Go Green. As if trying to predict the future did not require enough nerve, now I’m downright stating that I was right. There. I said it. I was right. No sooner do I start to shout out that green is coming and then it starts popping up everywhere. Was it already there…
The Best Way To Predict Your Future…
The Best Way to Predict Your Future is to Create It. Abe Lincoln If you want to nearly guarantee your success, both in life and a project, you need to start with a proper plan. I’m a super visual person, so I need a mood board. Some pretty big stuff has been brewing…
Renovating Roswell : WE CAN’T GET IN!
Week one and the entire house is SEALED UP. I thought I was going to take the kids over to give them a tour, but as it turns out, every inch of the house needed to be sealed with plastic in order to scrape down the popcorn ceiling. While I tried to…
Dear Valentina! I Need A Budget Friendly Kitchen Makeover. STAT.
Laura wrote me with several design questions. She wants to do a Budget Friendly Kitchen Makeover that doesn’t involve any major renovations. Here are her questions and photos she submitted: “I’m working on my kitchen. I put in a new backsplash. The cabinets are solid wood so I’m painting and upgrading knobs on cabinets….
Everything is Free! The Best Place to Shop Is Your Own House. Get The cart!
The Best Place To Shop Is Your Own House It’s not that I’m against trends. In fact, I love them and follow them and find them fascinating. But sometimes trends annoy me. Most trends require us to throw most of what we own in the trash or in a giveaway bin. I…
Do A Bathroom Makeover for less than $150!!
It doesn’t hurt to have a few supplies on hand, but doing a bathroom makeover for less than $150 isn’t as hard as you think! Do you remember the before shots of the bathroom? Here’s before we bought the house… nothing like stripes and gold hardware! Then our weird, limbo stage with…
We are FLIPPING a HOUSE!! (And We Are FLIPPING excited!)
GUYS!! We are Flipping a house!! I am about to hyperventilate because I am SO excited! A few weeks ago one of my best friends asked me if I wanted to flip a house with her and of course I nearly FLIPPED! She had seen my work in our master bathroom and thought…
Coming Very Soon! The House of Valentina Shop!
The House of Valentina shop is almost here! We hope to fulfill your wildest dreams of whimsy, imagination, and wanderlust while stocking your house with all the things you have been asking for… busts, art, books, and so much more. We will have loads of limited editions, one-of-a-kinds… it’s going to be…
How Do We Truly Find Our Way Home?
“There’s no place like home” or so the saying goes, but sometimes home can feel like an elusive place. Generations and thousands of years worth of great philosophers, deep thinkers, poets and even a vast number of angsting country music stars have tried to figure it out. No matter how much we…
Get Collected, Not Cluttered
I’ve just spent the last few hours going through bins of old photos and memorabilia with my mom. It was one of the very tasks I had been looking forward to since moving back. Well, I might have snagged a few things that were out in the open when we first got…
Every Good After Starts With a Before
It’s not that I have a thing against stripes. In fact I think they are kind of cool and have untapped potential. But these stripes? Boooring. And completely dingy in a not so cool way. They need to go. The only problem is that I am kind of tapped out for a…
What I found When I Googled Best Hipster Shopping Miami
Times are changing for sure. Most of us rarely consult a guide book these days when we hit a new town. Instead we opt to Google “Best Shopping Miami” which unfortunately will lead you down a path towards South Beach, H&M, and Zara. Which, don’t get me wrong, I kind of like. But I…
