From San Diego to Chicagoland Hello and welcome to our new home! It is hard to believe but it has been almost two years since we moved from San Diego to Chicagoland, after 2 moves in 18 months and a full year in our new home, life finally feels settled again and I can give you a home …
From Complete Disaster To Awesome Laundry Room
How A Facelift Transformed Our Dysfunctional Laundry Room Into An Awesome Mudroom/Laundry Room Combo If you have been following the blog for some time, you know I have lived with a tight, walk-through laundry room in every home we lived in the last 16 years. Our laundry rooms were either tight …
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Tips To Perfectly Style Your Cart
As the weather starts to warm up and we all begin to venture out of hibernation, it’s time to start thinking about entertaining guests again. And what better way to prepare for guests than by stocking and styling a bar cart in your home? Bar carts are so wonderful because they can be personalized …
Organizing A Small Bathroom Packed With Function
How We Decorated & Organized Our Small Guest Bathroom My good friend and mentor, Geralin Thomas, always says: if you're going to start an organizing project, start with the fridge! Organizing a small space will give you a quick sense of accomplishment and energize you to tackle what's next. …
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Creating An Interior Color Scheme For Our New Home
Pottery Barn Colors Inspired Color Palette It's no secret that I love Pottery Barn! Their laidback style has in fact been a source of inspiration for me for over a decade, and the colors, rustic materials used on both their furnishing and home decor resonates a lot with my Brazilian roots. For …
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Our New Home – Choosing Exterior Colors & A Checklist
Selecting Exterior Colors For Our New Home One of the most difficult -but also exciting- parts of the renovation process of our new home was choosing exterior colors we'd use since our house has two completely different "faces". In the front, we have lots of red brick with two small areas of …
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