Since first publishing the home tour series, the workout room and home office have gotten a revamp. The furniture we had in that room was furniture we brought from our original apartment so it definitely did not fit our current home’s aesthetic. Plus, I felt like it made the room feel very dark and moody instead of bright and airy. Now that I’m working from home permanently, I thought it was the perfect excuse to redecorate the room and make it a place that truly feels productive and bright. Thus, the updated workout room and home office tour. 

Workout Space

More than ever, working out at home has become a necessity. Thus, I’ve been adding more and more home gym equipment and needed the extra storage to keep it all organized. The original 4-cube shelf was replaced with this 6-cube shelf and now all of my equipment fits perfectly. From dumbbells, to kettlebells, and smaller equipment like booty bands, it’s all there! I also wanted to add a touch of pink since it’s my favorite color. It’s the one room in the house that is practically all mine, so why not. I went on what felt like a scavenger hunt to find this vase at target and was so happy when I finally did! I also bought the other collection items like the larger vase and the book ends, though admittedly I am using them simply as decor. Also, my yoga mats now have a home as Marie Kondo would suggest. They were previously all over the place but now they’re nicely organized in a basket! 

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Home Office

Across the workout shelf is the workspace. I admit this room is 90% workout room and 10% office space, but it works just fine! I updated the desk to this white and gold desk with a light pink accent chair because pink needed to have a space in this room. The larger target vase is on the desk and I’m hoping to add some pampas grass to it soon. The desk accessories and stapler are from target, obviously. Also, I got a laptop stand that helps keep my eyes at a higher level and encourages better posture. The wall decor remained the same but I felt like this style made the girl boss print fit right in. 

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I hope you like this updated workout room and home office tour. I’m so happy with how clean and organized this room looks now. Home decor makes me so happy! Plus, I feel like it’s so important to have a place that feels like your own. I keep telling Kris that every time I walk into that room it sparks so much joy. Truly, I think I’m making Marie Kondo proud! 

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While Summer is probably my favorite season, Fall is a close second. I love how the leaves change, the temperature lowers a bit, Fall outfits are my favorite, and anything pumpkin and apple flavored is a win in my book. 

While Fall in Miami is pretty much non-existent, I love bringing a touch of the season with Fall home decor. 

I’m talking pumpkins, pinecones, red and orange leaves, and just in general more amber tones. Plus, you can’t forget candles that will make your home truly smell like Fall. 

While I broke down the Home Tour series by separate areas, today I’m sharing an overall glimpse into how I refresh my space with Fall home decor. 

Fall Home Decor Staple: Pumpkins

You can’t talk about Fall without mentioning pumpkins. The smell, the look, they just scream Fall! Pumpkins are simply a Fall home decor staple. 

The good news is there’s plenty of pumpkin styles to choose from. There’s pumpkins with more of a Halloween vibe, there’s ceramic pumpkins, pumpkin-shaped candles, and even rafia-texture pumpkins. 

I love decorating every space I can with pumpkins. From trays, to the stairs, to furniture pieces, adding pumpkins everywhere is my favorite. 

Create a Cozy Space

While the temperature barely drops in Miami, Fall is usually associated with a cooler weather. For that reason, I love making the space feel more cozy with blankets, pillows and using more earthy tones in my decor.

I’m always cold so blankets are a must in our house regardless, but during Fall I like to lay this blanket over our couch to create a cozy and inviting space.

I also like to change up the pillows to have a more earthy tone. Plus, pillows are always a great way to add comfort which is exactly what Fall is about.

Fall Foliage

My favorite part about Fall after pumpkins is seeing the leaves turn. While that doesn’t happen in Miami, I like to bring my own Fall foliage home.

I update the wreath we usually decorate our door with to place one with a Fall vibe. On the interior, I decorate our stair rail with a Fall garland. Our home is usually minimalist in terms of design, but I love the warmth the Fall leaves (even if they’re fake) add to the home. The dining table also gets updated to add Fall garland over the table runner, along with pumpkins of course. 

Lastly, the flower vases, that usually have fresh flowers, get decorate with Fall flowers. Sadly, because I can’t get real Fall flowers, I settle with artificial ones. However, I will say they look pretty real from a decent distance and they look beautiful so it’s all worth it! 

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 I hope you enjoyed this post and found some inspiration to refresh your space with Fall home decor.

