I've likely said this before here because I always say it whenever the subject of bathrooms comes up, but they're the kind of room that straddles the lines between clean and wretched so precariously it makes you (me) nervous. There are many ways to motivate one to care for a space and one of them is just to make them feel a little more excited about it. A little happier to hang out in it. ...

There have been throughout history people whose perception of the world is remarkably clear--people who see things as they really are and speak the truth about what they see. All it takes is a quick scroll through Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s utterances to be reminded of the extent to which he was one of those select individuals. I don't think it's a coincidence that many such people have had, too, a non-reliant relationship with ...

Let's peep some pretty spaces, shall we? McGrath II is a design firm run by mother and daughter Suzanne and Lauren McGrath. One McGrath + Another McGrath = II McGraths. And with that impressive show of mathematics, this post is well underway! Together, Suzanne and Lauren authored the book Good Bones Great Pieces, which you probably heard about, if you follow those sorts of things. Applied, that design knowledge evidently stands. Their work off-page work is ...

A long while ago now I wrote a post about lower corner kitchen cabinets and everyone was all, "yeah, yeah, but what abut the uppers?" Upper corner kitchen cabinets are a possessor of their own brand of evil, and in some cases (like when the entry is fist-wide and the door is one hobbit-sized panel) are even more difficult than the lower. Counterintuitively, the deeper they are, and thus the more storage space they provide, ...