As I sit on our 3-seasons porch that I never got around to painting last fall due to first-trimester nausea and fatigue taking a hold of me, I can’t help but feel like the last 9 months have gone so…
DIY NO-SEW PLEATED LAMP OR SCONCE SHADE TUTORIAL
Let me preface this post by saying my DIY pleated lamp shade did not turn out as good as I had hoped; at least compared to an actual professional pleated lampshade. After spending quite a bit of money on pleated…
ONE ROOM CHALLENGE, THE NURSERY REVEAL!
WEEK 1-2 | WEEK 3 | WEEK 4 | WEEK 5 | WEEK 6 | WEEK 7 I am beyond thrilled to finally share the nursery reveal with you! It’s been my pride and joy since I found out I was pregnant back in October. I really wanted to…
ONE ROOM CHALLENGE, WEEK 7: DRAPES AND WALLPAPER
WEEK 1-2 | WEEK 3 | WEEK 4 | WEEK 5 | WEEK 6 One of my most-agonized-over details for this room was completed this week: the installation of the drapes from Calico! I am so so glad I went with this Tarry Vert fabric and…
ONE ROOM CHALLENGE, WEEK 6: PAINT COLOR SNEAK PEEK!
WEEK 1-2 | WEEK 3 | WEEK 4 | WEEK 5 Angelo sprayed the room Benjamin Moore Lehigh Green/Parsley Snips on Sunday and I haven’t been able to look away since. Almost every hour on the hour I’m opening the door, peeking in, grinning,…
SPRING FINDS
Hope you had a wonderful weekend and Mother’s Day! Today I’m sharing a few items I’ve recently purchased/have been eyeing over the last few weeks. From scalloped edges to floral patterns, I hope you find the beauty in these items…
ONE ROOM CHALLENGE WEEK 5: CHOOSING A (GREEN) PAINT COLOR
WEEK 1-2 | WEEK 3 | WEEK 4 When we found out that we were having a boy, I immediately knew I wanted the nursery to be a shade of green. But the challenge was to choose a shade of green…
ONE ROOM CHALLENGE, WEEK 4: CHOOSING A CEILING PAINT COLOR
WEEK 1 & 2 // WEEK 3 We accomplished quite a bit this week. Angelo removed my favorite chandelier while I watched and wept Constantina admired herself ON A FURIOUS WHIM I chose a ceiling paint color – Farrow and…
OUR MASTER BATHROOM MINI MAKEOVER
This bathroom has certainly seen a few design iterations over the last few years. I renovated our en suite bath for my first One Room Challenge in 2018 and recently fixed/completed a few things that I did wrong during my…
ONE ROOM CHALLENGE, WEEK 3: FINDING MY DREAM NURSERY MIRROR ON FACEBOOK MARKETPLACE
This is going to sound crazy, but when I first found out I was pregnant and started planning the nursery, there was a specific Carver’s Guild mirror that I envisioned in the scheme that I started hunting for almost immediately,…
ONE ROOM CHALLENGE WEEK 1 & 2
Humor me for a moment. Imagine being just over 2 months away from giving birth with a mile long list of shit that needs to happen before said baby arrives, and deciding to jump into a One Room Challenge that’s…
A MINI REVEAL: CHOOSING THE PERFECT PINK-BEIGE PAINT COLOR FOR OUR NORTHERN FACING LIVING ROOM
What, like you don’t swatch 21 samples and paint half a room before committing? I’ve done it. I’ve tucked away my Farrow & Ball fan deck and called it a day after finding the perfect pink-beige (really, taupe) for our…












