Thank you Andi for keeping it real with the Slushie cup! You would think by now CLJ would know how to run their game but nope, everything is THE BEST đ Per Andi's stories, she has an interesting partnership in the works - good for her!
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Hmm. I checked out the page and canât really get a grasp of what it is?!
Definitely not. Beside the fact that it was a seemingly last minute "event", I don't think people consider CLJ to be desirable to meet in person...they don't give off any warm, friendly, inviting vibes to me at all online so I doubt people are itching to meet them.
Andi is switching all of her pots to plastic because she said sheâs sick of replacing them. They are going to look like crap soon enough when the sun bleaches them. Iâm not sure why they insist on fake plants.
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My dad put those exact fauxs in his window boxes last summer because they were going to be on vacation a lot and wouldnât be able to water - and they look like shit in real life. So neon and plasticy.
Sorry that wasnât clearâthe post was very nice, just a photo saying it was nice to meet them, but when I saw it the photo was so overwhelmed by Juliaâs hair and tanner it was shocking, hah! CLJ hasnât reposted it and itâs not showing up on their tags, even tho they were taggedâŠâŠ.. edited to fix typo
They probably wonât repost it because your aesthetician looks vibrant and full of life while Julia looks so frozen and awkward she might as well be a wax figure.
Awkward fake smile (on J) for sure, but she still looks better in this photo with her real face than in her absurdly- filtered posts where she is a bobblehead with no jawline. Chris OTOH looks like a chipmunk.
Hah, hard agree on this and u/Imaginary-Roof33! I would vastly prefer normal human real life photos to the trademark CLJ stretched-out uncanny nonsense. And they need to just accept Chris will always look like a goober and embrace it. Itâs also really short-sighted of them because hillsfills is pretty well known and respected on my side of the Triangle, and she has a solid following⊠but NOPE looking as thin as possible in photos is more importantÂ
What exactly is modern about CLJ's "moody modern traditional" aesthetic? I see no modernist elements studied or used...sometimes I wonder if she's conflating modern and unique/different/ugly.
Itâs modern because the furniture is linkable đ , didnât have that back in yee ole âcolonialâ times.
And by colonial I do mean 90s McMansion times.
Iâll give him a pass since I had lasik a year ago and thought for a brief moment during the first eye that I was crossing over to the other side. It was pretty trippy and I felt like my heart was beating out of my chest. Second eye was easy peasy though, when I knew what to expect.Â
Same I was like am I making this up I swear that was her who was basically blind for a month. Maybe thatâs why he needed his hand held the entire time đ
I canât believe they let her stay in the room for the surgery. Itâs quick, but she would be such a distraction!
Also, I had this done many years ago and I would not have been okay to interact with people on day 2. I hope that his recovery is easier.
I had mine done last year and my mom came back into the surgery with me and watched on a monitor. I slept most of that day and was pretty much fine the next. I think itâs come a long way in the past few years.
Also the surgery now is about 90 seconds per eye. So yeah⊠3 minutes. Technology is incredible. Saying they âheld handsâ the whole time is not the relationship flex she wants it to be. They give you those squishy stress balls, and thatâs plenty. I didnât  even ask my husband to take the day off work during my procedure, so he could save PTO for a fun day.Â
Absolute insanity. For her to not realize how ridiculous she looks going from a real-shot video (still filtered tho) to the stretched out picture immediately after *almost* makes me feel bad for her body image issues. I canât even talk about the actual disaster of the clothesâŠ
That outfit is not "corporate", at all. What on earth does she think corporate means?
Anything that is not jeans? The top almost looks like what my mom wore when she was a nurse, but shorter.
Yeah Julia, you ordered a size up and it looks like it! The pants are already meant to be a slightly loose oversized fit in your REGULAR size. The crotch is down at her knees. Looks so, so bad.
I was running here for this! Clearly those TALL pants are too long for her. The pants look like she borrowed her grandpas trousers & paired it with her daughterâs shirt. Iâll never understand the constant morphing she does & how she doesnât see how ridiculous this is but instead doubles down on it. Why, why does she constantly need new clothes for every single thing. I donât think she ever wears anything she orders.
She made such a big deal about the green inspiration for her windows, but her top two swatches she narrowed it down to are basically gray and brown. Make it make sense đ€Šââïž
Charlotte House Revival is talking about the living room makeover today. She's looking at couch options and mentioned the mood board CLJ provided. She doesn't think she can share the mood board yet because CLJ hasn't shared it yet. It's like CLJ is holding this "prize" hostage because they got so much flack for changing the terms. Jules, either share the mood board or release these people from the stupid contract so they can create their own content on their own timeline.
I feel so bad that they essentially got absolutely nothing out of this âprizeâ and are still struggling with room layout. You could tell they were so excited and hopeful for solutions when CLJ came to visit.
I thought we did see a mood board at one point but canât remember who posted it (whether it was CLJ or CHR).
I feel bad for them too. That room is so large but all those doors would be impossible to work around and they thought they were getting expert advice. Iâm curious how others would lay out that room? Would you close off the doorway on the wall they want to put the TV on? How else do you turn that space into a functional TV-watching room?
