What Size Coffee Table Do I Need?
Not sure what size coffee table works with your sofa? Here’s a simple guide to choosing the right length, height, shape, and spacing for your living room.
What Size Chandelier Do I Need for My Dining Table?
Choosing the right chandelier gets much easier when you start with your dining table. Here’s how to determine the right size, shape, and hanging height for round and rectangular tables.
How to Choose Throw Pillows for a Sofa
Choosing throw pillows gets much easier when you know what sizes to use and how to mix color and pattern. Here’s my simple approach to styling pillows on a sofa.
How High and Wide Should You Hang Curtains?
Hanging curtains high and wide can make your windows look larger and your entire room feel more finished. Here’s how to get the height, width, and length right.
What Size Rug Do I Need for My Living Room?
Not sure whether your living room needs an 8x10, 9x12, or 10x14 rug? Here’s a simple way to choose the right size based on your furniture and seating arrangement.
Soft Blue & Blush Bedroom with a Patterned Bed
A little blue, a little blush, and a room that still feels completely calm. A patterned upholstered bed takes center stage while light wood, creamy textiles, woven texture, and warm brass keep the rest of this bedroom soft and easy.
Blush Pink, Soft Blue & White Shiplap Nursery
Blush pink drapery, soft blue accents, white shiplap, and classic nursery furniture create a sweet, timeless baby girl’s room designed to grow with her.
Vaulted Dining Room with Gray-Washed Wood Beams
Gray-washed wood beams, a round pedestal table, cane-back chairs, soft blue accents, and black iron details create a light and timeless vaulted dining room.
Blue Botanical & Crisp White Entryway
Soft blue botanical wallpaper, crisp white paneling, a painted blue sideboard, warm brass, and natural texture create a bright entryway with plenty of personality.
Coastal Living Room with Vaulted Ceilings
A vaulted ceiling is beautiful, but it does create one very specific decorating problem: suddenly everything you own looks a little tiny. Relaxed slipcovers, soft blue seating, warm oak, woven texture, and an oversized brass chandelier give this coastal living room enough scale while keeping it comfortable and inviting.
Vaulted Living Room with Brass, Beams & White Oak
A ceiling like this is basically permission to stop trying so hard everywhere else. Vaulted ceilings and painted beams set the tone for a relaxed living room layered with cream upholstery, warm white oak, aged brass, and just enough pattern to keep things interesting.
Classic Coastal Living Room with Marble Fireplace
A mostly neutral living room only works if you give it something interesting to do. A marble fireplace, soft blue swivel chairs, warm oak, natural texture, and relaxed slipcovers give this coastal living room plenty of character without asking any one piece to do too much.
Coastal Living Room with Deep Blue Built-Ins
If you’re going to paint an entire wall of built-ins blue, you might as well really commit to it. Deep blue cabinetry, relaxed white slipcovers, warm wood, brass, and soft blue accents create a living room that proves a bold color can still feel completely classic.
Calm Neutral Bedroom with an Oversized Mirror
A calm bedroom is very appealing when the rest of the house has absolutely no intention of being calm. An oversized mirror, warm oak furniture, pale blue lamps, creamy linen, and classic architectural details create a primary bedroom that feels quiet, comfortable, and timeless.
Blue and White Entryway with Botanical Wallpaper
An entryway has about five seconds to convince everyone that the rest of your house is this pulled together too. Botanical wallpaper, warm wood, crisp white millwork, brass, and blue-and-white accents give this foyer a classic first impression without making it feel overly formal.
Blue and White Bedroom with Picture Frame Moulding
Blue and white is easy. Making blue and white feel interesting without adding seventeen different shades of blue is the harder part. Soft blue linen, warm wood, natural jute, crisp white bedding, and beautiful picture frame moulding give this bedroom a calm, classic look with plenty of character.
Open-Concept Living Room and Kitchen with White Oak
Open-concept homes are wonderful right up until everything starts looking like one enormous room where the furniture is just floating around looking for a purpose. White oak, brass, linen, warm white, and soft blue connect this living room, kitchen, and dining area while still letting each space feel like its own room.
Coastal White Living Room with Soft Blue Accents and Timeless Style
A white living room is beautiful, but I have no interest in living in a room that makes me nervous every time someone walks in holding a snack. Relaxed slipcovers, soft blue, warm wood, woven texture, and white brick give this coastal living room a light and airy look that still feels completely livable.
Coastal Entryway with a Beaded Chandelier
An entryway has one job: make the rest of the house look promising. A beaded chandelier, warm rattan, an oversized mirror, soft neutrals, and natural texture give this coastal entry a beautiful first impression without filling it with things you have to walk around.
Blue Plaid Twin Boys Bedroom
Matching twin beds are one of the few times I will happily make everything exactly the same. Blue gingham, upholstered beds, warm wood, playful stripes, and personalized details create a shared boys' bedroom that feels pulled together while still giving each child a space of his own.