Life has a way of surprising you. It rarely goes according to plan. It has a way of sending you places you never imagined you would go… if you are willing to let it. Six months ago we gave up our brownstone style townhouse in the middle of bustling Copenhagen for suburbia. We’ve…
Get Your Dream Home Without Surgery
We all love a good transformation. It’s kind of hard not to. TV has literally bombarded us for more than a decade with shows filled with them. Been ugly all your life? No worries, we’ll fix that. Or maybe you just can’t seem to mix plaid and stripes the right way? There’s…
Keep Your $$ and Let’s Do A DIY Living Room
It really doesn’t matter whether you have lived in your house for a week, six months, or a lifetime. There are areas of our house that need help and sometimes we simply need to save a few bucks to get what we want. After the Christmas decorations came down and the realization…
Do You Love This New Home Shopping Trend?
Whether you are one that confesses to “not have the imagination” or you are a tactile person who loves to touch things before you buy them, this new home shopping trend may just be the solution. I’ve talked about Artilleriet before. It’s one of my favorite Swedish design shops in the world….
Forget The Kitchen… The Dining Room Office
“I don’t have a lot of normal days,” says design entrepreneur Christiane Lemieux, founder of Dwell Studio. Christine has recently launched her yet another line that is epic and gorgeous called Cloth and Company. And while I quickly added several items to my wish list, it is her dining room office that really…
The Apartment Shared Bedroom
When you cram a family into a small temporary apartment, having a shared bedroom is a necessity. We lucked out in two ways. First, our boys still like sharing a bedroom, so our teen girl got her own bedroom. Second, that the kids’ beds that were handmade in Morocco fit perfectly in the…
Is The Climbing House Garden A No-Go?
I was talking with a home inspector yesterday about a property and he said that the ivy growing up the side of the home needed to go… ASAP. I protested. But a Climbing House Garden is so European! It’s one of my favorite things about Europe, I practically squeaked. (I’m learning quickly that my…
My Dark Grey Home Office in Copenhagen
I really cannot believe that exactly six months ago we left our home in Copenhagen. The time has flown by and most days I’m too busy to even stop and think about our home, but today I want to give you a glimpse into my dark grey office. These photos are a little sample of…
Don’t Decorate In A Day. Design Slowly.
Rome Wasn’t Built in A Day. And Neither Should Your Home. Unless you happen to be one of the lucky few who has the budget to hire a decorator with a limitless budget, you are likely going to need to design slowly. A home takes time to procure but sometimes when we see shows…
Love It or Leave It? The VERY Ornate Fireplace
It’s not very often in the suburbs of Atlanta that you find an ornate fireplace like this one. In fact, this might just be the only one of its kind in the city of Atlanta… quite possibly the entire South. This ornate fireplace is polarizing, or so it seems. Buyers seem to either love…
A Swedish Home Styled To Sell!
Staging typically means taking the life out of a home, while styling is about putting it back in. It is about selling a lifestyle and a story… One of the best things for me about living in Scandinavia for six years was the immersion into the design world. Working as a stylist and…
Why You Might Want To Keep Up With The Joneses
We’ve heard all our lives that Keeping Up With the Joneses is bad. Really bad. But after spending a little time studying real estate, I’ve realized that actually, it might be good for you. I know. I’m blowing your mind. Hang with me. A basic principle of real estate is homogeny. Homes, in…