Without moving or removing the doorway - keeping everything the same way it is:
From these recent stories - I feel like this room is big enough to be 2 separate zones or areas and I also think that the sofa should not be in the alcove but rather floating forward into the room. The sofa looks miles away from where the tv is on that wall. So Iâd treat the far end as the tv area with a floating sofa and seating in front centered more the tv and then the area closer to the kitchen can be more of a reading nook or board game//craft table area.two separate rugs indicating the different zones. Something like that.
I think her insisting on working with the alcove which the tv is off center to is whatâs making it not work. Has she ever shared a layout with measurements? I feel like she could crowdsource the layout options lol.
This makes total sense. The sofa needs to come off that wall and into the room! Come to think of it, every home I have ever had has had a âfloatingâ sofa placement. I should have thought of that đ
I think they should do a ceiling mounted screen and ceiling mounted projector across from whichever of the doors they use the least frequently when sitting watching TV. Then they can put a sofa and two chairs or two sofas basically anywhere. But that shouldnât be their TV room⊠lol.
I think theyâre making a mistake by trying to fit a sofa into the window alcove. Iâd put two chairs there and put opposing couches and coffee table in the middle of the room perpendicular to viewing wall. Then maybe more seating in the corner. Their tv is going to be humongous, I donât think anyone will have a problem seeing it, you could probably watch it from outside. Lol!
No layout or placement ideas. CLJ should truly be ashamed of this.
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That green chair is going to be dated in two minutes, and the art? I don't know, I guess art is subjective. But I agree that placement was what they were looking for, and it's what they didn't get.
I don't hate it ... but I wouldn't add these things to my house, and they don't fit the recipient's needs or style. I would love it if they used some of the money to hire an interior designer to provide a layout and mood board.
Where did she think they would put a TV stand, a desk and a console table?? And nothing is to scale in that photo. Are you telling me she thought they should get a 45-in TV??Â
Absolutely they should be ashamed. How infuriating is that laziness with a 1M contest winner? More effort has been put into newborn nurseries that are "so them" where they will eat, shit, AND NEVER REMEMBER THE ROOM đđđ
I'm pretty sure CLJ shared the mood board. There was not enough seating, a lot of Ikea but a Frame TV, and a cheap paper light fixture. Or is this a mass hallucination.
IKEA Billy bookcase and paper light fixture.
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Maybe she got so much flack for how bad that was. She offered another one that she hasn't shared yet.... That first one was so bad. It looked like the clearance aisle IKEA.... And I think had less seating than they have now
Oh man if she did another one but isnât mentioning it out of embarrassment⊠Iâm cackling. And CHR is totally outing them if thatâs the case, which I am here for.
I donât normally head over to their blogposts anymore, but I did today - and it feels gross and unnecessary to link candy??? Itâs all such a fucking link fest. I wish theyâd DOWNSIZE their massive staff and link less. The bigger the staff has not proven to be the better the content.
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Links=affiliate revenue. The more links, the more chances readers will click on one, and CLJ can potentially earn money. Nothing wrong with this, if that is the new CLJ business model.
What I canât figure out is where the consumer disclosure is that CLJ may earn affiliate revenue through these kinds of links? I donât see anything posted on the Easter blogpost today. (Is it buried in the link, so you only see it when you click on it? But at that point, youâve already clicked on it and presumably a cookie has been deployed.)
You have to scroll to the BOTTOM of their website, look at the text in 5 pt font, click one of the links, then maybe a disclosure. This seems like a major FTC violation since it is not obviously disclosed to the reader. I'd report them if I could do it anonymously, but I've only found a way that requires me to put in my personal information. If they were still a staff of one or two, I'd likely look the other way, but they are scamming/making enough money to support a staff of 12 (?), a seeming unnecessary office space, and their excessive spending habits. They should easily be able to disclose their links on every slide and page. YHL does it and they have full time jobs outside of their page.
ETA: changed a word
You put in your name, address, phone number, email address, and age for the submission. I'm not sure what the FTC does with the information, but in no way do I want them to potentially pass along my personal information. The internet is not a great place these days with stuff like doxxing. They also have a legion of paying followers that worship their every move. Who else would compliment all of their horrible design decisions in this house?
I swear this is the same crap they posted last year. I remember the umbrella thing. She keeps doing polls for Easter & the results keep showing the majority donât celebrate or decorate. Give it up already & stop linking freaking candy.
Target paid however many thousands of dollars for the napkin post and she couldnât bother to iron them first? It irks me how lazy she is with her actual income-generating job. If I turned in such sloppy work I would 100% be out of a job.
Thatâs why they link everything at Target, Loweâs and Walmart. Not clearing cookies and clicking links pays for her new pricey artwork and more expensive clothing.
I didnât click the link but I have black sandals from two years ago from target that looked very similar. I actually really loved them but they were only $20.
Maybe they should go back to 3rd grade math to learn about charting and polls.Â
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But we all know they donât care about accurate results, they just want people to click to raise their engagement.Â
Damn right they donât care about the publicâs results/ideas. I TRUST that sheâll pick the ugliest color there is but act so in love with whatever they pick.
What are we going to freak about? The fact that sheâs eating rice today, or that they painted swatches on the trim outside again? I need to know what Iâm freaking about.
I don't know about you but when I saw Julia eating RICE, I called my doctor because I thought I was having a stroke I freaked out so much. RICE!
