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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 [...]


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 [...]


Top Shelf

We asked. You voted. We listened.
I’m talking about the ballot we put out a couple of weeks ago to elect a new color for our blah bookcase.

While there was support for all three subtle color options, as well as a few new hues thrown into the mix, we let majority rule. Here’s the [...]


Another Dirty Little Secret

We’ve been sneaky. No, not living-a-double-life sneaky… secret-vacation sneaky. That’s right. John and I quietly slipped away to a tiny series of islands off the west coast of Florida and have spent the past seven days swimming in the Gulf of Mexico, eating boatloads of seafood, blogging from the beach, and working on our tans [...]