Winter Blues Solved: 15 Low-Light House Plants

Author: Sydney Piwowar It is officially Winter, and, in the Midwest, we get to know something called the January Blues. Yep… that’s the time right after the holidays, when there is nothing else to get you through the grey skies. This year, I refuse to let them get to me though. My trick to keeping […]

Best Soft Touch Matte Finish Paint

Author: Sydney Piwowar Benjamin Moore released a new line of paint in 2017 called Century. It is the world’s first Soft Touch Matte Finish paint with never-before-seen depth in 75 exclusive colors. We are obsessed with the level of depth in these colors and find it is very comparable to the infamously expensive Farrow & […]

Holiday Table Setting Guide

Retailers have been stocking their shelves with holiday decorations the weekend of Halloween. I know that is too early for the average person to be planning that far in advance, but now that Thanksgiving is around the corner it’s time we face the music start making our list.  The holidays can present stress to source […]

Who Doesn’t Love a Good Before and After?

This summer, I have had the pleasure of transforming several rooms of an historic home in the Kenwood neighborhood of Hyde Park. For the locals, everyone knows it as the “Poppy House.” It is famous for the poppy stained-glass windows throughout the original part of the home. The second owner added an addition, which included […]