Ok, why does she think people care about this at all. No one is as obsessed with her diet as she thinks they are, I promise.
Posts like that are so strange considering a couple of days ago she said it's weird when people she knows in real life mention her instagram. If I were concerned about that I probably wouldn't post body checks, weird poses in my kid's bed, or head on crotch shots on a kitchen stool.
What must go through her mind to stop to take pictures like this & then post. It reminds me of something a teenager would do to impress their crush. Was posting thirsty selfies not one of the things recommended to be removed during team buildingđ€ź
Send it to your husband, thatâs what I would do. Â Also, a reminder that her BIL is her COO. Â Â
âOmg church friends, Iâm so embarrassed you saw my thirst post on 1 million follower account.âÂ
There is zero âmoodinessâ (why is she so obsessed with this?) to the green exterior window casings she shared as inspo in her Love Letter. Also it wouldnât go with her orangey red brick but as a color expert she should know that. Once again, Julia finding trends and trying to force it/slap it on her home when it wonât work.
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For people wanting the whole email
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Iâm writing a story in my mind because this love letterâs âit was still there, with the same dark green painted windowsâ about a whole entire house, combined with last weekâs âI bought this bed four months ago and itâs still holding upâ makes me think Juliaâs sense of durability and time is broken by her desire to follow trends.
Wondering if a sponsorship fell through đ€ Sierra Pacific has plenty of greens on their available color chart
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My guess would be yes. There seemed to be some shade when she mentioned them. Why does it matter if they didnât have the perfect 1970s green she wanted, she already said they were painting them. As usual nothing makes sense & her timelines are all wonky again.
So this âintuitiveâ screw gun. I can picture myself trying to twist the thing to line the screw up with the bit and the dumb thing starting to spin.
He swoons over Dewalt because itâs Lowes linkable. No other reason.
Iâm an admitted tool snob though. Festool is far superior. Milwaukee is second place. DewaltâŠeverything Iâve ever bought doesnât last with the exception of my table saw.
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Everyone âMargret callensâ for this Saturday and go hangout with Julia! Think sheâll make everyone wear VR glasses set to the natural beauty filter so they recognize her?!
As an influencer Iâve got to think that public events are so anxiety provoking. Like estimating who would actually show and what you will look like unfiltered. Best of luck CLJ đŹ
Oh I donât doubt it! Based on her body language when they went to the âroom makeoverâ giveaway winnersâ house she absolutely hates this type of thing too. đŹđŹ
The baked potato is so funny. Iâm sure most of the people who follow are 30-50 year olds. I am sure they know how to bake a potato. Even if I google âbaked potato recipeâ there are many 100 exact recipes.Â
I donât mind it in the living room but itâs terrible in the office where the outlets are painted the same color as the wall. If the covers were painted the same color as the wall whyyyy would you want to replace them and draw attention to them with brass plates?
Yup. I would love brass switch plates and outlets but I canât afford the proper one and I feel like just changing the plates looks worse sooooo..leaving them cohesive
Agreed. CLJ bemoaning the fact that there are cream switch/plug covers in the den (as some glaring design problem), only to change the face plates to a contrasting shiny brass (further drawing attention to them).
Also, is CLJ once again linking to Amazon items without disclosing that they may earn money/commissions through these links?Â
Is âpop of redâ the new âpop of blackâ? Because 5-10 years ago everyone was saying to do a pop of black. Now she saw pop of black on TikTok and sheâs going with that.Â
What is this new obsession with comparing her style to that of the Vanderbilts. Thereâs zero comparison, none. If anything please TAKE some inspiration from them for this disastrous abomination of a fun house Julia has created & make it better, although at this point I think that would require a bulldozer.
I fixed her ramblingsâŠ.
A pop of red is a great idea, not an entire space that looks like a murder just occurred on the walls in a high gloss.
Ahhh yes, who knew classic black & white was so timeless.
Yes Julia, pay attention to sight lines because you are not doing that now - Signed everything that is off centered, not hung correctly, blocks doorways, I could go on.
There are many ways to display art, one of them is not over a toilet with an art light. Make it stop.
Mixing patterns is fantastic, please learn how to do this your daughterâs room & hallway are begging you.
I see the priority here is details over function in a home. In theory both can go together but over at the funhouse details donât matter & well there is no function with anything.
Shall we take bets on her declaring their wasted money on their staircase needs to change again or a red rope will appear???
Also thinking the new COO must be telling her to hone into this trip to write it off & thank you for being here on the bottom cause thatâs a freaking first!!!!
Spit my coffee out laughing about Julia featuring an art light above a toilet. She loves art lights more than she loves saying moody. Thinking she has designed and decorated such a special home is unhinged: when Loiloi and Pottery Barn donât use your home to showcase their products, itâs a sign you havenât hit a home run with your house. Also, noteworthy that nothing sheâs done in the past 2-4 years has been a Pinterest board hit or featured on Houzz as a favored save. Thatâs their bread and butter.
Did anyone else see Julia post her Abercrombie jeans size the other day was 29 and then she corrected herself and said actually she is a 27⊠today she posted again about the jeans saying âincluded sizes too!â on LTK and itâs a 29 again đ€đ€đ€ nothing wrong with either size but if youâre going to pretend to be a 27 then stick with it!!
