Part two of our kitchen window makeover is the part that actually fixed something. After the peel and stick window grids gave this plain builder window some character, I went looking for a shade and fell for scalloped Roman shades. Ours are a custom yellow stripe from SelectBlinds, they cost about $250, and the install…
Our kitchen window has the best view in the house, and for four years it was the only window we never dressed. This is part one of finally giving it the attention it deserves, and it starts with peel and stick window grids: white tape strips that turned one big, plain pane of glass into…
My office started out as a plain, builder-grade white box. It’s about 11 by 11 feet and faces west, so the afternoon light is great, but it had zero personality. This is the room where I do my creative work, so it deserved better than four blank walls. The first thing I did to give…
For years, the honest inventory of my coffee table was: the TV remote, a box of Kleenex, and — on a good week — a vase of cat-safe flowers. That was the decor. The flowers did all the work, and when they died the table went back to being a place where the remote lived….
My husband and I love hitting a good Japanese restaurant in LA. An authentic izakaya brings us back to Japan immediately. Small plates, a cold beer, winding down after a long week in a space that just feels warm and welcoming. So when I started thinking about redesigning my cat’s feeding corner, I didn’t want…
We went to Finland last year chasing the Northern Lights — and we actually saw them, which still feels like a small miracle. But the souvenir that ended up meaning the most didn’t come from that night at all. It came from a Marimekko shop, in the form of a 100-postcard book I almost just…
I wanted a coffee table with a curvy, organic shape that looked like real stone — and it turns out the easiest way to get there wasn’t buying real stone, it was faux stone spray paint. Every actual stone coffee table I found was either painfully expensive or came in these sharp, angular shapes that…
When we moved into our newly built townhouse, every single wall was the same flat builder white. Fine, technically. But nothing about it felt like us — and the living room especially needed something to ground it and warm it up. I wanted one accent wall that did all of that quietly. Here’s the part…
If your For You page looks anything like mine, you have watched approximately four hundred people transform a plain white IKEA Lack table into what looks like a chic little mosaic side table — using nothing but peel and stick tiles. It is the craft trend that refuses to quit, and honestly? Deserved. The transformations…
Shop This Post *This post contains affiliate links. I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. We genuinely love IKEA Söderhamn couch Deep, loungey, modern seating with replaceable and washable covers. Deep and wide enough that people can sleep on it comfortably. We’ve had it for 6 years and still love…