I have re-located!  My long and arduous search for “the perfect apartment” was looking pretty grim but as we drove around after looking at yet another dirty, drab circa 1970 apartment we happened to see a sign hanging outside of a beautiful brick building advertising an apartment.  Complete with hardwood floors, tall ceilings and plenty [...]

The cool thing about being a SAHM (stay at home mom) is how many roles you get to play.

My current new role is interior decorator.

My project- a comfortable, semi-formal living room that incorporates entertaining space, and child-friendly features for a young family of four in a traditional 1917 arts and crafts home.

And since my client is me, it doesn’t [...]

Freyja loves having a yard. I love having a fence.

We’ve been in our new house for 3 weeks now and even thought we are all out of boxes it isn’t quite feeling like home yet. Everything about living in the county is so different from apartment city dwelling. I had to get used to Freyja [...]

I’m exploding with design ideas lately.  I think part of it is that I am looking forward to spending more time at home once little Peabody arrives and I have so many projects I want to do!  I’ve been getting very distracted by ideas like upholstering a headboard (like this one from Design Sponge), creating an office space [...]

This little watercolor my sisters brought back for me from Germany ages ago and I finally got it framed.

My addiction happens to be framing.  I adore getting pictures framed and I think it’s because I love color so much.  I stand there with a myriad of mat board choices in front of me.  Picking the right one makes even [...]

The valley in oil paints

Purple eggplants copied from a Gourmet magazine photo

I love color and right now the favorite seems to be orange, not just any orange but a wonderful tangerine color.  It’s perfect for spring.   So perfect in fact that I almost bought some tangerine colored peeps simply for the color.  Don’t ask me what I [...]

At the beginning of last year I was in the depths of depression touring apartment after depressing apartment, all victims of college kids and their famously bad taste.  So I sighed with relief when I found this place and realized I wouldn’t have to live in a place reminiscent of a state penitentiary. [...]

We don't have a headboard so this painting seconds as one.

Not much to say, I just like this nook.

This cabinet is huge. I found it at an antique store on the Eastern Shore. It was over 9ft tall when we bought it but we had to take it down to 9' so that [...]

When it was first built, in 1910.

 Our apartment search last fall led us up to Capitol Hill to see a promising place I’d found on Craigslist. The apartment owner never showed. So we drove down the street to look around the neighborhood. We soon stumbled upon a dark, mysterious brick building at the end of a [...]

This is the master bedroom. I wanted this duvet from Anthropologie so badly and it finally went on sale. The rug also is from Anthropologie and if I could oufit my whole house from there I would.

I have this thing for geishas; I guess I just like the bright colors they're dressed in. [...]

We are currently the owners of two houses, a rather unfortunate situation these days.  We look forward to and also dread the upcoming spring and summer because that means lovely weather, but it also means grass growing at the wrong house!  And grass needs watered and cut and weeds need pulled.  Oh man, I just [...]

…it’s interior design week!

We will each take a turn showing  you around the places we call home, and how we’ve made them our own. 

First up is my mom, Terri, who just moved into the house she and my dad built over the last year. After 15 years in an old Dutch Colonial, they now have some [...]