This black Friday/cyber Monday cycle has been brutal on my psyche this year. I don’t know if it’s because I read more blogs than I used to or I have my email notifications set up badly or what, but black Friday marketing this year feels insanely aggressive and unrelenting. I get that the internet pretty […]

One King’s Lane just marked down their Sayulita chairs from $365 to $209! OF COURSE I just finished my DIY version so this isn’t useful to me at all, but somebody else should really buy one so I can live vicariously through them. (Also, if someone wants to buy one and then sell it to […]

make a shower curtain go grocery shopping change blog hosts write and photograph a weaving tutorial write and photograph a  mud-cloth-inspired pillow tutorial unpack my suitcase that’s been sitting in the middle of my bedroom floor for a week and half decide on and order a garbage can from Amazon Things I have actually done: […]

Sorry this is a little late, but I got back from New York on Tuesday afternoon and then the entire fucking world exploded at 1 am on Wednesday, so I’m sure you understand. In light of recent events, I just want to take this time to implore everyone to look past our differences, and to […]

  Oh man, you guys, it’s been an exhausting two weeks. I took on a design project that ate up a ton of my time and ended up being a complete disaster (lesson learned: if someone won’t give you a specific budget in dollars, ABANDON SHIP), my new semester at school started (which is awesome but […]

(NB: I just got done watching the first new episode of Black Mirror so I am feeling all kinds of gross and uncomfortable while I write this. That show is a creepy masterpiece but boy do I hate watching it.) So I have to confess that I do not totally understand what the One Room […]

Sorry, are we calling them inspiration boards now? This is the laziest DIY inspiration board ever. Remember the dark days before Pinterest? God, we were all savages then, with our scissors and folders and disgusting piles of magazines that contained, at best, one good recipe and some now-ironic article about how to organize your apartment better. […]

Let’s talk about tapered legs! First off, you can totally buy cute tapered legs and attach them with angled leg plates and everything will look fine. The main issue with these is you’re kind of stuck with whatever lengths Waddell feels like making, since they’re really the only game in town for affordable mid century legs. (You can, of course, […]

So at this point, you should have a box, which in the cabinetry world is called a “carcass.” How metal is that? Now you’re going to add doors and legs, and turn it a different color if you feel like it. First up: doors! Inset doors are tricky, especially if you want them to be […]