Missoni At Target – What We Got
We get asked pretty frequently about where we find inspiration. The short answer: everywhere. Other blogs, design mags, real life, family a…
Decorating and DIY Project Journal
Older decorating tutorials, paint projects, furniture ideas, and house updates from the Objectales archive.
Restocking Our Fridge For Less
As many of you know, hurricane Irene was a total jerk to our neck of the woods. Not only did it knock trees into nearby homes, cars, poles,…
The House My Parents Downsized To
I don’t usually write these House Crashing posts, but this home in particular is very special to me. Well, at least it will be over time – …
Chihuahua’s First Teeth Cleaning
Burger had his first dentist appointment today. We had to leave him there all day since the “procedure” required putting him under. I guess…
Upgrading An Old Chandelier With Paint & A New Shade
Alternate punny post title: The Updated Light Fixture Blues. That’s right, we’ve got the blues, but we’re far from sad about our “new” ligh…
Small And Simple Bedroom Updates
We’d like to present our bedroom with the award for Most Often Tweaked. It just seems like time goes by and a few things get added to the m…
How To Make Faux Needlepoint Art
Last week my brother and his wife Ali came to visit us (well, mainly the kid, haha). They live up in NYC where John & I met and fell in lov…
Fab Freebie: Lowe-ded With Ideas
***This giveaway is no longer expecting entries – see who won below!*** Random.org once again spun its wonderful wheel of randomness and se…
Painting Our Office Moonshine by Benjamin Moore
We did it. Completely out of order. Yup, we finally decided what color to paint the office and went for it. Which would have been a lot eas…
Framing A Custom House Portrait
How do you like that sensationalized title? Haha. It’s like Star Magazine up in this joint. This is basically a post idea that John and I c…
Thrift Shopping In Delaware
Just as we did over Memorial Day, we used the long Labor Day weekend to squeeze in a few days at my parents’ beach house near Bethany Beach…
How To Make A Planked Wood Desk
So our built-in wall-to-wall desk already made some good progress this week with the painting and making-taller of our cabinets. But someth…