Interior Design Tips: How to Outfit Your Home for Homeschooling Now that so many schools have gone remote to help contain the spread of COVID-19, you may have found yourself with a mandatory new side gig on your resume: first-time teacher. Like most other parents in the same boat, you didn’t have much choice in [...]

My Favorite Outdoor Summer Activities in Austin It’s summertime, and the living should be easy. But as much as we’d like to be packing the hillsides of Barton Springs Pool and sharing blankets—and jugs of micheladas—at Blues on the Green this summer, COVID-19 has other plans for us. Just because shelter-in-place orders have altered our [...]

Prepping for Warmer Weather: How to Get Your Patio in Tip-Top Shape Welcome to another beautiful Austin summer. We may not be able to flock in hordes to Barton Springs Pool or share a blanket on the lawn at Blues on the Green this year, but it won’t stop us from soaking up every bit [...]

Unexpectedly Working From Home? How to Spruce Up (or Create) Your Home Office It’s hard to believe that just a few short weeks ago, we were still in our normal routines like getting in an early morning spin class or stopping for a latte on the commute to work. But now here we are, all [...]

Eating In? Try This Easy Vegan Italian Red Sauce Recipe Because you won't be going out to eat any time soon, I recommend trying out some new recipes to spice things up in the kitchen! Just because you're *safe* (not stuck) at home, doesn't mean you can't eat well. But let's be honest, you've got [...]

Austin’s Vintage Interior Design Shopping & Style Guide Austin is home to plenty of bests: best music, best breakfast tacos, and best swimming holes, to name a few. But it’s also the mecca of some of the best vintage shopping in the Lone Star State—especially when it comes to home furnishing and design.   The [...]

Austin's Weirdest Homes Whispermaphone talk tubes. Bird cages full of doll heads. A home without 90-degree angles. A 33-square-foot abode. What do all of these have in common? They’re the strangest spaces and places you’ll find in our delightfully strange city. Scarf down that breakfast taco, pull on your cowboy boots, and join me: let’s [...]

Green/Eco-friendly/Sustainable Interior Design It’s not just a new year—it’s a new decade. And that means your resolutions should be more epic than ever—a little more creative, a little more responsible, and definitely more forward thinking. There’s no better way to merge all three than to commit to a greener lifestyle in your casa with some [...]

Best Winter Interior Design Trends The stretch of winter after the holidays is rough, I’m not going to lie. Whether you’re partaking in “Dry January”, “No Funding February” or “Melancholy March”, this time of year is one of the least jolly. So what does winter interior design look like once the holiday decorations come down? [...]

Photo Credit: @morganesezalory on Instagram Spruce Up Your Commercial Space for Winter If you’ve ever made a trip to New York City around Christmastime to see the window displays at Bloomingdales, Saks, and Tiffany’s, you’ll know why a merry storefront is so important. NYC goes all out in preparation for Christmas, and each window is [...]