A vintage + modern guru's top tips for styling your house

A vintage + modern guru's top tips for styling your house

Posted by Colleen Bordeaux|On October 26, 2015

One of my favorite sources for vintage inspiration in Chicago is an amazing vintage-modern shop called Humboldt House. It's one of those places where you walk in and want to live there. It's filled with amazing Chesterfield sofas, leather butterfly chairs, patina-ed credenzas and the most beautiful,...

How to create a masculine dining room

How to create a masculine dining room

Posted by Unknown|On October 21, 2015

These photos are of Spruce, an amazing restaurant in San Francisco that I visited last summer: it's been the inspiration for the first dining room or study I have when I move into a place where I'm allowed to paint the walls! Here's how I would copy this look to recreate a moody and masculine...

A professional organizer's top five tricks for maximizing your space

A professional organizer's top five tricks for maximizing your space

Posted by Unknown|On October 19, 2015

This post could have also been titled "How to not freak out about moving in to a little house of limited closet space with your big wardrobe and all of your soon-to-be husband's stuff that he can clearly live without but won't let go (see light-up beer signs and other bachelor pad horrors)." When...

10 easy steps to create a perfect gallery wall

10 easy steps to create a perfect gallery wall

Posted by Unknown|On October 14, 2015

My collection of pictures and frames have followed me from my childhood bedroom to college dorms and every single one of my apartments. Whenever I move in to a new place, the first thing I do is start hanging frames on the walls - there's something comforting about being...

How to make a bad rental kitchen (sort of) nice

How to make a bad rental kitchen (sort of) nice

Posted by Unknown|On October 11, 2015

For all the charm of this little old 1930s bungalow that my husband and I rented when we first got married, the turquoise countertops were almost a deal-breaker. The kitchen was in a sad, disorganized state for months and I had no idea how to fix it. So I decided to stop fighting it, accept those...

How to create a bar cart when you don't have a cart

How to create a bar cart when you don't have a cart

Posted by Unknown|On October 07, 2015

There was awhile there at the beginning of the bar cart craze that took the world by a storm when I didn't have room for an actual cart. (I was living in a 400 square foot studio, and had to keep furnishings to a minimum for obvious reasons.) However, what do you do when you want all of the...

5 reasons you should fill your home with vintage furniture

5 reasons you should fill your home with vintage furniture

Posted by Unknown|On October 04, 2015

Vintage is just a fancy way of saying really old, and very used - both qualities that I prioritize when hunting for furniture. I am anti-Ikea. For some reason, it is important to me that my furniture has character. This dresser has plenty. But there's more than just character...

How to arrange your living room furniture

How to arrange your living room furniture

Posted by Unknown|On October 02, 2015

Our new apartment is amazing, but posed some serious challenges for the living room layout. There literally was not a place for the TV unless we sacrificed the windows and I just wasn't willing to do that. So, we got rid of the TV. (Ok, really we turned a 3rd bedroom on the first floor into a...