The Bathroom: Leaning Into Maroon

Our main-floor bathroom on the first floor has a maroon bathtub, a maroon sink, and, you guessed it… a maroon toilet. When we first bought the house, C and I both agreed we’d be demoing the bathroom in year two…

Furnishing Our Home: The Dining Room

We’d been using our dining room table since 2016. It’s been with us in three states and through four moves. It’s served us so well, and was the perfect dining room table to have through all our apartments and condos…

Furnishing Our Home: The Prep

We are wrapping up furnishing and styling FIVE rooms in our home. And I’ve been doing it all at once! If this sounds hectic and chaotic to do this all at once, it kind of was. But we’ve lived in…

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8 Snippets Of Life Lately

1. Down Goes Michelle Last week I go very, very sick. Like.. stay-in-bed-all-day kind of sick, which I NEVER do. I realized that when mom goes down, the entire system, order, and flow of our home and routines comes crumbling…

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