Author: Jamie Morrison, Interior Designer and Creative Home Stylist

I used to think leather drawer pulls were one of those impossibly expensive design tricks that only people with interior designers could pull off.

I used to think cutting holes in walls was something only contractors did, the kind of thing you’d never attempt yourself without a permit and three

Indonesian furniture making isn’t what you’d expect from a country famous for beaches and volcanoes. I used to think handcrafted furniture

I used to think color blocking was just something fashion people worried about—you know, like whether your shoes matched your bag or whatever.

I used to think attics were just places where Christmas decorations went to die. Then I walked through a staged attic conversion in Portland last spring

I used to think symmetry in furniture arrangement was boring—like those magazine spreads where everything matches too perfectly. But here’

I used to think terra cotta pots were just, you know, boring orange containers that held dirt. Turns out—and I should’ve known this earlier, honestly—they’

I used to think mountain cabins were just about escaping the city. Then I spent three weeks in the Carpathians, staying in a series of Romanian casas perched

I used to think curtains were just curtains—you know, those things you hang because society says naked windows look weird. Turns out, window treatments

I used to think macrame was something your aunt made in the 1970s and then quietly donated to Goodwill. Turns out, the whole craft is having this weird