I’m halfway done updating my laundry room. I swapped out the old window shade for woven wood and also the old round chrome pulls for matte brass (the same I used in this kitchen remodel). Soon I’ll be building some new wood shelves, repainting, and redoing the floor too. The newest upgrade is this matte black and brass…
My yard sale was a success! I made $400 and sold half my stuff, so I’m doing it again in a few weeks in the hopes of getting rid of it all. I sold a few pieces of furniture I wasn’t loving anymore to make room ones that I can buy with my sale proceeds,…
Do you ever wake up totally inspired to tackle a million things? That’s me today, I woke up early, made a big pot of coffee, designed a new fabric pattern, and ran to the craft store to pick up supplies for an idea I had late last night. It’s going to be a productive weekend!…
Whenever I discover a great designer, I dive right into their porfolio, noticing the beauty of the spaces and the attention to detail. I stumbled across Baker Design Co. a month ago and loved the spaces created by Libby, the owner and chief interior designer. I emailed her to tell her how impressed I was…
I’m in Las Vegas for a few days working on my investment property here and visiting with my parents. I have extended family who live in the area, as well as real estate, and it’s an easy flight from the Bay Area, so I’m in Las Vegas a lot. In the past four years I’ve visited Vegas over two dozen times, for work…
I travel a lot, and in the past two years, I’ve changed my preference on where I like to stay. Ordinarily, I’d look for a hotel room, but now the first site I always check out is Airbnb. I do some research on where I’m going, then pick a neighborhood somewhere central where it feels like…
Christmas greetings from my house to yours! I’ve teamed up with a handful of bloggers this week, we’re sharing pictures of our homes decorated for the holidays. Other than the birch trees mentioned here, I didn’t buy any new holiday decor this year. I’ve reached that saturation point where I have enough stuff and don’t…
I woke up this morning to the news that most of the wildfires are reaching containment here in California. I know the firefighters are exhausted and people want to return to some sense of normalcy so that is good news. A design project landed in my lap over the weekend, it was the perfect diversion…
Weekend greetings! The weather is perfection right now, I just love early October in Northern California. The mornings are chilly but the skies are blue. The afternoons are warm and the leaves are changing. It’s fleeting, but it feels like fall so I’m just walking around my town as much as possible until the cold…
This cooler weather in October gives me the desire to cozy up my house with things that offer warmth and texture. Last week I worked on a DIY craft project to achieve that: a wool felt pom pom trivet for use in the kitchen or on the dining table. I gained a love of…
I mentioned in my last post that after refinishing the floors, I wasn’t bringing anything back into my home that I didn’t absolutely love. This has left me with a few bare walls and corners, one of them the five foot wide space of wall between my family room and dining room. I decided an étagère…
Wow I can’t tell you how happy I am to be waking up each morning to look at at my completely refinished hardwood floors. I’ve had this inspiration image saved on my desktop for a year. It was EXACTLY how I wanted my floors to look in my home. tim barber When we expanded and renovated our…
Hello friends! Happy late summer weekend to you! I’ve been really busy behind the scenes this week. I took on a new kitchen remodel project for the local non-profit I’ve worked with for many years. I shared the “before” kitchen on my Instagram stories, that remodel will begin in early 2018 so in anticipation I’ll…
If you’ve followed my Instagram stories, you know I was up in Lake Tahoe for a few days, it was the perfect end to summer. I was with a group of girlfriends hiking trails and hanging out on the water, and it was bliss. I’ve been thinking about investing in a little cabin up there…