We put it out of our heads, then 2 years ago they got divorced and the house was left vacant. Our daughters could continue going to the same school and walking to play with the same friends. And you are truly missing the point here . Fulls of highs and lows. exhausting. I think you guys are going to be okay. I totaly get itand I dont blame you one bit for sharing that story telling with the slew of followers who love what you offer. Thank you for sharing the other side. Now I'm much more reserved in my palette, but I never wonder. As someone who moves with rather measured frequency (military) the amount of money we put into a place we know we will be selling relatively soon is always on my mind. You seem to always get defensive if anyone says anything less than complementing or agreeing with you. Julia and Chris have created a business and a life out of sharing their life with us. He gave us a price, so we went home and wrote it up (for slightly more than that AND a super quick escrow. Looking forward to whatever and whenever the future comes your way and praying blessings on the change of season! I was emotionally invested along with you as I read this blog post, and felt let down to find out that they refused both offers (what were they thinking)!?! Right now. (Also, I fully understand wanting character. Local-Rush-8782 3 mo. We just love our smoothies, so the majority will go toward that. BUT it worked out perfectly bc an even better dream home (for less money) came on the market a few weeks later that we scooped up immediately. I kept watching it as we failed to find a house we liked for six more months. Looking for our favorite things? We had to make them an offer that would make them move essentially. She woke up and decided to go for it. It didn't look likean Idaho house. 1. Ive been on your page all day today just looking up posts about drywall (is that exciting or what?) The story is yours to tell and I find your real vulnerability and authentic story telling to portray what a stand up person you are. We kept our eye on a foreclosure in a great neighborhood on the water for almost two years. #cljfam #cljtransformations, I am not a spider person. Here is the link of the instructions should you feel the urge to make one yourselfit really wasnt that hard, just a bit time consuming, and it really sets the mood for the holiday! Why not just be grateful instead of beating up on other people who arent quite there yet? Best of luck!! Weve been in our dream house for almost 3 years now and have completely remodeled it and are head over heels. I still feel like they just need more time to digest all this and theyll come back to you in a few months. Usually, I had already begun redecorating it in my mind and started making a shopping list for furniture pieces I wanted in each space! Yuma Territorial Prison, Yuma. :). And were so happy to have you here. and they even said theyd be open to another offer in the future. Not only was this not a moment that was filmed spontaneously, it was filmed last week and chosen to be posted today for shock factor and clicks. I know that I, for one, am excited to read/watch the ride! Its really eye opening and Im sure echos a lot of the feelings our sellers could be feeling. Just a suggestion ???? I am just wondering if the clips would have been better on this blog post or a normal instagram post would have been given clearer context? Its a little bit less sq footage and a little less acreage, which has been a blessing for upkeep and has so much more character than the first. And when its time, youre going to slay. I think you make a lot of great points. The hotel first opened in 1927, although it was the United Verde Hospital back then. by Chris Loves Julia x Loloi. Get a grip lady. It seems a lot of disappointment is coming from me crying over it. We can live anywhere, but love our friends and family and cabin so much where we are that wed love to stay localalthough I might claim insanity willingly living through these cold, long winters for the rest of my life. And were so happy to have you here. Thanks Lindsay. I am sorry you didnt get your dream house. We lost out home I really loved a few years ago after the sellers chose a competing offer over ours, and I was extremely sad, so I can empathize. I would guess theyre either truly not emotionally interested in moving or they were hoping for even more money because they sensed how desperate you were to get it. It's on a large lot of mature trees with lots of windows and interesting architecture-all a rarity for our neck of the woods. It's the perfect, practical way to add the warmth of wood to all the rooms of your home. I think I mentioned it when it was up for sale a couple years ago. At least for today anyway! Lhychiyo 3 mo. I am so sorry your hearts breaking right now. Before we moved into our current, forever, home, we found another house that we loved and it was perfect. It didnt work out and we were sad, but so happy now. However, eventually we found another one we love just as much, in much better condition. I CANNOT WAIT to see what you do with your next home! Wait! I can honestly sympathize with how youre feeling. I clicked for the sound and couldnt believe my ears. There were three bedrooms for kids and a master all on the main floor with vaulted, cedar-lined ceilings in every room. This process started last March by me mailing a note to the home owners just hey, if you ever think about listing your home, wed love first peak. Absolutely! Hopefully this will be the year of a kitchen remodel. It will all work out the way its supposed to. If it was live, I