A friend of mine had a genuinely alarming experience when a large, heavy mirror she’d hung with a single standard picture hook came crashing down in the middle of the night, thankfully with no one nearby and no serious damage beyond a cracked frame and a startling noise.
My sister and I redecorated our respective living rooms within a few months of each other, and we landed on almost opposite approaches to the exact same decision: a mirror above the console table. She chose an enormous, ornately carved sunburst mirror that immediately became the focal point
Our living room has exactly one window, north-facing and never particularly generous with direct sunlight, and for years I assumed that was simply the room’s permanent character, a bit dim no matter the time of day. It wasn’t until I finally hung a large mirror directly across from
My first attempt at a gallery wall involved hanging frames the moment I unwrapped them, spacing decided purely by whatever felt right in the moment, and the result looked less like a curated collection and more like a wall where things had simply accumulated over time without any
I bought my first statement mirror almost entirely on impulse, a huge round mirror I loved in the store, and brought it home only to realize it fought visually with almost everything else in the room, the rectangular furniture, the straight lines of the window trim, even the
For years I told myself our laundry room makeover was waiting on a real budget, new cabinets, a proper counter, maybe even moved plumbing, and in the meantime I just kept using the same dated, slightly depressing little room exactly as it was. It wasn’t until a friend
A neighbor of ours had a genuinely frightening close call a couple of years back when a dryer fire started from built-up lint in a vent that hadn’t been cleaned in years, and it was only caught early because someone happened to be nearby when the smoke started.
When we finally added a counter over our washer and dryer, I initially just ordered whatever laminate remnant was cheapest at the local supplier, figuring a laundry room counter didn’t need much thought beyond having a flat surface to fold on. Within a year, the edges had started
Our back entryway used to be a genuine bottleneck, muddy shoes piled by the door, backpacks dropped wherever they landed, and a washer and dryer crammed in the corner that always seemed to be in the way of whoever was trying to get past with an armful of
When we finally got around to replacing the flooring in our laundry room, I made the mistake of choosing based almost entirely on how a sample looked under the store’s lighting, without giving much thought to how it would actually hold up to the water, detergent spills, and
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