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...Having things like spices and oils in easy reach is nice. Having to look at them round them clock, less so. That's why when I saw today's kitchen innovation my mind immediately shifted into the "I gotta get me some of that" place. You know the one. Sliding panels open to ...

The situation is this: People (you) feel terribly about letting go of things that were gifts. Like to even consider getting rid of gifted items makes you in some way bad, evil, naughty, not to mention rabidly ungrateful.   So it goes: Me (holding up thing): What's this all about? Them: Well, that was a gift, so. Me: So...? Them: So I have to keep it. Right? Me: Ummm, NOPE. They’re stunned. They can’t believe ...

Sometimes you've just got to improvise on the fly. Or if you're me, and you're constantly going through people's things without always having the benefit of knowing what kinds of things you'll uncover and thereafter need to Live Simply, well basically the above sentence thusly applies. When drooping boots are getting you down and you don't have proper shapers shapers on hand, grab the nearest magazine (the heftier the better). Roll those puppies up like a spyglass, ...

In my experience, the quick fix nearly always ends up costing you more money, hassle, and stress than would have the version you actually needed or wanted to begin with. Those things you buy cheaply when you know all the while their quality is inferior to the version you really desire; the handoffs you take from generous loved ones that may fill a temporary void, but ultimately aren't what you would have chosen for yourself; ...

Last week it was two Caitlins, and this week, two chicks it's good to know, more officially known as A Good Chick To Know. The benefit of acquaintance, it appears, is that Jennifer Scott and Megan Baker can more than adequately deliver on a variety of fronts, among them: fashion, home decor, prop and roomset, tabletop styling, the list goes on. The style umbrella is the entity under which they can be found, and they ...