Posts Tagged ‘before and after’
One Room Challenge – Week 6: Manbrary Reveal
I’m so pleased and proud to announce that the Manbrary is now officially open for business. It was a close one, but thanks to more than a few exceptional vendors and partners, I finished on time to reveal it to you today! We made a HUGE leap forward from last week. My husband and I…
Read MoreOne Room Challenge – Week 5: The Final Sprint
Last time I took the One Room Challenge, back in the spring of this year, I had finished before the end of Week 5, and dedicated that week’s post to a “behind the scenes” of my photo shoot for the Week 6 reveal. I was done, in just about four weeks. This round looks a little…
Read MoreOne Room Challenge – Week 4: Injury to Insult
I had a long post planned for this week’s One Room Challenge update, but a nasty little virus visited me on Wednesday morning (and not a respiratory one…), and resigned me to the fetal position for the vast majority of the day. I’m almost horizontal as I write this, while I have a brief break in the…
Read MoreOne Room Challenge – Week 3: A Boring Color Goes Bold
Welcome to ORC Week 3! If you have no idea what I’m talking about, you are welcome to get up to speed by checking out my Week 1 and Week 2 posts. Well, “real” stuff is finally happening in the Manbrary. We got the room fully cleared out over the weekend, and for one all-too-brief morning,…
Read MoreOne Room Challenge – Week 2: What is a Manbrary?
Although but a week has passed since the One Room Challenge, the brainchild of Linda at Calling it Home, began, it’s like three years in ORC time. In all seriousness, though, we are now at the week 2 mark – a full 1/3rd of the way through this thing. Wait…whaaaat? Last week I shared some pretty iffy…
Read MoreOne Room Challenge – Week 1: Let’s Go!
Aaaaand we’re back! It’s kind of sad that I haven’t blogged much – OK, only ONCE, since the last One Room Challenge. I could go on about how I’m so busy with client work and family stuff, but let’s just get down to business, shall we? For the uninitiated, the One Room Challenge was founded…
Read MoreOne Room Challenge – Week 1
I’m participating in the “One Room Challenge,” which is again taking the design blog world by storm this spring (thanks to founder and hostess-with-the-mostest, Linda at Calling it Home). Basically, between today and six weeks from now (Thursday, May 7), I, along with loads of other bloggers, will be transforming a space in my own…
Read MoreStart-Up Spotlight: Stylevise (plus, an exclusive trial offer!)
One of the neatest things about being “this age” (36, ahem…) is that so many friends and former colleagues seem to be pursuing their entrepreneurial dreams – and totally killing it. It’s especially cool when an old college friend and suitemate starts a new business that has created an opportunity for our paths to cross once again nearly…
Read MoreBefore + After: Lightened-Up Tudor Reveal!
I am really excited to share with you a project very near and dear to my heart. It is so special to me because it gets to the heart of why I became a decorator in the first place. In fact, it’s the home of the person who inspired me to pursue interior design. Several years…
Read MoreBefore + After: Window Treatment Transformations at Home
I almost hesitate to write this post, because the previous owners of our home (and their interior designer) did such a lovely job of decorating and maintaining it, before we took over stewardship of this 1896 Victorian Colonial Revival home last year. The “before” pictures you see here – from the MLS listing – are…
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