This room in the Ban.do studio started out as a dude name Todd’s office (the big boss that oversees a few different businesses). It was to be ‘rustic midcentury vintage surfer dude’ – kinda. But slowly Todd came to the …
Rebranded and Reborn
Oh, hey folks. Don’t worry. It’s still me, Emily Henderson. Emily Henderson 4.0, that is. I can design houses, host videos, do a mean Arnold Schwarzenegger in Kindergarten Cop impression – hell, I often even dress myself, but one of …
Ban.do Studio Design: Jen’s Office + Decor Roundup
There are few rooms in the entire world that I love as much as this room. Truly. The photographs will NEVER do it justice, because what you can’t really see is the fact that it is wallpapered completely in a …
Ban.do: The Front Room + Shop The Look
The Ban.do Party House is finished, obviously. We don’t celebrate with $100 bill money confetti cannons for nothing. All it took were 2 designers, 1 creative director/former stylist, 8 months, a budget that we refused to calculate, 42 disco balls, …
Charlie’s Outdoor Play Area + A Shop The Look
I grew up way out in the country in Oregon. We may have only had 2 acres but it was backed up to a forest so it felt like 1 squillion acres of backyard with streams and rivers and just …
The Patio Makeover + Patio Decor Roundup
You know that chick who needs a bikini vacation or a wedding in order to be really motivated to lose weight? And then, all of a sudden, they look like Kiera Knightly, and you kinda wonder why they waited so …
Art for the Family Shelter
As you all hopefully know, we have been working on the family shelter project, with MUCH HELP from many, many, many of you. Thank you all so much. Besides all of you who donated funds, there have been so many …
DIY Table Settings with David Stark
Planning a small party at home can be an ideal opportunity to create a space for a unique experience, as well as a chance to flex your creative muscles, which I know you all have. Look at what plates or …
Brass Faucets – a roundup
The master bathroom is almost done y’all. I’ve never had a new bathroom, I’ve always had ‘vintage’ bathrooms as I’ve never lived in an apartment or house that is less than 50 years old. It’s all stopping by the end …
Trolling Craigslist… Reno!
I went to Reno once when I was 13 and we stayed at a hotel that had a mall, movie theater, 4 restaurants and pools and a bunch of pools all inside the hotel. It was the first time I …