One really great thing about buying a less-than-pristine house is that there’s no real risk in trying some quick and easy decorating approaches to spiff it up. I did a couple of little interim projects just for fun when we moved in. At the time, I thought we’d only be living here for about 5 …
I bought this naughty little pillow off of Etsy and I love it. For that day that’s in it, this very succinctly says all it needs to say and nothing it doesn’t.
A garden room or, as they commonly call it in Ireland, a “seomra” (Irish for room pronounced “show-mrah”), has always been a popular concept in this country – maybe because the size of the houses is typically smaller than what we would have in the States. Google tells me that the average size in the …
I have a LOT of cousins. So when my grandparents had passed and the grown-ups were dividing up family mementos to distribute among the grandkids, there wasn’t a ton to go around. Plus, my grandparents lived a modest life on a farm in Kansas so it’s not as if anyone was looking to score some …
ephemera – /ɪˈfɛm(ə)rə,ɪˈfiːm(ə)rə/ – transitory creations not meant to be retained or preserved.
Here’s the lady who taught me that nothing goes exactly as planned with a renovation. This one involved a lot more of my own sweat equity because I bought young and couldn’t afford to have all the work done for me. She was my heart and soul for a long time and she nearly broke …
For those of you who were followers of the original Tilly’s Cottage website, you’ll know that I started the Irish part of renovation journey with a two-story cottage I dubbed “Tilly’s Cottage” after my little Westie — because after all, she’s the reason I bought a house. It’s not easy renting properties when one has …
I wasn’t really planning on buying a house when I started my search. What I had been planning for since 2018 was selling a house. I had bought a condo in the Boston area in 1998 and had been renting it since 2005 and it just felt like it was time to sell-up in Boston …