dont think I would be as put off about as I am. After going through the buying/selling route last summer when buying my first home (my partners second, but my very first) I quickly found out how real estate is a tough lesson in heartbreak. The house belongs to someone who HAS NOT listed it. Finding a home with character is real hard. "It was sort of like live-journaling, in a way," says Marcum, who describes her journey as an "evolution" of sorts. Timing is a funny thing. Im sorry you thought it was dramatic. A ridiculous construct that leaves us unhappy or wishing we had more? However, I found your instagram story to be tone deaf and out of touch. A larger lot and unique architecture and character. Real nice. And thats how we human being learn how to respect life and be patient. Chris Loves Julia x Loloi Chris Collection CHR-01 Ivory / Denim, Transitional Area Rug. ago. Right now. We all eat together and then get Greta-girl in bed and have the night to do what we want. Its a home just five doors down from our current house. You will find that perfect home and you will sell yours to a family that may think your current home is their forever home. For the Homebody in everybody, ProperTee is our line of cozy/cool apparel, branded with odes to staying in and celebrating the indoors. Within 10 days, he found a house, waived conditions, accepted my offer, and we had a firm deal. We let ourselves cry (me) and be disappointed and the next morning Chris said, I think I got excited about the idea of moving. Webothdid. I am not offended . We might not know what it is at that very moment it happens, but Ive always been able to turn back and say yes, now (24823748 million days later) I understand why it happened the way it did. The downstairs had an additional rec room (and home gym and giant storage room!) We are now in another home that we are slowly redoing, cosmetically only at this point, but the style wont ever be what Im looking for in our forever home. Houses can cause emotional reactions for sure. But, all this talk has made me curious. We called our realtor and asked him what he thought and he said hed be more than happy to knock on the door and see if they were open to it. Im routing for you too. Posting the tears on instayou lost me dawg. How do you forever have the same needs and desires that one house fulfills til you die? How interesting to come here today and read this post I feel a new chapter in your life and your blog on the horizon, and am grateful I got the chance to catch-up before you started. Sale. Our first offer was rejected, we came back up and finally settled on a price that is $5k over appraisal. I am pathetic in a haunted house. Good luck!! It was during the week that we were waiting to hear back about dream house and another realtor had approached ours on behalf of their client that was looking for a house not listed (apparently there is a whole secret list that realtors keep of houses that are willing to sell but dont want to list!) Looking forward to going along for the ride! Are you really using all of the peaches for smoothies or is there some fabulous peach phenomenon in the works? What they wanted, and fell in love with, was the lot next to it. Enjoy the ride! We looked at it twice, decided half heartedly to make an offer and guess what became our dream house after we lived in and fell in love with it. Sometimes, what seems like everything you wanted wouldnt have been right at all, and the perfect choice was there all along, hiding behind some sagebrush. Our new house is perfect and in an amazing neighborhood. Does it greatly alter your day so much that you just HAVE to say something so that you feel better about yourself? In fact, we had actively got our house ready for sale at the drop of a hatokay, in 4 hours one evening. We are gonna have smoothies for DAAAAAYYYYSSSS. An in-house apartment converted to an office space made so much sense! Or move along. Joining our weekly newsletter gives you access to exclusive content, never-before-seen photos, your questions answered, and our favorite DIYs. That is how she achieves success. Dont give up! Good luck on finding your dream home. Your comment was very respectful and I definitely see where youre coming from but Im not sure I agree. I feel you on the emotions getting yanked around when you try/think youre going to get a house, start all the wheels turning full speed, and then it falls through. I had read the blog before watching the updated story. It all worked out in the end. You are KILLING IT! We ended up buying a different place that was all wrong, and which we sold after 3 years. And dont let the trolls take any more of your happiness! The moral of this post is actually that everything over here is going to be fine. I feel that everything happens for a reason. (Made the curtains in the post above the fence as wellsuper easy). My husband and i thought we were in no position to buy our forever house, but then, we found it, in our price range, while hunting for the house before the house. But I will say this-it was the most emotional, stressful week of my life! There were red flags in this situation that have been illuminating for you that is what life is all about. And our realtor later told us that original dream house, turned out to have a ton of problems including needing a completely new septic system. And looking at a creepy crawly all day is just one hurdle I have to jump over. A little sad each time, But we ended up in the right house. When you buy a Chris Loves Julia x Loloi Alice Machine Woven / Power Loomed Performance Cream/Charcoal Rug online from Wayfair, we