The story of Sherry’s Valentine’s gift began a month earlier when I received an email titled “OMG I need this for my birthday” that included a link to a white ceramic rhino from Z Gallerie. Her birthday is in March (and I already had plans for that), so I assumed it would make the perfect … Read more

I used to assume every houseplant needed a sunny windowsill to thrive. I’ve since learned that many popular houseplants are perfectly happy in shaded corners and low-light rooms. So before you decide your home is too dark for plants, consider this guide to the best indoor plants for low light. You may be surprised by … Read more

Last weekend my cousin got married in Brevard, North Carolina — which meant a fun weekend road trip. It wasn’t as long as the road trip we took to Texas for another cousin’s wedding a couple years ago, but it was a great time nonetheless. Brevard sits in southwestern North Carolina, not far from Asheville … Read more

Hopefully by now you’ve heard that we redid our kitchen. Last week we shared how we settled on an entirely new layout, but moving things around on paper is one thing — today we’re walking you through how it happened in real life, including taking down a wall to open up the sight lines to … Read more

This year we decided to try starting a selection of herbs, vegetables and flowers from seed. After reading a simple seed-starting post and spotting a small greenhouse kit at Home Depot, we felt confident to give it a go. The greenhouse kit cost $6.99. Each packet of seeds—sage, lavender, rosemary, salvia, cilantro, tomato and basil—was … Read more

We finally made a major functional upgrade to our office — perhaps the most important one since we first started planning this space back in March. We added two tall storage systems on either side of the desk, giving us six roomy shelves and six extra-long drawers. The new units balance the desk visually and … Read more

You might remember the sunroom quick-change from a few months back when we transformed our former third bedroom—previously home to a West Elm daybed and a desk—into Clara’s nursery. Being proponents of making the most of what we already own, we moved that daybed into the sunroom and mentioned that one day we’d prime and … Read more

Hope you’re having a wonderful week between Christmas and New Year’s. We’re enjoying family time while also sanding, priming, and painting our kitchen cabinets (it looks like a paint bomb went off with a few stray gingerbread cookies mixed in), so we hope to share progress on Monday. Today, though, we wanted to show a … Read more

Holy cow — you all had even more questions than the last time we did this after we announced that Clara was on the way! It was so much fun to dive in and answer as many as we could before we hit our self-imposed word limit. After our little bun announcement you made us … Read more

Remember that grid of eight Ribba frames above our sectional (the same arrangement we got right the second time around)? In the meantime we needed something to fill those frames so we weren’t staring at plain brown backing every evening. We wanted a quick, inexpensive fix until we decide on a long-term solution. The result: … Read more