Can You Truly Make Your Bathroom Spa Worthy?
Inspiration for pretty spa-like bathroom designs is a great help when renovating or building a home. Skylights! Soaking tubs! Wet rooms! Since most of us…
Revisit of Reno & Coastal Hamptons Crush
Every now and then it’s good to note how far these real life renovators have come. A year ago we were finishing up a family…
Peeks at My Kitchen in April + Sabavi Home Favs
Everything is just beginning to bud outside, and we are so ready for SPRING around here. Let’s cue the lush green landscape outdoors. Inside, it’s…
Hello Lovely Resources for Before & After Renovation Glimpses
This post is a companion to THIS, and hopefully you aren’t beyond bored with before/after photos of our renovations. As an inspiration blogger, it’s unnerving…
Hello Lovely’s Homes: Mood Boards & Shop the Look …
It has been nine years since we left a French country manse we built to take on a neglected fixer upper across town. We gutted…
SOPRANO Quartz Countertop (Viatera) Review
Even though it has been seven or eight years since our DIY kitchen renovation for a vacation home in Arizona, I still receive questions. Time…
Muse Quartz (VIATERA) Countertop Review
Reviewing Muse quartz countertops (from VIATERA/LXHausys) chosen for our DIY kitchen renovation couldn’t be rushed. (This is unsponsored, btw.) I needed to live with the…
MINUET QUARTZ Countertops from Viatera: Review & Photos
Even when you decide you want a white quartz countertop in your kitchen or bath, there are still oodles of choices. Where to begin if…
Cafe Style Parisian Dining Simplicity
While my tendency is restraint when it comes to color and decorating (indoors AND out), look at nature! Thank goodness earth doesn’t hold back. (Although…
Love Wallpaper Murals But Worried About the Commitment?
I hear you. Wallpaper feels like a commitment, and what if you tire of it after a year? We’ll explore my experience with a favorite…
SMALL Decorating Changes: How to Live Large
Sometimes it is about the big bold moves. Fully gutting and revamping a dark, busy bathroom or kitchen, for example. Transformation from depressing to uplifting,…
I Do Love Me a Thrifty Furniture Find!
In today’s economy, while it is trickier to locate a thrifty furniture find for home, there are still bargains everywhere. If you love a quality,…
