Having the right spacing and height for your kitchen lighting is as important as the style of lighting that you choose. Ever since finishing up our kitchen remodel, I've gotten questions almost weekly about hanging pendant lights over a kitchen island, including the best pendant light height and how far apart to hang them. I decided to put together a quick post sharing the spacing of our kitchen island pendants and tips for getting it right in your own home. I've also gathered together some of ...
Height & Spacing of Pendant Lights Over a Kitchen Island: My Must-Have Tips!
My Fall Front Porch, A Super Simple Fall Decorating Idea, & My Serena & Lily Sale Favorites!
As we slide on into October, I'm in the middle of 101 little projects both big (doing the final sourcing for our master bathroom addition that starts next week!) and small (repainting my girls' little craft room, choosing beds and mattresses for our new house in NC, etc.). In the midst of it all, I've been doing a little bit of fall decorating that I wanted to share with you for my latest "View It, Do It, You It!" post. It includes a look at my fall front porch ("View It"), a super simple fall ...
How to Arrange Pillows on a Queen Bed: Five Simple Formulas That Work!
Styling and decorating comes naturally for some but for most people, it really doesn't. I definitely don't consider myself a "natural" - if you saw what my house looked like 15 years ago, I promise that you'd agree :). It's only through years of trial and error that I've developed a style that's truly "me" and can make design decisions with confidence. When I was newly married and started trying to decorate our home, I remember being frustrated that decorating advice was vague and really not ...
My Favorite Inexpensive Beds (That Don’t Look Cheap!)
A few weeks back we spent our first weekend in our new home in North Carolina (more on that {here} if you missed it!) with nothing but blow-up mattresses and four papasan-style dorm chairs for furniture. Furnishing this house is a little bit tricky because we need to get a few furniture basics so we can stay there comfortably, but we don’t want to spend much since we’ll eventually be moving most of the furniture from our current home down there. The most pressing issue right now is beds and ...
Our Hallmark Wood Floors: My One Year Later Review!
It's been a little over a year now since we remodeled our kitchen (you can check out my kitchen reveal {here} if you missed it) and I can't tell you how many questions I've gotten about the new Hallmark wood flooring that we installed as part of our remodel. I've absolutely loved the look of it since day one but didn't feel like I could give an opinion about much else having to do with our floors until I had lived with them for a while and put them to the test. Now that we're a year out, I'm ...
The Quick & Easy DIY That Made Our Laundry Room The Cutest Room in the House!
I'm definitely not a big fan of doing laundry and I don't think that anything's ever going to change that but I figured that if I made our laundry room a little more bright and cheery, it would be a start! I decided to add some super cute tangerine decals to the walls and I'm so glad I did! They were SO easy (and actually kind of fun) to apply and if the day comes that I tire of them, they can be removed by just peeling them off without any wall damage. Today I'm sharing some pics of our ...
