Interior Designer vs. Interior Decorator: What's the Difference? Maybe you’ve been sitting around your home for too long and realized your space is in serious need of some new design changes. And in order to fall in love with your home all over again, you know you’ll need to enlist the help of a professional [...]

How Interior Designers Work with Architects Interior designers and architects go together like prosecco and pizza. Great apart, even better together, and certain times definitely call for both. While some interior designers (like myself) can do most interior architecture themselves, there are certain projects that require both. Projects involving architects typically include an addition or [...]

My Go-To Luxury Home Interior Paint Colors It’s no secret that after months of spending forced time indoors, we’re all feeling that desperate urge to make some serious design changes in our homes. But online shopping can be dangerous when we’re cooped up and bored, so my advice is to back away from your laptop [...]

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 [...]