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Finding the Perfect Lamp for the Living Room and FINALLY Tackling the Honey Oak Game Cupboard at the Bottom of the Stairs.

November 14, 2018 - 35 Comments

This post is sponsored by Rejuvenation We are hosting a Friendsgiving this weekend and a bunch of family for Christmas next month and while I’m overall pleased, content, comfortable, happy (!!) with the state of our home now, finally, after …

Inspiration

Casual Friday

October 26, 2018 - 21 Comments

Chris and I are celebrating our 10 year anniversary next month (Nov. 8th) and are headed to Bora Bora next week to celebrate. Years ago we put a pin in the destination for our 10 year, and I can’t believe …

Decor, DIY

Our $5 Living Room Make-Under

June 21, 2018 - 49 Comments

I’ve been really craving a lightness in our home lately. I pulled up the Persian rug in the kitchen. I purged half the toy room. I tucked away a lot of baskets of throws and magazines. I took down a …

Decor

New Low Back, Modern Spindle Chairs for the Dining Room!

December 5, 2017 - 35 Comments

We got new dining chairs! We had our last beige eiffel chairs (I put a picture near the bottom of the post for you!) for three years and still loved them for how easy they are to wipe down, but …

Projects

How We Got Here: The Great Room

March 21, 2017 - 34 Comments

I love sharing before and after transformations of an area of our home under the hashtag #cljtransformations on Instagram (The new swipe feature has made the them even more fun), but rarely do here for some reason. This weekend, I …

Decor, DIY

Living Room Refresh, and A Lighting Hack!

February 20, 2017 - 48 Comments

Shortly after we added the darker plank wall to the living room, I started craving something lighter on the floor. Although we still really LOVE our indigo Baxter rug, we rolled it up and put it in storage for now (maybe …

Art, Inspiration

Well, I guess it’s time to address the wall.

March 14, 2016 - 37 Comments

There’s this wall that I crop out of almost every photo I take of the great room. It’s awkward in and of itself, slightly recessed, large and blank and right in the middle of the living room. It’s that far …

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. …

Decor

Living Room Update + Sources!

December 11, 2015 - 19 Comments

We’ve been making a few little updates around the house over the past couple months in preparation for two big, exciting things coming up in the beginning of next year. The spaces that were almost there, but not quite–like the living room–got …

Decor, DIY

A New Table + The Dining Room Before & Afters!

October 28, 2015 - 39 Comments

We got ourselves a new dining room table! When we shared the before and afters of our kitchen renovation, so many of you wanted to see how the rest of the great room worked into the new kitchen, specifically the …

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