How to stop chasing decorating fads by incorporating these classic interior design trends to create a home that never goes out of style. Maybe I can blame it on the fact that I’m in my mid-30s or that our current house makes me lean more traditionally, but for the past several years, my style slowly…
How to clean a couch with fabric in 7 steps + a DIY sofa cleaning solution to make upholstery bright and fresh. Cleaning a couch is right up there on the chores list of things I dread alongside cleaning the oven, scrubbing the shower, and mopping floors all rolled up into one. It’s a workout!…
A before and after home tour of our brick colonial house 5 years after moving in with recaps of countless DIY home improvement projects and decorating tutorials. It’s so hard to believe that 5 years have already passed since we moved into this house! And yet it feels like so much longer than that at…
This post is sponsored by ProCore Floors. A corner breakfast nook and kitchen refresh reveal using herringbone LVP flooring to transform the space on a budget. I woke up today feeling like it’s Christmas! The reveal of our corner breakfast nook and kitchen before and after is finally here! Considering this was a no demo…
How we packed our playroom with tons of toy storage and seating flexibility, plus 30 of the most stylish Amazon storage furniture pieces for all over the house. Our playroom has been holding out on a little secret, and ever since its quickie update last fall, I don’t think I’ve ever actually shown all of…
30 ways for how to make your house look expensive and intentional without costing you the high end designer bucks. I blame TikTok for this post. (By the way, I feel really old over there, but I digress.) The other night, the house was feeling all cozy and cute with our lamps turned on and…
13 simple Christmas bedroom decor ideas to add to primary bedrooms, guest bedrooms, and kids rooms for cozy winter style. I think this might be the first time in four years I’ve busted out any Christmas bedroom decor. To be fair, after that first year of decorating our bedroom for Christmas after moving in, we…
A quick and simple Thanksgiving table decor setup that’s easy to recreate in 10 minutes using stems cut from the backyard, produce, and basic dinnerware. I’m over here setting up Thanksgiving table decor while the rest of the world has moved on to Christmas apparently, but I couldn’t resist having one more cozy fall moment….
A brutally honest, unbiased review of the York Pottery Barn Sofa and what you should know before you purchase one. We’ve been living with our two Pottery Barn sofas for nearly 2 MONTHS, so I’m finally showing and sharing all of the nitty gritty details about them! I avoided showing these sofas since they arrived…
30 of the best things to see and do with kids of all ages in Chimney Rock and Lake Lure, North Carolina. It’s been nearly two months since our last trip to Chimney Rock and Lake Lure, and now that the kids are back in school and I can reflect on our summer, I thought…
A round-up of 30 of the most common items to buy while thrift shopping that can be transformed into home decor using a few simple changes. After a decade of scouring thrift stores for home decor and furniture, I’ve noticed a trend in the typical common staples, the other-man’s-junk-taken-for-granted kind. In the beginning of my…
All the best things to eat, see, and do in Charlotte, North Carolina for family outings, date nights, and day trips from a local. There’s a slight possibility I will be raked over the coals for this blog post by other Charlotte locals, but I’ll come out and say it. The Charlotte area is the…
To appreciate where you are, look back at how far you’ve come. I totally 100% believe that in this house, as a person, in marriage, as a parent, in life… It’s why every year in April since we moved into this house in 2017 that I share a before and progress home tour. (Because let’s…
8 steps to transition your decorating style from farmhouse (or any other trend) to a new decorating style without breaking the budget. This blog post title definitely needs to be qualified first with this statement: You do not need anyone’s permission to be anything other than yourself in your home. Do not ever apologize for…
A thrifty Christmas wall decor idea to repurpose a secondhand sheet music book to create an inexpensive sheet music art gallery wall for $1. Today seems like a good day for a thrift store decorating Christmas wall decor project, don’t ya think? The virus-that-shall-not-be-named has really cramped my thrifting abilities this year, and I’ve missed…
A classic Christmas home tour with a modern edge for the 2020 Jennifer Rizzo Holiday Housewalk featuring 30 bloggers’ styled homes. Help yourself to some hot cocoa and come on in because it’s Holiday Housewalk day! If you’re new around these parts or haven’t hung around the “blogosphere” that often, each year the talented Jennifer…
Thank you Bassett Furniture for providing furniture to sponsor this post. All opinions are 100% my own. Today is THE DAY, y’all! If you haven’t been following along on the McNay project, a few weeks ago, Robert and I got the itch to give our neighbors’ living room a facelift. King and Heather are two…
Our attic clean-out makeover and how we store our seasonal decor + free printable seasonal storage bin labels for Christmas, spring, summer, and fall. We’re a mixed bag around here. One minute we’re celebrating “pretty” room makeovers, and the next we’re up to our elbows in 60 year old dust, digging through our dirty attic…
A plain, dated master bedroom gets a modern vintage makeover with moody black paint, modern textures, vintage style furniture, and budget DIY projects. It’s finally DONE! Our “moody modern vintage” master bedroom finally came together after almost 3 years of trial and error and I finally feel like it clicks. By the way, total PSA:…
How a small, oddly laid out breakfast nook entryway got a makeover to maximize on storage, function, traffic flow, and modern style. Third time’s the charm, right? That’s our take on this breakfast nook. I swear, we’re done. Finished! To be fair, this space is small with chaotic traffic flow and has to handle a…