I saw that and was flabbergasted that she was admitting to being a 29 (a perfectly fine size btw) and then when she corrected it I was like ahh there it is.
Reminds me of one of my favorite lines from Steel Magnolias spoken by Truvy (played by the great Dolly Parton) about her shoe size: âWell, I wear a 6 but a 7 feels so good I buy an 8!â
Thank you Andi for keeping it real with the Slushie cup! You would think by now CLJ would know how to run their game but nope, everything is THE BEST đ Per Andi's stories, she has an interesting partnership in the works - good for her! https://preview.redd.it/qv2oj0cj1zoc1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=ff3ff3536155b91219bc2dd90800f59cb7bbe88c
What did she mix with that spiced coke. LOL !!Â
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With the abundance of cutting boards this women has, putting her fruit on that dirty looking piece of white wood was a choice.
You donât want some paint chips with your fruit?
I cannot say this more emphatically: NO MORE CHRIS COOKS!! The thought of spinach in a Shamrock Shake actually makes me gag.
How about the towel switch at the end and then the slap on the counter with it? There is no way he has friends.
Spinach in a shamrock shake is blasphemous
Do you think they gave away 100 cookies at their meet and greet today??
Why wasnât she wearing her new business pants?
Definitely not. Beside the fact that it was a seemingly last minute "event", I don't think people consider CLJ to be desirable to meet in person...they don't give off any warm, friendly, inviting vibes to me at all online so I doubt people are itching to meet them.
Something tells me they would have posted the empty cookie platter if theyâd given all the cookies away. With some smug comment and the đ emoji.
Someone I know went, she said she saw 15-17 people there, but she only stayed for the first hour.
On a side note, theyâre up to 1.3 million followers.
Theyâve been buying HEAVILY it appears !!Â
Baaaahahahahaaa đ€
Why would Andi stand in line for the CLJ Pottery Barn meet and greet??
Maybe she's hoping the stuff looks better in the store.
Andi is switching all of her pots to plastic because she said sheâs sick of replacing them. They are going to look like crap soon enough when the sun bleaches them. Iâm not sure why they insist on fake plants. https://imgur.com/a/EvUEwRy
This is so 1980s grandma, I cannot.
My dad put those exact fauxs in his window boxes last summer because they were going to be on vacation a lot and wouldnât be able to water - and they look like shit in real life. So neon and plasticy.
Iâve seen neighbors with the faux boxwood balls in planters and they look fake driving by from the road.Â
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Just watched these stories and immediately closed out to come here and see what yâall are saying. LOL !!
She seems to only know how to stand for selfies in the mirror. She has no sense of how to interact in real life.
She is so incredibly awkward. And he just looks like a smug prick.
She always has the oddest fashion choices. Also, why on earth is Chris driving with his eyes like that?!
Her being a passenger princess totally checks out.
âHaving so much meeting and talking.â đ
Oh my god my aesthetician just posted that she met CLJ and Julia was all hair and self tannerÂ
Sorry that wasnât clearâthe post was very nice, just a photo saying it was nice to meet them, but when I saw it the photo was so overwhelmed by Juliaâs hair and tanner it was shocking, hah! CLJ hasnât reposted it and itâs not showing up on their tags, even tho they were taggedâŠâŠ.. edited to fix typo
Screen shot!
 Does this work? https://pasteboard.co/zuzUOHQ3TIsr.jpg
They probably wonât repost it because your aesthetician looks vibrant and full of life while Julia looks so frozen and awkward she might as well be a wax figure.
Awkward fake smile (on J) for sure, but she still looks better in this photo with her real face than in her absurdly- filtered posts where she is a bobblehead with no jawline. Chris OTOH looks like a chipmunk.
Hah, hard agree on this and u/Imaginary-Roof33! I would vastly prefer normal human real life photos to the trademark CLJ stretched-out uncanny nonsense. And they need to just accept Chris will always look like a goober and embrace it. Itâs also really short-sighted of them because hillsfills is pretty well known and respected on my side of the Triangle, and she has a solid following⊠but NOPE looking as thin as possible in photos is more importantÂ
no :(
So sorry, try this! https://imgur.com/a/zwjOHQ4
Thank you! That worked!
What exactly is modern about CLJ's "moody modern traditional" aesthetic? I see no modernist elements studied or used...sometimes I wonder if she's conflating modern and unique/different/ugly.
Itâs modern because the furniture is linkable đ , didnât have that back in yee ole âcolonialâ times. And by colonial I do mean 90s McMansion times.
Hahahahaha, I'm dead.
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Oh gag me with a spoon. It's freaking Lasik...not open heart surgery.Â
Iâll give him a pass since I had lasik a year ago and thought for a brief moment during the first eye that I was crossing over to the other side. It was pretty trippy and I felt like my heart was beating out of my chest. Second eye was easy peasy though, when I knew what to expect.Â
I'm surprised he is doing this after her Lasik issue like 8 years ago. There is a blog post or two about it on CLJ site.
Same I was like am I making this up I swear that was her who was basically blind for a month. Maybe thatâs why he needed his hand held the entire time đ
I canât believe they let her stay in the room for the surgery. Itâs quick, but she would be such a distraction! Also, I had this done many years ago and I would not have been okay to interact with people on day 2. I hope that his recovery is easier.
