It started as so many home improvement spirals do, with a single paint chip. You pulled it off the rack at the hardware store because the name sounded right and the color looked perfect in the fluorescent light of the…
For the longest time, my bedroom was the room I stopped seeing. Not because it was terrible, it wasn’t, but because it had reached that particular state of visual noise where nothing was actively wrong, and nothing was intentionally right…
You lie down at the end of the day, and your body doesn’t believe it. Your mind says sleep, but something underneath, something older and less rational than thought, stays braced. The ceiling looks the same as it always has.…
The bedroom had been through three paint colors in four years and had produced, each time, the same mild dissatisfaction from a different angle. The first white was too cold in the morning. The gray replacement was sophisticated for exactly…
I had been trying to name what I wanted from my home office for longer than I had been trying to actually create it. The reference images I kept saving were consistently in a specific territory dark, warm, old-world, book-lined,…
The study had been a room I actively avoided. Not because it was badly designed, it was functional, organized, and adequately lit, but because it produced nothing in the way of atmosphere. A beige room with a desk and a…
The bedroom had been a project in progress for three years that had never reached the condition of being done. Not from lack of effort, I had painted it twice, replaced the bedding twice, changed the curtains, added art, removed…
The shutters had been the same faded green for eleven years and had graduated from character to neglect somewhere around year seven without my noticing exactly when. The problem with exterior shutter paint colors is that the degradation is gradual…
The boho bedroom I had been trying to build for six months looked like a mood board had exploded in a small room and had only been partially cleaned up. I had the macramé wall hanging. I had the rattan…
