• Ikea Shopping

    A week ago, I made myself a cup of coffee, sat down to read through my blog roll and opened up my computer to this: The geniuses at Apple confirmed just what I had suspected….HARD DRIVE FAILURE!  Lucky for me, I’m extra cautious and had everything backed up on an external hard drive (I store this in a fire/water proof…

  • Everything Old Is New Again

    On Monday, Tessa featured Thom Filicia’s old lake house in upstate NY. Throughout the place he had amazing wood paneling that gave such great character to each room. Do you feel like you’re going crazy right now? Wood paneling cool?? Yup, it’s back and it’s big. One of my Sunday night rituals is to look online at my favorite stores…

  • Practicing What We Preach: Bookshelf Styling

    For Throwback Thursday, thought I’d republish this post that revealed my styled bookshelves. We get asked a LOT about restyling of shelves so thought a little inspiration for a summer project was in order. You can also see the before and afters of my built-ins project here. … It’s all well and good to give advice, but the most important…