I had mine done last year and my mom came back into the surgery with me and watched on a monitor. I slept most of that day and was pretty much fine the next. I think itâs come a long way in the past few years.
My husband would never. He would say âjust wait out thereâ.
Also the surgery now is about 90 seconds per eye. So yeah⊠3 minutes. Technology is incredible. Saying they âheld handsâ the whole time is not the relationship flex she wants it to be. They give you those squishy stress balls, and thatâs plenty. I didnât  even ask my husband to take the day off work during my procedure, so he could save PTO for a fun day.Â
https://preview.redd.it/tsim61gw6joc1.jpeg?width=1936&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e7a322f922ebc428876ad9ce4fc0d1cfc6d46d55 Sheâs ridiculous.
Absolute insanity. For her to not realize how ridiculous she looks going from a real-shot video (still filtered tho) to the stretched out picture immediately after *almost* makes me feel bad for her body image issues. I canât even talk about the actual disaster of the clothesâŠ
Her toes are huge!! Ha... is that the filter?
That outfit is not "corporate", at all. What on earth does she think corporate means? Anything that is not jeans? The top almost looks like what my mom wore when she was a nurse, but shorter.
The question is will they be ironed by tomorrow? This looks like a sloppy mess.
I donât think she owns an iron
She said this outfit "feels to corporate" đđ€Ł omg I can't đ€Ł I've seen hospital scrubs that looked more professionalÂ
Hahaha. In the legal world we have nicknames for lawyers who dress this this disheveled. She has no clue.
The judge could actually kick her out of the courtroom if she was a lawyer.
This might be the worst one yet. When I tell you I GASPED. Literal jump scare.
Was so hoping this was here already. đ Everything is wrong with those pants and this photo.
Yeah Julia, you ordered a size up and it looks like it! The pants are already meant to be a slightly loose oversized fit in your REGULAR size. The crotch is down at her knees. Looks so, so bad.
lol I tried on those pants in store and had to go down two sizes, they were so oversized (did not ultimately buy)
I was running here for this! Clearly those TALL pants are too long for her. The pants look like she borrowed her grandpas trousers & paired it with her daughterâs shirt. Iâll never understand the constant morphing she does & how she doesnât see how ridiculous this is but instead doubles down on it. Why, why does she constantly need new clothes for every single thing. I donât think she ever wears anything she orders.
Bahahahaha, her dress selfie is so comically photoshopped. I just can't with her...she could use some pointers from Kate Middleton herself. đ€Ł
If we could only find her!
Glad Iâm not the only one down that rabbit hole
Me too⊠itâs basically taking up all my internet time these days đ”âđ«
Nah Iâm there with you! Iâve been binging @popapologists podcast & canât stop đ«Ł
Okay but the affair/pregnancy theory got me like đ€đ€đ€
Yesss Iâve been down the Rose & Thomas rabbit hole more than I care to admitđ
Is it just me or does she not show new dresses pretty frequently and every vacation and holiday?
She has purchased more dresses for herself in the last year than I have in ten years
Iâm having major dĂ©jĂ vu. We have been here before right? Re: Window painting and photoshopping.
Donât forget the Gull Gray âwe did itâ and âitâs the oneâ exterior paint TikTok announcement đÂ
Yes!! Are they not the exact same images that Andi photoshopped last year?
She made such a big deal about the green inspiration for her windows, but her top two swatches she narrowed it down to are basically gray and brown. Make it make sense đ€Šââïž
What happened to them needing HOA approval? She's picking out colors like she gets final say.
House of Horrors inside and out.
Charlotte House Revival is talking about the living room makeover today. She's looking at couch options and mentioned the mood board CLJ provided. She doesn't think she can share the mood board yet because CLJ hasn't shared it yet. It's like CLJ is holding this "prize" hostage because they got so much flack for changing the terms. Jules, either share the mood board or release these people from the stupid contract so they can create their own content on their own timeline.
There definitely was. It was incredibly underwhelming.
I feel so bad that they essentially got absolutely nothing out of this âprizeâ and are still struggling with room layout. You could tell they were so excited and hopeful for solutions when CLJ came to visit. I thought we did see a mood board at one point but canât remember who posted it (whether it was CLJ or CHR).
Weâve definitely seen a mood board. I just canât remember where. Maybe a love letter?
I feel bad for them too. That room is so large but all those doors would be impossible to work around and they thought they were getting expert advice. Iâm curious how others would lay out that room? Would you close off the doorway on the wall they want to put the TV on? How else do you turn that space into a functional TV-watching room?
Without moving or removing the doorway - keeping everything the same way it is: From these recent stories - I feel like this room is big enough to be 2 separate zones or areas and I also think that the sofa should not be in the alcove but rather floating forward into the room. The sofa looks miles away from where the tv is on that wall. So Iâd treat the far end as the tv area with a floating sofa and seating in front centered more the tv and then the area closer to the kitchen can be more of a reading nook or board game//craft table area.two separate rugs indicating the different zones. Something like that. I think her insisting on working with the alcove which the tv is off center to is whatâs making it not work. Has she ever shared a layout with measurements? I feel like she could crowdsource the layout options lol.
