(Updated on September 3, 2023) It is always more difficult to arrange your living room furniture if the space is small. You have to figure out how to maximize the space you have and arrange your furniture accordingly. In some instances, you might need to carve out an area for a desk. This is if…
I didn’t wait for the parts to my kitchen cart to come in the mail. I went to Lowes and purchased what I needed. World Market is refunding me for my having to buy the parts to put it together. And I thank them for that. One change beckons another. For a few days I…
I’ve been researching ways to live more cheaply. This is the first installment in my series on Living Simply Part 1. In my research I found that some people live in small vintage trailers, converted buses and tiny homes. Some even live in yurts. Yurt: a tent-like dwelling consisting of a cylindrical wall of poles in…
I was asked to show the before and after photos of my apartment kitchen. Below here is the photo just after I moved in. I had just taken the three cabinet doors down. Then I called the front office and asked them if they’d come get my stove and take it away. Unfortunately, the stove…
Do you ever wonder what happens at a magazine photo shoot? Well, I was filled with anxiety over this very thing yesterday. But Franklin and Esther, the man and wife team (he photographs; she styles) could not have been nicer. I felt like they were old friends by the end of what turned out to…
Have you ever thought about why we move things around? My post title is actually a rhetorical statement. Because I truly don’t know why we have this tendency to move our furniture all over the house. I’m happily divorced now. I think I’ve learned my lesson after failed marriage #3. Maybe I’m a slow learner…