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What to do with your stuff?

March 12, 2021
If you are planning a spring cleaning, you’re going to find out something really quick: you have a lot of ‘stuff.’ We do a big clean-out at least twice a year and each time I wonder how we accumulated so much! Nonetheless, more stuff means more organization. And it also means letting go of some...Read More
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Thinking of painting your room?

January 11, 2021
That farmhouse greige is finally on the way out! More than a year ago, I was already complaining about this boring color. Back then (I suppose), the color made sense. We were out of our homes more, so it was nice to come home to some calming colors that looked a bit stark clean. But...Read More
Closet interior.

Planning the closet makeover

December 30, 2020
I always thought I had a pretty large home: four bedrooms, 2.5 baths, two ‘living room’ areas, a dining room, eat-in kitchen, and a large patio with a pool. (Yes, as I write this, I realize it IS a big house.) But when the pandemic made the family shelter-in-place a necessity, Matt and I soon...Read More
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Simple storage solutions when you have limited space

December 23, 2020
I’ve owned three homes: my grandparents’ foursquare built in the early 1900s, an 1853 Victorian row house in Albany, NY, and now our mid-century home in the San Francisco Bay area. I’ve loved each home for different reasons, but it seems they all have one thing in common: not enough storage space. It’s no wonder,...Read More
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