make it as easy as possible for you to find out when your product will be delivered. The price I might agree to, has no financial sense for anybody else, specially for those who could afford it. I needed to take time and clear my head before I wrote it all down. and some private moments may be better kept as just that keep doing you. Whatever happens, I cant wait to see what you do to the place! with a guest room. It was also insanely cheap and our mortgage would have been smaller than our house in town, but we would have had 4x the house. I wish you and Chris the best of luck- I saw your reaction in Stories and I absolutely would have cried too! One evening that week, he found them home and talked to them about selling their house. When we sold our home to buy our (hopefully) forever home, I cried for months thinking about all the memories we built in our old home and moving day was super hard. Your comment was a hit job with a but Im sincere and usually relly nice at the end. When the couple behind the popular blog Chris Loves Julia bought their Tudor home in Idaho Falls last year, the space adjacent to their main bedroom was a void created by the dining room's two-story ceiling. Scroll down a bit and you can see all my Halloween stuff.) Ingrid stands up to it all. We lost out on our dream house a few years ago. Were a couple of homebodies, working to uncover the home our home wants to be. It doesnt lean warm or cool, its that just right in-between. A bummer the dream home fell through, homes have so much emotion attached to them! Clad with durable textured thermofoils, this line is compatible with Sektion, Akurum, Godmorgon, and Besta cabinets from IKEA. I do not like spiders ONE bit. Through trial and error i learned (sometimes the hard way) that everything in life happens for a reason. Youre way too invested here. I was so upset that I went home early from work and drank a bottle of wine, and Im not a drinker. I am super excited for you guys! I was so surprised to see the negative comments on this post! I visit your page nearly every day to see if a new post is up, or to find inspiration. It is the best when you have the luxury of time to search. Me! When I first went into this home 15 years ago (weve lived in our home 17 years), I knew immediately that I loved the layout so much better than mine. You really need to respect the privacy of others . Haha. It was already owned by their neighbors. Founder @goodinfluence_r Daily updates + sources chrislovesjulia.com Posts Guides Reels Videos Tagged I found the most exciting house but it was $100,000 over the very top of our price range. They havent worked hard enough. You do great work! This story reminds me so much of what Gwen from The Makerista went through a few years ago, it ended up working out perfectly for her! I know the feeling of being let down by the dream of something new. A one-stop source of home design inspiration, step-by-step how-Tos, cooking. Want to do what we do? Not kidding when I say we have loved it for a long time. Did you consider adding less tangible things to your offer, like maybe your services? Besides, does it really make sense to pay way above market value? Its the best jumping-off point for design, no matter your interior style. Also, you didnt need to describe the home enough that people could figure out who it is. Their own. In an industry that often feels designed to make you discontent, we want this to be place you come for inspiration, ideas, and encouragement to make the space you're already in feel like home. Were optimistic about our hunt! Its such a sellers market right now and I dont know about Idaho, but where we live in western NC, there is basically nothing on the market in the price range our house is (not a mansion but not a starter home either). In addition to being beautiful, Ingrid is really durable we have three kids, and we always have a home construction project going on. I feel trapped in a home that isnt our forever house. Im a long time fan! this is impressive. I for one, recently finished a grueling 2 year house hunt and boy did I cry after every house that didnt work out for some reason or another. Just addressing her comment . ???? You absolutely saved that to put on Instagram later. (And all that content about your gorgeous cabin!) I know people are put off by the fact that she saved the reaction vid for a whole week, but she did explain that she didnt want to post it immediately on insta without an explanation as to why she had a reaction like that, she didnt want to confuse her followers. Im in Florida too and prices are insane! Take this as you will from an older reader but these overly modeled and staged clips with perfectly filtered backdrops, hair, makeup, and tears come off as ingenuous and is a turnoff. Your husband is funny, and we like to see your ideas. Wow! Plus we ended up with the most amazing neighbors, more peivacy and so many things we didnt even know we needed. Good luck with your hunt! Last week, Chris and I had the incredible opportunity to travel to London for work. A place to shop our home room by room, or just catch up on what Julia's wearing / loving right now? http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/401555/creating_an_inexpensive_graveyard_fence.html?cat=30#comments. Not trying to be intrusive actual numbers-wise, curious about the big picture. WHAT?! We finally found a few lots in a neighborhood 10 years old at the time and guess what? Thats the plain and simple, yet harsh truth. Im so sorry for those tragedies. Oh my goodness. It hurts!!! 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