We’re homebodies. This blog is all about our home projects and renovations. We’re committed to uncover every ounce of potential our home has and make it a place our family can happily reside and entertain in for years to come.
Just like our readers, we do lots of research before (and during!) every project. We seek out the best brands and the most unique makers that fit our personal modern/traditional/cozy/family-friendly aesthetic. Just like our readers, we make Pinboards and mood boards and surf lots of other blogs and magazines for inspiration. When we narrow our search down to an ideal partner — for the perfect sectional, the best tile we’ve ever seen, a rug that is soft underfoot but won’t shed or an awesome dining chair — we, sometimes, contact them and ask them if they want to collaborate and sponsor the project. This means that they’ll donate their product and, often, pay us a fee in exchange for exposure on this blog. We’ll link to them and give all of the details about why we chose them and what makes them a great fit for us and our home.
Occasionally, a partner will approach us, and we’re always flattered! It’s very cool to meet brands that align so well with ours. We have made a rule for ourselves that we won’t accept partnerships or products that don’t fit into our aesthetic, projects we’re working on or life in our home. We won’t promote a product or a project that we don’t think is valuable to you, our readers. We won’t promote a product or project that doesn’t jive with our niche of DIY, Home Design & Family — even if it’s “free.”
Whether a product is donated or a post is sponsored, we’ll always let you know in a clear way. In this way we hope to keep our editorial integrity. It comes with a promise that we made an ethical decision to co-brand/collaborate, that we wouldn’t promote anyone or anything that we wouldn’t buy with our own money, and hopefully introduce our readers to a great partner that can help them with whatever they have going on. It is these sponsorships that allow us to write more content, churn out more projects and in the end, uncover more of our home’s potential.
Affiliates
We also frequently use affiliate links to share where we did buy something. This means if you love where we got that lamp, and click on the link and end up buying it, we’ll make a small commission on the sale. It feels like a win/win to us and definitely helps keep the blog lights on. Affiliate links are not sponsored, and we’re not being nudged to highlight affiliated products (unless noted as outlined above). All of the products we share are things we genuinely love – some will be affiliated, and some won’t be.
If you have any questions about this, or are a business and would like to work with us, let’s chat. Thanks so much for reading along with us and we hope you feel welcome in our virtual home.
Our wood grain Shaker cabinet fronts were designed for busy, high-traffic homes like ours. Clad with durable textured thermofoils, this line is compatible with Sektion, Akurum, Godmorgon, and Besta cabinets from IKEA. It's the perfect, practical way to add the warmth of wood to all the rooms of your home.
We have teamed up with Loloi to create a line of rugs that are as affordable as they are beautiful. This collection houses a great mix of traditional and modern rugs, in cottage-y colorways, as well as vintage-inspired beauties that you’ll want to roll out in every room.
We partnered with Stuga on a line of hardwood floors — The Ingrid is really livable, and the color is very neutral. It doesn’t lean warm or cool, it’s that just right in-between. We have really loved putting it everywhere in our house. It’s the best jumping-off point for design, no matter your interior style. In addition to being beautiful, Ingrid is really durable — we have three kids, and we always have a home construction project going on. Ingrid stands up to it all.
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Befores, afters, mood boards, plans, failures, wins. We’ve done a lot of projects, and they’re all here.
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Even when you don’t want to rip down a wall, you can make that space in your home better. Right now.
A reader recently asked me if I’m starting to fully embrace traditional style and whether we still consider our house to be a “modern Colonial” and why. It was a really great question and so timely — I had really just been thinking about my approach to this home and how my style has changed […]
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