I’m a sucker for fresh flowers. Most interior design gurus will tell you that adding live, natural elements do wonders for the feel of a room, but since I have a serious black thumb, houseplants are out (honestly, I killed a cactus last year…do you know how hard that is to do?). So instead, I try to [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Lilac Love
Posted in Décor, Shop It on May 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Great White Towels
Posted in Décor, Shop It on May 7, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Looking to replace your towels? We were this winter when we realized that the reason ours were looking so shabby was that they were over ten years old. We decided we could justify replacing them (we recycled our old ones as gym towels), but I couldn’t quite fathom spending what most good quality towels cost (mostly because [...]
DIY Art: Books
Posted in Art, Make It, Reinvent It, Walls on May 6, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Last summer I was poking around a bookstore in Vermont and came across Mice, Morals & Monkey Business, an incredible children’s book filled with gorgeous block prints by artist Christopher Wormell. As soon as I saw it, I knew I had to have it – not for our kids’ library, but for my kitchen wall. [...]
Kid-Proof Rug
Posted in Floors, Shop It on May 5, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I really wish we had a mudroom, but since we don’t, we relegate our shoes, coats, and the seven-or-so bags that arrive home with our little family every evening to a 30-inch “mudspace” right inside the entrance of our home. To help define the space and give our two kiddos a little more room to [...]
Bedside Table Solution
Posted in Décor, Furniture, Reinvent It on May 4, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Last week, my husband and I rearranged our bedroom furniture. The fresh look of the room was great, but the new arrangement left about 12 inches on my side of the bed. Ultimately, this was a good thing, since my bedside table is really just a depository for stuff that gets cleared off and organized [...]
Family Dinnerware
Posted in Décor, Shop It, Tabletop on May 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
When my oldest son started eating solid foods, I couldn’t get enough of the adorable baby dishware covered in dinosaurs, trucks and bugs. If Target came out with a new line for Halloween, they were in my cart faster than you could say “boo.” But after years of staring at that technicolor plasticware multiply on my [...]
No-Sew Custom Window Treatments
Posted in Make It, Windows on May 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I believe that window treatments are like mascara for rooms – you don’t have to have them, but when you do the room looks finished. I’ve had a long, sordid history with window treatments – not really loving most inexpensive pre-made ones and having limited ability to make more unique ones because of sub-par sewing [...]
Welcome to The Mudroom!
Posted in What Do You Want to Change?, What Do You Want To Do? on May 3, 2009 | 10 Comments »
My home décor philosophy? Real life and a beautiful home can co-exist. Sometimes it takes a little bit of time, or a little bit of money, or a little bit of elbow grease, but I believe that everybody can have a comfortable, lovely home that includes all the messiness of real life – kids, animals, [...]
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