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Turning A Homework Room into A Sweet Retreat

March 23, 2015 - 8 Comments

During the month of March, our long-time partner, Ace Hardware is helping consumers discover a new love for color through a month-long interactive paint experience called 31 Days of Color. Every day unveils a new “Color of the Day” selected …

Ask Julia, Design

A Paint Color Match to Ikea Bodbyn Off-White Cabinet!

March 20, 2015 - 43 Comments

Update: See the finished laundry room, with the Ikea cabinets in place right here! Oh Ikea, just when we had you all figured out, you go and change everything! The previous AKRUM line of cabinets, bloggers everywhere had pretty much …

Design, Inspiration, Mood Boards

All The Laundry Room Plans

March 18, 2015 - 10 Comments

Since you’ll be able to see the laundry room/mudroom through the sliding door (that is mostly left open) in the kitchen/dining room, we really wanted the two spaces to complement each other well. Here’s a before and after floor plan …

Decor, Our Life

Greta Turns 5 + The Best Looking Compact Fish Tank

March 16, 2015 - 6 Comments

A whole month has passed since Greta turned a whopping 5 years old. (How did that happen!?) She woke up on her birthday and ran to the mirror in the entry and stared at herself. After a few moments, she …

Projects

Our Fully Dressed (New) Windows + $100 West Elm Giveaway

March 11, 2015 - 57 Comments

Since our very first walk through of this house we are slowly making home, “There should be a big window to the left there” we said. It’s the kind of comment that perked our realtor’s ears up. He knew we …

Design

Leather Chairs for Every Budget + A new one in the Living Room!

March 10, 2015 - 25 Comments

A few months after we finished the reading room, we inherited a very beautiful piano passed down from Chris’s great grandmother. So the reading room went from this: To this: And it’s been like that ever since, while our cream …

Projects

The New Window Is In!

March 4, 2015 - 24 Comments

Earlier this week, I shared the installation of our new window in the living room in real time on Instagram, but I am here to report some more details on the window itself and some progress photos, too! Here’s how …

DIY

How Often Do You Change Your Air Filters?

March 3, 2015 - 25 Comments

Us? Honestly? I think the last time we changed our air filters was a year ago. We had just finished the floors and there was a baby on the way shortly and that was a part of our we’re-going-to-do-everything-right check …

DIY, Projects

How to Patch Drywall like a girl, Our Freshly Painted Room + $100 to Ace!

February 27, 2015 - 24 Comments

Our bedroom is finally painted, and I can’t believe I waited so long to do it. (I say that every time.) But before we get into that, let’s first address the gorilla-sized hole in the room, seen in the picture …

Mood Boards

The Master Plans

February 25, 2015 - 27 Comments

Before Chris had his surgery, we made a list of projects that I could probably tackle myself and our bedroom was at the top of that list. Our poor, sad, neglected room we haven’t touched since moving in, with the …

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