Don’t you love it when you see a space in your home and you can immediately envision what you’d like it to be? We have this small corner in our schoolroom/playroom that I hope to eventually turn into a reading nook for our children, complete with a cozy armchair and footstool. There’s no room for …
Maria Montessori believed a child’s environment is vital to fostering independent learning and exploration. According to her, the environment must be prepared to facilitate a child’s freedom of movement and freedom of choice while also meeting their developmental needs. When it came to designing a space for a child, she advocated for the following: A …
A new year always brings about a desire in me to clean and organize our living spaces. I’ll be tackling the schoolroom over the next week or two as I’ve wanted to swap a few things around and refresh the shelves. I hope to post a complete tour of it by the end of the …
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I love taking a bit of time during the holiday season to add a personal touch to gift wrap. Since my older daughter loves to sew I decided to create some festive gift tags that she could embroider alongside me. These are so simple to create, lots of fun to personalize, and I think they …
After one year of living in our new home we’re finally at the point where we’re ready to begin furnishing our basement area. The main design challenge with this area is it’s 700 square feet of completely open space —with absolutely no storage whatsoever. When we purchased our home my husband and I immediately knew …
We finished building our new king size bed frame a few weeks ago (I’ll try to get the tutorial posted soon!). We ended up using Ana White’s Modern Farmhouse Bed Frame as our inspiration and simply altered it to make it a better fit for our room. So obviously with a new bed frame I …
My mantel dreams finally coming true, you guys! While I initially was a bit disappointed in not being able to find a home with a real fireplace (seriously, the housing market inventory was at an all-time low here when we managed to sell our prior home), it really pushed us to tackle a huge challenge: …
Hey guys! I recently posted a picture of my daughter’s latest embroidery project — a biome map of Africa — on Instagram and I received a lot of questions about it. So I thought I’d do a really quick tutorial on how we made our biome maps in case you’d like to undertake this type …
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So, I’m officially jumping on the decorating-with-chalkboards bandwagon. I am in love their slightly vintage vibe along with the ability to decorate them in a seemingly endless number of ways. We decided to build this super simple framed chalkboard to hang above our mantle. I added a preserved boxwood wreath to bring in a touch …
