When it comes to having plants in the home, we totally get that not everyone has a green thumb! Our favorite resolution for those who are nervous to keep live plants in their house is to go faux! Faux plants have come a long way and can be nearly identical to a live plant not […]

When it comes to having plants in the home, we totally get that not everyone has a green thumb! Our favorite resolution for those who are nervous to keep live plants in their house is to go faux! Faux plants have come a long way and can be nearly identical to a live plant not […]

While I was recovering from delivery with Anna, a lot was happening at the house and I couldn’t wait to go up and shoot an update for you, including exterior work, railing, and a whole lot more. Here’s a little video tour of progression at the #staggreno (follow along on instagram): video/editing: James Young We have […]

I’ve mentioned before how many dead or overgrown trees we had at the new/old home.  We looked into how much it would cost to pay someone to take them out but quickly ruled that out.  Wow, is tree removal expensive– especially when you have a gazillion trees to remove.  We put our heads together and […]

We are just about finished with all of the “before” home tours, and I’m getting excited to get into the nitty-gritty of our massive renovation of our new/old mid-century modern home.  Today I’m showing you what the downstairs family room and bar area looked like before we cracked into it.  And boy, did it need a […]

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend!  Ours was filled with demo and exposing more interesting (read: gross) aspects of the house.  Including a lot of dead bugs hidden under 30-something year-old carpeting.  Don’t act like you’re not jealous. One of the first things we needed to figure out for the renovation was what […]

It’s with a lot of mixed feelings I share the following news: friends, we sold our house.  We’ve actually already moved (more on that in a second) and it all happened so fast, my head is still spinning. There is much to share, so let’s start with that first sentence.  Yep, the peach-palace-no-more is no […]

This weekend we made some great progress and I’m excited to share some of it with you, starting with a major addition to our bedroom: a new mattress. We bought our old mattress about 6 years ago and it was expensive.  It’s pillow-top, and was so so comfortable that we just sunk into it.  Problem […]

There are few words adequate to express my distaste with the former state of my front porch.  It’s silly, really, that we didn’t tackle it long ago.  For one reason or another we just kept putting it off.  Well, I’m thrilled to say no longer!  We said so long to the salmon paint and the […]