A Domestiphobe’s Guide To Accessory Shopping.
Okay I’ll admit it. I’m horrible at shopping for accessories. The idea of spending money on something that’s going to have no other function than to sit around my house and look pretty has often felt,...
View ArticleGet Into The Groove: How To Paint Wood Paneling.
It’s probably about time I show you what’s been happening with my laundry room. I’ve been hesitant to do so because after a lot of work, a semi-disastrous flooring mishap, and not an insignificant...
View ArticleBeauty And The Sexist Floor Guy. Disney Can Have That One.
“Well you didn’t tell me two women were coming to pick it up!” My flooring guy laughed, I fumed, and my friend Angie did her best to diffuse the situation and ensure I didn’t do something to invite a...
View ArticleStairway To Heaven. Or At Least My Version Of It.
“We’ll just turn this into a laundry room!” I’d said when we closed on our house, gazing around the narrow paneled room that smelled like cat litter and which the previous owners had used as an office....
View ArticleDing Dong The Mural’s Dead. And Memorialized On My Mantel.
Oh, hi. It’s me. Remember? I’m the girl who sometimes blogs around these parts. Lately though, instead I’ve been: Going to weddings Virtually assisting talented entrepreneurs Getting mistaken for my...
View ArticleOverdue Before-and-Afters of Our Mid-Century Brick Ranch Renovations.
I didn’t want to say anything about it, but it’s like she knows. After all the accoutrements, the lavishing of ceiling fixtures, the adorning with paint and the stripping of floors, it’s like she...
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