Sometimes, you just gotta get the hell out of Dodge. With the new house and all, Andrew and I didn’t take a real vacation last year. But we soon discovered that no matter how much we love our home, it still has the power to induce stifling cabin fever. So in the spirit of “absence […]
I’m at a loss. I really don’t know how things got to this point. I mean, this might warrant an intervention. What’s the crisis, you ask?
Ideas have been simmering in my head for awhile, and I’ve finally put together all the pieces. They’re visual associations I’ve made from things I’ve observed over the past few months. Think of them as random musings to kick off the new year.
I hope y’all enjoyed your Thanksgiving! While Andrew stayed back in Virginia nursing a throbbing tooth ache and downing painkillers, I went ahead and spent the holiday at my mom’s lovely home in Pennsylvania. She has a sofa in her formal living room that my DIY-loving dad reupholstered himself in fine wale corduroy almost forty years […]
With the Thanksgiving food fest fast approaching, I’ve been thinking about how life, for better or worse, is often feast or famine. Like, take my job. My projects were in a lull for the past few months, but now, I’m crunching on two deadlines. Joy…
Whew, I am tired. I don’t often utter those words but I am feeling it. It’s actually my brain as opposed to my body. Maybe it’s because the election was so emotionally draining or the end of daylight saving time threw my internal clock for a loop. At any rate, here’s my big confession…
In my previous post, you got an eyeful of the artwork in our main living area. Well, now, come hither into our master bedroom…
The photos of our townhouse in my post back in July were sadly devoid of any artwork on the walls. Since art is deeply personal and integral to the design as well as the look-and-feel of a space, I invite you to check out our progress on the decorating front…
By now, you have probably heard about the late Dr. Albert C. Barnes and his multi-billion-dollar art collection that was, up until a few months ago, housed in a mansion in the Philly suburb of Merion. The eccentric Doctor filled the walls with works by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse…
My favorite blog Design*Sponge does a weekly feature called “Living In…” They take a film like The Talented Mr. Ripley or Lost In Translation and cleverly select accessories, clothes and furnishings that evoke its style, mood and location. Several months ago they did a post about the movie Pollock, and I was thinking I could […]