You know by now that saying 'no' isn't mean or rude or even inconsiderate, it's prudent, at the very least, and potentially essential. Still, if you're like most people, actually saying 'no' is epically scary and utterly confounding. Stop hyperventilating about how to go about it and start embracing your ability to decline offers/questions/invitations/requests of all kinds like the no-ninja that you can and will be. Here's a list of 20 alternatives to saying flat ...

Sometimes, I flip through the pages of shelter magazines and feel a bit confounded, tempted to ask the question, "Is this chic?? 'Cause I could almost swear it was actually crazy." Does anyone else ever experience that kind of vertigo that's induced by the sight of too many important, fahncy, very hard to come by things crammed into one room?? In any case, Bria Hammel Interiors, based in St. Paul, Minnesota is the antithesis of that. In ...

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… Right around the time I was writing that one spring cleaning post about kitchen crumbs, I stumbled across a kitchen design feature that blew my domestic world right open. I'm no stranger to the concept of a central vacuum, that is, a vacuum that is built in to the house. ...

If you want to know what's big in the world of makeup storage and organization, I'll tell you: it's countertop acrylic boxes, drawers and various iterations of holders. No doubt spurred on by the pervasiveness of images on the social medias of someone else's makeup meticulously organized in clear storage implements, my clients have begun requesting similar situations with reckless abandon. I support this, because acrylic storage and makeup do make a stellar pair, after ...