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One of the biggest requests I’ve gotten since announcing our closing was: can you suggest some places to read now that you’re leaving" ...
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I’ve been struggling a lot over the past few years to reckon with how big of a role my work life plays in my self confidence and identity. I don ...
A few years ago, I found this amazing woodworker on Instagram and immediately fell in love with her work. I asked my husband for a piece she had creat ...
Artwork by Nick Misani When I posted on Instagram about these final essay spots in our calendar, so many of you wanted to know how I knew it was time ...
When I first learned about vision/inspiration boards years ago, I was a major skeptic. I didn’t see how cutting images out of a magazine could a ...
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Last week I mentioned that I only had a few spots left in our Design*Sponge calendar before we closed up shop. I asked what YOU wanted to hear about ? ...
It wouldn’t be a proper final month of Design*Sponge (I’m not crying, you’re crying!) if we didn’t leave you with one more kno ...
So many times on Instagram I’m drawn as much by the images themselves as the enthusiastic writing of someone who genuinely seems to enjoy explai ...
Photo by HomePolish One of my earliest Design*Sponge memories involves a bit of unsolicited advice I received from a fellow design blogger. He pulled ...
After 15 years of featuring incredible homes on Design*Sponge, it can feel like every cool home we see has been featured here or elsewhere. But when t ...
When I started Design*Sponge back in 2004, I had no idea that city guides would become such a big part of what we published. DS City Guides (we have o ...
At our farewell celebration at Philadelphia’s Terrain last week, amidst steady laugher and clinking glasses, I met one of our readers who told m ...
As a child, I was fascinated with my mom’s desk. It was a refractory table that was part of our living room. I was usually the first one awake a ...
This year has been full of big professional decisions. The first was deciding it was the right time to close Design*Sponge ? and then figuring out h ...
When I was in college — in the mid-90s — I discovered the art of thrifting. I was working in a vintage store at the time in Tampa, FL call ...
Apparently I have been working out all of my “Design*Sponge is closing” anxiety in the form of home decorating projects. We’ve lived ...
Stroll around Toronto?s expansive Riverdale community and you?ll uncover fantastic schools, a collection of eclectic neighbors and rows of charming ho ...
As of today, this is our final month of posting here at Design*Sponge. After almost 15 years, it’s time to head on to a new chapter ? but not wi ...
If there is one part of our home that we use the most, it’s our kitchen dining area. It’s right next to the open kitchen (where Julia is a ...
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From previous renter to current homeowner, today’s Before & After seemed like the perfect time to check in with Seattle-based blogger, Joann ...
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Earlier this year I had the honor of speaking at Creative Mornings New York. Tina knew it was our final year at Design*Sponge and asked me to come spe ...
Last year, Alisa Bovino, who works full-time in pharmaceutical marketing and manages her blog and e-design business on the side, decided to participat ...
One of the fantastic things about editing this column over the years has been seeing the different ways people prepare the same ingredient. We have fe ...
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Merging old and new is never an easy task. First of all, it’s hard to know what condition spaces are really in when buying a fixer-upper. Second ...
Eastern Phoebe Painting by Shauna Finn Art at Etsy Over the past few months, I’ve been trying to slow down, be present, and really take in all o ...
I’m so excited that we’re getting an update from Anne Ditmeyer today! Anne has become such a star and we are all so envious of her beautif ...
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For the past five years, jewelry designer Valerie Madison has been busy building her business Valerie Madison Fine Jewelry (@valeriemadisonjewelry). W ...
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For a 1927 home only ever owned by one family, you could say that the hands of Jen Dulac and her family would be the best to embrace it when it was ti ...
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Hardwood floors were at the top of my list when looking for a house. They aren?t hard to find in Des Moines, so it wasn?t a big ask. When we toured ou ...
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I wasn’t surprised in the least when I found out that Darcy and Josh White’s Victorian farmhouse in Portland, OR was our #9 home tour of ...
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As we finish up our trek around the world in our Celebrating Global Design series, today we’re visiting France. While the air of romance and old ...
The day is finally here. I am writing about the most popular and beloved home tour we have ever run here at Design*Sponge. And to be honest, I was ent ...
Reed Kamler and the team at Thuma, makers of a platform bed frame dubbed The Bed, believe that simplicity is the truest form of sophistication. Thuma ...
In today’s edition of Evolving Style we are heading back to the Vermont home of Jessica and Dustin Glasscoe, a farmhouse we first peeked at e ...
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Our #2 spot on the Top 20 Business Posts of All Time list belongs to the final in a series of three posts that Erin Benzakein of Floret Flowers wrot ...
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I love that we are revisiting some previously featured homes here at Design*Sponge, as the blog winds down in our final months of publishing. So often ...
It feels fitting that the final two home tours in our Top 20 Countdown are in the borough where it all began. Back in 2003, I moved to Brooklyn, NY fr ...
Over the past few months of gathering our Top 20 Recipes, Kristina and I have laughed about how all of the top spots belong to either end of the spect ...
When the Design*Sponge team first met Kevin O’Gara in 2015, he was a high school student and design blogger who had impressively made-over his D ...
We were so lucky to have not one but three amazing Life & Business posts by Erin Benzakein of Floret Flowers as part of our history. I have so ...
Sometimes I look through the homes we feature here at Design*Sponge, and a color that a homeowner selected — or the light that streams into the ...
Want to meet the most popular kitchen we’ve run here at Design*Sponge" Say hello to this beautiful green kitchen that Anna and Austin Smith ...
It’s been fascinating to watch interior design services transform over the last decade. The basics of design haven’t changed much — ...
In the early days of Design*Sponge, I hemmed (no pun intended) and hawed about doing DIY projects that weren’t strictly home-based. I thought pe ...
Our spring cleaning makeover fever is starting to crest, and after the living room, bathroom, back door and runner makeover, we’re starting to s ...
Amidst the picturesque vistas of Seymour Township, Ontario sits a rustic home named for the small slopes that hug it: Drumlin Farmhouse. The property ...
It’s no secret that my favorite part of any home tour is when we get to meet someone’s pets. We’ve celebrated our favorite cats (twi ...
Last year, in a small pocket of calm during the very high-energy London Coffee Festival, my friend KS introduced me to Benjamina Ebuehi, British baker ...
For about a year back in 2007, I committed to a raw food diet as a way of trying to reset my system a bit after a really bad stomach bug. I had a hard ...
Stepping foot into the Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn apartment of Ashley Molesso (“Ash”) and Chess Needham, it’s abundantly clear fro ...
