Category: Rooms
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Was My Custom Primary Bedroom Bed Worth It? And Do I Regret Selling It 8 Years Ago?
Nine years ago, we designed this bed for our then-primary bedroom, and I have a lot of unresolved feelings about it. So Bold! So Fun! So Big! So Expensive! The reason we are talking about it now is that you may or may not know the custom bed that is in our current bedroom was…
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Great Dupes: Emily’s Favorite Outdoor Pieces
I think I can say that the majority of us love looking at beautiful homes filled with beautiful things that are often outside of our budgets. It’s both aspirational and sometimes a bummer because WE WANT THOSE BEAUTIFUL THINGS TOO. The good news is that there are so many products on the market, including so…
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How We Made Vintage-Inspired Corbels For The Outdoor Kitchen Gazebo
As I was designing this “kitchen gazebo,” I found almost no inspiration that looked and functioned like I wanted ours to look/feel. They were mostly big boxy McMansion-looking Texas-style structures or hexagonal sweet old timey gazebos, but I found almost no images of rectangular covered structures that looked charming and pretty. So I knew that…
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Design Coaching Chrissy & Pete: A Mini Demo Update And OFFICIAL Kitchen Layout
Gretch here, signing on to give you a project update! A few weeks ago we kicked off a new design coaching series and introduced you to our starting line-up (Chrissy & Pete). If this doesn’t ring a bell, hop on over to the intro post where we break it all down. But for a quick…
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Let’s Deep Dive Into Our Outdoor Kitchen Appliances (+ What Brian And I Didn’t Agree On At First And I WAS RIGHT!!!!!!)
While you saw the full reveal of the kitchen this Monday, today I want to walk you through the Coyote appliances which help me make my corn on the cob, house all my salad mixings, and of course, help Brian Henderson make his epic smash burgers (and steaks and chickens and rotisserie and kebabs –…
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Make Your Art Feel New Again — Non Traditional Frames, Cool DIYs, And A Couple Quick Tricks
As people who love design, I think it’s pretty normal to want to switch things up every now and again. But making changes does not have to require buying new. Em has often said over the years that the easiest way to make your home feel fresh is to take different decor pieces from one…
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Our Built-To-Last Outdoor Kitchen Reveal (My Favorite “Room” To Hang Out In All Summer)
It’s a real epic show and tell today – our incredible outdoor kitchen, which felt like it went up in a matter of weeks (and kinda did). We’ve already had so many hangouts here, a 100+ neighborhood event, and so many more are scheduled this summer and fall. We feel incredibly grateful for this kitchen/life,…
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The Versatility Of The Pedestal Table In My Friend’s Home (And My Search For Finding More Traditional Versions)
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We are deep diving today on what I think is one of the most versatile and timeless pieces of furniture, EVER – the pedestal table. Now pedestal tables have been around for a few hundred years (which really isn’t that long if you think about it), but they were mostly with carved wood bases, rather…
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How We Built Our Outdoor Kitchen With RTA (Assembled In One Day, Folks)
We are wrapping up phase two of the backyard (which is admittedly a pretty large phase) and I wanted to give you an update, show you the plans, and give you a sneak peek into the new RTA outdoor kitchen (which went from a little “grill area” to full blown kitchen really fast – it’s…
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This Style Of Lighting Works In Any Home (And Will Make It Look Even Better) + Affordable Options You’ll Love
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Whether or not your home’s style is “modern traditional,” modern traditional lighting is incredibly versatile, with so many really simple but very cool options. I’d say it’s the primary lighting style Emily uses in her projects, at least the hardwired fixtures. You could categorize “modern traditional lighting” as fixtures with clean lines, traditional shapes, in…