We didn't have a garage for the 7 years we lived in Connecticut, so now that we have one it is a REAL treat. Our garage has three separate garage door, we turned one of the garage stalls into our garage gym. We initially wanted to do a stand-alone gym in the yard, but couldn't build anything due to the water easement (basically a big water pipe running in our yard). We park both our cars in the other two stalls. Besides cars, there really isn't much room for anything else. We walk through the garage multiple times a day so we wanted to make the floor nice. And, we LOVE how it all turned ... Read More
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Utah Home Tour- Shop our Home
Utah Ranch Home Tour with Sources Entry- Family Room- Kitchen- Dining Room- Drink Room- Hall Bathroom- Home Office- Primary Bedroom- Primary Bathroom- Finn's Bedroom- Finn Bathroom- Lola's Bedroom- Ella's Bedroom- Ella Bedroom Blog Post HERE - Paint Details HERE Girls Shared Bathroom- Basement Family Room- Basement Game Room- Basement Kitchen- Swimmer Ladies // Lemon Art // Vintage Rug Runner // Door Knobs Yellow ... Read More
Our Christmas Front Porch
It's that time of year where you can't help but drive around your neighborhood and feel all warm and fuzzy. We were out of town over Thanksgiving and as we drove back through our neighborhood, it had transformed to a beautiful glowing scene. I felt so much love and gratitude for the efforts of our community. Neat to see so many people wanting to spark some magic and joy. I got ants in my pants to get our house all a glow. I don't think we will get lights on our house because we don't have rain gutters yet, hoping they arrive sometime this month. So instead of worrying about lights on the ... Read More
New Iron Doors- Front and Back Doors with Dog Door
We replaced our 1970's doors with iron doors. Besides the fact that the doors had some damage I really wanted to replace the doors for something that let in more light!!!! The right lighting in a home is really important to me. I try to avoid anything that blocks out the natural light. I was talking to Kevin about where we could find the iron and glass doors we wanted. He reminded me that our new nephew (married my niece) sells iron doors! He came over to the house to measure back in March, drew them out, gave us a price and we put a deposit down to order them. They took awhile to have ... Read More
Are We Keeping the Rock? The Story of the Rock on our 1970’s Home!
We went back and forth on if we were going to keep the rock on the exterior of our 1970's home. Not because we thought the rock was ugly, just because it wasn't necessarily the style we would pick for our home. We have the same rock inside our house too. Inside it felt very busy for what I was trying to accomplish with our decor, so we did change that (see the rock inside HERE). I was actually certain we would change the rock outside when we bought the house, but decided to just wait to see what the exterior looked like once we painted the house black. Now that the house is painted black ... Read More
4 Ways to Enjoy your Outdoor Space Longer
Depending where you live, you might be thinking of ways you can enjoy your outdoor living space as long as possible! We live in Utah and we can already feel the weather changing, it's getting cooler at night! And we are hosting a fun event end of September outside, so we are trying to get everything ready for that. I have 5 ways to help you enjoy your outdoor space longer, things that we did to our new outdoor space! Thank you Walmart for sponsoring this post 1- Add More Lighting It is starting to get darker early and earlier. Exterior lighting is a must! We hung these Outdoor ... Read More
Landscape Plans for Backyard and Front yard
One of the reasons we bought our home was because of the gorgeous yard. Our 1970's home is on an acre, with mature trees and lots of room to add things we enjoy in a yard. We decided to invest in updating the landscaping (in addition to the money we spent on the remodel). When we are looking for a specialist to hire we always try to support our friends businesses. Our friend, Tom has a landscaping business and they put together a great plan for us and actually have already started! Landscape Plan If you are looking at the plans, to the left is the pool, with paver surround. The small ... Read More
Front Porch with Hanging Chair- Our Remodel
We are antsy to get projects done at our house! I have a motto I like to say, when life and projects seem overwhelming… "just do one thing!" So the one thing we wanted to do was get our front porch and back porch ready to enjoy. Plus, doing this simple project helped us get a vision for the entire exterior. We are at the house often and having a few places to sit would be appreciated by all! Thank you Walmart for sponsoring this post The first thing we wanted to change, besides the doors, was to add some tongue and groove wood to the ceiling of the front and back porch. The wood ... Read More
Our Light Fixtures and How to Pick The Right Size
I feel like I have seen every light fixture there is online. So much time browsing lights. But finally selected and ordered the lights for our Remodel, I think I am going to have a lot of free time on my hands now that is done! Ended up ordering over 50 lights! Entry, bedrooms, bathrooms, exterior, kitchen, hallways, etc. One thing that really helped me decide on lights was putting them in the room…. not REALLY "in the room", but via computer magic. I shared a video on Instagram how to try something on for size HERE. I will walk you through it on this post, keep reading! One of the ... Read More
How we Modernized our 1970’s Rock Wall
In our new Utah Ranch Style Home we have a lot of rock. A LOT. Over 50% of the exterior is this same rock, the actual name is Idaho Travertine. Looks a lot like a lava rock. We did not want to just tear it out (even though we could have). We LIKE the character and texture the rock adds to the home. We decided we wanted to try to modernize it. Fill in the deep grout with mortar and make it more flush. In my head that was all we were going to do. But, 20 hours later and 8 bags of mortar, we ended up with something different and we really like it! First let's look at our current rock wall, ... Read More