Today I’m sharing a recent design board I put together for a client hoping to make her living room a comfortable space for her family of 5 (including three rambunctious little boys), but also with a slightly formal feel to encourage more hang out in other parts of the house. She requested blues and greens […]

Today I’m sharing a recent design board I put together for a client hoping to make her living room a comfortable space for her family of 5 (including three rambunctious little boys), but also with a slightly formal feel to encourage more hang out in other parts of the house. She requested blues and greens […]

Happy Tuesday!  I sort of wish it was Friday with a jam-packed week ahead, but alas it is just Tuesday.  But Tuesdays are good for one thing around here: it’s the day I share a design I’m working on or some of my favorite design elements. I recently wrapped up this living room e-design.  This […]

A rug is kind of a big commitment.  They’re usually pricy, and they’re a huge focal point in a room.  When buying a rug, there’s a lot to consider: color, pile, size, pattern, material, shape, and the list goes on.  When I was selecting a rug for the living room, I went around and around […]

Now that the living room is complete, I’m getting nitty gritty with the details.  Let’s talk club chairs, shall we?  Yep, these club chairs: As you may recall, I found these gorgeous mid-century club chairs at a thrift store called DI.  They were dirty and smelled of cigarette smoke.  And they had stains and the stitching […]

There are many ways you can fill a room.  Anyone can fill it up with furniture, a piece of art or two, and call it good.  But when you go the extra mile and really think about the details and how each one flows with the rest, it takes your room from average to amazing. […]

When we first started discussing plans to renovate our living room, it didn’t seem like a major project.  Right before we moved in, we did quite a bit of work (remember what it looked like on the day we closed?).  We had already replaced the carpeting, replaced the light fixtures and fan, torn out the […]

It’s embarrassing, really.  It’s the first room people see when they enter our home, and essentially since we moved in, it’s been either completely empty, or had a hodgepodge collection of furniture in it.  Our living room isn’t at all suitable for hosting guests, but it’s been one of the lower priorities, as it’s not […]

Sometimes when I see a piece of old furniture, I turn into Cher.  Not that Cher.  The Cher from my favorite Jr. High School movie, Clueless, who looked around  and saw sweet, poor, fashion victims– or shall we say “ensembly challenged.”  Except my victims are sofas or vintage chairs and instead of giving them new […]