If you love vintage things and going to the flea market, you are not alone. Michael, our newest team member is OBSESSED with them. In fact, for years I would run into him at the Rose Bowl, he would stop …
How To Design A Pass-Through Room – REVEAL – The Portland Family Room
A “pass-through room” with lots of doors is a layout nightmare for anyone, including this designer. Welcome to the family room reveal of the Portland Project – otherwise known as the hardest room in this house to design, where we …
Design Mistakes: How Not to Design a Boring Neutral Room
We all know someone (heck, some of you might be that person) who is annoyingly effortless. You spend 2 hours getting ready for a night out with a friend trying to avoid looking like you crawled out of a …
Budget Room: Designing an “Adult” Living & Dining Room, 3 Ways
Hi y’all. Ryann here with our first budget series of the year. We’re calling this one “The Starter Apartment” and I hope you love it and if you don’t please be gentle in the comments (just kidding, you guys always …
All The Counter Stools I Considered (& Decided On…Sort of) for the Mountain House
Welcome to “Mountain House Mondays” where yes, we talk current mountain house projects, design conundrums and generally “where we’re at” in the furniture/decor phase of this home. You guys asked for it, so what you are going to get is …
The Link Up: CBD, Our Favorite Shoes and a Good Happy Cry
Hi everyone. Let’s have a check-in. How’s it going? How do you feel January went? What are the new February goals? What’s the hot gossip? Tell me everything. We have a BIG February ahead and are pretty excited to jump in. Hope …
Soup Saturday: Fast & Simple Veggie-Packed Vegan Pho
We’re in what feels like the fifth month of 2019 and January is only just officially over. For real though, was that not the longest 31 days of everyone’s life? Maybe it was the post-holiday exhaustion, or the ramp up …
Back By Popular Demand: Our First Trolling Craiglist 2.0 City Picks
Blast from the past, anyone? TROLLING CRAIGSLIST IS BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND. And by popular demand, we actually mean DEMAND. Any chance you guys had to ask us to bring this baby back, you took. Truthfully, I have no idea …
The Ultimate Family-Friendly Media Room + Wet Bar
Welcome to the Portland project’s party central…the ground floor media room. It’s 540 square feet of family fun. We really thought about how to present this lady, trying to figure out how to make its reveal “editorial” but something about saying “how to design the …
Announcing…Book #2!!! (+ We Need Your Questions)
Over the weekend, I announced on my Instagram that I’m officially starting my second book. If you are like anyone in my family, you might be asking: A. What took you so long? B. Why are you adding this to …