you walk past these first two rooms into the back of the house, it’s art projects and toy explosions and…
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I started to title this post “What New Moms Really Want” because that’s exactly what this is. This week, I started feeling little popcorn kicks from this little sprout for the first time, and it brought back so many memories of when I had Olivia wiggling around nearly 6 years ago. And then my slower-than-usual mom brain realized Mother’s Day…
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Oh, be still my mama heart! I think this latest project beats our DIY storybook art, kiddie desks, and reading nook in terms of cute little girlness factor. Or maybe that’s just the former ballerina in me being completely biased. We built a ballet barre in Olivia’s room and she has been nonstop twirling in front of it ever since…
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The other week, I had one of those days where I could NOT look at our dark yellowy-beige upstairs hallway for one more minute. You ever have a day like that? One where you think, “I need to find a paint brush immediately.” I’ve never shown this spot in our house before, but it’s one we walk through a bajillion…
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This post has been one I’ve written in my head before. Because so often when I look around our house I think, “Gosh. I really do have an IKEA love affair going on.” I’m not sure if it’s my Swedish roots or the fact that I just really love a great deal, but when I walk into our nearby IKEA,…
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We interrupt our usual decorating and DIYing shenanigans to bring you a life update. If you’ve been following along for a couple of months, you probably already know we have a bun in the oven. Ever since the day we found out we were expecting this little one, we’ve been calling him/her Baby Sprout. (Olivia’s nickname is Bug [Livie Bug],…
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Lately, there have been several little corners and skinny walls in our house that I’ve been looking at and thinking, “A sconce would look super cute there.” Then somehow I found myself escaping down the online shopping rabbit hole for sconce lights and ended up with 20 of them in my virtual cart (because that’s my idea of a wild…
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*In partnership with KILZ. How do I say this casually? I got to interview Chip Gaines! Chip CARTER Gaines! (As Joanna would say.) A couple of weeks ago, Robert and I flew out to Texas, and while we were visiting Magnolia Market, I basically felt like a little kid at Disney World… ya know, if Disney World were made up…
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I’ve been keeping a tiny secret from you guys. Okay, actually it’s big… HUGE! First of all, have you noticed things look a bit different on this ol’ blog? We got a new website design, and it’s so pretty I want to pet it. (*Lovingly rubs computer screen.*) I hope this makes everything much easier to navigate now. Oh,…
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I love lamp. That’s the gist of this post. (Anchorman reference, anyone?) Well, that plus everything else in Olivia’s room right now because this room makeover is trekking right along and it’s cuuuuuuuute! Before I show you all of the progress in there though, it’s officially Trash to Treasure Tuesday! This pair of lamps was my victim. (If you’re new…
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I was planning to make this post super catchy and helpful like… 10 Ways to Bring Spring Into Your Home 5 Ways to Make Your Living Room Look Effortless With Florals But… my brain is half asleep from all of the work we’ve done in Olivia’s room lately and preparing for a yard sale. I rattled around in this noggin…
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We blinked and *poof*, it’s officially been 1 year in this house! Time flies when you’re having fun… except when you’re breaking your neck painting every wall, door, and piece of crown molding… but mainly having fun. 😉 After living in a brand new builder grade house for 3 years (you can tour that one here), Robert, Olivia, and I…
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Maybe I can blame it on the fact that I’m now in my 30s or that our current house makes me lean more traditionally, but for the past several months, I’ve been thinking a lot about timeless design. That’s probably because if I paint a room, I reeeeaaaally don’t want to paint it again in 2-3 years just because I…
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This post is sponsored by Minwax. Remember back a few months ago when I found this dining table for $100 on a Facebook buy/sell/trade group? Well, it didn’t look like this when we got it actually. It desperately needed a paint job, and I was dead set to sand down the top to reveal some gorgeous wood grain that just…
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Ever since we’ve wrapped up Olivia’s wallpaper and paint changes in her bedroom, we’ve been in operation move-around-all-the-furniture. Which means we have our guest room mattress now in her room, her old bed now in the garage ready to be sold, and my and Robert’s faux gilded nightstands now in her room. It’s a regular game of musical furniture around…
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