Here are some things I’ve been loving lately:
1. These prints from Reign and Hail, shown in our guest room above! One is Time After Time by Cyndi Lauper, which was my husband Michael and I’s first dance, and the other is Wouldn’t It Be Nice by The Beach Boys—we’ve been together since we were 14 so it’s always been kind of our song! I love that you can get a custom print done for a song that means something to you.
2. This board and batten tutorial from Young House Love that helped us so much with the wall treatment for this room! You probably already know we’re big fans of YHL around here. 🙂
3. We’ve had this Lodge Dutch Oven for a year now, and it’s a total champ. It’s elevated our cooking so much and is pretty affordable, especially compared to some other enamel options out there.
4. My mom recently gifted me a spoon rest, and what the heck—where has it been all my life?! You may be thinking, “Duh, Keely. Spoon rests are essential.” But this was a life-changing discovery for me, haha! I never realized how convenient they are and we use it every single day.
5. Another one of those things that changed our cooking lives—the salt cellar! I love Alton Brown and always see him using his cute salt container for kosher salt, which usually comes in kind of unmanageable, big boxes. Recently, we were browsing Crate & Barrel and found this amazing option. It’s under $10 and I love that the lid is attached so you don’t lose it. You feel *very* cool and chef-like when you dip into your salt cellar to sprinkle whatever you’re cooking up.
6. We had a favorite coffee shop at our last house, and now that we’ve moved we’re a lot further from it. The thing I absolutely loved? THEIR CHAI. It seriously is my favorite chai I’ve ever had. I found out it’s a mix: David Rio White Shark Chai. It’s made with white tea, which I know isn’t traditional at all (neither is a mix), but it’s SO delicious, I can’t even describe. I found it here and now I can get my chai fix!
7. In love with these Turkish towels. They’re so great to have in the kitchen for drying hands and to throw over your shoulder, Antoni-style (who else loves Queer Eye?!), since we’re trying to use as few paper towels as possible these days.
8. The Imagineering Story on Disney+ was absolutely AMAZING. If you have any curiosity around how the Disney parks are conceptualized and new projects are executed, this is a fascinating peek inside.
9. This bun I got for lazy hair days from a new-ish company called Insert Name Here. My bun is realllly tiny so I love having this voluptuous option! I like that you can do a messy or a ballerina bun, too, so it’s got some versatility. I also have the Miya ponytail from here and I love wearing it to concerts and stuff like that. It’s so fun!
10. Making sugar cookies with decorative buttercream frosting! I used the recipe from Jenny Keller and love her account @jennycookies for inspiration.
Well, 2020 is just around the corner. I hope you all have had a beautiful holiday season so far! Did you get any favorite gifts that you have to share about? Tell me below! xo. -Keely
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Get ready for more Harry Potter-inspired decor posts! Today, I wanted to share a little more about the Platform 9 3/4 wall I built in 
Here is the wall before and after. You can see the full living room tour 
My contractor, Steve Dennis, cut and hung the faux brick paneling. He also helped me to cut the trolley/cart down so that’s it’s “disappearing” into the wall. Ha! This is probably the strangest job he’s ever been asked to do with a client. But he was really cool about it, he said his daughter was a big Harry Potter fan so I think he gets it. 🙂
As I’ve shared peeks of this online, a lot of people asked why I didn’t design this wall to look more like Harry Potter’s bedroom (the cupboard under the stairs). There is an actual space under the stairs in this house, so I made that into that space. As you can see, I really didn’t invest a ton of time or money into this space. I had a budget to furnish this entire house and I didn’t want to waste too much of it on a space that hardly anyone would use. But I knew it would make fans smile when they opened this door, so I wanted to do something to give a nod to Harry Potter’s childhood bedroom. There’s even a calendar on the wall where “he’s counting down the days until he returns to Hogwarts.” 🙂
Since I cut the cart so it could appear to be disappearing into the wall, it doesn’t stick out that much from the wall. So it’s very easy to walk around as you leave the living room to go into the kitchen. It’s maybe one or two inches deeper than a console table would be. Everything is bolted and screwed together so hopefully we don’t have any issues with the cart moving from the wall … you’d have to really try to make that happen, so I am hopeful guests will be respectful and just enjoy this accent wall for what it is—decor and maybe a photo opportunity. Thanks for letting me share! xo. Emma
I make a big batch of homemade Chex mix every year (sometimes twice!) between Thanksgiving and New Year’s. We have a couple different variations, which I’ll explain below. It’s super easy to customize to exactly your taste (notice we leave pretzels and peanuts out; we also left out candy this year because if it’s in there our daughter only wants to eat the candy and nothing else—lol).
ENJOYYYY!!!! xo. Elsie
Episode 10—double digits! You know, when we started recording a few months back, one of our main (and only) goals was to post an episode once a week without missing any weeks through the new year. We knew that if we continued to plan and plan it could go on forever and that what we needed to do was just jump in and TRY. We still have so much to learn and improve, but in just 10 episodes we’ve already learned a lot. It feels good. So whether this is your first week to jump in or you’ve been one of our loyal cheerleaders since episode one (THANK YOU), we hope you see us doing this scary/potentially awkward thing and it helps you feel the confidence to do that in your life too!
-Dining room tables: Here is
-Faux weavings (and other beautiful things that you can make): Here’s 
-Elsie’s 
