We shared our back yard deck reveal last week HERE we partnered with Raymour and Flanigan on the project. We are absolutely loving this new space. I am actually sitting on our new sectional writing this post and taking in some vitamin D. I promised to share how we painted the deck, and by we I mean my sweet hubby. It was a real labor of love, a lot of spindles needed to be painted. He actually started to paint it with some paint that he picked up at Home Depot that was on sale. I was away for the summer visiting family in Utah and he sent me a picture, and I told him "ya, that does n ... Read More
Kids Space in a Tiny House
Welcome to the Blogger Stylin' Home Tour Work & Play series! I am joining 30 other bloggers to share our view of work & play. If you are popping over from Iron & Twin, welcome! I love to see how others live, play, work and use their homes. I am thrilled to be apart of this series. We have been working on a lot of spaces in our home since adding a little baby boy nursery to our home (you can see his nursery reveal HERE). One area is our playroom, and in a tiny house we had to find a little space in our home to carve out for a play area for our kids. I am still finishing up a few are ... Read More
Our Baby Boys Nursery Reveal
Before the finished photos I wanted to show that setting up this nursery was quite the process as any remodel of a room can be. And sometimes we forget the the process can be so exciting too. I knew that things would get better, although it felt like it wouldn't. All the boxes we had sitting in our backyard would eventually get opened and pieces put together, in a small house you don't have a lot of room to shuffle things around. My little assistant always by my side extremely excited to open all the gifts we were given and to help me "organize" it all. Makes me so happy to see how ... Read More
Over the Moon excited for Boys Nursery
I am so excited to share our little baby boys nursery with you this Friday and here is a little peek! I have been stressed about getting this done in time for our baby boy who is due May 1st, I know babies don't need much but I didn't want to be working on a big project right after he was born. It is coming so fast, I am 37 weeks right now and having contractions daily. I am not ready to have him just yet. Why is it that I feel like I need to completely de-clutter my entire house and every drawer, organize the basement, buy enough toilet paper to last us a year, clean all the baseboards and I ... Read More
Backyard Deck Remodel
I am so excited to share our backyard deck remodel with you that we partnered with Raymour and Flanigan on. I shared last week my inspiration photos you can see HERE. My husband actually flew out and looked at homes...alone when we were looking to move from Utah to Connecticut. We had looked at houses online and I knew the ones that I liked from the pictures, but it was still hard to tell exactly what the area was like or even the house. He did a great job of keeping me involved and looking for the best for our families needs and budget. I was working full time as a store buyer and manager an ... Read More
The Best Healthy Brownies and why I eat Paleo
I have been eating Paleo for close to three years now. I started with a 6 week challenge at my Crossfit. I thought it would be fun to try something new and push myself. Little did I know how much I would love eating this way. Don't get me wrong it was really hard at first to not steal a bite of my daughters peanut butter and honey sandwiches or grab that tortilla chip when we went to Mexican food. I had a bad habit of stealing little bites or finishing off my girls plates, it helped to break that habit. The advantages out weighed those cravings and soon they went away. I really never feel ... Read More
Getting ready for Guests
We are from Utah so we have a lot of family and friends there. We are currently living in Connecticut and have been for almost a year and a half. We are lucky enough to get a lot of visitors. We live about an hour away from New York. We have had a few friends who had a trip to New York planned and made sure to stop and see us and we get to pretend to be a little Bed and Breakfast. That is honestly my dream, to own a Bed and Breakfast. The last time we had visitors was in February and there were six of them, and only one was a child making that ten people in our little 1200 square foot cape. ... Read More
Kids Space with Design Loves Details
I interviewed Mollie from Design Detail for my article for Everything Home Magazine. It is a free online magazine that has great home decor ideas. I write for the Kids Space Section of the magazine. When I saw Mollie's daughters bedroom and the statement painted floral walls, I wanted to find out how she did it and where the inspiration came from. The floral wall that was inspired by Rifle Paper Co. She wanted to use their wallpaper, but none of their prints were large enough scale so she made her own hand-painted version that was inspired by their florals. She made it sound so easy, and I gue ... Read More
Add Charm to your Hallway
Our hallway on our main level needed a little updating. We had painted the entire house in Cloud Cover from Benjamin Moore, I loved the wall color, but the space was still missing something. I knew I wanted a rug, the funny thing is my girls actually play in the hall, they like to be right in the middle of everything. I also had some extra wood left over from our wood floors upstairs. I would see the leftover wood sitting in our basement taunting me to be used somewhere, I couldn't let a stack of wood sit there unused. So I talked my husband into starting yet another project. This is ... Read More
Outdoor Living Inspiration and Progress
We have been getting our deck ready for Spring and Summer. We just started to get all of our furniture delivered from Raymour and Flanigan. My husband spent some time setting it all up, with excited girls watching. With a tiny house you really look forward to your outdoor space becoming an extension of your home. It allows us to invite friends over and not feel so stressed about where to put everyone. When we purchased our home one of the big things that sold us, and mainly my husband was the large backyard and deck. I like to gather inspiration on Pinterest. I start by pinning ... Read More
