Archive for April, 2008
Izabela’s Design Dilemma
Our latest decorating connundrum involves Izabela’s almost-there bedroom. And we’d be happy to add a few finishing touches to close the book on her master bedroom makeover.
I’ve been admiring your sense of style and hope that you can help me with our master bedroom. We recently updated it with furniture and lamps. The original lamps [...]
Glass Act
Spring is in full swing as demonstrated by our blooming azaleas and my allergy flare ups. So it seemed only fitting to treat a few side tables in our sunroom to a quick spring makeover. Here’s one of the side tables before:
And here’s the more cheerful and spring-like after. We found that sea fan on [...]
This Young Yard Sale
Just as planned, we held our very first yard sale this weekend. It was lots of work, but it was also a total success. We got rid of everything and made exactly $425 in the process. Cha-ching. (This is the part where I don’t think about how much we probably paid [...]
Walk The Line
We wanted to elaborate on our response to a question Alyssa asked on Wednesday about the framed map in the photo below:
What you see in the white frame on that shelf is a card included in the City Walks: New York boxed set. For those those not familiar with the City Walks series, they’re small [...]
The Stain Game
This post will serve two purposes. The first is to whine a little bit, but the second is to hopefully teach you how to do something that we just couldn’t pull off due to the extremely thorough nature of our house’s previous owner.
Long story short, we decided to attempt to refinish the floor in our [...]
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