Our Home. My Canvas.
If you’ve hung around here for awhile, you know that I can’t be trusted with living things. Well, living things with roots. The kind that live in dirt. I’m okay with kids and pets. Both of which have managed to survive -- and even thrive -- in my care. But plants? Yeah, we don’t see eye-to-eye. All that needing water thing trips me up. So, I’ve had to resort to fake flora and … [Read more...]
Time for yet another it all started with paint true confession. I have fake plants. In the house. Fake flora and fake fauna alike. Sitting in baskets. On tables. On radiator covers. On top of armoires and hutches. And they’re dusty. Sigh. I’ve made a promise to myself to rid the house of fake foliage. But that promise has yet to be … [Read more...]
Hi there! My name is Linda and I’m a Jersey-born-and-bred Midwestern transplant who lives in Chicago with my husband and two children. We've lived in our home since 1995 and over the years our style has changed and evolved. I wouldn't call my home a work-in-progress -- more like a rework-in-progress as I refresh and remodel things around here ... one room at a time.
