Archive for April 2013
house tour {the kitchen}
The next installation of my house tour is here. Today I’m sharing my kitchen with you. First I’ll give you some background. This is the original kitchen in my 1950’s home. The wood cabinets are in good condition but all the doors are different sizes. They had been painted white and all the hardware was…
Read Moremohawk review and giveaway…
When I completed my daughter’s bedroom renovation last month I had achieved all of my goals for that room. There was storage, there was a new desk area in the form of a cloffice, there was lots of fabric and color and it all made for a perfect not-too-girly space for my tomboy of a…
Read MoreInspiration from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston…
I visited the Museum of Fine Arts here in Boston a couple weeks ago and got some inspiration while viewing one of my favorite paintings. The painting is called The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit and was painted by John Singer Sargent. It is a huge painting (about 7 feet x 7 feet) of four…
Read MoreBoston Proud
I am Boston Proud. This past week has been a difficult one here in the Boston area with the loss of three young lives as well as too many people injured for life. If that wasn’t hitting close enough to home my small town was put under lock down. I live right next to Watertown.…
Read Morea break for spring…
This week my children are off for april vacation. No. 29 Design is going to take the week off as well. I’ll leave you with some pictures of this beautiful teacup arrangement my daughter made with her Girl Scout Troop… I’ll still be pinning and tweeting of course. Just because it’s vacation doesn’t mean the…
Read MoreHow to upholster a chair…
I’ve been searching local antique shops in my area for a chair for my daughter’s bedroom. I had a chair there which had armrests and wasn’t working with the floating desk, the armrests kept bumping into the front. I had it in my mind to find a wooden chair that I could upholster and paint.…
Read MoreWayfair DIY Blogger Challenge
I was recently asked to participate in the Wayfair DIY Blogger Challenge. Wayfair has teamed up with Hometalk to create this challenge with a couple simple instructions. Pick one of three items, a mirror, a lampshade or a bookshelf and give it a complete makeover using one of three themes. The three themes were Geometric…
Read Morehouse tour {pre-tween girls bedroom}
The house tour continues again. The room of the week is my daughter’s pre-tween bedroom. I’ve posted a lot of what I’ve done in there to take it from a little girl’s room to something more mature. The cloffice was a big part of the renovation in that it updated the room and kept it fun at…
Read Morebecause it’s pretty…
My “because it’s pretty” series has become a way of showing you the latest aspect of design that has recently been occupying my mind. Whether it is the latest fad, a design crush or more of an obsession, I get it out of my system by sharing it with you. My latest is chairs. Chairs…
Read MoreGoldenAge USA giveaway winner!
We have a winner! Congratulations to Eugenia, the winner of this gorgeous wool rug from GoldenAge USA Congratulations and thank you to everyone who entered!
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