• 20 Ideas for a ’50s Diner Kitchen

    From my latest Ideabook for Houzz.com:   My sister and her boyfriend recently moved to Brooklyn, N.Y. They totally lucked out and found a cute, affordable two-bedroom apartment near Park Slope, in a little neighborhood complete with shops and a pub, and right around the corner from some amazing brownstones.…

  • Backpacking The Dolly Sods Wilderness

    Over Memorial Day weekend in 2013, my husband and I joined my sister, her boyfriend (now husband) and a couple other friends for a backpacking trip to the Monongahela National Forest, into the Dolly Sods Wilderness to celebrate my sister’s 30th birthday. And when I say “wilderness,” I certainly do…

  • Modernizing Outdated Kitchens on a Budget

    My husband and I have owned two houses together. The first one was built in 1953 and had all of the age and none of the charm from that era in terms of the kitchen: old wooden cabinets, cheap linoleum over-top old original flooring, rusting metal sink…you get the picture.…

  • Vertical Garden Project: Putting it Together #DigIn

    This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of The Home Depot. Materials purchased, it was finally time to put my vertical garden together, and we planned to spend Mother’s Day afternoon getting everything constructed. As you might remember, my husband offered to build the vertical garden, and…