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In a time where anxiety is more prevalent than ever, making sure our homes stay stress free is a major consideration when designing your space. Anxiety, like most things in life, takes work to manage and it can be made easier if your home is already equipped to be your safe space. We aren’t saying that dedicating a room to …
Every Monday morning on Instagram, you can head to our profile and watch our “Meet the Designer” series on our stories. Each Monday, we answer questions from our faithful viewers who come to us with design-related questions. It’s a series we all enjoy doing here at the office. It’s a chance for our followers and viewers to ask us a …
There are three rooms that buyers always make comments on when they are going through homes that they think should be updated: Kitchen, Bathroom, and Master Bedroom + Ensuite.
At $0.08/load of laundry for something that takes a little elbow grease to make and fragrance- and dye-free? Count me in!
Last weekend brought us daylight savings and an hour less of dark skies. When we fall back, I definitely love the extra hour of sleep I get to enjoy, but when I’ve been on the downhill winter slump of early dark nights and the cold, I fully enjoy springing forward since that means summer is surely approaching! Which do you …
Hello everyone! I think after last weekend’s, we all are definitely ready for some spring-like weather! I’m all about some snow, but once it get’s dumped all over like a dump truck out of control, I’m out – send me to Arizona or Texas, somewhere where I can stay warm! In efforts to bring some “spring” to your life today, …
I am back again! With the cold weather here, I have started to focus my efforts on the inside. One place I really wanted to have fun with was my ladder shelves. They came from a local thrift store, Encore Thrift Store, whose mission I strongly value and spread any chance I get. Encore Thrift Store is operated by Hope …
Don’t take a cut by lowering the price of your home when you can get professional advice on how to gain the marketing edge! Home staging is a marketing tool and an investment that can help you sell your home for top dollar and/or more quickly than the average home. Elizabeth Erin Designs offers options for investors and homeowners who …
How is it already the week of Thanksgiving? There seems to be a million things on the to-do list that need to get done by Thursday. Totally not freaking out here! How about you guys? Are you ready for the chaos to begin? Are you one of the lucky ones who only has to show up to the festivities? Totally …
Winter is slowly creeping in on us! Back in October when it snowed for a day, I think it put everyone into shock!! No one was ready for that wintery surprise! It’s like Iowa completely forgot that we’re supposed to have a season between summer and winter called fall. Oh well, that’s what we should expect Mother Nature to do …