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Ashley’s Design Dilemma
Time to tackle another room submitted by a reader, this time from a former-Virginian named Ashley. Now living a stone’s throw away from us in Maryland, Ashley submitted the following question along with her own first stab at a mood board:
I need help with my dining room. I’ve tried to put together a [...]
Crafty McCrafterson
We’ve virtually pillaged the world wide web to bring all of you clever people a fun- and hopefully inspiring- bevy of doable DIY ideas.
This first one totally makes my day. It’s actually a lamp offered up for 145 beans at Shades of Light, but I love the I-can-make-that feeling that it immediately sparked.
Why not buy [...]
Bracketeering
As March Madness follows us into April, we thought we’d offer up a way for all you non-basketball fans (like us) to get in on all this bracket business. It’s a little book called The Englightened Bracketologist: The Final Four of Everything. It’s fun. It’s yellow. And we find it’s [...]
Initial Reaction
Ok, I’ve rambled about monograms and personalized initials once before, but this time they hit closer to home. As in we actually brought a few into ours. Other than the makeshift monogram above our bed and a few P’s here and there, we’ve never actually introduced our first initials to Chez Petersik. Until now. [...]
Hue Knew?
While celebrating Easter in Northern Virginia, my parents dropped a copy of The Washington Post in my lap that featured a BIG collection of articles on the blog world’s recent love affair with paint color. Blogs? Paint? Yes please.
The lead article focuses on two colorful blogs. (And no, This Young House wasn’t [...]
