Last month, I shared that we bought our fourth house in 12 years and we couldn’t be more thrilled! What prompted the move after living in our last home for four years? Let’s go back in time a little bit. Our first home that we purchased before we were married was a two-story, 2-bedroom, 2-bath home with one bedroom/bath on the first floor and ...
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Living Room Inspiration
sofa | teak armchair | bergere chair | cane-back chair | chandelier Our living room is the most challenging space in our new home because of the way it's configured. Our downstairs consists of a kitchen, living and dining room and it's all one open-concept space. We also have a powder room and office down the hall, separated from ...
Four Tips When You’re Building a New Home
Building a new home is an exciting (albeit stressful) experience, and with so many choices to make, it's easy to become overwhelmed. We had a pretty great experience building our new home, so I thought I would share some things I found to be helpful when going through the process. I will add the disclaimer that our builder was very flexible and ...
Black & White Favorites for the Home
I love adding touches of black and white to both our home and my closet and I especially love black and white patterns to add a little dimension and interest to a room. In today's post, I'm sharing some of my recent (and not so recent) favorite B&W purchases. The first is this black and white striped light with tassel from the Emily + ...
Home Updates (or Lack Thereof)
I haven't written about our new home in a long time because our house is in shambles. I went on one of my manic cleaning sprees and threw away a ton of stuff and we bought these vacuum seal bags to store things we never use like older bed sheets and pillows, etc. Basically, our house looked better the day after we moved in than it does now. We've ...
Home Tour: Updates w/ Furniture & Decor
I am excited to share with you a photo-tour of our new home with furniture and decor! I took these over the weekend after cleaning like a maniac. Dark hardwood floors are beautiful, but I've never vacuumed so much in my life. Because our second floor is basically one long rectangle, the vacuuming is actually pretty easy so no ...
Home Update: Office Progress
Happy Sunday to you! I am completely exhausted today and I was the same way last weekend. I think the "burned out" feeling from doing so much during the move and when my friends were in town has finally caught up with me. I made some progress on my office today and also cleaned up the guest bedroom and the entire second floor of our house so ...