The next Spare Room series space is a home office. For us, a home office is a space to work, it provides ample overflow storage, and also serves as a creative space for me and my DIY supplies. I wanted to make this home office design a light and bright space that provides a pleasant [...]
In an effort to create more e-design projects, I am starting a second blog series based around a "star of the show." The plan is to take a design piece or material that is typically difficult to visualize how it would work in a space, and then design around it. I am excited to get [...]
As a way of checking in, catching you up on what's going on around here, and generally just saying hello, I am using posts on Sundays as a catch all. Time seems to be flying by lately and Sunday is a good day to pause and get you up to speed. So here's the first [...]
The first Spare Room design is here! It was so much fun to dream up a design for a nursery and get this blog series off to a great start. I have so many sweet girls in my life now between my friends' babies, soon-to-be mom's having babies, nieces, etc. With so many young [...]
This week I am starting a new mini series focusing on the idea of the ‘spare room’. Living in a two-bedroom apartment made me think that the purpose of this ‘spare room’ (the second bedroom) is different for so many people. So I am turning this idea into a design challenge and creating design boards, [...]
The start of November seems to instantly become Christmas season. Even as a kid I had a weird aversion to this, writing letters to the local paper and stating the woes of the forgotten holiday that is Thanksgiving. So while everyone else is sharing their Christmas decor and holiday spirit, I gathered some of [...]
Here's the fun part! A mood board is the first look at everything together and always helps to bring the ideas to life. I pulled the deep neutrals and natural tones from some of our inspiration spaces and I love how its starting to come together. Since the walls have so much white space, the [...]
