Yesterday I was feeling a little bit like I had betrayed our old home. Like somehow I was telling it it’s not good enough for us. I actually felt a little guilty. I realize this is crazy but I adore this house and want desperately to do right by it. Today, I almost feel like […]
The long-awaited house remodel is finally underway. It’s amazing to think that this was a project we wanted to do from when we bought the house (eight years ago) and seriously started talking about a year and a half ago and all of a sudden it’s here. It’s actually rather shocking; I spent so long […]
This is Part 2 of a series on how I changed a brand new (but flawed) table into just what I needed. You can find Part 1 here. With the table the right length (and the legs in the right place), it was time to finish it. Like a lot of furniture refinishing, the concern […]
When we started on the mini-kitchen redo last fall, I knew two things: I wanted a banquette and table that would allow us to easily slide in and out. That meant I was looking for either a pedestal or trestle style and after looking at what seemed like thousands of photos of tables online, I […]
Thank goodness for cameras on phones, right? Since I don’t always walk around with a camera but I almost always have my phone with me, it’s so nice to be able to snap a shot of something great, even if people are staring at you for taking a picture of a chair. That’s what happened […]
S o far, we’ve changed very little about our house in the seven years we’ve owned it. But the first thing I did was paint the brown front door. I can’t fathom how this cool door (certainly original to the house, which is now 70 years old) ended up brown, but that’s OK, because after […]
I’m not turning “The Impatient Gardener” into “The Clueless Home Decorator,” I swear (well, I’m trying really hard not to). But I have found a totally cool Web site that I thought some of you might be interested in knowing about. It’s called Houzz, and it’s like someone took all the cool design photos from […]
