layla’s mint dresser
I bought this dresser off of Craig’s List a few months ago when I was having a run on empire dressers. I think I found 5-6 of them, all for under $100, within a few weeks. It was crazy. This is one of the roughest dressers I’ve worked on, but it was the cheapest one […]
design ramblings | transitioning styles
In this episode of Design Ramblings, Kriste and I talked about transitioning decorating styles. More specifically, we were answering a reader’s e-mail, asking how to transition from primitive to farm house style. I felt immediately drawn to that e-mail, because I really love primitive pieces and am buying them more often and putting my spin on […]
boxwood empire dresser
Sooo…there is a dresser that’s been hanging around in the studio for months. It’s a beautiful empire piece with some amazing graining on the drawers and I just wasn’t ready to paint it. I pushed it against the wall and waited until inspiration struck. I was thinking about the dresser one evening and it hit me… Boxwood. It […]
home gratitude
“Your home is a gift and a blessing.” Those are the words that lead off day 1 of the 31 day challenge in Loving the Home You Have, a new book by Melissa Michaels of The Inspired Room. Reading those simple words pushed me into really thinking about my attitude towards my home. If someone asked […]
installing a stair runner
I shared several weeks ago that I wanted to add a carpet runner to our steps. We have 1940’s stairs that are shallow, by today’s standards, and entirely wood. That combination has led to more than one topple down the steps by pretty much everyone in our family. Adding a runner wouldn’t help with how […]
reinforcing a chair back
If you’ve been following along the past few weeks, you know I’ve been doing a lot of upholstery. Upholstering is a skill I learned out of necessity. I had a slate blue & mauve overstuffed freebie chair that wasn’t working with the fabrics I wanted to use, so I sort of reupholstered it. I was […]
upstairs bath progress
I finished the wall paper mural in the upstairs bath last week and I’ve been bursting to take a picture of it to share! I’ve just been really busy and didn’t have the chance until yesterday afternoon. The bathroom still isn’t done, but it’s far enough along that you can get the idea. This bathroom is teeny […]
design ramblings | decorating a small space
I just finished putting up the wallpaper in our upstairs bath, which is teeny-tiny, so decorating small spaces has been on my mind. When I selected the mural from Anthropologie, I know I was breaking a “decorating rule”. The one that says, “you shouldn’t use busy patterns in a small space.” The funny thing about […]