If you find some amazing Fall goodies, please send them my way as I love seeing, sharing, and getting all Fall decor!

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Well this is it, the final part of the home tour series: the master bedroom tour.

You’ve probably seen a little bit of our master bedroom if you follow me on Instagram since I frequently share mirror selfies (quarantine made me do it).

Master Bedroom Tour

I knew I wanted the master bedroom to have calming vibes. As much as I hate to admit it, I’m stressed out quite frequently and have a hard time slowing down.

For that reason, the master bedroom needed to be a place that allowed me to relax and have great sleep.

That’s when Kris and I went on a hunt for the perfect mattress and pillows. After testing out a few, we decided on the Leesa mattress and pillows.

I honestly cannot recommend them enough. We found Leesa at West Elm and that’s when we decided it was perfect for us.

Since most of our furniture downstairs was going to be West Elm, I decided to look into bedroom furniture there as well so we could take advantage of their buy more save more sales.

That’s when I found our bed (which, sadly, has been discontinued since), our dresser, nightstands, and full-length mirror. 

I love that the nightstands not only look modern, they’re also very functional with the two drawers.

One of my favorite items on them are our wireless iPhone and Apple Watch charger stands because we used to have a really hard time with so many cables.

The dresser is also cute and stylish, and having multiple drawers was a must for Kris since I take up 95% of the closet space (and, admittedly, take up the majority of the dresser drawers).

Speaking of the closet, Kris custom built it for us with pieces from The Home Depot.

I’m so grateful for his hard work and building a closet based on my poorly drawn design.

Our bedroom would not be complete without a comfy bed for Ollie and Milo. Though I will admit they end up jumping on our bed in the middle of the night while we’re fully asleep (sneaky little pups!).

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Master Bathroom

Ever since we moved in together, Kris and I have always wanted a double sink vanity since I, yet again, took up most of the bathroom space.

Luckily our home has a very spacious bathroom that I made sure to take full advantage of. 

In order to keep it organized, I bought a couple of storage baskets to put inside the cabinets and hold all of my skincare and haircare products.

I also have storage for makeup and trays to hold things in place inside the drawer.

On the counter I place a tray that serves as decor and to hold canisters with cotton balls and more. Clearly I’m a fan of pretty yet functional things!

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I’m grateful to have so much space to get ready in the mornings and just love spending time in our home.

Quarantine has given me a whole new perspective on our space and I’m just thankful to have a roof over our heads.

I hope you enjoyed our home tour series and its last section, the master bedroom tour.

If you have any questions, feel free to comment below or DM me on Instagram!

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Up next on our home tour series is the guest bedroom tour.

In case you missed it, here’s the kitchen tour, living room & dining room tour, and workout room tour.

When we moved into our home we knew we needed to have a guest bedroom.

My family doesn’t live in the US, Kris’ family lives in IL, and our friends are spread all over the US so we wanted to have space to host them.

We also wanted to make their stay an enjoyable one so I drew some inspiration from Jess Conte’s vlog to give our guests a fun experience when staying with us!

Guest Bedroom Tour

Most of the guest bedroom furniture is from IKEA that we had in our previous apartment and just wanted to repurpose when we bought our master bedroom furniture.

It’s comfortable and allows our guests to have their own storage space while staying with us with the nightstands and dresser. Though, admittedly, I do have some of my winter stuff stored in a few drawers (oops!).

Part of the decor is functional, like the Alexa Echo Dot so they can control the lights, fan, set alarms, etc. and part is just decor like Ollie and Milo’s illustration that a friend of ours gifted us.

Probably the most functional part (aside from the bed, of course) are the curtains. As weird as that sounds, the guest bedroom has large windows that make it a very warm room.

The curtains are not only blackout for great sleep but block some of the heat and keep the room cooler.

That’s pretty much the basics of the guest bedroom. My favorite decor though, is the memories the room holds.

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A Guest Experience

When our friends stay at our place, I want to make sure to document it.

For that reason, I always take a polaroid and hang it on the burlap frame on the wall.

I wish we had more pics but we’ve only been at our place for a year and with coronavirus, we haven’t had guests in so long!

Friends: that’s a hint to come over and visit when all of this ends!!!

In addition to having our guests take a pic for memories, I like to make sure they feel welcome from the moment they step in.

That’s why I like to have a basket with towels, face masks, other self-care items, and their favorite treats when they walk into the bedroom.