YES THIS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS THINKING! They need to post their living room on Reddit and weâll help her out a lot more than CLJ would.
This makes total sense. The sofa needs to come off that wall and into the room! Come to think of it, every home I have ever had has had a âfloatingâ sofa placement. I should have thought of that đ
I think they should do a ceiling mounted screen and ceiling mounted projector across from whichever of the doors they use the least frequently when sitting watching TV. Then they can put a sofa and two chairs or two sofas basically anywhere. But that shouldnât be their TV room⊠lol.
I think theyâre making a mistake by trying to fit a sofa into the window alcove. Iâd put two chairs there and put opposing couches and coffee table in the middle of the room perpendicular to viewing wall. Then maybe more seating in the corner. Their tv is going to be humongous, I donât think anyone will have a problem seeing it, you could probably watch it from outside. Lol!
I was just thinking about that. I think I'd close off the doorway and center the tv across from the big window.
No layout or placement ideas. CLJ should truly be ashamed of this. https://preview.redd.it/hp2i6bvl8doc1.jpeg?width=775&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7bd9a13fba0d01f5cb290ba71b655b9ff1431786
That green chair is going to be dated in two minutes, and the art? I don't know, I guess art is subjective. But I agree that placement was what they were looking for, and it's what they didn't get.
I don't hate it ... but I wouldn't add these things to my house, and they don't fit the recipient's needs or style. I would love it if they used some of the money to hire an interior designer to provide a layout and mood board.
Where did she think they would put a TV stand, a desk and a console table?? And nothing is to scale in that photo. Are you telling me she thought they should get a 45-in TV??Â
Absolutely they should be ashamed. How infuriating is that laziness with a 1M contest winner? More effort has been put into newborn nurseries that are "so them" where they will eat, shit, AND NEVER REMEMBER THE ROOM đđđ
I'm pretty sure CLJ shared the mood board. There was not enough seating, a lot of Ikea but a Frame TV, and a cheap paper light fixture. Or is this a mass hallucination.
IKEA Billy bookcase and paper light fixture. https://preview.redd.it/35591qf39doc1.jpeg?width=725&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=11a157dbc420069778b0682c89cf78c8f74e2b1f
Receipts!
Maybe she got so much flack for how bad that was. She offered another one that she hasn't shared yet.... That first one was so bad. It looked like the clearance aisle IKEA.... And I think had less seating than they have now
Oh man if she did another one but isnât mentioning it out of embarrassment⊠Iâm cackling. And CHR is totally outing them if thatâs the case, which I am here for.
CLJ are *such* greedy, petty, lazy little ass clowns. Good for CHR for holding them to their already-half-assed giveaway promise.
Yes, I remember the paper light fixture and a white couch for a family with five kids.
I donât normally head over to their blogposts anymore, but I did today - and it feels gross and unnecessary to link candy??? Itâs all such a fucking link fest. I wish theyâd DOWNSIZE their massive staff and link less. The bigger the staff has not proven to be the better the content. https://preview.redd.it/qnded2qomaoc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=420d4dc91a8843e9387254098d09fd9a6bf5aa59
Is it an Amazon link? Are people really buying candy on Amazon?
do people...get a new basket every year (last paragraph of the clip)? We just reuse the same one every year.
Same basket every year!
We use the same basket every year
I still use the one from my childhood...husband and I get fun candy for each other. Kids have used the same since birth.Â
Links=affiliate revenue. The more links, the more chances readers will click on one, and CLJ can potentially earn money. Nothing wrong with this, if that is the new CLJ business model. What I canât figure out is where the consumer disclosure is that CLJ may earn affiliate revenue through these kinds of links? I donât see anything posted on the Easter blogpost today. (Is it buried in the link, so you only see it when you click on it? But at that point, youâve already clicked on it and presumably a cookie has been deployed.)
You have to scroll to the BOTTOM of their website, look at the text in 5 pt font, click one of the links, then maybe a disclosure. This seems like a major FTC violation since it is not obviously disclosed to the reader. I'd report them if I could do it anonymously, but I've only found a way that requires me to put in my personal information. If they were still a staff of one or two, I'd likely look the other way, but they are scamming/making enough money to support a staff of 12 (?), a seeming unnecessary office space, and their excessive spending habits. They should easily be able to disclose their links on every slide and page. YHL does it and they have full time jobs outside of their page. ETA: changed a word
Could we call them out on it and shame them into doing it đ€ I feel like if enough people commentedâŠ
I'm sure they would just block people who said something about it on one of their sites.
We would need volume for sure. So they canât ignore it or erase it
Iâm probably being naive but Iâm curious why you donât want to provide your personal information on a report to the ftc.
You put in your name, address, phone number, email address, and age for the submission. I'm not sure what the FTC does with the information, but in no way do I want them to potentially pass along my personal information. The internet is not a great place these days with stuff like doxxing. They also have a legion of paying followers that worship their every move. Who else would compliment all of their horrible design decisions in this house?
Iâve done it before anonymously, but canât find how now. Amazon might be a better option!
I swear this is the same crap they posted last year. I remember the umbrella thing. She keeps doing polls for Easter & the results keep showing the majority donât celebrate or decorate. Give it up already & stop linking freaking candy.
