A thoughtful place

Good morning. How was your week? Ours was definitely a whirlwind. More on that soon. Many of you have asked to see the kitchen so I wanted to share a peek today. I will be doing a complete post very soon with more photos and all of the details and sources. The other night I

Good morning. I'm beyond excited to share a before and after of our stacked stone fireplace with you all. This was a true labor of love and for those of you asking, step-by-step instructions are coming. We want to finish the entire project and then I will share all of the juicy details. I will

Good morning. How is your week going? Ours has been eventful considering we have a couple of major home projects happening, someone learning to drive, and a hockey tournament. You may remember that we are giving the guest bathroom a small facelift. It's been so much fun to make minor changes and see a fairly

Good morning. Are your children home from school today? Thank you to all of the Veterans for your selfless service. To our own family members who served, we salute you. We all slept in a bit after a long and busy weekend. The kids are begging to put up the rest of the Christmas decor

I am a huge fan of a well-done accent wall. I have been so impressed with the many stenciled walls I have seen lately. That might be on my radar soon! When I set out to do our master bedroom accent wall, it was really important to keep it extremely subtle. I wanted the overall

Today is the day. This is your complete step by step guide to limewash a stacked stone fireplace. I promise it's a very doable project. In fact, we did this in just three half days. I hope this encourages you to take an element in your home that you may not love and really give

Random thoughts on a trying to be sunny Saturday: 1. I’m hosting a Super Bowl party here tomorrow and I was trying to figure out what snacks to fix. No […]

Chip and Joanna Gaines help a nomadic couple who had lived in five homes over the past six years find and create their perfect forever home in Hewitt, Texas. Little did they know that "coming home" would take on special surprise significance in this particular instance.

We recently took a tour of some beautiful new homes going up in Southern California. I have vivid memories of hitting up model homes with my parents when I was little. I loved every second of it and would look at how they were decorated and pick out what would be my room if we

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Creating a kitchen from scratch was a new experience for us and one that we are very grateful for. It also came with pressure to "get it right" so to speak. I didn't want to invest a considerable amount of time and money and end up with a kitchen that did not function well. While

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I think by now you now our front porch is an extension of our home. I shared my fun and colorful porch with you all. And if you hop over and take a look at it you will be shocked at the difference. We so enjoyed our summer days with that. Now that fall is

Happy Friday friends! I am back with another edition of The Friday Five where I share five things that have caught my eye for the week, are in my shopping

Welcome back for Take 5 Tuesday! Hope your week is off to a great start. Today I am showing you a small collection of some of my favorite art tricks. It doesn’t take a ton of time or money to create meaningful artwork in your home. First up is a cheap and easy way to

Good morning and happy weekend! Do you have fun plans over the next couple of days? We are going to try and plant some flowers. Our front yard is in desperate need of some color. We are also getting together with some friends and a new-to-us restaurant which will be fun. Sharing some things I've

Welcome to the heart of our home. I'm so excited to share our kitchen tour with you today. We poured our hearts into the design of this space and we are so happy with how it turned out. I love walking into it each morning and feel very grateful that we could make this happen.