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Make Your Home the Next North Pole With Indoor Christmas Statues

B. Boza Christmas–if you celebrate it–is right around the corner, and decorating for the most wonderful time of year can feel intimidating even if you started hanging your stockings early in October,...

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Add A Touch Of Glamor To Your Master Bath with a Bathroom Chandelier

B. Boza In the name of self-care, luxury bathroom products can be found in every mall, craft show, and pop-up shop that sparkle, shine, and make us feel like royalty in the bath. We already treat...

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Quintessential Bar Lighting: How To Recreate The Ambiance of Your Favorite...

B. Boza You don’t have to give up the bar life just because you’re not going out. Home bars are an incredibly popular way to entertain in the privacy of your own house and lower the risk of drunk...

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Divvy Up Your Great Room: Using A Sofa Table To Redefine Your Space

S. Lewis The great enemy of barrier-free living spaces is something most people don’t think about until it’s too late: the back end of your sofa. Most sofas and sectionals are designed to be pushed up...

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Get the Look: Spookify Your Living Room for the Halloween Season

B. Boza Halloween is an iconic decorating season, dependent on certain imagery and symbolism to terrify its audience. Enter the skeletons, the pumpkins, the moody lighting, and the black and orange...

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Get the Look: Layered Lighting to Add Dimension to Your Kitchen

B. Boza Adequate lighting is important for a room that sees as much daily use as your kitchen, especially in a home with a less-than-ideal window setup or long seasons where there isn’t much natural...

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Light Up Your Bathroom With A Modern Medicine Cabinet

B. Boza Having a medicine cabinet can feel like an outdated, clunky box in your bathroom. Even if you take medication or have a lot of hygiene products littering your counter top, a medicine cabinet is...

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Layered Bathroom Lighting to Brighten Up Your Day

B. Boza A well-lit room is a well-loved room. Layered lighting can turn any dark and dreary room into one with a bright and welcoming atmosphere, and no room needs that more than the one where you get...

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Four Types of Lighting for Your Personal Reading Nook

B. Boza A reading nook is a budget-friendly project that transforms an unused corner of the house into a visually pleasing and rightly functional piece to catch up on your book club reads in peace and...

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Don’t Let The Dark Get You Down: Upgrading Your Lighting for Winter

B. Boza With daylight’s savings plunging us into darkness once again, you may be wondering how to beat the winter blues that comes with it. One of the simplest ways to do it is to combat shorter,...

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Get The Look: Six Ways To Rock A Round Dining Table

S. Lewis Open floorplan kitchens had such a huge impact on the design world that for a good long while there, traditional family-style kitchen tables didn’t just fall out of popularity, they...

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Task Lighting to Take Your Kitchen from Plain to Professional

B. Boza I don’t have to tell you how important it is to be able to see in your kitchen. Even if your kitchen is only windows on the top of a hill with perfect sun viewing throughout the day, you need...

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Ditch The Chandelier: Better Dining Room Lighting For An Open Floorplan

S. Lewis Chandeliers are the most traditional choice for lighting a dining room. But these days, dining rooms are a far cry from traditional. At-home dining in general has a more casual feel than it...

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Bathroom Lighting That Wows: Replacing Over-Vanity Lights With Sconces

S. Lewis When you think of bathroom lighting, you probably imagine one thing: a bar of lights above the vanity. But while there’s nothing wrong with these familiar glass-shaded lights (and some newer...

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Best Kitchen Nightlights: Keeping Your Kitchen Open After Dark

S. Lewis I’ve talked a lot in the past about strategies for layering and improving your kitchen lighting. Good all-over lighting is the foundation of good design, and (literally) puts your home in its...

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Eclectic Style: Making Your Home Reflect You

B. Boza Eclectic style is often misunderstood and underrepresented. To some, there’s a method to the madness; to others, it’s just madness. It can be difficult to pin down as a style, partially because...

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Five Easy Upgrades to Add Interest to Your Laundry Room

B. Boza White laundry rooms are both traditional and practical, but they can feel plain. Despite being easy to clean and bleach, more and more people are moving away from a all-white color schemes....

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Floor Lamps to Raise Your Ambient Lighting Game

B. Boza I can’t emphasize enough how important lighting is to any home. While it may seem like there are too many options to light your space, each has a unique purpose that can’t be replicated with...

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Create Seasonal Decor to Lift Your Winter Blues This Year

B. Boza With the days getting shorter and colder, spending most of your time inside is becoming more and more preferable. It can be a necessary change in routine, but may lead you feeling trapped...

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Decorative Flush Mount Lighting: Low Ceilings With Style

S. Lewis I talk a lot on here about the importance of good lighting – how layering multiple stylish fixtures can add depth and beauty to any room in your home. But what if you have low ceilings? Big...

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Make Your Home Look More Like the Catalog (In a Good Way!)

B. Boza Why doesn’t your home ever look as nice as it does in the catalog? Even if you buy the exact furniture one-to-one as in the store, once you set it up inside your home it can seem different,...

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Living Grandly with Grand Millennial Style

B. Boza You may feel like your grandparents when trying to keep up with latest slang and trends. But while “grand millennial” is new terminology, it’s likely a style you’ve seen before. Patterned...

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Better Than Builder-Grade: Choosing A More Stylish Flush Mount Light

B. Boza There is a light fixture you can find in almost every home in modern day American construction: the flush mount lighting fixture. Flush mount lights sit directly against (or flush) with the...

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Undercabinet Lighting: The Best DIY Lighting Project For Your Kitchen

S. Lewis Installing a new tile backsplash is a popular go-to DIY project for updating and boosting the value of your kitchen. But for maximum impact, you shouldn’t call it quits once you’ve finished...

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How To Install Tape Lighting: Affordable, DIY Friendly Mood Lights

S. Lewis Upgrading your home’s lighting is almost always a job for a professional. Whether you’re changing out an existing fixture or looking to add new ones, anything more involved than plugging in an...

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Closet Lights For The Rest Of Us: LED Lighted Closet Bars

S. Lewis We’ve all seen pictures of huge, boutique-style walk-in closets. You know the ones: with shoes, jewelry, ties, and cuff links on display so you can meet each day like you’ve just had a visit...

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Update Your Dining Room to Be Both Luxurious and Modern

B. Boza Dining rooms have to adapt to multiple occasions to survive today’s home renovations. Being a singular, formal place to have a meal together is no longer enough to keep the dining room safe...

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Get the Look: Gold on the Ceiling (And the Rest of the Dining Room, Too)

B. Boza All trends tend to circle around, and gold hardware and accents are back! They’ve become a popular way to warm the icy color palettes of the last decade. A few small replacements are all you...

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Room With a View: How To Maximize Your Natural Light

B. Boza Looking through interior design photos for inspiration for your own home, you’ve probably noticed that some rooms simply look more inviting than others. That certain special something is almost...

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Outdoor Decor: Interior Design for the Outside

B. Boza Don’t let your Homeowners Association fool you; landscaping is as much of an art as interior design. More and more people are deciding that a lawn of flat grass is a tired tradition, and are...

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