Hell is a cold, cold place since Sunday afternoon. Thanks to my BFF Karen, my client/friend Dana, and never-met-before-but-follows-my-blog Josef in Dallas, I have embraced Twitter. This is a line I swore I would never cross and actually thought the [...]
Before I run out to today's design consultations, I'll share a few furniture finds on Craigslist: This sectional looks fab together, but you could also split it into an "L" and pop a square side table in the corner in [...]
The Austin Art Garage is a great place to find emerging local artists, and they happen to have a pretty stellar Web site. The prices of original pieces tend toward the affordable range, and prints are steals. One of my [...]
Fanny's Fabrics is the place in Austin to find supercool retro-inspired interior decor fabrics at outlet prices. Some of their most recent fun stuff: [...]
Part of Austin's upcoming drought restrictions, which go into effect Monday: "A person may not fill, refill, or add water to an indoor fountain." No tranquility for you! I'm not here to rag on people with indoor fountains, but in some [...]
Love the mod wingback on this chair so much! Paint the wood a crazy color, and how adorable would it be?! This poor baby needs a lot of upholstery love, but with the right colors and combination of fabrics, this [...]
I'm excited to finally announce the new CRAVE Austin books are finally in hand and officially hitting the street Wednesday, August 19th. What is a CRAVE book, you ask? CRAVE Austin: The Urban Girl's Manifesto is [...]
I was looking for a specific email in my terribly overrun inbox today and stumbled upon an inquiry I received a year ago from a high school student here in Austin. One of her teachers assigned her class the task [...]
I was dying to talk to Amy Sklar today. I'd sort of taken her elimination from Design Star as some kind of personal affront and I wanted to commiserate with her about the whys and the wherefores of the inexplicable [...]