Now that the inside of our home is pretty much done, we’re looking towards our outdoor space. We have two very old garages that will need some attention soon. We have a long driveway and a bit of ‘grassy’ area behind our bedroom. And our property is surrounded by a wooden fence in back that’s…
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Bathroom Update
If you’ve been following along on my Insta stories, you’ll know that the bathroom remodel is well underway. The demo is complete. The framework for the new layout is in. As you can see above and below, my contractor and his team have finished laying the cement for all the tile work, and as you…
Jungalow by The River Update: New Shelving Unit
Our living room is one of the smallest rooms in the house, plus it has our entryway and breakfast bar in it, making it even more difficult to design around. For many, many months we’ve wanted to put in some kind of shelving unit to host our books and favorite art objects and we finally…
Bathroom remodel: What color should we paint the walls?
The bathroom remodel #2 is underway! I got back from NYC last night to find that the whole bathroom had been demo’d and all the plumbing done! Wow! (If you need to catch up on this project, you can read about the inspo behind the design on this post.) Today, the framing is going in for…
Inspiration and Design for Bathroom Remodel No. 2
This post brought to you by Kohler. Click here to get inspired! I’m so thrilled to be working with Kohler on our new bathroom remodel. It’s the last room in the house to get an update. You may remember this post where you all helped me to figure out the new layout. We decided on the…
Finally al fresco
The heat is back here in L.A. and last night we were able to have our first dinner outdoors. Nothing fancy- we had fish n’ chips actually- but the sky was showing off and it just felt good to be out there knowing that Spring is on its way. The big leaves are called Tetrapanex…
Baskets from Burundi
I made my monthly pilgrimage to the Rosebowl flea yesterday, due to the time change I got there later than I normally do, which was not fun. It was hot, crowded and the ATM machines were broken so I waited in line for an hour to get some cash. Oy. Right before I was about…
Thanksgiving at the Jungalow and 5 Affordable Holiday Entertaining Ideas
My parents were married on Thanksgiving in 1968 and so every year Thanksgiving is a big shindig for our family — we celebrate their anniversary and Thanksgiving at the same time. My mom and dad usually host and it’s always loads of fun and a big to-do. This year my parents moved into a smaller…
Design Dilemma: Bathroom layout
Hello sweet friends of the Jungalow. We are getting ready to embark on the next reno project at our Jungalow by the River. It’s both exciting and nerve racking, as these renovation projects tend to be. And we’ve been stuck at the design phase for several months. The layout of the house is so small and relatively…
Jungalow Holiday Makeover
This post was created in partnership with Joss & Main. Last year at this time we were kinda mid-swing with our renovations. We didn’t yet have a proper dining room and we weren’t quite ready to entertain in our new Jungalow, but things have changed. I’m finally ready to invite folks over and have some…
Before & After, Our Entryways
This post is created in partnership with Schlage. Little things make a big difference. We talk about that a ton in design, but it’s even more true when thinking about the rhythms of daily life. We all make repeated actions on a daily basis, for example we get out of bed, take a shower,…
New Rose Bowl Scores
I made it to the Rosebowl Flea Market over the weekend. I had some luck this time around and found some serious Jungalow goodness that I’m super excited about. First of all, this Paul Bellardo sun sculpture. I’ve been a long time fan of Bellardo’s work and had seen this exact sculpture many times (online…
Backyard dreams for The Jungalow By The River
We put a halt on our home remodeling after we finished the master bedroom and bathroom remodel earlier this year, mainly for financial reasons…but every morning when I wake up and look outside those French doors into our back yard, I start dreaming again. We have an old 2-car garage that we currently use for…
Before & After — Our Bluhemian Lounge
When we last spoke about our lounge room, we had just bought our new sectional from Jonathan Louis. The hardwood floors had been unearthed from underneath that carpet and had been refinished. The room was in pretty good shape after that: While I was happy with the way the room looked, from the beginning I knew…
Before and After: Jungalow Master Bathroom Big Reveal
This is our master bathroom before. In one tiny room, there was a toilet and a very small shower, and then, in the master bedroom, there was the vanity. There was nothing about this bathroom that I wanted to salvage. We ended up doing a complete demo and redesign of the entire master bathroom. Although we…
Before and After : Jungalow Dining Room Big Reveal
One of things that we loved about this home when we first found it, was that it had a dining room. Growing up, family dinners were very important. We sat around a dining table and shared a meal together everyday, downloading the good the bad and the ugly of our days to one another. This…
Before & After: Master bedroom Big Reveal
This is our master bedroom. Between a short timeline, a limited budget, and the awkward layout of the room (read more about it on this post) this was probably one of my most challenging design projects to date–and maybe the most rewarding, too. The first thing that we committed to was opening up the back…
The Jungalow by the River in House Beautiful Magazine
I met Sophie Donelson for the first time last year. She’s the new Editor in Chief at House Beautiful Magazine (she’s been there about a year) and she’s just one of the coolest ladies out there. We kinda became instant-homies after our first hang sesh. So much so that by the second time we hung out, we were sharing…
A Garden Window for the Win!
Bringing the outdoors in is a thing around here, and one seamless way to do that is through a garden window. While normally seen in kitchens, I’m all for installing garden windows all over the house. If you put enough plants in the window you get the privacy of a curtain, and all the happiness that…
Inside Out
Last week Ida asked me if I missed ‘the old house.’ I think it’s the first time she’d asked me that. I had asked her plenty of times over the course of the last 10 months since we’d moved, aiming to be sensitive to her emotional wellbeing — but her answer had always been ‘no.’ Truth is,…