This week I finally shot my home tour with Chicago photographer Aimee Mazzenga! Hoorah!! Of course that means I spent all of last weekend cleaning, organizing and zhushing. Because no matter how “done” your place is, there are always a few last minute styling requirements to get it photo ready – dusting and ironing, picking up live plants and flowers, and getting…

As you may recall from the before tour, the stair runner in our home was in really bad shape. As soon as we looked at it, I knew it would have to be replaced while we lived here and our landlord wasn’t going to do it. It was going to be one of the projects we had to tackle if…

Let’s call this a lesson in looking past previous tenant’s belongings – for all of you who may be apartment or home hunting. We found photos of our place when it was available for rent years ago. Three guys lived here before us. Of course I am going to decorate a bit differently.

Once when I was trying to source home accents for an interior design client, she was having trouble choosing from the items I showed her and simply asked “well, what would you put in your home?” She said she always loved what I was doing in my own space, so anything I’d want in my home meant she’d like it too. That made it easy!…