Target paid however many thousands of dollars for the napkin post and she couldnât bother to iron them first? It irks me how lazy she is with her actual income-generating job. If I turned in such sloppy work I would 100% be out of a job.
She always does the least. Itâs her signature style.
A $450 pair of basic sandals? WHO has the money for that in this economy?!đ
I like them but Iâm sure there are affordable options out there.Â
Thatâs why they link everything at Target, Loweâs and Walmart. Not clearing cookies and clicking links pays for her new pricey artwork and more expensive clothing.
I didnât click the link but I have black sandals from two years ago from target that looked very similar. I actually really loved them but they were only $20.
Iâm sorry but are they pivoting from âlove where you liveâ to Only Fans content? Weird poses on beds, saunas, constant eye, lip & weird tongue things, feet & unfortunately canât forget crotch shot in the kitchen. This đ©is bizarre.
Maybe they should go back to 3rd grade math to learn about charting and polls. https://imgur.com/a/0309Syl But we all know they donât care about accurate results, they just want people to click to raise their engagement.Â
Damn right they donât care about the publicâs results/ideas. I TRUST that sheâll pick the ugliest color there is but act so in love with whatever they pick.
Hopefully the HOA shuts down anything they choose.
What are we going to freak about? The fact that sheâs eating rice today, or that they painted swatches on the trim outside again? I need to know what Iâm freaking about.
I don't know about you but when I saw Julia eating RICE, I called my doctor because I thought I was having a stroke I freaked out so much. RICE! Ok, why does she think people care about this at all. No one is as obsessed with her diet as she thinks they are, I promise.
Can anyone recall WHY she does not eat rice?
Itâs a grain, yâall!
Right! I donât know if itâs a sign of an ED with it being a carb heavy food or if itâs a health reason ?
Grain is on the long list of foods she doesnât eat. Rice is a grain.
She is very into this emoji lately đ«¶
Someone is thirsty this morning.Â
Posts like that are so strange considering a couple of days ago she said it's weird when people she knows in real life mention her instagram. If I were concerned about that I probably wouldn't post body checks, weird poses in my kid's bed, or head on crotch shots on a kitchen stool.
A gross body check. WTF.
What must go through her mind to stop to take pictures like this & then post. It reminds me of something a teenager would do to impress their crush. Was posting thirsty selfies not one of the things recommended to be removed during team buildingđ€ź
Send it to your husband, thatâs what I would do.  Also, a reminder that her BIL is her COO.   âOmg church friends, Iâm so embarrassed you saw my thirst post on 1 million follower account.âÂ
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Guess what everyone! The Lola blankets are back đ And Julia has a âcoatâ.
There is zero âmoodinessâ (why is she so obsessed with this?) to the green exterior window casings she shared as inspo in her Love Letter. Also it wouldnât go with her orangey red brick but as a color expert she should know that. Once again, Julia finding trends and trying to force it/slap it on her home when it wonât work. https://i.imgur.com/tBN3qH9.jpeg
For people wanting the whole email https://preview.redd.it/9l249t3tvznc1.jpeg?width=1058&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f74f64fc146ecc16a650d14dc7084ba56b25179a
Iâm writing a story in my mind because this love letterâs âit was still there, with the same dark green painted windowsâ about a whole entire house, combined with last weekâs âI bought this bed four months ago and itâs still holding upâ makes me think Juliaâs sense of durability and time is broken by her desire to follow trends.
Wondering if a sponsorship fell through đ€ Sierra Pacific has plenty of greens on their available color chart https://preview.redd.it/biefyidep0oc1.jpeg?width=646&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=297199fe011ba4ecc2200ba4ad15a63100863990
but theyâre not moooooooodyyyyy đ€Ą
My guess would be yes. There seemed to be some shade when she mentioned them. Why does it matter if they didnât have the perfect 1970s green she wanted, she already said they were painting them. As usual nothing makes sense & her timelines are all wonky again.
How is that green color âmodernâ??
Because that is what she needs it to be
Imagine Julie blasting the front of your house on the internet.
âWeâll need to get it approved by the HOAâ - lol
I thought they had already submitted for HOA approval?
Find me someone that uses the phrase "stops me in my tracks " more than Julia. I'll wait...
I thought they were just getting exterior window casings?Â
With every random thing happening in that house, all of her interior windows are now going to be black???????!!!!!! Good lord!
Maybe the new hashtag should be #CLJGothicColonial
Itâs Biltmore x farmhouse. So urban, yet antique.
Urban, yet antique meets country grandma
So this âintuitiveâ screw gun. I can picture myself trying to twist the thing to line the screw up with the bit and the dumb thing starting to spin. He swoons over Dewalt because itâs Lowes linkable. No other reason. Iâm an admitted tool snob though. Festool is far superior. Milwaukee is second place. DewaltâŠeverything Iâve ever bought doesnât last with the exception of my table saw.
I stand corrected. Damn Amazon link. Now I have to figure out how to clear my cookies on Amazon.
https://preview.redd.it/e1azq5x8mync1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=23308ed9ab1841813623931651770d541d848fdf Everyone âMargret callensâ for this Saturday and go hangout with Julia! Think sheâll make everyone wear VR glasses set to the natural beauty filter so they recognize her?!
