My friend Marco Polo’d me from her new house earlier this week. She walked me through room by room showing me everything they have done and wanted to do. When she got to her daughters’ room, she stopped, “Look at the curtains–did we do them wrong? They are just huggggginnnggg the window and look weird.” […]

Last year we shared how we approach budgets when renovating (here) and shared a hypothetical 3 phase bedroom makeover under $2000. The gist? If you have $500, that doesn’t mean you have to buy the cheapest of everything to get the room done. That means, choose a few budget-conscious pieces to start your space and […]

(Full disclosure: I’m writing this at 2 p.m., and it’s snacktime…) I haven’t been the best at showing progress in the office much because we have SO MUCH shuffling to do in here, but I recently shared a story where we were stocking some snacks and drinks in our new SMEG fridge (we got the […]