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Neighbor Outdoor, After Hours Farm

We are big outdoor people – and when I say big, I mean we probably spend 75% of our time together outside. We also love to entertain, so we knew that we needed a spot that was a mix of casual and refined while still being fun and cozy. Enter: Neighbor‘s outdoor furniture line to […]

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With adding so much “new” into our old home, something I always keep in mind is where I can add timeless touches into the design. Instead of using the old mismatched/broken hardware we had, I knew I wanted something that would last 100 more years, but feel like it’s been there all along. That’s when […]

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Haas-Door-After-Hours-Farm

The big day is finally here and we’re so excited for it!! We had so many options to choose from, but we finally got everything narrowed down and are ready to have the most beautiful doors from Haas Door installed. For a full recap on how we designed the doors, and all the options available […]

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Haas-Door-After-Hours-Farm

When we started looking at exterior finishes for the house one of the big things I noticed that always seemed to be pushed to the back burner was garages. Since our garage is attached to the house, we knew we needed to give it the same TLC as the rest of our home’s exterior. I […]

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The first thing I packed for our trip this week (snacks don’t count – those were obviously first) were some new home books for the plane. Whether you’re looking for a little bit of education, a good read or just a stunner to flip through on your coffee table, I put together a list of […]

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We are not planners. I’m not kidding – We booked flights to Iceland once and our only real planning was to bring one of those old school fold up road maps of the entire country incase we lost GPS signal. We didn’t even book our lodging until a few days before we left. (I know, […]

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It’s our first Friday Five and we’re super stoked to get these babies started! Things are always moving at the farm and February is no exception. Today we’re talking about some of the biggest steps we’re taking to start turning the house into a home this month. 1. Mechanical – Heat, heat baby! It’s no […]

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What started as a little Instagram page to update our families on our farm reno pretty quickly gained some attention that we never expected in the crazy world of the internet. One year, 200 posts, 12,000 followers and over 92,000 likes later here we are. In the spirit of our gram-aversary (yep, that means Instagram […]

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Michigan Farmhouse Renovation

I have to start off by saying: the photos in this post don’t evennn kind of do justice to the chaos of what our property originally looked. Not. Even. A. Little. If you would like a little bit of visualization though, I can tell you in the first weekend we became homeowners we collected 17 […]

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After Hours Farm

One thing that we didn’t know when buying the farm (not that we had any idea what we were getting into at all), was that we were going to acquire quite a bit of artwork. Not just any art work: graffiti in every room of our house… including the exterior… and the carpet. Our house […]