Home, Health and Style After 40
If you’re looking for inspiration to create a special place for your hobby or business, take a trip to Dollar Tree with me! I’ll show you how to jazz up a few inexpensive items and create a space that will inspire you.
Whether you’re staging your home to sell, setting up a dorm room or apartment for your young adult, or just looking to update on a budget, headboards can make a huge difference in the look of a room. Here a 3 ideas for breathing new life into a master or kids’ bedroom with just a […]
If you’re thinking of downsizing, selling your home is probably your biggest stressor. The process of getting a house ready for sale is not for the faint of heart, especially if you’ve lived in the same location over 10 years, as we had before our recent downsizing move. On this side of the move, we […]
My husband and I are recent empty-nesters. When our youngest settled into college life, our plan to downsize kicked into high gear. First on my list was styling our home to sell, and that meant bringing the “wow” factor to every area of the house-even the closets. While I’ll never know for sure, I’m guessing […]
First let me say, there are so many perks of downsizing. We went from a 6 bed, 3.5 bath home to a 3 bed 2.5 bath “cottage” and are loving it! If you are wondering if this should be your next move, I strongly encourage you to take the plunge. Because our family home was […]
Although I haven’t darkened the doors of a baby furniture store in quite a few years, all I have to do is look in my closet to bring back the memory of shopping for our first child’s nursery. It was a truly magical time of dreaming how our lives would be with our darling newborn, […]
As we packed our youngest child to leave for college, the reality of our next phase began to terrify me. Would my husband and I still have what it took to sustain a healthy marriage sans kids? Despite our best efforts to connect emotionally, our lives had become a flurry of sporting events, trips to […]
Over the years, I’ve become friends with paint. My turning point from store-brand paint to quality brands came when my husband and I redid a four-bedroom fixer upper with two preschool kids in tow. In that exhausting era of my life, I drove over to our newly purchased, vacant house after my husband got home […]