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Visit with Us at Magnolia Market + Garden: Day One at the Silos
Five years ago, just after we had completed our big kitchen remodel, my sister-in-law Taly asked me if I ever watched the show Fixer Upper. We didn’t have HGTV, so I hadn’t even heard of Fixer Upper. Finally, months later while staying at a hotel, we turned to HGTV and met Chip and Joanna for the first time. We really liked the clean yet cozy decorating style, but what kept us coming back was the down-to-earth, family centered nature of Chip and Joanna and so we tuned in to their show every time we stayed over night in a hotel. Over the next few years, their show took off, the…
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My Visit to the Mary Jane’s Farm Store in Couer d’ Alene
Earlier this year I purchased “Glamping with Mary Jane” to gather inspiration for my own trailer remodel. I then learned that she publishes a her own self-titled magazine and instantly fell in love with all the great ideas for organic gardening and country living. It’s such a lovely magazine and I look for it whenever I’m browsing the magazine isle. So imagine my excitement when on vacation in Couer d’ Alene, ID, I walked past an actual brick and mortar Mary Jane’s Farm store. Are you serious?!! I wanted to go right in, but my family and I were already headed out to hiking, so I had to wait…pure torture! Even…
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Designated Lunch Cupboard
I’m always thinking of better ways to make our school routines run smoother. With back to school just around the corner I thought I’d share what we are doing to make the task of packing school lunches more stream-line. Way back when we were planning out our kitchen cabinets, I was very specific about what kinds of things we needed to store. I made lists of the items I knew were used together and grouped them into stations. My kitchen has a smoothie station, a baking station a dishes station, a homework station, a cleaning station and a lunch station. For the most part, the lunch station really encourages them…
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French Country Kitchen: Color Palette Inspiration
I really LOVE how this all turned out. The colors are so calming to me and the light cabinets really brighten up the kitchen. We decided to leave the trim dark because it really captures the character of our Tudor-style home. We also carried the dark colors throughout the kitchen by choosing antique bronze finishes for the light fixtures, hardware and faucets. The light and dark contrast really brings everything together. So happy!
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Kitchen Remodel Before and After
Our kitchen remodel was not the typical situation where a construction team was hired and the job was completed in a few months. We took our sweet time, about 18 months to be exact. The majority of the time was spent researching ideas and troubleshooting ways to make our ideas come to fruition. We hit several road blocks along the way, but we were very determined to try every avenue needed to make it work. Our adventure began when we discovered our dishwasher was broken sometime in March of 2012. After pulling the dishwasher out, we learned it had been leaking behind the cabinets and under the floor, clear into…
