The word "trendy" sounds exciting sometimes, like when you buy a house that's so outdated that some of it has come back into style. It's also great when you have a limited decor budget and happen to find something at Goodwill that's actually "on-trend." Or when your grandma gives you her old dishes and you see similar ones in a magazine. In these cases, trendy is awesome. It gets you back in ... View Post
Pantry Remodel with Open Shelves
Once our kitchen was pretty much done, we started to realize just how irritating our existing pantry situation was. And not in a nit-picky, I-only-live-in-perfect-houses sort of way. In a my-husband-will-lose-it-if-the-garage-door-keeps-slamming-into-the-pantry-door sort of way. When our house was built, it was gifted with an abundance of doors in a very teeny space. There was one standard ... View Post
Choosing a Sofa
I actually call this a "couch", as you probably do, but in the interior design world, it's a sofa. I met a Canadian in 5th grade who called it a Chesterfield, which I happened to remember because it was such a fancy term for a couch. Turns out a Chesterfield is actually a particular style of couch rooted in furniture history, but we're not going into that kind of depth in this post because each ... View Post
Your Burning Questions, Answered (Part 1)
Okay, guys! Thanks for the comments on my last post! You totally made my day! It's nice to know there are actual people out there...kind of like in the movie Julie and Julia where she starts a blog and gets her first comment. From her mom. So thanks (mom) and others! A quick question. Did those of you who commented get an email notification that I commented back? Our new website hasn't ... View Post
Thoughts on Blogging
Hello again, guys! I'm working on updating the blog more often...normally I only think of writing something about every two weeks. In that time, there were several things to write about, so I try to pick the most important thing. Then I go to a coffee shop and try to get started. Then I decide none of them were worth writing about and give up. Then I read that if I don't do it once a ... View Post
Magazine Photo Shoot, Part 1
We are still settling back into normal life after our photo shoot with American Farmhouse Style magazine! It sounds glamorous, but preparing to be in a magazine involves a lot of late nights spent dumping things you actually use into the garage. It also involves ungodly amounts of cleaning and tidying, plus asking kids not to use the couch/nice towels/table/bowl of fruit. For all these reasons, ... View Post
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