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Even if you don’t have a formal entry or a space big enough to be considered and entry, every home should have a spot by the door that it just big enough to be functional and just small enough to keep…

Over a Domaine, writer Dana Covit tackles the topic of productivity and happiness in her blog post Here’s What a Perfect Workday for Your Brain Looks Like. It’s true that the they are not mutually exclusive ideas. When employees feel happy at…

Let’s face it, the only appliance we wanted to clean today was the blender. What beautiful weather we had today! Happiness and rejoicefullness. We’re also really happy today because it’s the last day of the Buzzfeed’s 10 Day Spring Clean…

We’re almost there people! Today is the 9th day of Buzzfeed’s 10 day Spring Clean Challenge. We’re tackling the refrigerator and what fun this is going to be. Yes, that is sarcasm dripping like a spilled 16 ounce can of…

I’m sharing some inspirational pictures of Designer Megan Tagliaferri‘s own home taken by Laure Joliet for the blog post Sea Change by Heather John Fogarty at C Home. I really like what she has to say about her approach to…

Did you clean today? I didn’t clean today. The Buzzfeed Spring Clean Challenge for Day 8 is to do the closets and I just wasn’t into it. Well, maybe I kind of cleaned the closet. I returned two pairs of…

It’s a fashion post! Makes sense because part of my design approach is to look at the way my clients dress themselves in order to help them dress their homes. It’s not a perfect method, but it has merit and…

We’re in the home stretch of the Buzzfeed 10 Day Spring Cleaning Challenge! Today is the window challenge and it was kind of a let down for me because it was raining in Chicago this morning. I was hoping to…

I think Buzzfeed Spring Cleaning Challenge is just messing with us today, but we can play along. This one could really be an all event if you attacked all the drawers in the house. Alice Mongkongllite for BuzzFeed One minute:…

Sometimes I just like to window shop the furniture sales on Craigslist. Here is what I found today. You should buy them so I won’t. Haha! I laugh but … yeah. I have too many projects that didn’t get finished…