I'll be doing some website work this weekend that I hope will stay behind the scenes but may not: I apologize in advance if I clutter up your blog roll. In the meantime, could someone please buy this house and restore its dignity? That French colonial furniture is an incongruent abomination. My friend Jen was [...]
A reader asked about the basket that holds our bedroom plant: It's from Jo-Ann (which I always want to spell "Joanne's"). The baskets come in three sizes and they're really good quality: tightly woven with metal ribbing and plastic lining. They range from $39 to $89 at full price, but who pays full price at [...]
Thanks for your nice comments on my bedroom makeover! I’m back, as promised, with details on the wall art. As you might have guessed, they’re engineering prints. I first heard of them via Jenny at Little Green Notebook, who used Kinkos/FedEx Office’s large format blueprint printer to blow up a photograph for $4. She mounted [...]
"Makeover" actually isn't the right word because the bedroom was never maked to begin with. We had an off-white carpet remnant rug that got dingy nearly immediately - terrible idea! We had a picture ledge that I always intended to style but never did. We had matching MALM nightstands that were too small. I later [...]
When we moved into our apartment I quickly taped up our names below the doorbell, thinking "I'll fix this in a few days." And then I didn't, for months. Two years, almost. It's the sort of thing you eventually stop seeing, but a Craigslist buyer was in our apartment recently and he said "Wow, I [...]
Project Palermo 