Quite often around these parts we discuss the kind of clutter that's blatantly negative. But what about the items that are actually in terrific shape? Things that are, to all discernible eyes, completely desirable? Things that you really want to like, want to use. Those too can be clutter; if your holding onto stuff is based chiefly off its presumed desirability, or your own earnest desire to be able to incorporate it into your daily life. ...

Clients consistently ask me to source various household items, and one of the more popular requests is for non-heinous laundry hampers. I get it! They hang out all over the house, they're often in flux between rooms, loitering in hallways for all eyes to see. It'd be nice if the thing wasn't so dang ugly. Happiest to oblige over here, that's me. And thus I offer up to you ten hampers which, at least, appeal ...

Today's post is a "hey look guys, I do this in real life!" type, by which I mean I present unto you a video of me in LS action. It's fairly comical to me that due to the 5.5 feet ceilings, I actually look like a giant in this client's basement space--which is certainly the first time I've uttered such a sentence, but in all likelihood not the last, given the strange corners I find ...

Throughout my life I have oscillated between an attitude that accepts situations as they are, and relinquishes power to control them, and an attitude of refusing to tolerate negative situations by attempting to proactively change them. There were times that seemed to call for one outlook over the other. Or, I invented the choice, and selected based on which seemed to more effectively sustain my sanity. There were days growing up when my family life ...

Happy Friday homies. Today I have the work of Buckingham Interiors + Design LLC for the pleasure of your eyeballs. Headed by Julia Buckingham Edelmann, the Chicago firm designs according to Julia's signature approach, Modernique®, which I've taken to understand means a marriage of old and new, of practicality with absolute impracticality. That latter facet is what I believe lends Buckingham it's especial appeal; there is the sense that things have been laid out in such a way as ...