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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.
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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.
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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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[…] have made it a tradition around here to make a post in the first week of the year about what projects we’d like to get done over the course of the year. They are our very […]
[…] wet by the window, too. But replacing all that is nothing. We’re just moving her room up our to-do list for this year. However, our neighbors weren’t so […]
I just discovered your blog (how is this possible!?) and I am in love with it! I am super excited to see what is coming for your house and I will probably reading your archives for days! I’m especially excited to see what you do with those tile floors…I’m pretty sure we have the EXACT same ones at our new house and I can’t stand them. I want to rip them out right this second!!
Following you on Instagram now as well just to complete the stalker-ish obsession! ha!
Have a great day!
Amber @ Averie Lane
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Hello. We just closed on our first home and I am struggling with the family room layout. Our open kitchen, dining and family room space is similar to yours (but flipped). I remembered this post and your plans for a fireplace in 2014. Once the fp is complete where will you put your tv? Everyone has suggested above the fp (my initial thought too) but after reading up on it, it doesn’t seem like the best choice.
How exciting for you! We are actually planning to put our tv above our fireplace, actually.
We’re planning on moving into a new home and have our second baby on the way come June and we’re just about on the same design track. Definitely tackling our floors first and foremost. I learned from our first kid that life gets put on hold those first few months the baby is born so I’m squeezing in as much as I can before the baby comes—I’m sure you guys feel the same way! I already love your living room. Can’t wait to see it evolve : ] Happy new year, Julia!
Yay! I’m looking forward to all of these projects. I love when bloggers share what they’re planning so I can think about what id do first and build up excitement.t to see what they do. 2014 looks like an exciting year for your family!
What a great list of projects and plans for the new year! I can’t wait to see the new flooring and things!
Good luck with all of your plans! I’m sure whatever you complete will be beautiful.
Yay – excited for all your plans! I am thinking about our kitchen remodel now and have given myself a few months (after years of fake dreaming about it) to really get plans in place – glad to hear I am not the only one that needs that kind of time to make up my mind on it! And a word to the wise on tile removal – it is a messy and occasionally bloody job. Last time I removed a huge room of it small shards of tile got everywhere, cutting up my hands – wear protection! :)
Oy. Can’t wait??
Can’t wait to see what you guys have come up with! Especially adding a fireplace. I have dreams of adding one to our house, but I am not sure how that would work out. So, I’m excited to see what you came up with!
Good luck! Neat that you guys decided to look ahead too! Good luck with the floors – we removed tile and carpet downstairs and few years back. Let’s just say, we were happy to contract it out. Removing tile is not for the faint of heart.
We’d love to hire out the tile removal! Do you remember how much you paid? Maybe I’ll call around.
Your floors remind of me what I’ve been thinking about with all of our yard work. On Monday I dug out well over 100 pavers (for the second time in under 2 weeks). As I continued to crow bar and haul them to a pile for someone else, I kept telling myself, “this will be beautiful in the end. It might take time, it might be painful. Tomorrow is a rest day. Just do it.”
The next morning my hub looked at me and said, “it’s beautiful, babe. Thank you for your hard work and dedication.”
So awesome. Congrats Wendy! That sounds like a ton of work! Every project that we’ve poured ourselves into has been worth it, so we’re confident we’ll be happy in 3 months. :)
Very cool!! Have you guys thought about going (even more) crazy and vaulting the ceiling in the great room/kitchen area? It would really accent the fireplace plans.
Ugh. EVERY DAY!!! That was our original plan when we first moved in, but with the way the roof and ceiling beams are, we were told it would require replacing our entire roof, unfortunately. So we’re going to do the best we can with our non-vaulted ceiling.
Man that view into your reading room never fails to make me swoon! Can’t wait to see it with the new floors. Love your style and excited to see the rooms evolve this year.
Ambitious plans, but sounds like the results will be really cool (and worth it!). I’m interested to see how your flooring turns out – I’m sure it will look great. We’re in the process of planning our 2014 house projects as well – we’ve got a huge wishlist that needs some serious editing…