I want our friends to feel like they have everything they need when they come in, including the WiFi password!

I found a cute template on Pinterest, printed it out, wrote our password and framed it.

This may all sound a little “extra” but honestly I just love having people over and nothing makes me happier than making other people happy.

Plus, if I can make their stay enjoyable they will hopefully come back again!

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I hope you enjoyed this guest bedroom tour and found our “welcoming guests ideas” useful.

If you have any other ideas you’d like to share for making our guests feel extra welcome, please share them in the comments below.

See you soon for another home tour!

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Thanks for sticking around for the home tour series! If you’ve missed the previous one here’s the kitchen tour and the living room & dining room tour.

I recently shared my favorite at-home fitness products that I have in what I refer to as my Studio Tone It Up.

I thought it was only fitting I shared a workout room tour next so you can take a peek into my morning workout space.

Pretty much my entire working out life (I was not into fitness for many years) I’ve worked out at home.

Whether that was my brother’s room, my college dorm suite, or our apartment living room, I’ve always been used to working out in a small space.

However, when we were looking for a home to buy I told Kris I really wanted to have my own workout room. 

While working out in the living room is fine, I’d much rather have my own space to work out and meditate in.

Luckily, he was super understanding so we looked for a place with enough rooms to include a workout space!

I will add that my workout room has a small corner that functions as my office space, though I don’t use it too often since I like to work from different areas of our home.

Workout Room Tour

On my previous blog post I discussed the small workout equipment I use at home and sometimes travel with.

However because it’s small, I wanted to have a space to keep it all together.

I got my workout equipment shelf a while ago to keep in my closet for a few extra things but after moving into our new home I decided to repurpose it to hold all my workout equipment.

I have a box where I store my booty bands, resistance bands, Bala ankle weights, face towels, jump rope, etc. 

The other shelf spaces have my dumbbells, kettlebell, foam roller, and Tone It Up decor since I call this room Studio Tone It Up.

We got a TV for the room to easily stream my Tone It Up app workouts and it’s honestly been life-changing not having to stare at my smaller screen from afar.

Right before I did the TIU Strength program on the app, we got a weight bench and a barbell that I’ve continued to use even after finishing the program.

It also has the added bonus that it encourages Kris to work out since he would often say my dumbbells were too light for him (probably just excuses, am I right?).

I keep the extra weight plates for the barbell on a basket next to my shelf. It’s not perfectly organized but honestly everything gets moved constantly in that room so it’s probably the only space were looking cute was not my main priority. 

Finally, I hung a mirror on the back side of the door that I use to keep an eye on my form and make sure I don’t get injured while working out!

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Office Space

The workout room also doubles as my office space.

While I hope to update the desk and chair in the future, it’s not my main priority at the moment as I don’t use it that often.

I normally don’t work from home (quarantine has changed that though) so the office was not a concern.

However, I do hope to change the furniture some time soon for lighter colors and I’ve linked them below. 

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I like to switch my work space (keeps the creative juices flowing) so even though I’m working from home I usually only work from my office space once a week.

I love working from our dining table, kitchen island and balcony so I keep it varied!

One major thing above my desk is my vision board, intentions, and a motivating girl boss portrait.

I love having it all there so I can see it daily and remind myself of what I’m working towards.

I hope you enjoyed this workout room tour and stay tuned for a few more home tour spaces!

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If you missed part one, check it out here: Kitchen Tour.

Moving on to our dining room and living room tour, this is the area where we spend most of our evenings.

We love watching TV on our couch and have made it a point to eat dinner at the dining table frequently since we were used to eating on the couch at our previous apartment. 

Much like the kitchen, I knew the living room and dining room needed to be perfect for entertaining. After all, I hope to be able to host my family for Christmas some time (was hoping this year but with COVID they will most likely not be able to travel).

We’ve had a few friends over since we moved into our place. Luckily, the spacious couch has come in very handy for the extra seating! 

Plus, I’ve also had super fun movie days with my girls.

Overall, we knew we wanted this place to be perfect for having people over as well as feeling cozy. With that in mind we chose the furnishings and overall decor.

Dining Room Tour

I love the modern style but in order to avoid it coming off too cold, I love adding plants.

Now I will say, the plants I choose are 99% of the time artificial because I have no green thumb.

I found our beautiful and modern table at CB2 and knew I needed the chairs to match the modern look. 

