Tips & Advice

This is a collaborative post. All opinions are my own. Ben and I were reflecting the other day on how we lived in a small, short-ceilinged basement apartment for FOUR years in Edmonds. In hindsight, I'm not sure how we did it; but at the time, our home didn't actually feel that tiny. I think it's because we made a lot of good design choices that made our small space […]

This is a collaborative post. All opinions are my own. I have a friend who recently got into home staging, and I've been having fun talking to her about her business. It's got me thinking about how staging a home to sell is very different from decorating it to live in. Staging is not about your own personal style--it's allll about making your home appear cleaner, grander, more spacious, and […]

This is a collaborative post. All opinions are my own. In our family, all of our major gifting occasions are crammed into a few months. April is Emmett's birthday, May is my birthday and Mother's Day, June is Ben's birthday, Father's Day, and Ian's birthday, and July is our anniversary. If we went all out trying to buy the perfect gift for every one of those days, we'd spend a […]

I'm on the Bali blog today, talking about the differences between window blinds and window shades. These are two of the most popular types of window treatments, and they're both great choices. But it can be hard to decide which one is right for your house. Is it just up to personal preference, or are there times when one makes more sense than the other? Can you mix blinds and […]