Have you been wanting to design your own bed? Today we're sharing our 5 bed must haves, as well as how that led us to designing our own DIY minimalist bed frame! Who says minimal can't equal cozy?! After giving away the beautiful Brazilian hardwood bed Matt made for us (and that we'd had the first 15 years of our marriage), we started sleeping on our mattress on the floor. Not because of poor planning…
While the food in India was amazing, and we met a number of kind Indians we'd hope to meet again (as you might have read about in our India post)... ...as a whole, we felt more in tune with the people of Sri Lanka. (And the food is great too, but we'll get to that later! Oh ho ho, you know I'll get to the food eventually...) As unfamiliar as we were with India and…
We've made thousands of strategic decisions in the design of our home. And while I've outlined many of them in the posts by room and subject, let's look at an example of how much time just one simple change saves you over time. Let's look at something as simple as the placement of a doorway. (We're currently living in a European home where their doorways are not in the most optimal positions, so I've experienced…
Looking for THE ultimate list of white kitchen backsplash ideas? I'm a professional designer who's taken the 100,000s of ideas the internet throws at you and simplified them into The Only 7 Categories You Need! (Simplify your life! 😎 ) Clients constantly come to me almost crying because of backsplashes. Let me rephrase: they're nearly in tears because of their attempts to choose a kitchen backsplash from alllllll the ideas and products out there! I…
Now that we're selling our big house in the suburbs and moving to the beach, I can finally share with you guys a glimpse of the internal images and designs floating in my head for a more modern beach house!😍 From modern beach house décor to modern beach house design, I've got visions for days! 👇💃 MODERN BEACH HOUSE Tell Me You're In a Beach House Without Telling Me... What you will not find in…
Yes, that title is correct. We came to India for the food. But who knew that this love for Indian food would be what gave us the richest cultural and interpersonal experiences in India? My first taste of my favorite type of food was all thanks to my women’s rugby team in England. I was 19 (just a young lil' thing!) and studying abroad in England. One day after practice, our uber-social-butterfly team captain announced…
On our way from Africa, we did some "island hopping" between Madagascar, Reunion Island, and finally Mauritius for one final week before India. It was a good thing we did this, because we were still recovering from the "Mystery Jungle Virus" we got our last week in Madagascar! And Mauritius was the perfect laid-back place to do that. But first we had a stopover in Reunion Island... which was lovely! Going from a super-remote spot…
"It was the best of times. It was the worst of times." During a conversation with my daughter about our post on Madagascar, this is what I laughingly suggested should be the intro for this post. Why? Madagascar has some of the most fun memories and quite possibly our worst memory from our two years of living abroad and out of suitcases.😅 But first things first...let's talk about why we decided to visit Madagascar after…
Since we had expected to be exhausted after our prior months traveling through East Africa (from Rwanda to Namibia, you can see those HERE)... ...we planned ahead and rented a place outside of Cape Town (South Africa) to rest, recoup, and leisurely just "live" for a good long while! Growing up, whenever I saw pictures of this area of South Africa (usually with The Twelve Apostles mountain range or Table Mountain in the background!), I…
For some reason, I suspected we’d really like Namibia (hence the reason I added it to our several months of Africa travels)...and that suspicion proved true! All I'd seen years ago was some photographs of some sand and dunes in the interior of Namibia, and that's all it took. Why? Because it looked unique. IF I am going to traipse around the world (esp with children in tow) exploring new areas, there had better be…
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