Good ole Pinterest, all the DIY blogs, the Google machine and home design magazines are “inadvertently” wooing and beckoning your gaze with their custom-built rustic chic furniture pieces. Is that a droplet of drool I spy, easing itself out of the corner of your jaw-dropped …

Part I – The Build? Crushed it. Part II – The Finish? Dominated. Now we’re ready for the finale: Part III – how to install this really friggin heavy piece of art you just created with your Behr hands (stuff never comes off). Let’s get …

Welcome back, DIYer! Part I was quite the journey (the build). This is Part II of the Restoration Hardware copycat headboard tutorial. We’ll be covering the “finishing” component in this post: painting the casing, waxing the casing, adding white ribbon to the edge of the …

Restoration Freaking Hardware. *Sigh*. Why do you always leave needing wanting everything you see – perfectly space-planned and tastefully positioned in your own “home design studio”. Better yet, outsource a Restoration Hardware design consultant to redecorate your frumptown fabrics, granny graphics & tacky trinkets with …

Visual home marketing has a strong hold on your psyche. Don’t believe me? You cruise & peruse Restoration Hardware, West Elm and Z Gallerie showrooms (what is this thing you call a “mall”? Never heard of it). You jump on the computing device to glance …

Beadboard Confessional Confession: we’re incapable of moving into a house and not renovating something. It’s practically a family tradition. Or a family addiction. I guess we need rehab. Or to rehab another room in our home to get our (non-literal) fix. Our disorder could use …

The Dilemma You’re in your kitchen, eyeing your built-in recirculating fan underneath your microwave. Sexy. But when you turn up your home cooked cuisine, it seems to better function as a white noise machine than a stovetop exhaust cleaner. Or perhaps you have the upgrade. …