It probably wasn’t my best idea to commit to an eight-week design challenge knowing that I would be away on vacation for two of those weeks. It’s not possible to install a wallpaper mural when you’re riding roller coasters 3,000 miles away! Still, while I wasn’t physically hanging wallpaper…

Goodbye boring “builder beige” paint! For Week 5 of the Fall 2025 One Room Challenge, I finally was able to make a noticeable change to our daughter’s old bedroom, all with a few cans of paint. Painting is the quickest, easiest, and least expensive way to transform a room. And since…

I know I promised a big paint reveal for this week’s One Room Challenge post, but I’m going to push it to next week … mainly because I didn’t get it finished. Again, is anyone surprised? Last week’s skim coating really put me behind my carefully planned-out schedule. And don’t even get me started on how long it took to get all that drywall dust cleaned up…

To nobody’s great surprise, my work for Week 3 of the Fall 2025 One Room Challenge took WAY longer than I expected it to. The task at hand was to skim coat the ceiling and one wall of the bedroom, smoothing out the existing orange-peel texture in preparation…

It’s Week 2 of the Fall 2025 One Room Challenge, and I’m already slipping behind my self-imposed schedule. It’s so easy to underestimate just how long the prep work takes – and also so easy to underestimate the importance of it. When it comes to home design, half the job is just the prep work of getting ready to do the job! For those of you reading about this for the first time…

Welcome to the One Room Challenge, and my eight-week transformation of our daughter’s old bedroom into … something else. For those who aren’t familiar with it, the One Room Challenge is an online event held twice a year that invites designers, DIYers, influencers, and all sorts of overly ambitious homeowners to tackle the transformation of a single room in just eight weeks. Like many other participants, I’m joining for the first time…

I can’t believe it’s already been over a year since I ventured out and started my own interior design business, after 10 years of working for other design firms. The time has flown by in a flash, but not without me learning a few valuable lessons along the way. I guess I should start with a brief recap of my interior design career. While many of you reading this…