We’ve all seen the posters with the words urging us to “Keep Calm and Carry On.” They are everywhere these days. Eclectic Home Office design by Los Angeles Interior Designer Vanessa De Vargas Eclectic Dining Room design by Sacramento Interior Designer Kerrie L. Kelly Modern Kids design by Atlanta Interior…
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Flooring Options & An Interesting Choice
Hey Friends! Some of you have said you would like to see a drawn layout of our place so you can wrap your heads around our space plan. I will post that soon, but for this post you just need to know that we have one room (besides the bathroom)…
African Juju DIY
Well there’s no better way to start off the week than with a DIY project, right?! Since posting a few photos of this Juju (below), I’ve had a number of people ask where I bought the cool, cultural piece. The bad news is this is not an authentic juju brought…
Evolution of a Room- Implementing Your Plan
Well, we are finally to the fun portion of the design process- the point where you get to start implementing all the ideas you’ve been coming up with! If you remember, so far we have covered: – Creating Your List– Assessing Your Time, Space, & Budget– Creating Your Plan– Bring in Your Passions and…
Design Dilemma Solved- My
The Evolution of a Room
Every once and a while I get questions about my process when it comes to designing a room. I think my process has evolved over the past few years and I have settled on a system that I feel works very well. The process I go through to come up…
DIY Changeable Tray
What do you get when you take a picture frame & some white spray paint along with brass drawer pulls & foil feather wrapping paper? Well you get a beautiful DIY Changeable Tray of course! 🙂 If you haven’t figured it out yet, I simply: 1. Chose a frame that…
Parquet Flooring Turned Headboard
Hello Friends! I hope you enjoyed the Spectrum paint post and seeing how we recreated our paint chip wall! We are really make strides in creating a home that feels like us! One thing that goes a long way in making a bedroom feel complete is a headboard. There are…
Spectrum Paint and Recycled Paint Chip Panels
Happy, happy Friday friends! Today, I have the pleasure of introducing you to my friends from Spectrum Paint! Our relationship started a few months ago when I started using some of their products. After testing out their paints and learning more about their story, I had officially been converted from…
DIY West Elm Morocco Headboard
Happy Thursday! Today I am going to cover one headboard idea we gave during our segment with our local Fox station last week. It’s one my favorites! You see, I’ve always loved this headboard from West Elm. . . And when I saw this rubber door mat at Target. ….
Updated DIY Page
Hey Friends! I was planning on writing a fun post today, but then it took me 2 1/2 hours to update my DIY Projects page (and it’s still not perfect as you can see from the different font sizes and spacing problems). Sometimes Blogger is very frustrating! Anyone else have…
Evolution of a Room- Bringing in Your Passions and Personality
Today we are going to revisit our Evolution of a Room series. If you’ve missed any of the previous posts, go read about Creating Your List, Assessing Your Time, Space, & Budget, and Creating Your Plan. So Today we are moving on to the most important part of the process-…











