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How To Hire A Contractor (and When We Do)

January 25, 2016 - 8 Comments

To hire help or not? Can I afford to hire someone? When is it worth it as a DIYer? These are all really good questions that we ask ourselves before we start any large project (which we’re coming up on …

DIY

Now Open: Shop Our House!

January 21, 2016 - 18 Comments

I’m back from a whirlwind trip to Miami with Lowe’s Home Improvement (more on that in a future post) just in time to launch our new shop page! For quite some time, I have been trying to think of the …

Decor

15 Amazing Vintage Rugs Under $1000 For Sale Right Now

January 14, 2016 - 11 Comments

After my post earlier this week about all of the rugs in our house, I had a lot of inquiries about vintage rugs that are for sale right now. One-of-a-kind rugs are just that, there’s only one! So when you …

Decor, Projects

An Unexpected Source For Playroom Storage + A High/Low Option!

January 13, 2016 - 15 Comments

Rug | Pouf | Chairs | Table | Lights Not much has changed visually since the last playroom update. We moved the television up to our bedroom (bliss!): And we smashed that outdated mantle off of the fireplace. So now …

Decor

All Of Our Rug Sources

January 12, 2016 - 27 Comments

I spend a lot of time answering source questions, especially “Where did you get that rug!?”, so I thought I’d compile a post with direct links to where we got each and every rug (this is the kind of post …

Projects

Our 5 Projects On Deck for 2016

January 6, 2016 - 27 Comments

At this time last year, Chris was getting ready to have back surgery and that took us out of the reno game for the first 12 weeks of 2015. Faye was just 8 months old and we still set our …

Decor

Our Home 2 years In: Video Tour!

January 4, 2016 - 28 Comments

We love to do a video tour every so often so we can compare it to our last tour and see how far we’ve come, but it’s also nice for you readers to get an idea of how everything flows …

Projects

Yearly Report Card: 2015

December 29, 2015 - 17 Comments

We 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–2016’s is coming up next week! They are our very …

Projects

A Playroom Update: Lighting and Rug

December 16, 2015 - 24 Comments

It’s time for a long overdue playroom update. Back in October, we shared that this would be our next project. A few weeks later and we had almost everything here from the mood board I made: My next task was …

Design

Pros and Cons of Open Concept Living

December 14, 2015 - 52 Comments

I grew up in Pittsburgh in a very colonial style home where each room was its own room, and there were doorways–wide doorways, but doorways–leading into the living room and dining room and even the kitchen had its own doorway. …

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