Luxury Blue Bedroom Ideas: What I Learned Going Dark and Moody (Then Pulling It Back a Little) I painted my bedroom navy blue on a whim after seeing one gorgeous hotel room photo online, and by the time I finished the second coat, the room felt more like a cave than the calming, luxurious retreat…
Modern Bathroom Design: What I Learned Planning a Renovation From the Studs Up Halfway through gutting my old bathroom, my contractor called me over to look at something in the wall. Turns out my “simple” plan to move the vanity to the opposite wall meant rerouting plumbing that was way more involved than either of…
Small Modern Living Room Ideas: What Actually Worked in My 250-Square-Foot Apartment When I moved into my first apartment, the living room was so small that my couch touched two walls at once. I remember standing in the middle of it thinking there was no way to make this feel like an actual room instead…
Floral Mirror Decor: What I Learned Turning a Plain Mirror Into the Prettiest Thing in the Room I bought a plain round mirror for my entryway a couple of years ago, hung it up, and immediately thought it looked… fine. Just fine. Not bad, not interesting, just a mirror doing mirror things. A few months…
Modern Wardrobe Design: What I Learned After Getting Mine Completely Wrong the First Time When I built my first “custom” wardrobe, I designed the whole thing around how it would look in photos. Clean white doors, a sleek handle-less design, minimal shelving. It looked amazing for about two weeks, right up until I actually tried…
Modern Living Room Ideas: What I Learned After Rearranging Mine About Five Times I used to think furniture shopping was the hard part of decorating a living room. Turns out, the hard part is everything that happens after you get the furniture home. I bought a beautiful sectional couch, dragged it into what I thought…
Luxury Makeup Vanity Ideas: What I Learned Building One That Actually Works For years I did my makeup sitting cross-legged on my bedroom floor with a hand mirror propped against a water bottle, squinting under whatever overhead light I had. It worked, technically, but I’d constantly walk outside afterward and realize my blush was uneven…
Luxury Modern Bathroom Ideas: What I Learned Turning a Basic Bathroom Into a Five-Star One Two years ago I stayed at a boutique hotel for a friend’s wedding, and their bathroom genuinely stopped me in my tracks. Freestanding tub, rainfall showerhead, warm brass fixtures, and lighting that made even my tired, jet-lagged face look decent….
White Bathroom Decor: What I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Redid Mine I still remember standing in my bathroom at 11pm with a paint roller in one hand and a mug of cold tea in the other, wondering why my “clean, spa-like white bathroom” looked more like a hospital hallway. That was three years…
Modern Marble Kitchen: What Nobody Tells You Before You Commit Six days. That’s how long my brand new marble island stayed perfect before I set down a glass of red wine while chopping tomatoes for pasta sauce, got distracted by my phone, and came back to a faint ring etched right into the surface. I…