It is cold, rainy, and desperately depressing here in Boston right now. After a spring-tease in April, we’ve been treated to nearly nothing but clouds since May started. Out went the kelly green shorts, coral blouses and peep-toe espadrilles from three weeks ago. Back in came the black cashmere and boots of fall. And I [...]
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Madcap Cottage: A Visual Antidepressant
Posted in Inspiration, Interiors, Reinvent It, What Do You Want To Do? on May 11, 2012 | 1 Comment »
What are you doing this weekend?
Posted in Art, Décor, Furniture, Kids' Stuff, Lighting, Make It, Organization, Reinvent It, Shop It, Walls, What Do You Want to Change?, What Do You Want To Do? on July 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’m off to Vermont this weekend for a family wedding (congratulations Lauren and Justin!)…how about you? The wedding is in the north country, so I’ll have lots of time to catch up on reading on the way up and back. It’s been a really long time since I’ve spent hours getting lost in my favorite [...]
DIY Paint Can Lights
Posted in Décor, Inside the Mudroom, Interiors, Kids' Stuff, Lighting, Make It, Reinvent It, Shop It on February 2, 2011 | 2 Comments »
And while we’re on the subject of new lighting… This image, from the Style At Home booth at the Interior Design Show in Toronto, has been floating around the web for the past couple of days. The painted floor is amazing, as is the fabulous bright springy styling — a sign of things to come for [...]
Memorializing a Favorite Stuffed Animal
Posted in Art, Kids' Stuff, Reinvent It, Shop It, Walls on January 31, 2011 | 2 Comments »
When Weston was a little older than a year, Monkey arrived. It was love at first sight, really. Maybe more for me than Wes at first, but the second I saw that little monkey-shaped bundle of love staring at me from the basket in the toy store I knew we needed to bring him home. Weston and Monkey [...]
Catalog Living
Posted in Art, Décor, Floors, Furniture, Inside the Mudroom, Interiors, Kids' Stuff, Organization, Outside, Reinvent It, Shop It, Tabletop, Walls, Windows on January 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Logic quiz: Poor self-image is to fashion magazines as WHAT is to home decor catalogs? I don’t know either, but sometimes I feel like I have it, whatever IT is. Occasionally I get sort of taken over by staging my house…rolling up the throw blankets and storing them just-so in a gorgeous basket (you’re cold? grab one [...]
Because life is too short not to surround yourself with beautiful things.
Posted in Inspiration, Reinvent It on January 25, 2011 | 16 Comments »
{For those of you thinking you were going to get a post on some great product or DIY project today, please forgive this brief indulgence…we’ll be back tomorrow with our regularly scheduled programming.} For four days last week, I indulged in my ultimate personal (not to be confused with family) vacation. For four days last [...]
Seven days, people.
Posted in Décor, Reinvent It, Shop It, Tabletop, What Do You Want to Change?, What Do You Want To Do? on November 18, 2010 | 2 Comments »
It seems like the school year *just* started. And then it was Halloween. And now, in exactly one week, we’re going to be roasting turkeys, mashing potatoes and generally stuffing ourselves like proverbial pigs seated at gorgeously decorated tables in holiday-decked houses. Oh, what’s that? Haven’t taken down the paper spiders from your window or jack-o-lantern [...]
Working on the Office
Posted in Décor, Make It, Reinvent It on October 8, 2010 | 8 Comments »
The weekend is almost here, and for many of us it’s going to be a nice long one. What are your plans? In between a big family dinner, writing and some good old-fashioned quality time with the kids and hubs, I’m going to be working on our home office. Want a peek at the fabrics? Looks like I’m [...]
Star Wars for the Design-Minded
Posted in Art, Reinvent It, Shop It, Walls on October 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My older son is really into Star Wars right now and decided (supported by my husband, and much to my chagrin) that he would love a “giant Star Wars poster with, like, Darth Vader or General Greivous or somethin’” on his newly painted wall of his new bedroom in our new house. Um, no. Since lightsaber-wielding, gun-toting [...]
Inspiration for an Unexpected Home Office
Posted in Décor, Furniture, Inspiration, Interiors, Organization, Reinvent It on August 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Best laid plans. I don’t know about you, but when I move into a new space (which is more often than I’d like), I try to have it all planned out before the big day. The furniture, the wall colors, where the lamps will go. Everything. But sometimes things don’t turn out exactly like you [...]
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