The new season of Mad Men FINALLY aired while I vacationed with my family in Arizona a few weeks ago. We got to stay in the delightful Hotel Valley Ho for a couple of nights, which is exactly the kind of place Don Draper would have chosen if he were on vacation! ...
This weekend, my home was the setting for a baby shower for a dear friend and fellow blogger, Heather Spriggs Thompson. We met several years ago online (haha, I love to say that) and connected on both a personal and business level. Her friends and family wanted to...
I know it's been a long time coming, but I finally got around to painting my barley twist coffee table in Ralph Lauren's fabulous Golden Candlesticks metallic paint. Ralph Lauren's Golden Candlesticks Metallic Paint Do you remember the "before"? ...
Many homes don't have a thought-out plan for the interior paint color palette. It seems that most people just decide, for example, to paint one room a color they like. Then at some point they decide to try out some other color in another room, without much thought...
I see it all the time: rooms that lack balance. When your furniture is not balanced, the whole room feels off-kilter. source Here's a good example off an off-kilter room I worked in last week. From this angle it didn't look so bad, in regard to furniture...
High-end designers are taking classic chair shapes and updating them with splashes of unexpected color, like this twist on the classic Windsor chair: source Fabulous, no? The price of these designer Windsor chairs from Ola is a whopping $1250 each. Ouch. How hard...
Easter is fast approaching, like a bunny hopping down a trail! I'm already ready, thanks to a custom Easter basket provided by Hershey's! You see, when I attended the Blissdom blogging conference last month, Hershey's had all the attendees order their own...
Who wouldn't want to spend every morning in a bathroom that feels like an oasis of calm? source So you have a drab, neutral bathroom. It's your typical builder-grade bathroom - the cabinets and hardware are fine, just nothing special. You're tired of it, but you...
If someone gave you a $500 gift certificate to Merridian Home Furnishings, what would you buy? source That's the question I am asking myself, because I won that $500 gift certificate in a designer contest last week for showing off my fabulous Lansing Desk in my...
I know I'm not the only one who watched the season finale of The Bachelor on Monday night. Whether or not you watch the show, there's definitely something you can take away from what happened Monday night. source And this is it: The heart wants what the heart...
