Tag: Our Home

Patio Planters & Bistro Lights

Posted on by Lauren Lane

About a month ago, Nathan came out of project retirement thanks to the boredom of staying home from COVID, and approached me with an idea to switch up our patio. He had always envisioned making the rectangular side of our patio more of a set aside space that would lend itself to an outdoor picnic set or table and chairs.

Per usual, I was terrible at taking “before” pictures. I just want to get to the end result! Here’s a look from last year at what this area looked like:

We re-homed both the hydrangea you can see on the far back left of the above picture, and the boxwood on the far right corner to new homes for this project. Then, Nathan built a couple of cedar planters to put in the corners instead.

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All About…Our House

Posted on by Lauren Lane

We moved into our house almost six years ago come July. Our house was built in the 1970’s and is located in a suburb of Kansas City called Prairie Village. That’s on the Kansas side of the state line. I’ve said so many times to Nathan that I never plan on moving out of this house. I love it. I love our little shopping center that’s walking distance from us, love that some of our neighbors are young families as well, and this house feels completely homey to me.

We began our house search in the fall of 2013. We had a very specific area that we wanted live in, and probably more than our fair share of house feature non-negotiables. And given the market at that time, and those two factors, we looked and looked for a house for moooonths. It wasn’t until June 2014 that we finally found the perfect one, made an offer on the first day it was on the market, and as I’ve said to many friends before about this house, God must have had his hand in us getting it because it was truly a miracle that they picked our offer.

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Spring House Tour!

Posted on by Lauren Lane

Spring is I think by far my favorite time of year. A really nice, sunny spring day seems to wash away the memories of a cold winter being stuck inside. The garden starts to come to life, and birds return and start singing again. I change my decorations throughout the house with the seasons, and our spring/summer decor is clean, bright, and colorful. I shared a house tour of our winter and fall decor HERE and HERE. But my favorite decor of all is spring…so here are a few pictures from our house right now…

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A Day in the Life {Jan 2020}

Posted on by Lauren Lane

I love getting a peak into what family’s lives look like on a day to day basis. I marked a couple Thursdays ago in my calendar to document my day from the time I woke up to the time I went to bed. I’ve done one other day in the life last July HERE.

It was a totally ordinary day for us in the Lane house. I usually start my weekdays early…

Up to get ready to go to my workout class at the Bar Method.

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Let’s Look…At Your Nightstand

Posted on by Lauren Lane

Two of my favorite blogs host a link up once a month to look at little everyday things in our lives. I missed linking up last week, but wanted to participate! So today, I’m sharing a little look at my nightstand. Check out Erika and Shay’s blogs to look at other bloggers that linked up to share their bedside table.

I thought it would be fun to look back at all of the things we shared last year.

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