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.
My neighbor once asked me why her curtains looked cheap even though she had spent real money on the fabric. The fabric was fine. The hem stopped two inches
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I redid a rental kitchen counter three times in five years, laminate, then butcher block, then quartz. None of those choices were…
I have moved four times in the past seven years, and each move taught me something about which of my furniture was…
The center of most framed art belongs 57 to 60 inches off the floor, not centered on the wall itself. Here is…
My sister visited two summers ago and asked why all my chairs faced the television. I did not have a good answer,…
A friend once asked me to help her pick just a plain white for her hallway. Three weekends later we had tested…