Here's a new recurring feature from Room Fu Decorologist, Claire Patrick! Each month, Claire will be giving us a wrap-up of her favorite posts from other blogs. I'm superpumped about her first list below, so I'm already looking forward to [...]
When I moved to Austin from New York City thirteen years ago (GASP! Has it been that long?), I was single. I moved into a huge apartment for the same rent I paid back in Manhattan for a shoebox in [...]
Here I go, beating the drum of FLOR tiles again. Can't help it, the love runs deep. But what I'm really excited about today are all of the angled runners and odd shapes of the rugs in this week's catalog. [...]
Art Institute student Candis Thompson joined Room Fu at the beginning of 2012 and is currently working toward a bachelor's degree in interior design. But Candis is no ordinary student of design. In addition to a full course load at [...]
In my interior design practice, I see a lot of clients with curtain conundrums. Among them, one of my sisters-in-law, who called over the weekend. "How far off the floor should our curtains hang?" she asked, and I could tell [...]
I'm coming to you live from a hospital bed. We surprised Phoebe with a trip to DisneyWorld, but the surprise was on me. Before I even made it to the Magic Kingdom, I supersprained my ankle. That's right. Once again, [...]
Let's say you're recovering from knee surgery and you meet your extended family for some R&R at a rented lakehouse in North Texas. You might expect to sleep in every day, or get a nap here and there. Take it [...]
Let's say you're buying a house and you have a closing date a few weeks away. You're going to buy new living room furniture, new bedding, and you'll need new flooring too. You should pick out paint colors ASAP so [...]
Lots of great tips flooding in from clients this week! Today's tip comes from Jane, who was part of the Room Fu Block Party I held recently in a Mueller neighborhood. (Three neighbors booked back-to-back paint consultations.) She hipped me [...]
Thanks to client/reader Kelly, I was turned on to White Furniture, a great resource for reproduction mid-century furniture she stumbled upon in her daughter's NYU neighborhood. I like a good Womb chair as much as the next person, but I [...]