5 Favorites: Waldorf-Worthy Bath Toys for Babies
Now that my children are a bit older, I miss the days when I needed to stand by while they took a bath. I don’t miss the mountains of bath toys, though; here’s a selection of bath toys that have stood the test of time. Above: Winner of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Design Award in 1970, Patrick Ryland’s bird and...
Elevating the Everyday: At Home with Sanne Hop and Family in the Netherlands
Last June when Sanne Hop and her family of six moved from their apartment in a historic building in Amsterdam to a just-built house in the suburbs, I was one of the 94,700 people avidly following along. Since then, we’ve been there to experience—via Instagram (@sanne hop)—life with a toddler (when will three-year-old Kaatje agree to decamp from her parents’ bed?),...
A Midcentury-Style 1980s House: The Takatina Take on an Upstate Hideaway
Ten years ago, when we first met Takaaki and Christina Kawabata, they had just fled Brooklyn with their two young kids to live in an entirely open-plan cabin in upstate New York. The couple—he’s an architect, she’s an interior designer—transformed their modest 1960s retreat into a Japanese-style, minimalist farmhouse: see The New Pioneers: A One-Room Family House. The four continue...
A Madcap Apartment in Paris for a Creative Couple (Plus Kids)
How many patterned tiles is too many? Anki Linde and Pierre Saalburg of Paris-based LSL Architects say to each his own limit—and that the couple who own this rambling Paris apartment happen to have a higher threshold than most. These clients—she’s a film director/writer, he’s a writer, and they have two kids—approached the remodel of their Paris quarters with a...
DIYs 9 Simple and Easy Christmas DIY Projects
Looking for super simple Christmas DIY projects? Here are 9 projects to turn your house into a winter wonderland. See this pallet wood? You’ll NEVER guess what it turned into. Okay. Truth. Maybe you might guess because you are brilliant and smart and clever. And that’s exactly why we are friends. Today I’m so excited to kick off 10 days...
DECORATING Decorating a Beach House With Coastal Style
Take a coastal beach house tour of our family’s beach house. Tips and ideas for decorating a beach house with coastal style. There are so many fun ways to add coastal style to your home. Today I’m sharing all of my favorite decorating tips for style by the ocean with this coastal beach house tour. I’ve spent every almost every...
PROJECTS DIY Book Page Garland With Wood Tassels
Here’s how to make a book page garland along with 12 other paper craft ideas. Simple, easy projects you can make today. I love making projects with these. Book pages. Specifically, book pages from this vintage set of encyclopedias that Buddy chewed up 18 hours after I brought them home from a yard sale. The entire “chewgate” situation happened years...
TIPS 11 Simple Backyard Summer Entertaining Ideas
Looking for easy backyard summer entertaining ideas? Here’s everything you need for the perfect summer party. Father’s Day was amazing. All the kids were home and they fixed dinner and we played games and told stories and I wore the cutest outfit that mixed hot pink and red. And somewhere between wearing two of the brightest colors on the color...
HOUSE Simple Spring Centerpiece
Looking for a simple spring centerpiece idea? Here’s a simple idea you can create in under 5 minutes with books, flowers and a nest. Yesterday I was in the middle of telling Whitney (the youngest twin) a story about something I was nervous about, but I went ahead and took a leap of faith and it worked out better than...
DECORATING Spring Home Tour Of a Once-Upon-a-Time-House
Looking for spring decorating ideas and inspiration? This home has all the flowers and the decor and the stories. Come take the spring home tour. // blue and white planters // I love a house tour that starts with once upon a time. It’s true. I am the luckiest duck in the world to be the temporary caretaker of this...