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How To Style a Room with Carpet as the Foundation

March 7, 2019 - 17 Comments

This post is sponsored by The Carpet & Rug Institute. Visit www.beautyofcarpet.com to enter the Sweepstakes for a chance to win a $500 Visa Gift card! I often get asked, “What’s the best way to design a room with wall-to-wall carpet?” …

Art, DIY

A Gallery Wall of Favorite Toys for the Playroom (+ a Coupon Code to Mixtiles!)

September 25, 2018 - 10 Comments

This post is sponsored by Mixtiles. There’s a special offer for ALL of our readers at the bottom of the post. There has always been a blank wall in the corner of the playroom that I’ve been meaning to tackle, but …

Decor, DIY

Modern, Inexpensive, Large-Scale Portraits–Updated!

February 7, 2018 - 101 Comments

Over three years ago, I photographed our, then, two little girls in a simple and modern way, and blew them up as engineering prints and the result took the internet by storm. The project has been shared and duplicated hundreds of thousands …

Decor

IN STOCK ALERT: The Arteriors Jacob Coffee Table Look-A-Like is back!

January 22, 2018 - 35 Comments

Over a year ago, back in September 2016, I found an almost identical look-a-like to our very popular coffee table that now lives in the reading room: But, up until recently lived in our family room/playroom downstairs. It sold out …

Decor

A Kid-Friendly Christmas “Mantle” in the Playroom

November 17, 2016 - 23 Comments

This post is in partnership with Lowe’s. Since this is the first holiday season that we’ll have the playroom/family room completed, we wanted to deck it out a little bit since we spend so much time down here. Earlier this …

Decor

High / Low : Our ARTERIORS Home Jacob Coffee Table Dupe!

September 13, 2016 - 24 Comments

The coffee table we used, and love so much, in our family room has a look-a-like and I can barely believe my eyes! Last week, on Instagram, one of our readers showed off their new beautiful coffee table and tagged …

Decor, Design, DIY

Before And After: Our Basement Family Room is Finished!

August 8, 2016 - 104 Comments

Before and After days are always fun around here, and this one is especially sweet since we have been working on our family room in the basement for at least 8 months, a surprising amount of time when I went back …

DIY, Projects

How to Make an Indoor Swing!

July 12, 2016 - 40 Comments

We’re this close to being done with our family room/playroom, but we had one more project up our sleeve–a DIY indoor swing! This simple DIY was also quick and cheap and now it’s officially the most coveted seat in the …

Decor, DIY

A Peek Into our Toy Storage in the Playroom

April 27, 2016 - 15 Comments

We’ve had our toy storage for a couple months now (in their proper spot for a few weeks) so I figured it was high time I show them off and give you an initial review. And since we recently hung …

Decor, Projects

DIY Shiplapped Built-Ins: Finished and Styled!

April 20, 2016 - 58 Comments

We got word that our sectional will be here next Tuesday! That mixed with finishing the built-ins this past weekend has us just about ready to stick a fork in our downstairs family room. It’s hard (for even me!) to …

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