On the island of Martha’s Vineyard, the front porch is alive and well. If you drive around the island, you will see lots of homes with front porches and people hanging out on them. Though I have never had a front porch, I’ve always found them to be charming. So when our new home had a porch,
Read MoreI wouldn’t say it was a total impulse buy, but I did want something I could get immediately… If I was buying for a client, I would caution them not to settle, just to have something. So the question is, one year later, would I make the same decision?
Read MoreI’ve been on the receiving end of that question a time or two. So here they are, all the paint colors in our Martha’s Vineyard home.
Read MoreThe best part of owning a home on Martha’s Vineyard is getting to experience this island at different times of the year now. Before we owned, we always came in July, so we knew about vineyard summers. But what would it be like to get to experience her Autumn splendor? I could only imagine the foliage and ooh, that prefect “sweater weather!”
Read MoreEven my 6 year old son (now 16) knew that hydrangeas were my favorite flower. I had them at my last two houses in Charlotte and they grew okay…So when we bought a house on Martha’s Vineyard where hydrangeas are amazingly plentiful, I was super excited!
Read MoreWhen we purchased our home in Martha’s Vineyard, the realtor warned us that it didn’t have a proper dining room. It did, however, have the makings of a back porch, just off the living room. I instantly knew that I wanted to make this space outdoor dining, capable of seating up to 10 people. Seeing as how we are not truly outdoorsy folks, the only way to make it work was to screen it in.
Read MoreWhile many of them may be finding themselves in their childhood bedrooms for a bit more time, some may find themselves in their first post-graduation apartment. I thought it would be fun to partner with my 2020 graduate @foreverbren for an apartment makeover on a budget.
Read Morethe A R T of improvement. Happy Saturday friends! Raise your hand if you’ll be spending some part of the weekend doing a home improvement project. This morning I woke up motivated to work on the bedroom wall…
Read MoreW E L C O M E... I’m glad you are here.
Read MoreMaybe you really did log off to read books, and if so I would challenge you to share the things you learned now that you are back. And if you were logged off of IG for the week, let me catch you up. We had church. We gathered publicly to declare that the old days were done. T
Read MoreHopefully you see that there is no one way to be a black content creator. In fact, in most instances, if you take the people out of the photos there is no way to know the race or ethnicity of the person behind the square. In home design, we are coastal, traditional, transitional, farmhouse, modern, bohemian, you name it. We like neutrals. We like colors. We like understated. We like glam. We like to save (hello @homegoods) and we like to splurge
Read MoreBefore it was a movement … I posted my own series of black boxes on Instagram.
Read MoreS I G H... if you don’t know the names George Floyd, Amy Cooper, and Christian Cooper, please google them. It’s impossible not to hold these two stories up next to each other…
Read MoreJ U S T DO IT! I’ve been thinking about painting a couple of interior doors a soft blue. I‘ve been pinning blue doors for the past 2 weeks. Truth is they were all pretty similar and any of them likely would’ve been fine.
Read MoreG R A T I T U D E... “Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him and he will do this: He will make your righteous reward shine like the dawn, your vindication like the noonday sun.” Psalm 37:4-6(NIV) 🖤
Read MoreRemember in Jerry Maguire when he writes his 25 page mission statement (manifesto), makes copies & distributes them to everyone in the middle of the night?!? It was titled “The Things We Think and Do Not Say.” You know the one when he criticized the industry & called for “fewer clients...” 🖤 Well this isn’t exactly that,
Read MoreThe Obamas left the White House yesterday. And while this is not a political post by any means, I can't help but think of our outgoing FLOTUS
Read MoreI wanted a look that was classic with rustic elements. Oh! And I was keeping the brass that was throughout the house.
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