a lifestyle blog by Alaina Kaczmarski
Dan and I never took engagement photos. I’ve never quite understood them since my reasoning was “yes, they’re lovely, but a photo from one of our trips together, or laughing at a ball game, or at the lake house in the summer is so much more meaningful because it was from a specific event together.” Rather than an arbitrary photo shoot.…
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I feel like there are two types of Americans… the ones who get REALLY excited and go all out stars and stripes and parades and fireworks and boating for the 4th of July. And those that don’t. I’ve more or less tried to be the former, although when the day comes I’m usually scrambling to find a festive getup… probably because…
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To make it easier for people to source the things they see in our home on Instagram or wherever, I’m starting this new series SHOP OUR HOME #SchmiedskiGreystone. Sometimes it will be product by room, sometimes it will be a specific item category, like this first one: mirrors. I’ve bought more mirrors for this place than anything else. I usually have…
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I wanted to get this up while it’s still the beginning of summer so you have time to place orders and zhush up your own outdoor space. I failed to include any photos of our back yard in the before tour of our home largely because I didn’t take any before photos. I had zero vision for this space; to me it…
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