I have a vintage steel barrister bookcase in my home office. I wanted to cut down on the amount of gray in the room, so I lined the back with a natural-colored grasscloth wallpaper. It's most not...
The best part is that you can't win the makeover unless you live within a 30-mile radius of North Hollywood, but you can win the gift card. Yay! I'd love the $1,500, but there's no way I would le...
Local nurseries. Many grow their own plants, and they have varieties that the big box stores never get. I have ordered from mail order sources in order to get a rare plant that I can't find local...
I about busted a gut the time I saw a "Chip and Dale" chair advertised on Craigslist. Apparently the two chipmunks are busy designing furniture these days...
RE: airing out your bed -- I read that it's a good idea to pull your bedding down immediately after waking up, go take your shower, have breakfast, etc., and then come back and make it before leavi...
What lovely dogs...
We definitely had a tough transition when we brought a puppy into our home. We found him wandering alone in a busy part of town and brought him home to try to loca...
I would use a curtain wire / cable system stretched across at the top of the rectangular part of the window. IKEA has them for dirt cheap, and you can attach the ends to the adjoining walls rather...
The sad thing is that I live in the suburbs of a medium-sized city in Oregon, and there's still far too much noise in my neighborhood.
After we moved into our house, an Albertsons gr...
My childhood home has an upstairs deck with a railing but no overhead cover. Every summer, my brothers and I would roll out our sleeping bags and sleep under the stars. There's something really f...
Kathy,
Whenever I hang a piece of art over a piece of furniture or a mantel, I always have the bottom of the frame hit somewhere around 4-6 inches above the furniture/mantel. This ens...
I got my glass lamps at TJMaxx for $60 apiece. They're absolutely gorgeous, and a much better deal then the ones I had been eye-ing at Crate and Barrel. I replaced the standard-issue white shades...
At home above my desk, I have a series of photos of my two brothers and I that were taken one summer in the mid-eighties. In my favorite photo, I am standing next to my little brother, Stephen, my...
Love the chandelier...
And, in respose to LaDonna, the table looks like a vintage folding typing table. I have one that I dug out of my grandpa's garage. It works great in my offic...
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I have a vintage steel barrister bookcase in my home office. I wanted to cut down on the amount of gray in the room, so I lined the back with a natural-colored grasscloth wallpaper. It's most not...
The best part is that you can't win the makeover unless you live within a 30-mile radius of North Hollywood, but you can win the gift card. Yay! I'd love the $1,500, but there's no way I would le...
Local nurseries. Many grow their own plants, and they have varieties that the big box stores never get. I have ordered from mail order sources in order to get a rare plant that I can't find local...
I about busted a gut the time I saw a "Chip and Dale" chair advertised on Craigslist. Apparently the two chipmunks are busy designing furniture these days...
RE: airing out your bed -- I read that it's a good idea to pull your bedding down immediately after waking up, go take your shower, have breakfast, etc., and then come back and make it before leavi...
What lovely dogs... We definitely had a tough transition when we brought a puppy into our home. We found him wandering alone in a busy part of town and brought him home to try to loca...
I would use a curtain wire / cable system stretched across at the top of the rectangular part of the window. IKEA has them for dirt cheap, and you can attach the ends to the adjoining walls rather...
The sad thing is that I live in the suburbs of a medium-sized city in Oregon, and there's still far too much noise in my neighborhood. After we moved into our house, an Albertsons gr...
My childhood home has an upstairs deck with a railing but no overhead cover. Every summer, my brothers and I would roll out our sleeping bags and sleep under the stars. There's something really f...
Kathy, Whenever I hang a piece of art over a piece of furniture or a mantel, I always have the bottom of the frame hit somewhere around 4-6 inches above the furniture/mantel. This ens...
I got my glass lamps at TJMaxx for $60 apiece. They're absolutely gorgeous, and a much better deal then the ones I had been eye-ing at Crate and Barrel. I replaced the standard-issue white shades...
At home above my desk, I have a series of photos of my two brothers and I that were taken one summer in the mid-eighties. In my favorite photo, I am standing next to my little brother, Stephen, my...
Love the chandelier... And, in respose to LaDonna, the table looks like a vintage folding typing table. I have one that I dug out of my grandpa's garage. It works great in my offic...