Fratt House

An easy way to sew curtains, and the resource list for my dad's three day makeover.

So here are the plans for the Grove Ridge remodel. We will be renovating the shared bathroom, the loft area and adding square footage by capping the open space. We will also be moving the washer and dryer upstairs so we can have a larger mudroom. Here is the original floor plan for upstairs. The two front rooms will stay the same and just get new floors and paint. Here's a rough sketch of what we will be changing. Here is the new floor plan. In the girls' new room, there

One Kings Lane Edition As a designer, there's no getting around how fast our minds design a room. We see an interesting piece of furniture, art, fabric, a beautiful rug...whatever it is that really peaks our interest... we can't help but create a whole room around that one piece. As I was poking around the internet for a job, I found a sofa I fell in love with on One King's Lane. Not that I need a new sofa, but it was a show stopper for me. So I wondered if I could design

The design plan was pretty simple...work with what you've got (space wise), and make it feel like it belongs. When we were done, this space could sleep 5, most likely 5 girls. At any given time, if all the cousins were there, or if just one of the families came and brought some friends, it would be a full house. And since there were two bunks, it would feel a little bit like camp. So that's what we went with. Here is the design plan. Does anyone remember this awesome bed

I thought I would share some of the things I love with the inter web. But as I started to look for some of my favorites, I ran across the Uptown Dinning collection at West Elm. Can I just say, I am in LOVE!!! and within an hour, I had a design board for an imaginary formal dinning room that I could not put in my house because it's just too nice. I would seriously be afraid to touch anything in it. So if you are in the market for a modern but not too serious dinning room,