Happy Mother’s Day, Mom, from your six kids. That’s right SIX KIDS. Thanks for the natural births, piano lessons since we were three, 4-H where we learned to sew our own clothes, and most importantly instilling a moral compass that …
DIY Headboard Painting
Dear Emily’s Readers, Do you ever look around at giant paintings, salivating, wishing you could call them your own? That you could take them home from the gallery and love them for the rest of time? But then you look …
Art Round-up: Florals
Hi there! It’s Danielle from The Jealous Curator back with another artsy (and affordable) round-up for you! And now for a little history lesson … as long as there has been art, this has been a favorite subject matter of …
Instagram Winners #emilysaveme
Two weeks (or so) ago I started an Instagram contest where you/we took up to three photos of the things in our house (furniture specifically) that you would save in a fire — and then used the hashtag #emilysaveme. I …
5 tips to designing a timeless kids bedroom
It’s vintage inspired. It’s kinda grown up. It makes me want to be a kid again. I go back and forth between which is better: boys or girls. I mean, girls are pretty awesome on all accounts, but with boys …
The Fig House, update #1
The Fig House has broken ground — literally — the ground is all jacked up … and I mean literally jacked up, as they are using jack hammers today. Meanwhile we are busy planning, designing, shopping, and generally adjusting to …
Boys room makeover
Two kids rooms in two weeks, folks. I’m practicing for the real deal; when Emily and/or Brian Junior grace us with their presence, then I’ll have like, five kids rooms under my belt so I can properly torture them with …
Tween bedroom makeover with Land of Nod
A designer designing a cool 9-year-old girl’s room is like Kobe Bryant playing one day for the Harlem Globe trotters; It’s all the same skills, all the same challenges, but somehow just way more fun (or maybe it’s a total …
Tween bedroom redesign, sneak peek
Remember when I posted about this tween room like three months ago? Well she is all done, shot (by David Tsay), video’d, and ready to go … tomorrow. But to remind you of what is about to happen: Come back …
Mid-Century Texan Outback Baby Shower
It’s a baby shower, folks. Except I’m officially renaming this one to “Send Off to Parenting Party” because that’s more what we decided to do. It’s not that anything is wrong with the more traditional baby showers, truly, but sometimes I …