Clara is officially six months old today, which means we’ve reached the halfway mark of our weekly photo project—the one with the fabric backdrops and the photoshopped onesies. At 12 weeks we explained the “how to” behind this series, so this post is mainly an update: we’ve added another three months of portraits. Below is … Read more

It’s hard to believe we’ve already been here a month. To be honest, the house still looks pretty wild in places: blue trim everywhere, wallpaper in multiple rooms, a bright salmon living room, old carpeting on the stairs and in the closet, and furniture that was set down on moving day and hasn’t been finalized. … Read more

Guessing the Color of the Year is one of our favorite pastimes. We used to predict them on our podcast and now continue the tradition on Instagram Stories. Each time the next Color of the Year season arrives, we like to collect all the previous picks in one place. Below is a snapshot of every … Read more

I love writing detailed product reviews, so when readers mentioned that searching the blog for information about our favorite air purifier turned up almost nothing, I decided to fix that today. Full disclosure: we bought these ourselves with our own money and have no relationship with the company. Sherry has struggled with seasonal allergies for … Read more

You’d be hard-pressed to find a more dramatic home transformation than Christi and Barrett’s full-house renovation. While visiting Kristen and Matt’s bungalow in Charlotte, NC, we learned that their friends had just completed a major remodel, so we dropped by to tour their updated home too. When in Charlotte… Here’s the charming couple on their … Read more

Holy cats — has it really been six years of blogging? It feels like Blogiversary 5 was just yesterday and that 2007 wasn’t that long ago, when we posted tiny photos and a few lines each night about whatever was happening at home. Every year has brought surprises, but the past 12 months have been … Read more

To prepare for the crew installing the new wall this week, we covered our belongings with plastic to protect them from the drywall and brick dust that would be produced during cutting. Because the work would take three to four days, we set up a small temporary “living bubble” so we could continue using a … Read more

After Sherry bared some of her design missteps last week—including cringeworthy photos of her childhood and college bedrooms—I figured it was only fair to share a few of my own. I searched for pictures of my childhood room (think royal blue carpet that doubled as the “ocean” for Lego islands) and my high school room … Read more

We’re back with an updated how-to for making simple, no-sew nursery curtain panels. In last week’s shopping post we showed a bold patterned fabric find by P Kaufmann. Here’s how we turned one big bolt of that fabric into three floor-length panels—two for the window and one for the doorless closet—without touching a sewing machine. … Read more

We’re admitting to a poorly timed project that actually made our house look worse just before it went on the market. Whoops. In this post we also explain the different ways we’re selling three homes—two with an agent and one without—and why we chose each path. We describe why we paid for a pre-inspection on … Read more