Small Guest Bedroom Ideas: AVOID These 3 (+15 To Do Instead)!

Looking for small guest bedroom ideas? You're in the right place! We're sharing everything from modern and cozy to small guest room storage tips and decor help! A small guest bedroom may not be your ideal, but I'm tellin' ya...they can be some of the coziest spaces (think "nest!") your guests will ever have the privilege of enjoying!🤗 (Plus, small guest bedrooms are usually a more efficient use of your space, since it's not a…

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12 Secrets to Work Less + Still Have a Beautiful Home! ;)

My half-joking answer to many questions or compliments on my solution for something in my home is to grin and say, "Really, I'm just lazy!" 😉 Maybe "lazy" is the wrong word, but you're intelligent readers who know what I mean. If there's a better, faster, more efficient way to do something, why wouldn't we want to do it? Work smarter, not harder!🤗 At this phase of life, time in a fresh, clean room to…

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12+ Modern & Timeless Floor-To-Ceiling Bookshelves (from Built-in To DIY)!

Do you NEED floor-to-ceiling bookshelves for your room(s)? A tall built-in or even cleverly-done DIY bookshelf can solve a heap of visual AND functional problems in your home! How? We'll show you! To Bookshelf vs not To Bookshelf, that is the question!🤓 Bookshelves are can add warmth and depth, but they're also notoriously busy and cluttered-looking. Yet people continue to build them, want them, and search online for examples of where a bookshelf (or two,…

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Off-White Kitchen Cabinets Ideas: 7 Genius Pros & Cons!

Looking for cream or off-white kitchen cabinets versus a pure white? We're sharing the 7 pros and cons you need to know for a modern antique paint (plus our top 5 off-white cabinet colors)! To go with a bright white versus an off-white kitchen cabinets color...THAT is the question! :) You need to be just as particular about choosing your off-white or modern-antique white kitchen cabinet colors as you would be about choosing a pure…

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Rug Size for Queen Bed: The Only 7 Rules You (Absolutely) Need!

Looking for the ideal rug size size for queen bed in your room? Wondering what size rug for queen bed will look not just okay but best? I'm simplifying the "internet rug misinformation" for you ;)...here are the only 7 "rules" you actually need to pay attention to!👇 As if finding the perfect rug isn't hard enough... ...too many sites tell you the "wrong" rug size for under queen beds!😮 To start, those standard online…

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3 Fast “How To” Fixes: Awkward Living Room Layout With Fireplace (Even Corner Ones)!

Looking for the cleverest problem-solving solution for your awkward living room layout with fireplace? Even if it's a corner fireplace, as a professional layout expert I'm here to help you figure this out once and for all! :) 💪 Not all living rooms with a fireplace are laid out in the magical dimensions that dreams are made of!😅 (In fact, most living rooms are not the perfect fit for the people living in them!) How…

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DIY Minimalist Bed Frame: 5 Coziest Bed Must-haves!

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…

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Sri Lanka: Daily Turtle Swims, Coconuts & Lots ‘n Lots of Cinnamon!

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…

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Home Layout + Design Strategy: Save Your Time, Save Your Life! (Get 1000s of Hours Back!)

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…

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Our Modern Beach House: Smart-n-Simple Interior Design Inspiration!

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…

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