This post is in partnership with Leesa. I guess you could say that our home, room by room, has been seeing a lot change – large (see exhibit A: our upside down living room) and small (see exhibit B: our home studio). It started as more of a feeling, a need for a lightening up, a […]
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The Guest Room Game Plan
The guest room in our Chicago home was one of the very first spaces we completed after the initial wave of renovation. Do you remember? It started as a somewhat-crumbling tan shoebox, and one of the most time-consuming tasks of the makeover was repairing the drywall. As a bit of backstory, our home turned 131-years-old this […]
How-To Plan a Gallery Wall
bed | brass frames | sconce | bedside table | striped sheets | linen duvet + shams Years ago, Scott sent me a link to these Audubon prints, which are free to download. He said, we need to find a place for some of these. I joked in our guest room reveal post that he needs his […]
The Guest Room: Now Accepting Guests!
Our guest room is complete! And good thing, because we have a crew of friends stopping in every other weekend through December. Now instead of welcoming them with apologies (um, you don’t mind the joint compound on the walls, right? Oh, and that closet door sticks; you don’t need to use it, do you?), we […]
Rewire + Convert
The guest room got a simple lighting upgrade! It’s the Eden Pendant from CB2, which by the way, much like our headboard, has been in storage for a handful of years. Originally intended for somewhere in the condo, Kim scooped up the (then $50) light, with the intention of converting it to a hardwired ceiling […]
Headboard!
The guest room just upstaged our sad, untouched bedroom by a landslide. This headboard, by the way? We’ve had it for years! Scott spotted it in the alley behind our former condo building while walking Jack. He ran inside, yelled inaudible words of excitement until I followed him downstairs, and minutes later, we were hauling […]
Shelves + a Desk In the Guest Room!
There are cute things happening in the guest room! Let’s go! This month, we teamed up with Ace Hardware to gather supplies that would warm up our guest room and make it a place that would be inviting for our friends and family. For this project, we put our vintage school desk to work, incorporating […]
Cities In the Guest Room
Like a habit we can’t kick, every time we walk past the guest room, we have to open the door and stare at the wallpaper. It’s just so pretty! And shiny! We only wanted to do one accent wall, as it was a way for us to create a zone for seating, a small light […]
Let’s Talk About the Guest Room (and Kohler Too)
It’s been a bit of a funny week, as I’ve been out of town for the first half traveling to gorgeous Kohler, Wisconsin! (Every year, Scott and I make a promise that we’ll leave the city for the weekend and take a drive north to see the changing leaves, and although he wasn’t able to […]
How Our Guests Get Down
Good Monday, all! We hope your weekend was busy and happy. Aside from the success of the Puppy Love fundraiser, we also managed to squeeze in three (super fun!) days with good friends. That is to say, three days of two friends that slept in this tiny home with us and the kids. But, as […]