Thank you Walmart, one of my favorite brands, for sponsoring this post! Who here is a last-minute shopper?? I have to admit, this is SO me! Whether it's the holidays, birthdays, weddings, or baby showers, I never seem to learn! ;-) Good thing there’s Wa[...]
I'm sure you've heard me talk about the pool house on Instagram, and today I wanted to share more about that space! In our last house, we had a basement garage where we kept the boat, canoe, barn wood materials we didn't use at the old house, riding mower, and sn[...]
As some of you know, I live in Iowa. I love it here in the midwest! One thing you don't see a lot here are copper lanterns. The first time I saw copper lanterns in person was when I went to Austin for the Hunter Fan Company trip to the Southern Living Magazine[...]
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Today, I’m excited to share which appliances we selected for our new house! I had mentioned in a previous blog post that we are using Hestan appliances in our kitchen and pantry. On the blog, I talked about our kitchen floor plan, original kitchen 3D renderi[...]
Nick wanted me to write about the garage framing in a separate blog post, but if you missed the framing stage blog post definitely go check that out! Nick and I have told a lot of people that this house has been more difficult to build than the last house. With[...]
I really have to keep the new build blog posts going, so that's why I have a new one all about the framing stage! The most current new build blog post was all about the foundation stage, and you can read more about it there. The framing stage is when you start s[...]
I always say that the kitchen is the heart of the home, and that's why a lot of time has been spent designing and planning our new kitchen/walk-in pantry. Yes, I want it pretty, but most importantly functional. This is our third time building, so there were cert[...]
I was SO excited to be working with Justin from JMA Concepts for the 3D rendering of our living room in the new house! Yes, I have all the rooms designed, but there's only so much you can visualize with a mood board and a bunch of pictures photoshopped together.[...]
August 28, 2020 Here are some progress pictures of the new house! Ceiling has started in the living room! Here's a glimpse of the powder room...bead board has started in there. They put the boards up for the board and batten in the breezeway.[...]