Fiddle Leaf Fig – Care Guide
Fiddle leaf figs are equally beloved and notorious in the houseplant world. When they’re big & healthy, a fiddle can make a room. We’ve all…
Decorating and DIY Project Journal
Older decorating tutorials, paint projects, furniture ideas, and house updates from the Objectales archive.
How To Build Pantry Shelves
These DIY pantry shelves we made for our beach house are easy to built and can be customized to any space, even if you’ve got a small pantr…
Blue Calcite: Crystal Meaning & Properties
Blue Calcite is a rare version of an otherwise common mineral – and it’s one of my favorites to collect! Calcite is found all around the wo…
How To Fit A King-Size Bed Into A Small Bedroom
This is a meandering journey of a post, so make yourself comfortable. We mentioned in this side table post that we traded our queen-size be…
The Best Grout – And How To Pick The Right Color
If you’ve got a tiling project in your future, remember, bookmark, voice memo, tattoo, or do whatever you need to do to remember Mapei Flex…
How To Protect Plants From Freezing
Last month’s arctic blast brought surprisingly frigid temperatures to Florida. We had three consecutive nights with temperatures in the low…
5 Ways To Prevent Frozen Pipes
We thought frozen pipes were a worry we’d left behind by moving to Florida, but last month’s arctic blast sent our temperatures plummeting …
The Rooms We Don’t Miss After Downsizing
the studio’s post a few months ago about what furniture & decor we still own after downsizing was the first time I’d looked back at photos …
Ikea Besta Hack: Turn Them Into Built-Ins
Want to turn Ikea Besta cabinets into custom built-ins? We made 3 simple “hacks” to make our Betas look like higher-end custom storage with…
Are Robot Vacuums Worth It?
We owned a Roomba robot vacuum almost a decade ago because it sounded so good in theory. But in reality, we had SO MANY ISSUES with it. It …
2022 Holiday Gift Guides
Did Christmas come early this year? Nope! But our annual gift guides did (by a smidge, at least). So, without further ado… let’s dive into …
Adding Outdoor Storage
I’ll start this post with a confession: I resented our kitchen porch when we finished it last fall. Resent is a strong and, admittedly, str…