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Updates in the Family Room & That Time I Made a Giant Mistake

The subtitle of this post is: Family Drama in the Family Room … Andy and I Disagree About a Rug I’m having a crisis when it comes to our family room/playroom. Have you ever had a space in your house that just will not come together? That’s...

Read this: Rachael Ray’s “Week in a Day” Cookbook

I’ve never been much of a cook. I’ll just admit it. Before I met Andy, I mostly ate white minute rice for dinner every night. It’s like cooking because I had to boil water… Right? The thought of having to wait more than five minutes...

Let’s Get Casual + Some Photos From Our Trip to Traverse City

Well, hello there. Who even knows if anyone is out there anymore since I’ve been such a bad blogger lately! Hopefully some of you are still sticking around! The inherent downfall of being a home renovation/design blogger is you have to actually do home renovation...

Our Home-Tour To-Do List

There are six weekends before the Ohio City Home Tour on May 16th. I’m pretty sure I’ll sleep for a week starting May 17th! It’s going to be a crazzzzzy few weeks trying to get a bunch of things done around the house, but we have a good start...

Maternity Style: What I Really Needed to Wear for 9 Months

When I first started to need maternity clothes I had NO IDEA what to do, and I thought some of you might be in the same boat. Maternity clothes are weird-looking and confusing, and I absolutely hated the idea of spending the money on a whole...

The colors of our life

The other day I mentioned that we’re nothing if not consistent when it comes to paint colors in our house. Every time we buy paint, we find ourselves gravitating towards gray, teal and yellow. It’s almost a joke at this point, but it works for...

Tips for Staging a House to Sell

We have big news, you guys. JOEY SLEPT THROUGH THE NIGHT LAST NIGHT! I don’t mean that silly “5 hours is sleeping through the night” thing that the experts try to convince parents (though we were ecstatic when that happened, too). I’m talking 8 solid...

Visiting Palm Springs

We went to California over the weekend to celebrate our friend PJ’s surprise 30th birthday party in Huntington Beach. After a super fun weekend filled with ice skating, bowling (I actually won a game!), and tons of homemade poutine(!), Andy and I rented a car...

New art

We had an absolutely wonderful weekend that involved ordering some new furniture for our reorganized living/dining rooms (always exciting!), visiting the brand new Cleveland Flea, and even replacing our thermostat, which doesn’t sound exciting but our old one had been stuck at 68 for about...