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Decorating little kid rooms is so fun! You can do pretty much anything and it’s cute as heck. Our son Jones had a cozy, sentimental nursery that worked well for us in our last couple of houses, but we’ve kind of neglected his room in this house. We bought him a bunk bed when he…
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I really appreciate clean, minimalistic decorating, but personally it’s never been my style. I tend to find that “more is more” in terms of making our house feel like us: more pattern, more color, more furniture, more items. Thank goodness for bookcases to stash it all. It took me a while to find my rhythm…
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Our last house had this incredible “back of house” setup, where you came in off the garage and immediately had a small mud room-esque room where you could offload all the day’s “gear” before moving on to the kitchen. It was bliss. Our current house, however, has a breezeway entry from the garage that deposits…
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So, in our last house, our living room was roughly 30′ by 30′ – yes, you read that right. A single room that was basically 900 square feet. It was a vaulted, two-story grand room situation. Once it was done, depending on the day, I thought it was either striking or totally obnoxious. But every…
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You know those aspirational pictures of homes where you think, wow, it would be awesome to have that one day, but never gonna happen, so I’ll just admire from afar? I’m here to tell you a home library ladder wall (or room!) – so romantic, so vintage-y, so regal – is not one of those…
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There’s something about art having dedicated lighting that’s incredibly reassuring to me. Art with its own lighting is confident, secure. It says, “I’m important and enduring … I am special enough to be have given this exact spot right here to shine, and the light is on because you are welcome in this exact spot…
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In a Sunday school class back in my elementary school days – maybe third or fourth grade? – I was focused intently on reading the lesson of the week, sitting in one chair with another positioned to help prop up my book on my knees, when the teacher suddenly snapped, “Do you put your feet…
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I love the look of stone mantels, which evokes for me some romantic vision of reading a first-edition book on a rainy day in old-world Europe – which I haven’t done, but you get the vibe, right? But, reno – it’s all about tradeoffs and balancing how you allocate your time and money. Knowing a…
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Odd spaces in homes are like musical ear worms to me… They beckon, on repeat. Take this nook space in our living room. From what we can tell from renovation plans left behind by the home’s previous owners, this was created during a major overhaul of the home in the early aught’s. It immediately had…
