The Streets of Old Québec City

Last week, we were on vacation on a whirlwind trip to New York City and then a road trip north across the border to two places we’ve always dreamed of visiting, Montréal and Québec City.  We loved both! After visiting, I have discovered Québec City to be one of the most beautiful and charming places in all of North…

Ten Things to Hang Above The Bed

My friend is redoing her master bedroom and can’t decide what to hang above her bed.  I told her there are a medley of options available, from mirrors to artwork to nothing at all.  Her dilemma got me thinking … so I came up with ten different ideas for what to hang or display above…

BOTB 7.22.12

Greetings all and happy Sunday, it’s time for another round of ‘Best of the Blogosphere’ and Amanda and I are back to share the most inspiring, creative, and helpful ideas we’ve spotted in the last two weeks, enjoy! Everything about Ford’s Nursery is perfection from the soft sophisticated neutrals to the brass pendant, tour the…

Mix, Don’t Match

Courtney Lake and I met years ago via the internet over a trellis wall and we’ve been friends and cohorts in decorating ever since.  We both live in the Bay Area, him to the east, me to the north, and we’ve met up over the years at various events.  Courtney and I both agree with…

Lavender Drawer Sachets + Souvenir Mag!

Happy Wednesday all, thanks to all of you who linked up to the Pinterest Challenge yesterday, so many amazing projects to browse!  I’m excited to announce that the Summer Issue of Souvenir Magazine is now available.  Congratulations to Heather Bullard for compiling this beautiful and inspiring 122 page issue!    A free sneak peak into the…

Alma Project: Kitchen Remodel!

Greetings all, doesn’t it feel so strange that the Fourth of July is on a Wednesday?  It’s totally throwing me off but I’m happy for the day off tomorrow.  Well as I’ve been hinting at for days, we are really proud to have finished the kitchen at our Alma Project just in time for four…

Scenes from the South

Brace yourself, this is one of those meeeeellion images posts cause I just gotta share. Okay.  We haven’t taken a real hop-on-an-airplane family vacation in five years, so ever since we started planning the Haven Conference last year and ever since my brother and his family also moved to Savannah a year ago it made…

Color Crush: Orange + Pink

I’m totally in the mood for brighter ‘look at me’ colors these days, and my latest summertime color crush is orange and pink!  I begged asked my daughter if she’d be cool if I revamped her room in these two colors and she told me pink was definitely okay but no on the orange.  Dang! …

Favorite Souvenirs Link Party

Hello everyone and welcome to the link party all about travel souvenirs! I’ll share a few of my favorites and then it’s your turn to link up.  I have a lot of little things I’ve brought home from our travels, my number one favorite I mentioned here and it is a pair of vintage glasses…

Choosing Cabinetry in Kitchen Renovation

One of my absolute favorite topics on earth is kitchen renovation, and even though we finished our own several years ago, it’s still one subject I never get tired of.  Today l’d like to welcome fellow home renovation lover and blogger Liz from It’s Great to Be Home on the subject of choosing kitchen cabinetry…

Playroom: The Project Details

Okay friends, time for the project breakdown on the playroom reveal earlier this week.  I’ll tackle the four projects from easiest to most challenging, here we go! The Play Table: After shopping around online and finding only plastic tables in my budget, I spied this ad on Craigslist the weekend before the install and literally…

BOTB 4.15.12

Hello my friends, this weekend it’s time again for another round of ‘Best of the Blogosphere’.  Amanda and I pulled together our favorite picks, here’s a peek at some of the greatness we’ve spied out there on the web in the last few weeks, enjoy! After some makeover magic, Samaa’s Goodwill hutch has a gorgeous…

Paint Paint Paint (and more Paint)

This is one of those projects inspired by a fellow blogger and one I’ve had on the back burner for a long while.  It was time I got my act together and cleaned up all the old paint cans in my house and rounded up all the colors in one post as well.  I’ll get…

Living Large in a Smaller Home

I discover new blogs in all sorts of ways and recently a reader left a very kind comment so I hopped over to visit her blog.  I was delighted to discover Jen of Migonis Home who together with her husband AJ and young son Drew, is renovating a Cape Cod style cottage in Massachusetts.  I…