Category: Design 101
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A Quick Feel Good Makeover: Decorating The Family Shelter For The Holidays
Alright, y’all. Today is a quick post that might spread a little bit of holiday cheer, I know it does for me. I got pretty emotional writing this, not because of how beautiful it turned out (it’s cute though:)) But thinking about the moms living here during the holidays and what that must be like…
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Breakup With Your Floorplan Rules: 6 Awesome Ideas To Rethink How You Use Your Rooms (Have Your Heard Of The “Cloffice”?)
As someone living in around 1,500 square feet, wishing I had just a little bit more elbow room to move around or have a few dedicated areas for specific needs (my home office, a playroom for my kid, a hobby room for myself and my husband’s special interests), I chuckle at the thought of having…
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Easy Home Upgrades To Start Your Year Off Right
Whenever I leave for a trip, I really try to clean my house really well. I’m talking sheets laundered, bed made, every room vacuumed, surfaces wiped down, you get it. I tell myself that “Future Jess” is going to be so happy. And surprise, Future Jess is ALWAYS extremely grateful that Past Jess made her…
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Let’s Solve Some Real Life Design Problems! 4 Readers Get Some EHD Help
Since we’re here at the near end of 2025 (and with it being the holiday season), we thought one more post helping a few of our beloved readers and followers (you all:)) with your real life design problems was the least we could do. We truly appreciate you all more than we could ever say,…
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The Internet Has *Feelings* About Pantone’s Color Of The Year… Let’s Discuss
Did you hear about this Pantone color of the year thing?” my non-design-focused husband asked me the other night. His feeds are wildly different than mine, full of photography tutorials, comedy Reels, and nostalgic content; so for Pantone to have made its way into his algorithm tells me all I need to know this year:…
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What Happened To My Vintage Floral Chaise Lounge?? Let Me Show You Where It’s Living
I think if I had to name a favorite piece of furniture of ours, it might be my antique floral chaise lounge (followed up quickly with our coffee table). The older I get, the more I just love mixing different eras of my life in a home together, regardless of the current home style architecture/style.…
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Trying Another Sofa Set-Up In Our Living Room: The Milo Sectional Sofa
What a totally abnormal experiment – to be able to try out a few different configurations in your living room in the name of “photographing your sofa line”. Not exactly typical, but my goodness, I wish this on everyone. I suppose that could be the future of AI (so far, it’s doing a terrible job…
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Get Your Home Guest-Ready For The Holidays FAST (And Affordably!)
Let’s talk about getting our spaces together for one of the most “friends and family” times of the year. Having a solid dose of “House Pride” is something Em has talked about, and I definitely deal with it when friends come over. Will they still love me if my place is a little messy or…
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I Bought A Counter-Depth Fridge & Here’s What I Honestly Think About It 2 Years Later (Hint: Some Pros & A BIG Con)
Two years ago, right around this time, I revealed my rental kitchen refresh. During the months that preceded that, I chronicled my journey in getting from “before” to “after,” and one of the major overhauls was of my appliances. When my family moved in, we had a partially broken white electric-coil range, a black (and…
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Farmhouse Update: Testing Out The Barb Sofas In Our Living Room (Game Changing)
Y’ALL. What started as a “Let’s shoot the Barb sofas in here to give them some marketing love” turned into “oh dear!!! … is this actually the life I want to live???” (in a good way). A couple of weeks ago, I showed you the Alice sofas in here, which I literally designed for this…