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Do you want to know how you can instantly change a room?  Paint.  But do you know what else?  Trim.  Maybe neither of those are “instant” but in less than a couple hours of work last night, Chris and I added chair molding and baseboards to the laundry room/half bath (I need an acronym for […]

We had an okay weekend over here.  Greta was under the weather on Friday.  Then I was feeling crummy on Saturday and Sunday and poof, there goes the weekend. But it is a new day and a new week and we gots stuff to do! This week, the name of the game is finish the […]

Can I just start by saying, thanks for all your feedback on our “his chair” post.  I spent some time rearranging things, swapping sides and eventually just put him and her next to each other with Chris’s djembe in the middle to act as a little side table and I think we like this arrangement […]

Shortly after Chris and I got married, we bought ourselves ten plain white dishes.  They weren’t super expensive–maybe $2.50 a piece?–but we loved the classic look and hoped we could hang on to them for a long, long time and use them for all the dinner parties we planned on having.  Well, we definitely have […]

Welcome Design*Sponge readers!  To see more photos of the nursery-turned-studio, check this post out.  Feel free to kick off your shoes and stay awhile.  :) We have a lot of dreamy updates on our exterior to-do list including updating our exterior lights.  We have been drooling over and pinning some industrial-modern fixtures online, but considering […]

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