Right now, the best playrooms are borrowing a page from good design. Parents are tired of the all-or-nothing cycle, where the room is either photo ready or a full toy explosion, and designers have noticed. The new thinking treats...
Imagine walking into a friend’s home on a bright Saturday morning. Sunlight pours through the windows, the smell of coffee drifts from the kitchen, and the first thing that catches your eye is the wall in the hallway. It...
You know the feeling. You walk down the basement stairs and the air turns cool and a little damp. One bare bulb throws weak light on bare walls, the ceiling hangs low over your head, and the whole place...
I’ll be honest, I used to think art deco was not for real bedrooms. In my head it belonged to old black and white movies, fancy hotel lobbies, and those gold heavy rooms in magazines that nobody actually sleeps...
I have a confession. For years the corner of my living room was basically a black hole. You know the kind. The couch ends, the wall turns, and everything after that just fades into gloom. I bought a floor...
Your rental bathroom does not have to feel like a hotel you are just passing through. Every idea below comes off clean when you move out, and each one takes an afternoon or less. 1. Patterned Peel-and-Stick Floor Tiles...
Come on in. I am so glad you are here, because today I am giving you a personal tour of a small apartment living room packed with twenty one ideas that bring big style to a small footprint. You...
You can spot a rental living room in about three seconds. The walls are that flat builder white, the overhead light is one sad bulb, and all the furniture hugs the edges of the room like it is afraid...
The first time I painted a wall a real color, I was twenty three and renting a tiny apartment with white walls that made me feel like I lived inside a doctor’s office. I bought a gallon of the...
I have a confession to make. I cannot walk past a thrift store without going in. Just for a quick look, I tell myself. And then somehow I walk out with a wobbly chair under one arm and a...