Creative tips

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

The Obsessive Pursuit of Thread Count (and Why It’s Only Half the Story) I used to think luxury hotels had some secret supplier for impossibly soft sheets.

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 built-in bookshelves were something only contractors could handle, like crown molding or those impossibly straight grout lines.

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

I spent three years living out of two suitcases while renovating a house, and I learned something: the problem isn’t that we have too much stuff—it’