If we could build the perfect room from scratch, what would it look like? What features would it contain? Let's have ourselves a little daydream...It seems as though the ideal closet just distinguished itself as thus: if it features pull out drawers, designed specifically for housing one's boots, you can bet it is that. I know, it's what your boots have needed desperately all along, without your even having realized they did. Probably because you ...

This list is longer than a grown man's ski in reality. Consider this an installment, in no particular order:   1. Every income statement since your inception into the professional realm...twenty-some odd years ago.   2. Books you've never cracked the spine of and have no interest in doing so.   3. Things belonging to or used by/with your ex.   4. Specifically, linens.   5. Grocery store salad bar/ restaurant take out containers. These ...

There are a whole bevy of ways to decipher whether one is in dire need of organization, and so today I offer you just three. The most telling three tell-tale signs of all the tell-tale signs. Don't scoff at their supposed obvious; not everyone is as highly attuned as you. 1. You can't ever find what you need If your life feels like a constant scavenger hunt sans completion prize, then it's pretty safe to ...

  There is nothing missing from your personal happiness equation. You, as much as any person with less or with more, have the power to be perfectly content with your life right now. You, as much as anyone, can choose to perceive every single thing in your life as a blessing. Even if that blessing arrives in the form of a lesson learned. You have the opportunity to transform your life by focusing on what ...

Happy Friday! Big news. Today marks the second time I'm spotlighting a designer for the second time. I know. Try to contain yourself I know I am. Jute Interior Design. I featured her work way back when (when?) in this first spotlight. But Ali Davin (principal) Bekah Fletcher, and Jen Petray (designers) have been cranking out the good stuff since--so good in fact, that I can't help but to show their stuff off yet again. To begin, ...