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room inspiration: bright breakfast nook on a budget

  • April 17th, 2012
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Way back in January, I asked whether you all would prefer the kind of inspiration boards I’d been putting together–without regards to cost–or if it’d be more helpful for you to see some boards done on a tight budget. The budget boards got the most votes, and so I’ve been hard at work putting some together for you. They definitely take more effort; pretty stuff is everywhere, but pretty and cheap stuff is a little more hidden. It totally exists, though! If you can, scour your local thrift stores and garage sales–you can find an incredible number of gems–and if [...]

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house tour

  • November 6th, 2011
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I spend a lot of time talking about our house, and you’ve seen it in snippets here and there–our office and bathroom renovations, the porch tented in plastic for spray-painting, the kitchen counter displaying food. But I thought it was high time I showed you the place as a whole. We live in an approximately 800-square-foot condo in central Missouri. It’s a pretty area–our unit is at the back of the complex, so rather than being surrounded by parking lot, it’s surrounded by trees. During the summer, when the bushes outside our porch are in full foliage, you can really [...]

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room inspiration: future bedroom

  • November 5th, 2011
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Jimmy and I are kinda-sorta house hunting. By “kinda-sorta,” I mean we don’t have a lot of money, we have a lease that isn’t up until July and it’s probably not really time to be looking for a house, but we’ve pretty much decided on moving next year and I’m determined to have a) a “real” house and b) a place we can renovate/do things to without fear of losing a security deposit. Half the fun of getting a new place is daydreaming about how you’ll decorate it (probably more than half, really–signing papers and moving and updating contact info [...]

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race to the (faux) finish

  • October 18th, 2011
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My dears. I’ve been a bad blogger. I promise, promise, a thousand times promise I will not become one of those blogs where every other post is an apology for not posting enough. I swear. I pinky swear. I’m going to start stockpiling posts about every interesting thing I can think of so I’ve always got something for you lovely folks to read. With that being said…today’s is a good one. I know you all love a nice long before & after (as do I). This one was completed in traditional Kate Moore Half-Baked Whirlwind Fashion™, but it was an [...]

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it started with plastic drawers

  • September 29th, 2011
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I’m going to go ahead and blame my gorgeous friend/former roommate/supermodelish object of envy Maha for this one. See, upon seeing the vast mountain of disarray that was my makeup collection, she suggested that I sort everything into a set of plastic drawers so I could keep track of what I had and find it easily. And when this girl gives you beauty advice–however tangentially related to actual beauty it is–you take it:  So off I scurried to Target and returned with a set of pretty standard-issue plastic drawers. I sorted my makeup, dutifully cleaned all my makeup bags out, [...]

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room inspiration: mourning dove

  • September 21st, 2011
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Today, September 21, is the United Nations’ International Day of Peace. The symbol of the day is a peace dove, and so I decided to put together a little dove-themed inspiration board in honor of the occasion. Here in Missouri, mourning doves are everywhere–those beautiful, soft gray birds with a pretty coo. I used to own one, actually–Angel. Sweetest bird I ever had. While at first glance a mourning dove’s coloring might look pretty straightforward, they actually have a dazzling array of shades in their feathers–from pale, peachy ivory to warm French gray to deep slate blue, and even black [...]

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seriously fine design: the wit hotel

  • September 18th, 2011
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After my post the other day about mixing design styles, I looked for some photos to back up what I was talking about. I was discussing a trip to Chicago from a few years ago when it hit me that the style I was trying to describe is at least partially exemplified in one seriously tasty Chicago building: the Wit Hotel. I had the very good fortune to stay in the Wit on a business trip in April 2010. As soon as I walked through the doors, I felt like I’d returned to the mothership. The Wit manages to blend [...]

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operation awesome office

  • September 18th, 2011
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This happened a while back (the weekend before Valentine’s Day this year–I think the aftermath of a blizzard had just melted and I was itching to do something), but I thought I’d share it with you in preparation for a smallish before-and-after project I’ll be writing about later this week. Our office, when we moved in, was a dark little room (fun fact: there are no windows in our condo–only doors, one in each room) with dark green paint and a big closet. Other than putting up a bright yellow pegboard, we basically ignored the place, throwing stuff in there [...]

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room inspiration: plums and cream

  • September 16th, 2011
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One of my favorite things to do (both in planning for our first house, which will hopefully happen in the next year or so, and in general) is to create room mood boards that draw their inspiration from a single object or piece of artwork. Since I’m a full-time Etsy seller, I like to browse my fellow sellers’ shops and pick out inspiring works to base boards around. I’m like a mystery shopper, except nobody’s paying me, I don’t buy anything and my recommendation has little to no influence. Glamorous! I’m going to start sharing these boards with you on [...]

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say nope to the taupe

  • September 16th, 2011
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I adore colors. I love them in paint, in fabric, in nature, or just in little swatches in a Pantone book. Whenever I find things arranged in a rainbow in Target or some other store, I immediately feel compelled to buy one (and then I’m sad later when I only have the one color and the rainbow effect is ruined). I also like yammering on about colors to anyone who will listen–debating the relative merits of Sephora’s “Break a Leg-Warmer” versus Essie’s “Chinchilly” or Valspar’s “Angel Touch” versus Benjamin Moore’s “November Rain.” Since I design things for a living, it’s [...]

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