I’m a bit late here on this post but I couldn’t skip this week. Especially since I have some BIG updates to show you. MY OFFICE BUILT INS ARE TAKING SHAPE. Over the weekend, I spent probably 12 hours assembling, disassembling, reassembling, and troubleshooting my base cabinets for my built-in desk, making sure each cabinet [...]
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Life Updates: Matryoshka, Mental Health, etc.
I have never done a post like this before but it feels more appropriate to do a long-form update than mixed up in my Instagram stories. I always feel like bloggers who post titles like this are about to slap you with some depressing news. That's not the case for me right now, it just [...]
ORC Week 3: ADHD, Messing Up, And Conquering Hard Things
This post may contain affiliate links. Affiliate links mean I earn a small commssion when you purchase something through them at no additional cost to you. Whew! We're already here! Halfway through, and honestly -- I'm feeling mostly great about this project. I do have one question though: how do designers DO IT?! This is [...]
ORC Week 2: Ran Away To The Beach And Then Built A Desk
It's ORC week two, y'all! I got a surprising amount done for having run away to the beach for a few days. If you don't follow me on Instagram, you may have missed that last week Jake and I decided that we needed to get away. It is, after all, 2020. We drove to a [...]
Fall 2020 One Room Challenge: Week 1
Surprise!? I say it like this because it felt like a little bit of a surprise even to myself. So, yeah, I’m signed up for the One Room Challenge! For those of you who are unaware of what the One Room Challenge, it is a six-week endeavor taken on by pro and amateur designers and [...]
Transforming a Boring Single-Panel Door Into A Custom-Looking Masterpiece
Okay, maybe masterpiece is laying it on a little thick, but I'm a Leo. We live for the dramatics. And speaking of drama, that's exactly what the original door was lacking. We moved into our house in mid-2016. It's a great house; the kind people like to say has "great bones". It's an early 1960s [...]
How To Build A Seamless Art Ledge
This week, I unveiled my guest bedroom refresh and a big centerpiece of the room was the art ledge that hung above the bed. An art ledge is a shallow shelf with a short lip on the front to hold framed pieces of art and sometimes small plants and other knickknacks. The guest room reveal [...]
GUEST ROOM REFRESH: My Experience Wallpapering With Rebel Walls
This post is a sponsored post in collaboration with Rebel Walls. It's been a few weeks since I've posted on the blog! Corona kind of caught up to me in the sense that my job as a nanny has evolved (as it always does) to accommodate a lot more time with the girls since their [...]
Coffee Shop Inspiration (See Also: ALL The Pictures!)
So, if you recall in my last post, I felt like my initial mood board didn't fit the aesthetic I was going for in my coffee shop plans. This is because we weren't even going to open one in the first place until we had a meeting with the builder of our commercial property and [...]
How to Identify and Develop Your Home’s Style
This post comes to you after I'd asked what you guys would like to see on my Instagram and this was the most-asked question. I wasn't sure how to word my response because it was something I'd never actively thought about. It comes naturally to me, I always thought. But really -- it didn't. Look [...]