It’s an exciting day when the carpet is ripped out of the master bathroom and is replaced by this gorgeous tumbled marble… only problem? A few of the tiles have cracks in them. Now I realize that these are delicate and I definitely wanted a worn look. I just didn’t want a…
Master Bathroom Demolition!! It Just Got REAL!
There you have it! A bathroom that is well on its way to be renovated! The master bathroom demolition has begun after a few starts and stops… mainly because we are SO indecisive! I’m just happy that the absolutely grody and revolting carpet is GONE! Quadruple ick!! This week we will be…
You Don’t Need a Honey Bunny, but You Will Probably Want One
If you had told me a year ago … or even a month ago… that I would be a proud owner of a rabbit I would have said you were crazy. If you had thought that I would sneak off to his cage and call him my Honey Bunny, I would have…
Simplicity Isn’t a Four Letter Word
Hoarders around the world shudder in fear, but it’s not just the tv show worthy that hate simplicity. I know. You can count. Clearly Simplicity has 11 letters. Ahem. 10, I mean. But you would think the cringes it induces would make it unutterable. I hear it often with clients. One suggests it, the other plays…
Holy Malawi Chair! This Just Got Real.
Rattan and wicker. They are the coconut scented sunscreen and bathing suits of chairs. Even if you are 10.6k miles from the sea or any other body of water than might get a ray of sun, these woven materials just make it feel like summer is here… and with it, possibility and endless bliss. Enough…
Anglophiles! Your English Country Stay Awaits!
Ok. I just have to ask. Am I the last person to hear about Babington House? Go ahead. Tell me the truth. You all knew and forgot to tell me? Well, just in case I am not alone in my little discovery, I have to tell you about the dreamiest English Country…
Wallpaper is BACK! Or IS it?
Clearly no one can trust my judgement. Such fickleness makes me completely unreliable. Wait. What?! Did I really just say that WALLPAPER is BACK? Have I completely lost it? My clients are asking me almost every day of the week if they should remove the wallpaper from their homes before they list…
Help!! I can’t Choose a Makeup Vanity!!
So there it is in all its glory. A gaping square hole where the vanity used to be. Rather than keeping our vanities separate, we bought a beautiful double sink for what used to be my area with the sitting vanity with the assumption that we would fill his side with a…
Our Family Is Featured in Elle Decoration Sweden!
I have to tell you. I cried. Happy tears with a tinge of bittersweetness. There it was. Elle Decoration Sweden in my mailbox on my cozy little street in Suburban America. It felt a million miles away and yet there it was in my hands with our family smiling back. I love all…
Tethered To It By Gravity Alone… Ode to Spring Flowers
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. Helen Keller After a few minutes of complaining about the wet heat from the sun canopy overhead, the kids soon figured out how to entertain themselves. First,…
For All you IKEA Addicts :: Ikea Stockholm 2017 is in tha HOUSE
It’s addictive. Like chocolate or sugar or diet drinks. You surmise that a little won’t hurt, but a little is rarely enough. Ikea lures you in. First promising meatballs and cheap hot dogs and some, like ours in Atlanta, have the gall to put in candy bins. God, I want to hate…
It’s Cool to Blend Two Worlds… or more.
Own Your Disco Balls and the French Countryside… seriously, it will make you the coolest. Weird? Complicated? A Hot Mess when it comes to your design choices? One minute you want Joanna Gaines to show up at your door… the next you silently plead that it’s one of the Property Brothers… ok,…
