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A long, long time ago an old friend signed me up for an email list about prepping early for Christmas. This was when social media was just for sharing personal stuff  and blogs weren’t even really that popular but a little email list was kind of a big deal. For a whole week in October, someone (I have no idea who it was) would send a task to do now that would make Christmas easier later. While I didn’t follow it all and don’t remember much about what she instructed to do (except prep crockpot meals. That one stuck but...

  I added two vintage items to my laundry room that changed everything…. Now maybe that’s a bit dramatic because I still have to actually take the laundry out and fold it up and put it away. I’ve yet to find anything new or vintage that helps with that process, but it solved a few other problems for me. Let me just show you what I added and why it’s such a big deal for me 1. A Vintage Cabinet: I had zero intentions of keeping this. In fact I passed up even buying it the first time but when it...

I think we find a real sweet spot in our homes when we figure out what they need in our current stage of life AND we decide to make that beautiful. This amazing client has been working from home for a few years now. In the beginning she found the necessities and turned her dining room into a home office. It worked and if we’re being honest, her home is so beautiful it doesn’t need much, but she wanted more. Our homes play a big roll in how we feel. It's not just a matter of cleanliness, though that matters....

Once upon a time a friend sent me a message about her tiny closet laundry room. It wasn’t really a client request, it was more like “someday I wish I could make this laundry closet something but its just so small and blah that it would probably never be anything good.” (Paraphrased obviously, this was a long time ago) It wasn’t just the semi-hopeless tone but this lit a fire in me. I wanted her to know she could have a great laundry space even if it’s not ideal size wise. I could feel the potential.  It made me think...

  I’m always so honored when someone I know that has really good taste, but is also a little picky (in the best way!) asks me to help them with a space. That is exactly the case when this great family found their dream home. And here is where they are absolute geniuses… they started with their main bedroom. I’ve seen it over and over again where we put all our energy and resources in the main areas of our homes and our primary bedrooms end up being afterthoughts at best. But they found the house and contacted me to...