Today is the first day of Fall and isn’t that a nice thing to think about? I’m a sucker for season change. The shift in weather, the memory of past seasons coupled with the…
Tip # 146: Pick and choose your tiny apartment advice.There are lots of schools of thought on decorating tiny apartments. My approach has always been to keep the place spare and spartan to maintain an…
five little things that made my week.1. these perfect grapes. {because they look like my grandmother’s plastic ones, but they’re about a million times more delicious.}2. this apple cake (from this book).{made with a semi-interested…
Tip #145: Don’t be too afraid of pattern. I’m the last person, really, who should be giving advice on introducing patterns into a small space. My typical counsel would fall somewhere along the lines…
five little things that made my week:1 . these hooks. {because more is great when it comes to hooks around here lately.}2. this peppermint.{ready for drying.}3. these otherwordly photos.{for offering sweet comfort half way…
A houseplant in a tiny apartment doesn’t have to be tiny in and of itself, but you might want it to be.I wrote about houseplants a bit last summer. And I write a bit…
Tip #144: Your space is mutable.Here’s a watercolor version of our current apartment floor plan. I get a kind of bizarre number of requests for floor plans and I’m not sure why, but the requests…
five little things that made my week. 1. this butter. {this orange blossom butter, to be exact. sent by a friend who knew just what this mama needed.}2. this tiny paint set.{because sometimes i’m not very good…
This post is sponsored by Garnet Hill’s Eileen Fisher Home Collection.I read something recently about someone ironing their sheets. Oh, the drudgery! But mostly: For shame! I love a good sheet wrinkle. No, let’s use…
Tip #143: Consider A Dorm Room.I don’t know whether it’s some kind of fancy internet algorithm that keeps the posts coming across my radar, or whether there’s been an actual surge in dorm room style…