Last week I shared the simple makeover I gave the light fixtures in my hallway, but I neglected to show the rest of the space. I like hallways—they’re not too demanding, since…
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Quite a few years ago (nine, to be exact), I spotted this bar cart behind a row of discarded shutters and windows, stashed under a plastic roof in the lot behind Stan’z,…
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OH, HEY THERE! What’s up? I’m sorry. I’m like the blogger version of a magazine that starts out as a monthly, then becomes a bi-monthly and then eventually a quarterly. Or an…
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Photo by Frida Eklund Edman for IKEA Livet Hemma As much as I love pink, it’s a tough color to get right in a kitchen. You have to hit the shade exactly…
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As I’ve mentioned (but haven’t really shown), the last set of stairs in our 4th-story walkup is entirely inside of our apartment. I’ve already done a lot of work on the entry…
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When we first found out that my brother was going to be moving out of his longtime rental apartment, I scanned through my mental pictures of the place and quickly came to…
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Remember the ugly kitchen in the my new apartment? The one with the kale chip counters, the cherry-colored doors and the backsplash made out of what are very clearly floor tiles? Yeah,…
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One of my favorite things about the new apartment is that that the last set of stairs — it’s a 4th-floor walkup — is just for us. Our apartment door is at…