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The Easy Decor Trick You Didn’t Know
...Or at least I didn't know it until I read this post. It's something that I was doing before at least semi-intuitively, but consciously paying attention to this tiny fix is such an easy way to instantly give a room a more polished feel.
Basically, forget about centering art on a wall, and pay more attention to orienting it around the furniture. (This doesn't necessarily mean always placing it dead center above a major piece of furniture - although it could - but rather just thinking about the art as it relates to the way you've arranged the pieces in your room.)
A Little Help Over Here?
(Kel, if you're wondering, is Kendrick's nickname - his dad made him that stool when he was little.)
Alright, so yesterday I showed you all those little things about our new place that I love...and now I'm going to show you a room that I very seriously do not like even a tiny bit.
Our bathroom.
Light Me Up
Now that's a good globe.
I promise, I'm not turning into Young House Love, Ramshackle Edition over here; I just literally have been doing nothing but working on our place for the past week, so...well, talking about home decor is what I've got.
The present object of my obsession: lighting. I'm working on a full remodel of the lighting situation in our house (by which I mean I having lights as opposed to having literally none and living in near-total darkness, because that's what was going on before). I'm shooting a before-and-after video so you can see the full extent of what we're doing, but in the meantime we need to talk about lighting fixtures.
First BBQ (Sort Of)
For our first dinner in our new home, we thought we'd do a BBQ by the pool. Or, rather, in the pool, because those kids are ob. sessed. (As an aside, because the safety issues surrounding kids and pools clearly deserve mention - our approach this weekend was to have a serious talk with our son about pool safety, confirm that the gate around the pool was secure, and install a home security system that also chimes whenever the doors to the backyard open.)
The BBQ plan was slightly confounded by the fact that we don't actually own a grill yet (although we will as of 4PM today, when it gets delivered, so if you have any fun recipes pleeeeeease pass them on; I plan to cook outdoors every single night, all summer long and my grilling repertoire is pathetic), but I dug our old stovetop grill from our NYC apartment out of a box, and that did the job. Also I could totally have served my family old taco shells and they would have been perfectly happy, because: pool.
The Menu: Since first meals in new homes should be 1) simple to make (because most of our utensils are still MIA) and 2) WONDERFUL, I went with my all-time favorite summer menu; it's fast and easy and inexpensive and so, so (so) delicious.
