I love art and I adore having it throughout our home. Since I get a rush admiring wall decor, I want to revisit the pieces I selected for my master bedroom makeover and also share a few that I aaaaalmost hung up. Anyone on the hunt for moody, minimal, unique, quirky, simple, beautiful, or however-you-interpret-it artwork? I got it.
Read MoreIf you follow along on Instagram, you know I debated getting the Dyson V8 during Amazon's Prime Day last week. I asked for feedback and hundreds of followers said how much they looooove theirs! Well, you all are very persuasive, so I got it while on sale! As a true Monica Geller and fan of new cleaning products, I've been vacuuming all weekend. Because it comes at a big price tag (currently $419 on Amazon), many folks are asking me if it's worth the money, so here are my thoughts after many hours of using it. Plus, I’ll get into my love for the Roomba!
Read MoreI expanded my Shop The House pages on the blog with updated product links and photos to make it even easier to add my favorite products, art, and paint colors to your home! You can shop anytime, but I gathered everything in this post - just click on a room to shop!
Read MoreA collection of things I’ve been digging this week including a collection of female artists, going plastic free this month, a new HGTV show, what I got for my birthday, things that stopped me in my Instagram scroll, a Friends show trivia game, a moving house, and more!
Read MoreI've been hibernating since finishing my One Room Challenge makeover of my master bedroom and backyard space, but the event is still top of mind! The reveals of 20 featured designers and 243 guest participants went live a couple of weeks ago, but I want to keep the ORC party going. I have so much love for the guest participants, so I've looked through ALL of the room reveals and picked a collection of guest highlights for you to enjoy!
Read MoreI LOVE deals and I pretty much only buy things on sale, so with this weekend's holiday sales, I'm pretty pumped. Before you get too comfortable lounging in our summery weather, take a look at these retailers below!
Read MoreAs you probably know, I've been making weekly videos to show updates on each of the weeks of the One Room Challenge, so here's a recap of all of those videos with links to each blog post that has each and every detail included. Check out each of the five below!
Read MoreIT'S DONE!! I've officially completed my THIRD One Room Challenge and what a journey! The ORC has been such a big part of my home and blog - HALF of my house has been transformed through the design challenge. I'm so proud and grateful to participate! I mean, look at this new bedroom I get to sleep in, now!
Read MoreOMG it's week five of the One Room Challenge! The moment we've all been waiting for - the new exterior door was installed, and boy is it a beaut. We also built a deck this week (so I didn't fall to my death out the new door) and painted the room in the prettiest hues.
Read MoreI can't believe I'm saying these words, but I have an episode on Home Love Network's new show! GASP! I've been in love with Candis and Andy Meredith for ages now - you might know them as Old Home Love. For years, they've been fixing up old houses in the best possible way, they wrote a book that I treasure, they had an HGTV show before creating their own network, and they are just all around great humans. When they reached out to film at my house I had a mild panic attack from the sheer excitement of it.
Read MoreGuess what! I've decided to do a One and a Half Room Challenge with outdoor seating! The new back door will give access to the outdoors, which is such a great way to expand the size of our master. The problem is, our backyard isn't so great.
Read MoreWelcome to a new series: Report Card. I'm going through (nearly) everything in a space and telling you how it's actually held up. The backyard's first up, and spoiler, I did not ace this one.
The plants finally filled in, the veggie beds are in the wrong spot, and I've learned that the yard you design and the yard your kids actually use are two very different things.
Hi. It's been a while. I've missed this. I took a longer break than I planned. Life has gotten full. I've been developing film and knitting at soccer practice, attempting to garden with the girls and fussing around with furniture layouts. I’ve also been scheduling summer camps, refilling the watercolors multiple times a day, and trying to keep the toys tidied. Around the house, I’m adding color wherever it fits and making some changes to the overall function and feel.
My friend Martha had a vision for this garage conversion: to turn her unfinished catch-all garage into a beautiful, hard-working space that could function as a living room, media room, playroom, laundry room, home office, and storage zone. I’ll be honest, I wasn’t entirely convinced all of that could fit. But somehow(?!), it absolutely does and it turned out even better than I imagined.
Ashley’s restoring her historic home at a snail’s pace in California. She shares home improvement DIYs, tips for sustainable living, and renovation stories - all while aiming to add more color and present real, lived-in, family friendly spaces.
I'm Ashley, a deeply systematic homebody restoring my 1915 Craftsman bungalow in California, slowly and on purpose. I don't make a single decision without first opening 100 tabs. Renovation, DIY, color, and what it actually looks like to live in an old house with two young kids.
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My daughter wanted to dress as Little Witch Hazel for Halloween, so I got to work crafting a sweater that looks just like the one worn on the cover. What’s great is it’s a super fast knit on chunky needles! I’m not a pro knitter but I finished this in about a week while watching TV after my girls went to bed and at the playground a few times.