Creative tips

I used to think staging a kitchen meant hiding everything in boxes and putting out a bowl of lemons. Turns out, buyers who tour fifteen homes in a weekend

I used to think painting a door meant an entire weekend lost to unscrewing hinges and detaching hardware. Turns out, that’s not actually true—or

I used to think colonial architecture was just about those grand Spanish facades—you know, the whitewashed walls and terracotta roofs you see in every

Desert modern isn’t just beige walls and a cactus in the corner. I spent three weeks last summer driving through New Mexico and Arizona, photographing

I used to think floating shelves were just for people with actual carpentry skills, you know, the ones who own table saws and understand what “

I used to think leather straps on furniture were just some trendy Scandinavian design thing—until I tried making them myself and realized they’

I used to think you could just stick some tomato plants in a sunny room and call it a greenhouse. Turns out, year-round growing inside your home requires

I used to think tropical design meant cramming fake palm trees into every corner until your living room looked like a tiki bar had a meltdown.

I used to think heirlooms belonged in museums, honestly. My grandmother’s oak sideboard sat in my parents’ basement for roughly fifteen years

I used to think Colombian interior design was just about throwing bright colors on walls and calling it a day. Turns out, the whole thing is way more complicated