New roman blinds and pillows brought to life by The Awesome Designer . Arts and crafts inspired, uniquely modern Robert Allen fabric - Celti...

Verity's room recived a mini makeoever this fall - new grey hex patterned rug, black and cream drapes and a new pink Tribeca pillow by D...

In anticipation of the arrival of new shades for two bedrooms I stained and sealed the triangular window frame , touched up one bedroom wal...

A while ago I asked the Awesome Designer to design some roman shades for the so-called bamboo room (the present curtains have green bamboo...

Interwebs regulars to this blog are aware that we lucked out when we signed up to take over The Cool House. Not only did we get a rock sold ...

We officially missed deadline #3 on the master bathroom - in case you were keeping score, deadline #1 was Valentine's Day; #2 The Guy...

I got madly bored on Christmas morn and switched the bed around. AGAIN. This is a better configuration in every way except one: The Guy has ...

Suddenly they are everywhere, Pixel designs. But remember where you saw them first - master bedroom October 2004 The Pixel Couch. Designed b...

I seem to have been a little remiss in keeping you up to date with the master bedroom decoration. (You thought I was going to say master bat...

Because we'd taken advantage of the fabulous weather on Thursday evening and taken guests to Prime Restaurant for a sunset seafood and ...

Of course if you are going to take down the light in the dressing room to use in the powder room you have to put something in its place. Luc...

Writing the post or the definition of a bedroom got me searching for closet doors, wardrobes and other stylish places to hang one's clo...

Another bout of snivelling colds and hacking coughs has us torturing ourselves watching reality shows and HGTV. It's about all our feebl...

The answer to the question in yesterday's post is "by leaving 5cm exposed". It took three attempts to fix the new pendant li...

Ever since I put the Mibo pendant light in Verity's room I've felt it was too small for the space. You can't really tell from t...

I'm always interested to see where people have been before they visit the blog. Often they've come via an image - usually a Flickr p...

The trauma that the owner of casacaudill (a fellow houseblogger ) is going through with her windows reminds me of the months of anguish we ...

I spent a very frustrating hour this afternoon trying to glue two telephone sockets back on the wall. Sockets we never use because we have c...

Fern shade Originally uploaded by modernemama We got the last shade up today. A much easier job than the rust shade in Steven'...

Mibo Lulworth lampshade Originally uploaded by modernemama All it took was a simple dish of garlic fried in hot anchovy oil, added...