Home Decor

your happy place

your happy place

My dog Teddy sitting in my happy place I always wonder if people have a favorite spot in their house? Their happy place. The spot that they go to to relax, re charge, or just enjoy talking with someone. It got me thinking about my happy place. I would say […]

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Patterns in a room

Patterns in a room

**The most recent home tour with many updates on patterns** One of the first things I was drawn to when deciding to rejuvenate my house was rooms with patterns. Mainly ones on fabrics. The easiest way to do this and most common I saw was on curtains, rugs, pillows, and upholstered […]

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Ikea EKTORP couch

Ikea EKTORP couch

  **Here is the most recent home tour with this sofa featured** I love my house, it is fresh, welcoming and unique. Not so much in the architecture but in the decorating. I like that a lot of the pieces I have in my home are mine alone. Even if […]

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Addicted to house TV shows

My name is Emily and I am addicted to house shows. Give me any DIY show, celebrity house tours, house hunters. I want it all. I don’t care about the story line, I care about the house, the projects the décor. I like to figure out the floor plans in […]

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amazing upside down house in Moscow

amazing upside down house in Moscow

This house is amazing, it is being displayed at the all VVTs- Russia exhibition center in Moscow. It is built with everything upside down. Including the car in the car port. It is so crazy to see the curtains laying the way they are. My brain kept having to reference […]

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green with envy… of this house

I came across this house. I really don’t know how I came to it. There was so many random twists and turns, new key words, clicking on one thing which led me to another. Anyhow I landed on this amazing exterior of a home. I want to live in it. […]

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Decorating, who is in charge?

Decorating, who is in charge?

I have always wondered how people feel in a relationship when one handles most of the decorating. Is it a collaborative effort, are their fights, does one just give in, does one go above the other?  I think each couple is obviously very different so I can only speak about myself […]

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Goodwill treasures

Goodwill treasures

I love the Goodwill, or Loves Inc, or any consignment second hand store. In between the piles of old shoes, stinky knee and elbow pads, permanently stained Tupperware you find some true gems. The housewares section is the biggest hit for me. One because it is something I gravitate towards […]

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first home you fell in love with

first home you fell in love with

I have to say, I kind of fell into this whole design thing out of necessity because I wanted a beautiful home for my family. With that being said looking back I do know I was a little odd in how I was interested in houses and decorating. When I […]

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