OK, LET’S TALK ABOUT SCREEN TIME. I’m a parenting article junky and I know the data, facts, opinions and consequences. But despite my intellectual knowledge about the relationship of TV and small kids (I know nothing about older kids), I can’t …
Mountain Fixer-Upper Lighting: Modern and Traditional Options
If I were a single lady on tinder I would be enthusiastically swiping, left, right, left, right all day, muttering ‘ooh, he looks nice!’, or ‘oh yep, he could be the perfect date to the Oscars’ or ‘Ooh I love …
A Roundup of Ceiling Fans + When and How You Can Use Them
Form over function or function over form has been a constant battle in the design world. Typically one gives way to the other depending on the specific piece, the style of the space, and your individual needs. For example, some people …
The final, final, FINAL!!!!! Mountain Fixer Floor Plan
If you want to give yourself an education in interior design start by doing a gut renovation of a house – ideally a stranger’s house or someone you don’t like …. because you will mess it up. If you want …
Making Mother’s (or Grandmother’s) Day Memories with Artifact Uprising
Mother’s Day, is right around the corner. I’m always WAY behind on this holiday (or any other, really). But not this year (thanks to Artifact Uprising). I think I can speak for all moms when I say we really just …
Outdoor Dining Furniture Roundup
It’s the weekend (well as soon as 6pm rolls around and the work week finishes) and LA has officially decided that it is summer what with these warmer temperatures. So, naturally, every single human being (including all of us) is either …
Mountain Fixer-Upper Lighting: The Softer Options + Get The Look
I consider ‘lighting and hardware’ to be part of their own family. The more eclectic you are, the more you can ‘extend’ that family (mixed lighting) and the more conservative and simple you like your decor you might lean towards …
Bedroom Design Rules
We started our “design rules” series a few weeks ago with ‘living room rules‘ and ‘dining room rules‘ and today we are heading into the bedroom. Your bedroom is your safe space, your haven, your retreat from everything else at …
18 Fun and Affordable Pillow Combos
Ask anyone that doesn’t know the first thing about the job of an interior designer and they might say, they “fluff pillows” and “pick out fabrics”. And while they aren’t entirely wrong there is a lot more that goes into …
Our New (hidden) Living Room Projector System
If there was one question in the world that Brian and I were sick of asking ourselves, and each other, it was ‘WHERE DO WE WATCH THAT TV?’ Our house was built in 1926 and therefore just not set up …