Your Home Story

Where to be consistent with colors, materials, and styles throughout a home, and when to avoid being matchy-matchy? We couldn’t find many resources about this so we dug into it! We talk about the time and place for consistency versus unique elements, and which pieces you can be consistent with and why. It’s not just paint color and lighting; you can show off your style and make it clear that each room in a house is yours in many ways! Some examples we talked about: Ashley’s entryway with door hardware upgrade The super affordable black door hardware Suzannah got for her whole house: passage knob, privacy knob, hinges Suzannah’s bamboo blinds (with white curtains) Ashley’s kitchen sconces with two colors of metal You can find us on our blogs or connect with each of us on Instagram. Suzannah is @suzannahstanley and Ashley is @biggerthanthethreeofus. We’d love to hear your questions and thoughts! Join our Facebook group here and email us at yourhomestorypodcast@gmail.com.

We cover the age-old question of decorating a beautiful home vs. creating a comfortable home that fits the way you live. How to determine how you live in a space? Challenges in smaller vs. larger spaces? How do you want the space to look? We cover issues like hiding cords, storing toys, dealing with lots of books, and more! Some inspirations we mentioned: Nesting with Grace lego closet Ashley’s DIY Loft in Closet Ashley’s cord hiding solution Write a review of the show to be entered in the $250 Framebridge giveaway! Ends 2/13, continental US only. You can find us on our blogs or connect with each of us on Instagram. Suzannah is @suzannahstanley and Ashley is @biggerthanthethreeofus. We’d love to hear your questions and thoughts! Join our Facebook group here and email us at yourhomestorypodcast@gmail.com.

Listen in as we chat about what type of flooring each of us have, what we have picked out and why, and if we have installed it ourselves or hired out. Gain knowledge on color, flooring types, installation difficulties, and more. Prepare to be surprised when you hear what our LEAST favorite part of flooring installation is and laugh as you hear that Ashley still hasn’t done this two years later! Learn more with about subfloor and laminate installation in this post on Create/Enjoy and see Suzannah’s bathroom tile board and tile success here. Or, if Ashley sparked your interest with talking about peel and stick groutable tile or her wood flooring decision then check those posts out. Write a review of the show to be entered in the $250 Framebridge giveaway! Ends 2/13, continental US only. You can find us on our blogs or connect with each of us on Instagram. Suzannah is @suzannahstanley and Ashley is @biggerthanthethreeofus. We’d love to hear your questions and thoughts! Join our Facebook group here and email

Design, Make, and Live: Dining Spaces. This is our deep dive/focus on a particular room, this time dining spaces. Tune in as we chat about hosting over the holidays, how to make your dining/kitchen space work for you while hosting, and whether or not we set a beautiful table. Gain insight on practicality versus function when choosing whether or not to put a rug in your space, a glass globe pendant, benches and more. Check out Ashley’s Dining Room Makeover featuring a pop of interest with shibori wallpaper or her eat-in kitchen featuring a built-in bench seat. See Suzannah’s townhouse kitchen here and beautiful but dusty pendant light here. Write a review of the show to be entered in the $250 Framebridge giveaway! Ends 2/13, continental US only. You can find us on our blogs or connect with each of us on Instagram. Suzannah is @suzannahstanley and Ashley is @biggerthanthethreeofus. We’d love to hear your questions and thoughts! Join our Facebook group here and email us at yourhomestorypodcast@gmail.com.

So you’ve narrowed down your style (check out our last episode)… NOW WHAT? On organizing your ideas to keep your style consistent--tools in Instagram, Pinterest, and more. Find Suzannah on Pinterest here and Ashley here. And listen in for a great tip on pinning directly from Instagram! Other tools we cover: design books and mood boards. Books (disclosure: contains affiliate links): Design*Sponge at Home In the Company of Women domino: Your Guide to a Stylish Home (2016 domino book) Old Home Love (this one is unique & gorgeous) Styled by Emily Henderson Simply Styling by Kristen Grove of Simply Grove Maker Spaces And see Suzannah’s master bathroom mood boards post here. Write a review of the show to be entered in the $250 Framebridge giveaway! Ends 2/13, continental US only. You can find us on our blogs or connect with each of us on Instagram. Suzannah is @suzannahstanley and Ashley is @biggerthanthethreeofus. We’d love to hear your questions and thoughts! Join our Facebook group here and email us at yo

Learn how and why to define your home style. Some questions we discuss: why pick a style? Why not just collect and decorate with all the stuff you like? Are style quizzes worth the time? (Some we recommend: My Domaine home style, HGTV home style, My Domaine Spirit Pattern. Also, Home Edit Guides to home styles.) How much is dictated by the house vs. by your style coming into it? Some Instagram accounts that work with their home age/style: Grit and Polish, Emily Netz, Francois et Moi, Ashley @ The Gold Hive. We also talk about narrowing down which of your favorite styles will work in your home, and defining style by designer instead of just general aesthetic (examples: Amber Interiors, Studio McGee). Write a review of the show to be entered in the $250 Framebridge giveaway! Ends 2/13, continental US only. You can find us on our blogs or connect with each of us on Instagram. Suzannah is @suzannahstanley and Ashley is @biggerthanthethreeofus. We’d love to hear your questions and thoughts! Join our Facebook gr

We are talking all about painting cabinets and what all goes in to a project like painting your kitchen cabinets, doors, bathroom vanities, etc. Learn the steps to have a successful job and what paint both Suzannah and Ashley highly recommend. Check out this Modern Kitchen Reveal with Dark Cabinets for a good look at how paint can transform a space. Learn more about How to Paint Oak Cabinets, building DIY Drawers and Building Cabinets, using this deglosser and foam rollers specifically meant for cabinet painting. We love these painted kitchen cabinet makeovers: YHL’s Kitchen Remodel and tutorial, Modern Kitchen Makeover by Place of My Taste and Nina Hendrick’s Painted Cabinet Before/After. Write a review of the show to be entered in the $250 Framebridge giveaway! Ends 2/13, continental US only. You can find us on our blogs or connect with each of us on Instagram. Suzannah is @suzannahstanley and Ashley is @biggerthanthethreeofus. We’d love to hear your questions and thoughts! Join our Facebook group her

Welcome to the Your Home Story Podcast! Your hosts are Suzannah from  http://www.create-enjoy.com and Ashley from http://www.biggerthanthethreeofus.com. Since this is our first episode, we are talking about why we started the podcast, how we plan to help you create YOUR HOME STORY and more nitty-gritty details on DIYing, renovating and design. Join the conversation each week as we talk in detail about finding your home style, why we DIY, how stay consistent with your home projects and more. You’ll be able to tap into our knowledge on how to paint cabinets, how to pick flooring, how to hang gallery walls, etc., in the upcoming episodes. As a kick-off to our podcast, we are excited to announce a fun giveaway with Framebridge! Get the details to that at the end of the episode. You can find us on our blogs or connect with each of us on Instagram. Suzannah is @suzannahstanley and Ashley is @biggerthanthethreeofus. We’d love to hear your questions and thoughts! Join our Facebook group here and email us at yourhomes