Yesterday dawned the first day of spring and, in addition to playing the yard all.day.long., we pulled out our Easter bins and prettied the house with all things bunnies and eggs! The entryway received a basket of white french tulips and the dogs donned their white double faced satin ribbons. In the foyer I simply… Read More
SEPTEMBER 2019: SEE AND UPDATED VERSION OF THE RENOVATED MUDROOM HERE The last owners of our house installed a laundry room upstairs, in addition to the one right off the kitchen. And while two laundry rooms sound awfully enticing on laundry Mondays, the allure of bags and jackets smartly organized in a mud room had… Read More
I gave a mini-tour of my parents home all decorated for the holidays and thought it would be fun to share pictures of what their pretty place looks like the other eleven months of the year. I adore the creeping fig trained on the rise of their front steps. I also adore their extremely manicured… Read More
I’ve had this ghastly chair lurking in the corner of my bedroom(s) for ten years. circa 2004 (there are so many tragic elements to this picture) circa 2008 And finally, at long last, I have had the darned thing recovered. It’s asinine that I spent just under 30% of my life fretting over picking a… Read More
Although I never actually pinned one myself, I’ve been seeing mason jar soap dispensers popping up all over Pinterest for ages now. So, when Sister and I came across two vintage blue mason jars in the Habersham Antique Market, we hastily snapped them up. (It’s a good thing there were TWO or a cat fight… Read More
(Updated 7/8/12) As y’all well know, we’ve been working on a few updates in the den (painted mirror, repaired fire place, hung oyster plates, un-hung oyster plates when my decorating demons took over, updated corbels on bar) and it’s finally all wrapped up! Just for kicks, here’s the before before. Loads of room for improvement,… Read More
On the first chilly day after moving into our house two and a half years ago, I bee-lined to the fireplace to turn it on. And nothing happened. Nice gas fireplace they touted on the MLS listing, huh? So, two winter’s later we finally got it all inspected and returned to working order. I did… Read More