I love having a cat, ours is a keeper with a great personality but the one thing I wish we didn’t have to deal with is a litter box. Ugh. So I’ve hidden it in the hall bathroom shower for over a year and I just can’t take it anymore. Besides, we needed to reclaim…
Hello everyone and Happy New Year to you! It’s been a rough few days with an entire family down with the flu, ugh! Luckily I’ve escaped contagion. #fingerscrossed I thought I’d ease back into blogging with some winter white inspiration today, continuing the color series started last year. When I refer to color I do…
Hello friends! I hope you enjoyed your Christmas last week, for us that week of doing a lot of nothing went by extremely fast and here we are facing a new year in a few days. Matt and I do much of our best planning for the future while we talk on long road trips…
I find the simplest accessories bring great comfort and this time of year it’s all things furry and fuzzy. We have a small collection of faux fur blankets to drape over the beds or sofas for chilly nights. I do love my Mongolian lambswool pillow cover, and recently I succumbed to the lure of the…
It happens every few years, I grow tired of a paint color and I crave something new. After staring at three samples on the wall for a week, and after much study and discussion, two weeks ago we agreed to repaint our living room. Before, it was a lovely shade of blue gray which remained…
Hello! I hope you enjoyed the feast yesterday, we spent ours with family and stayed up late talking and playing games, it’s tradition! We have family in town right now so I’ll be spending the weekend with them acting like tourists in San Francisco and Sonoma, and trying to squeeze in a little bit of…
Friends, I found out that I won the 2013 Best DIY Blog in the Best Home Blog Awards hosted by Lamps Plus, how exciting! I have you to thank, those of you who voted, I’m surprised and so thrilled! I wandered into my local Lamps Plus store a few years ago and I’ve been a…
Hello hello and welcome to the weekend! We will be busy getting the house ready for family arriving next week, and I’ll be adding some holiday touches to the house (I can never wait until after Thanksgiving…) Today is another round of ‘Best of the Blogosphere’ and Amanda and I rounded up some favorites, enjoy!…
Greetings and welcome to the weekend! Today it’s another round of ‘Best of the Blogosphere’ where Amanda and I share our favorite projects and finds from around the web, enjoy these inspiring spaces and DIY ideas! Two lovely bathroom makeovers you’ve got to see, the first at Rambling Renovators… … and the second at Little…
Midweek greetings all, a lovely giveaway for you today! I’m sure many of you are familiar with FLOR, the modular carpet design squares company revolutionizing the industry with carpet squares that allow you to create custom rugs, runners, or wall to wall designs. I’ve used FLOR tiles in family rooms and playrooms and I love…
We’ve been planning to paint the exterior of the shelter house we adopted through our local COTS for about a year (recall the bathroom and kitchen remodel from 2012) and I’m so happy to share that this project is finally complete! Long time readers know we’ve dubbed our efforts to improve spaces for our chosen…
What makes the perfect laundry room? A washer and dryer are obvious, but beyond those functional appliances, there are design elements and practical solutions that make the daily necessity of washing clothes less of a chore. We all have laundry to do, but if you take the time to plan out your space and include…
It’s the great debate, is black truly a color? From a scientific perspective, to see and define color, you must have light. Artists and designers do consider black a color, however scientists do not because technically black is the absence of all color. When light shines on an object its true hue is revealed by…
So I’d been on the hunt for months for a little media console cabinet thingy to house books (for now) and a future flat screen TV (when the budget permits) for the studio above our garage. Lucky me, I popped into the Goodwill last week and I found this $10 cabinet that was the perfect…