The year was 2004. My parents were remodeling the circa 1990s kitchen in my childhood home, complete with honey oak cabinets and beige tile countertops (originally a peach Formica). Many trips through IKEA and unnamed kitchen showrooms later, my parents …
Today, I am so pleased to show you the finished Scandi-farmhouse front porch – a space I barely thought about the last few years and turned out to be such a sweet fun outdoor room to hang (and swing). This …
When we were first dreaming, designing, and rendering this house I thought very little about the front porch – not because I didn’t care about it, but because it was not my biggest fish to fry. I had so many …
We recently got a copy of the new book Uncommon Kitchens: A Revolutionary Approach to the Most Popular Room in the House and were struck by one of the kitchens, an older Upstate New York Victorian made fresh and cheerful …
It happened!!! The Real Simple team came to the farmhouse, got a ton of beautiful shots, and now it’s all done. We couldn’t be more excited about it! Ok, Emily might be the most excited/relieved but we are really pumped …
Well, I think this means we are officially “dog people”. You would be too, if you met our dogs (says every dog parent ever). I don’t know HOW we lucked out with these two (rescued during lockdown, last two in …
OMG. Someone, please invite me to join your bar trivia team. I KNOW SO MUCH ABOUT MOSQUITOS NOW. I know that bar trivia topics are usually centered around things like “culture” or “history” or “things that people could reasonably be …
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again – “comfortable” living rooms are the hardest rooms to nail. Give me a bedroom any day (symmetrical design with a singular purpose) or a formal “meant to be pretty” living room …
I’ve always been the type of person who proudly announces when she got a deal. “This shirt? Girl, I bought it for $2.99, down from $200!” So anytime I was able to share my inside knowledge of the retail industry …
I knew that I needed a really big coffee table and while they do exist on the market, the ones that I loved were in the thousands. Then I figured that if I were going to spend a chunk of …