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New year resolutions for my home

December 28, 2020
Thank goodness 2020 is done. It’s been so odd from all the fires to the pandemic, and just normal everyday things seemed less… normal. Have you made any resolutions? Do any of those resolutions involve home decorating? I’m not a resolution person per se (I normally say I’m resolute on no resolutions.) Yet, I’m yearning...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

Curtain on the cheap – and no sewing at all!

November 13, 2020
My bathroom is lovely.  A huge walk-in glass-encased shower. Double sinks. Plenty of space.  I never had such a beautiful master bathroom and simply began to enjoy the space since we bought the house. But even in the beginning, the bathroom had two issues: The very large master closet door is in the bathroom, not...Read More

Greige is the enemy. Color is king.

June 28, 2018
In the search for our home, we visited many, many houses.  Different styles, different floor plans. Yet one thing made them common: greige, that color palette that is part grey and part beige. (I question using the word color or palette here, as it is neither.) It was EVERYWHERE. The walls, the counters, the backsplashes...Read More