Honestly I searched high and low for our chairs because the original ones are extremely expensive. Luckily, there’s a few brands that have replicated the style at a more affordable look. 

While they may look like they’re not the comfiest chairs, they’re actually quite good! They’ve been very durable so far and easy to clean.

I decorated the table with a wooden tray and artificial flowers from Hearth and Hand. 

Above it is the chandelier, which honestly adds a nice, modern touch.

Most recently, we got an artificial fiddle leaf fig from Target’s Studio McGee collection (my all-time favorite partnership). It gives the space the warm, homey feeling that it was missing.

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Living Room Tour

The layout of our home is actually a bit different than what the builder had originally planned. Our dining room was supposed to be a family room and the living room was going to be a dining room and TV room in one.

However, we found it would be a waste of space to have two couches so close to each other. Instead, we turned the “family room” into the dining room and went for an extra large living room.

It works perfectly for us because we wanted to have a large couch and a designated bar area. Plus, we wanted as much room as possible for the dogs to roam around freely. 

Knowing we had a big space for the living room, we searched for a large couch to fill up the area. I found the perfect one on Wayfair but it was sold out for months.

I set a notification for in-stock alerts and finally the couch came back in stock just in time!

The design I had in mind for this place from the get-go was modern and minimal. I love a clean look so I wanted furniture that would not allow for any clutter. 

Plus, I love a wooden touch to add more coziness to a minimal design. 

For that reason, I chose a media stand that has wooden cabinets to cover the mess (AKA Kris’ PS4 and all the games) but can easily slide for access to said mess.

I decorated it with pictures and little touches like a wooden tray for placing the remotes. This makes it look more organized and clean.  

While I was opposed to the idea at first (making holes on the wall freak me out), hiding the TV cables behind the wall makes for an extra clean look I love. 

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Since there was a lot of space to play with in our living room, I added a blanket ladder in one corner and floating shelves decorated with artificial plants.

These add even more warmth to the space while still keeping it clean and modern.  

I’m really happy with the way our living room turned out, especially because it is the area we “live in” the most. 

Stay tuned for the rest of this home tour series and in the meantime, I hope you enjoyed this dining room and living room tour!

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It’s been almost a year since we moved into our home and I feel like this is a long overdue home tour series.

I frequently get questions on Instagram about sharing where we got our furniture from so I figured I’d break it down on the blog.

First up is the kitchen tour. Honestly, my favorite space in our home and thus why I needed to start with it.

When we were looking at homes to buy, the number one thing I needed to be perfect was the kitchen. 

I could deal with everything else (though Kris will deny this) but the kitchen was a non-negotiable.

Ever since we moved in to our tiny apartment in Illinois, we would bump into each other in the kitchen all the time. 

We had to tell each other when we needed the kitchen to have “time slots” and full range of the space. Meal prep is obviously a big deal for me so kitchen space and organization is a must.

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I absolutely love how spacious our kitchen is. The island is great for cooking space, entertainment, and even as a workspace sometimes.

Our counter stools are modern and comfortable, our guests are always pleasantly surprised by how comfortable they are! 

Storage Space

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I’m a big fan of how much storage space we have.

There’s plenty of cabinets for storing our tupperware, pots and pans, plates, small appliances, and more. 

In order to keep all the pots and pans organized, I found some wonderful organizers for the cabinets on Amazon (sold out but I linked similar ones above). 

They’re honestly a life saver and avoid that annoying noise of pots and pans getting in the way of each other when taking them out.

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I was committed to keeping the kitchen organized and having everything be easily accessible without making a mess, so I’m glad I purchased those!

Functional Yet Pretty

Obviously the main point of the kitchen is to be functional, but I do appreciate a pretty kitchen.

After all, it’s the first thing you see when entering our home.

For that reason, a few of our small appliances are on the counters, like my all-time favorite: the kitchen-aid. And obviously my Tone It Up bars could not be left out.

I also got a beautiful Hearth & Hand tray that I use as decor. I love styling it for the season and with beautiful, fresh flowers courtesy of the hubs.

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Lastly, our Alexa Echo Show is so helpful. We use it to control the lights, find recipes, play music to our Sonos speakers, set timers, and even play games while we wait for food to be ready.

I hope you’ve enjoyed this kitchen tour! Let me know what you think in the comments. More parts to the home tour series coming soon!

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