I have always loved walking around Ikea looking at the kitchen section. Strangely, my favorite part is the Ikea pantry area—looking at all those pantry cabinets and storage is so much fun to me…nerd alert. 🙂 When it was time for us to put our own freestanding pantry in, we turned to Ikea. Rather than…
Organizing
Our Laundry Room Makeover Reveal!
YOU GUYS! It’s here!! The big reveal!! I am SO PUMPED. Honestly, I can not believe how quickly the last five weeks has flown by. Between THREE out of state trip and two sinus infections I wasn’t sure I would make it, but—it happened! 🙂
Spring Cleaning Tips – my FREE E-course!
If you’re anything like me, you’ve been bitten by the Spring Cleaning bug in a major way. I know a lot of people consider the New Year to be the season of big change and new beginnings, but in a way Spring seems more of a fresh start to me. I start searching for Spring…
How to Delete All Your E-mails in Under 30 Minutes
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #UnrollMeNow #CollectiveBias You guys. I have the coolest thing ever to share! I’m super excited because I’m assuming at least half of you type B-ish people like myself are secretly suffering from inbox embarrassment. Yes, I too once had 70,000 unread…
Cleaning the Garage
I’ve got a confession to make. A few weeks ago, for the first time in five years (and two houses) I parked in my garage for the first time. Yup! That’s true. We’ve had two houses, both with two-car garages and we have never parked inside either. Why? A picture speaks a thousand words…and I…
How to Organize Craft Supplies
Even though I have the coolest studio room/library all to myself, there are times when I need my art supplies to be a little bit more portable. Whether I want to be hanging out with Scott in the living room or if I am meeting up friends for a fun art party, I’ve finally found a great…
Makeup & Jewelry Storage
Happy Monday! Did you all have a good weekend? I sure did! I turned 30 yesterday and we celebrated all weekend long! My parents threw me an amazing dinner party on Saturday and we had some friends over to our house for champagne and board games afterwards. I felt so loved and cared for! Since…
Our New Living Room
The living room is easily the most lived-in room in our house. I’d say second place is the kitchen, and since the kitchen is completely open to the living room as well, really the living room is by far the most visible space at Gray Gables (I keep forgetting I named our house!). Recently I…
DIY Fail Turned WIN!
You know, this dresser and I have been through a lot together. I still remember picking it out as a kid. I was so excited by it. I loved the color, the floral pastel pattern drawn on it, the vintage-looking knobs. And even when I brought it home last year and decided to paint it…
5 Ways to Get (& Keep) a Clean House Forever
I think there’s a false impression out there that our house is always pristine and perfect and clean, and that I love to spend hours dusting, organizing and folding laundry. I’ll tell you all a little secret—I hate cleaning just as much as most of you do. Sure, there’s something strangely satisfying about a clean…
