Running a small business as a creative person is like a baby giraffe walking across a log, over the rapids, in heels – it’s unnatural, precarious, immensely comical, yet totally possible. Figuring out how to pay yourself and others to …
Materials Girl #5 – Coral and Teal Fantasy
1. Wallpaper | 2 . Fabric | 3. Bowl | 4. Fabric | 5. Blue velvet | 6. Tile by B Zippy | 7. Door knob | 8. Blue tile | 9. Paint chips |10. Wood flooring | 11. Leather I’m a big fan …
Spanish California Home: Kitchen + Get The Look
Before I got involved with this kitchen, it was about to get RHONJ’d. In case you don’t speak ‘Bravo’, that means ‘Real housewives of New Jersey”d where faux Tuscan shiny wood and tumbled tile reign suprem-o. They had just installed …
DIY wooden dowel Coatrack in Redbook
It’s another Redbook DIY today where we made a pretty adorable coatrack with some wooden dowels, paint and rope. We saw this DIY and loved its simplicity and how sculptural it is. So we did our take on it and …
Best Online Art Resources
Like a wrinkle on a cover model’s face after 15 hours of retouching, good art is just VERY hard to find. It’s constantly the thing that holds us up the most when wrapping up a design of a house. Furniture needs …
Friday ramblings … and happy V-day
We recently had a little lunch in the kitchen while we were shooting something at the house, and while it wasn’t necessarily for a blog post, Tessa was here so I was like ‘Maybe you could just… you know …’ …
1 Credenza 4 Ways: Midcentury Coastal and A VOTE!!!!
One Credenza, Four Ways. #4: Midcentury Coastal It’s the last one in the series. I swear. More info on that at the end (thanks for your feedback). This one is called ‘Mid-century Coastal’. This is both my childhood and my …
French Industrial Dining Nook + Shop The Look
When I first met this dining nook (see back story of project here) I was so excited to get my grubby little hands on it. It’s just so special. You know how on makeover movies (Can’t buy me love, She’s …
1 Credenza 4 Ways: Bold Mid-Century Contemporary
It’s another 1 credenza 4 ways, over here (see #1 and #2). To catch you up, I took one credenza and styled it four completely different ways without changing the background or flooring. I thought it would be fun to show …
Jack Be Quick: A Boy’s Room Makeover + Shop The Look
Welcome to another special guest post by my dear friend Orlando Soria, the creative director of the L.A. Homepolish team and the founder of Hommemaker blog. We don’t work together every day anymore but our addiction to each other hasn’t waned. So, every …