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On one occasion, my client rang me up with three bids on the same office space: one was $40 per square foot, the second $150, and the last $300. The thing is, all three contractors toured the same building. Nobody was fibbing there. In fact, the spread in prices represented not only three separate scopes … Read more
The smallest bedroom I ever styled properly was about 9 by 10 feet barely bigger than a generous walk-in wardrobe in a Victorian terrace that had been converted into flats. The owner wanted it to feel like a sanctuary rather than a storage cupboard. What made it work wasn’t a clever trick or a single … Read more
Got three quotes for my parents’ place last year. Cheapest one wasn’t the risky one. The vaguest one was. A home renovation service that can’t tell you who’s actually on site, or how permits get handled, or even a rough timeline, that’s the one that ends up six months late and way over budget. Here’s … Read more
Living Hall Decoration Ideas: My own hallway was the last room I decorated. Two years after moving in. It got walked through dozens of times a day and thought about almost never which is exactly the trap most people fall into with their hall space. The thing is, the hallway is the first impression every … Read more
Dining Room Wall Decor The dining room I’m sitting in right now has one wall I’m still not happy with after four years. Not because I haven’t tried I’ve hung things on it, taken them down, repainted it once, hung different things, taken those down. The problem was never what I was putting on the … Read more
What brought the change in my perception about tap water did not happen through any piece of news about PFAS contamination or any report on the presence of lead in aged pipelines. The epiphany occurred when I opened my dishwasher one day and saw white scales deposited on the inner walls of my machine and … Read more
Tudor Style Homes A friend of mine bought a 1928 Tudor in a leafy East Coast suburb three years ago. Steep gables, decorative half-timbering, the kind of arched front door that makes delivery drivers pause for a second before knocking. She fell for it the moment she saw the exposed beams in the living room. … Read more
The first time I pulled a can of wasp killer from the hardware shelf without reading the label, I sprayed the wasp nest in broad daylight, watched to see what happened, and got stung three times before making my way back inside.. The nest was still there the next morning. I hadn’t used the wrong … Read more
Lover House My grandparents had a house that nobody could quite describe accurately. Not beautiful exactly the proportions were slightly off, the kitchen was too small, the hallway had no natural light. But it felt like the most settled, warm, deeply comfortable place most people who visited had ever been in. Forty-three years of marriage … Read more
Buying a home renovation without realizing its worth is a more subtle financial mistake. I found that out through a complete bathroom remodel where there really wasn’t much in the way of value for resale. The tiles were bright, the hardware was unique, and the prospective buyers of my price point wanted something else. This … Read more
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