I write Decorating Our Space from a rented flat in Portland where two rooms get real light and one never will. I measure a room before I decide anything in it, and when a change did not hold, the article says so.
Someone told me once that a large mirror could make my 90 square foot bedroom feel twice its size, and I believed it long enough to spend money on one. It did n
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Finishing a room in one weekend feels satisfying, but it usually locks in decisions before you have any real evidence about the…
My first apartment had an eight-foot ceiling and a window that stopped about a foot short of it. I hung the rod…
A friend told me her living room felt like a hotel lobby. Glass table, glossy sideboard, mirrored side tables, glossy rug. Every…
The first time I helped a friend move a sectional into a third floor walk-up, we stood in the stairwell for twenty…
Paper templates on the wall, not frames on the floor, are what make a gallery wall look planned instead of accidental. Here…
I once spent an entire Saturday moving a couch across a room three separate times before admitting the arrangement was never going…
I painted my living room three times in two years before I understood what I was doing wrong. The chip was never…
My first studio in Queens was 410 square feet, and I spent the first month trying to furnish it like a one-bedroom…
A room that feels wrong rarely has one obvious cause. I use a short diagnostic process instead of guessing at a fix,…