here’s my most recent before and after project. it started off with a coffee table in awful shape, but with nice lines. yikes! lots of work needed here. i got the foam from a garage sale and cut it to the size of the table. i pained the entire table a bright golden yellow to [...]

i’m so excited! i just got the notice from grace that the design*sponge at home book will be coming out september 15th….just in time for my birthday! you can pre-order the book here, which i’ll be doing shortly! if you don’t already know, my famous yellow floors will be featured in the book!

we recently got a new couch. we weren’t really in the market for a new couch, but we had some store credit that was about to expire if we didn’t use it. it was a substantial amount so we weren’t willing to let it go to waste. we had a very hard time finding something [...]

i’m excited to share this project with you today! it’s something that i’ve been working on for quite some time. 15 minutes here, 15 minutes there….and finally, it’s finished! my antler wall…. follow along as i attempt to show you how i created this project. (i apologize for the following dark photos taken in my [...]

i hear the question “how did you think of that?” a lot. or, “if i only had your eye for things.” i think sometimes people get too caught up in what something looks like now instead of looking at things for what they can be. so many times, the things i get the most compliments [...]

today’s photo of the day is a little different than usual. people have often asked me how i get my “blurry backgrounds” in my photos or, in this case, the geometric patterns. today i’ll fill you in a little. please know that i am not a professional photographer and i’m only sharing how i do [...]