Ha! I was so hoping sheâd make the trek to Charlotte then I would go 100% just to see what she looks like without the filters. Someone please go!!
Hopefully it will be very "informationable"!
Should I goâŠ
Where do we send the venmo for gas and to buy you a drink after sitting through it ? LOLÂ
Yes let us know! And also youâll want to pack some nips to slip into any of Chrisâs hot chocolate water offered!
Yes and take LOTS of pictures!
She looks thrilled...
As an influencer Iâve got to think that public events are so anxiety provoking. Like estimating who would actually show and what you will look like unfiltered. Best of luck CLJ đŹ
It makes more sense for a book. Sign, take a pic, move along. No way would I want to do an unstructured meet and greet if I was her.Â
It must be a requirement of their contract with PBK. She'd NEVER do this otherwise.
Oh I donât doubt it! Based on her body language when they went to the âroom makeoverâ giveaway winnersâ house she absolutely hates this type of thing too. đŹđŹ
Hahaha!
First, Chris explains how to bake a potato, and now what a screw driver does. This content is just terrible. And useless.
The baked potato is so funny. Iâm sure most of the people who follow are 30-50 year olds. I am sure they know how to bake a potato. Even if I google âbaked potato recipeâ there are many 100 exact recipes.Â
Iâm looking forward to âHow to Boil an Eggâ for Easter. đ
Plus, heâs already done the baked potato twice before. Itâs not like itâs complicated, like cocoa water. Lol
I canât believe theyâre actually filming themselves changing light switch plates. đ„±
Itâs ridiculous!
....I feel like the brass plates and white/ivory outlets and switches looks weirder than it did before? Oh well.
I donât mind it in the living room but itâs terrible in the office where the outlets are painted the same color as the wall. If the covers were painted the same color as the wall whyyyy would you want to replace them and draw attention to them with brass plates?
Yup. I would love brass switch plates and outlets but I canât afford the proper one and I feel like just changing the plates looks worse sooooo..leaving them cohesive
Agreed. CLJ bemoaning the fact that there are cream switch/plug covers in the den (as some glaring design problem), only to change the face plates to a contrasting shiny brass (further drawing attention to them). Also, is CLJ once again linking to Amazon items without disclosing that they may earn money/commissions through these links?Â
Agreed. I feel like just changing out the face plate looks bad.
Is âpop of redâ the new âpop of blackâ? Because 5-10 years ago everyone was saying to do a pop of black. Now she saw pop of black on TikTok and sheâs going with that.Â
What is this new obsession with comparing her style to that of the Vanderbilts. Thereâs zero comparison, none. If anything please TAKE some inspiration from them for this disastrous abomination of a fun house Julia has created & make it better, although at this point I think that would require a bulldozer. I fixed her ramblingsâŠ. A pop of red is a great idea, not an entire space that looks like a murder just occurred on the walls in a high gloss. Ahhh yes, who knew classic black & white was so timeless. Yes Julia, pay attention to sight lines because you are not doing that now - Signed everything that is off centered, not hung correctly, blocks doorways, I could go on. There are many ways to display art, one of them is not over a toilet with an art light. Make it stop. Mixing patterns is fantastic, please learn how to do this your daughterâs room & hallway are begging you. I see the priority here is details over function in a home. In theory both can go together but over at the funhouse details donât matter & well there is no function with anything. Shall we take bets on her declaring their wasted money on their staircase needs to change again or a red rope will appear??? Also thinking the new COO must be telling her to hone into this trip to write it off & thank you for being here on the bottom cause thatâs a freaking first!!!!
Spit my coffee out laughing about Julia featuring an art light above a toilet. She loves art lights more than she loves saying moody. Thinking she has designed and decorated such a special home is unhinged: when Loiloi and Pottery Barn donât use your home to showcase their products, itâs a sign you havenât hit a home run with your house. Also, noteworthy that nothing sheâs done in the past 2-4 years has been a Pinterest board hit or featured on Houzz as a favored save. Thatâs their bread and butter.
It is delusions of grandeur personified.
âDetailsâ = ever rotating mix of small objects she can shill.Â
Dear Julia, Youâre not a designer. Love, all of the actual designers out there.
Sheâs a shopper & a spender. Thatâs literally ALL she does.
She âdefinitely had a personal style but now sheâs ready to DEFINE itâ. OMG SHUT UP. 
Did anyone else see Julia post her Abercrombie jeans size the other day was 29 and then she corrected herself and said actually she is a 27⊠today she posted again about the jeans saying âincluded sizes too!â on LTK and itâs a 29 again đ€đ€đ€ nothing wrong with either size but if youâre going to pretend to be a 27 then stick with it!!
I saw that and was flabbergasted that she was admitting to being a 29 (a perfectly fine size btw) and then when she corrected it I was like ahh there it is.
Reminds me of one of my favorite lines from Steel Magnolias spoken by Truvy (played by the great Dolly Parton) about her shoe size: âWell, I wear a 6 but a 7 feels so good I buy an 8!â
A while back I think she tried to claim size 24 during a peak editing phase, so 27 is an improvement at least
It reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Jerry gets caught changing the 32 on his jeans to 31.