I'd always heard Fiddle Leaf Figs are notoriously difficult to take care of—but it was years before I actually believed it. The trees in my house and our then-downtown office were both happily thriving. And then, we made the mistake of redecorating the office. About a week after ...read more
I was hired as a sales assistant at the interior design magazine, Domino, at 22-years-old—the same time I moved into my first apartment. It was a natural light-filled studio with hardwood floors, big windows, and charming alcoves and I dedicated nearly every free minute to ...read more
My current apartment is the first place I've lived in for longer than a year since high school, after switching dorms and apartments every six months to a year, for the past eight years. And I love it. For an apartment I found on Craigslist while driving in a U-Haul through ...read more
If you opened up my kitchen cabinet a month ago, you'd find the mug I bought for my freshman college dorm and another that says "Casey's 30th Birthday!" There's a shot glass with "Phi Sig Spring Formal 2011," a mug from a coffee shop in New Zealand, and a Champagne flute with my ...read more
I've always liked the idea of having fresh plants in Sloan's room, but since a vase of flowers would be destroyed immediately, this cheeky rainbow planter (placed out of her reach) is the ideal compromise. Even though it reads as kitschy-cute, it looks and feels like a ...read more
I'm by no means a tidy person, but once a week, I do a massive cleanup around the house—even after we've done our best to keep everything in shape. Our biggest issue is piles. By the end of a busy week, Geoffrey and I will have a massive stack of magazines and mail, clothing ...read more
When it comes to registry sites, most feel dated with equally stale inventory. There seemed to be a hole in the market for modern brides with cool taste that didn't want to have to choose practicality over personality. When I got married in 2012, I wished there had been a site ...read more
We've had the same Christmas decorations for years, and while I love the nostalgia invoked by ornaments we've had since the first Christmas G and I spent together, I try each year to add something homemade, to keep things from feeling stale. When Leslie returned from her ...read more
