Decorating

Spruce up the exterior of your apartment with this easy to make DIY patriotic wreath!

If you’re looking to spruce up your apartment style by decorating for spring, the best way to do this is with some trending colors and patterns. You can start saying goodbye to animal prints, damask patterns, and chevron. Although they can still be used in moderate amounts, they shouldn’t be focal pieces of your space. […]

Discover how to makeover your apartment for the spring season!

As a renter, I am always on the lookout for inexpensive, chic and most importantly, temporary, ways to give my apartment walls some personality. While paint can go a long way in adding strong doses of color or pattern to walls, sometimes your property’s rules don’t allow painting or you might not be up for […]

Discover all of the newest spring color trends!

Bring these spring trends into your home and break up static colors with patterns!

One of my favorite ways to fill up my walls on-trend and on budget is to DIY my own artwork. However, an artist I am not; so I often get creative with something each of us knows and uses all the time: numbers and letters! Typography, which is simply “artfully arranged type,” is a fun, […]

Everyone has that old item that could be turned into something great, but what? Read on for tips on repurposing old objects around your home!

Try these DIY Spring Decorating Ideas to brighten up your apartment as spring settles in!

Spring is here and it's time to refresh your apartment to bring some new life to the space. Create a gallery shelf to display your Spring décor, flowers...

For as long as I can remember, there was always a craft room in our house growing up. Mom was a big-time crafter and raised crafting kids; and while this room rotated around the house as we changed rooms, grew up, and eventually moved out, there was always a space dedicated to her creative passions. […]

I am an interior designer.  That title truly defines who I am as a person, as well as who I am creatively.  It is my true passion.  I love nothing more than working to make a space beautiful.   For the past several years, I have been renting.  And as a designer, renting certainly poses its […]

When we first moved into our apartment, I didn’t really have a dedicated crafting area. The apartment is small, only 650 sq. ft. with one bedroom, so it’s not like there was a ton of room to spread out. We did a pretty good job making the most use of all the space that we […]

If someone were to ask me what my biggest passion is in terms of my home and my perspective as a renter, my absolute answer is handmade, sentimental décor. Why sentimental décor? In my opinion, the best part of my house has nothing to do with the walls or the architecture or the appliances or […]

Passion: strong and barely controllable emotion Home: the place where one lives permanently After I looked up the definitions of passion and home, I came across this wonderful quote: “Tell me about your passions.  Tell me what makes you tick.  Tell me all the things you’ve discovered about yourself after all these years of searching.  […]