This past year has been a bit of a whirlwind for me personally, picking up and moving to New Jersey in a matter of weeks to take a new job. And anyone who knows me knows where I'm living and the way that it's designed is really important to me. I like to feel like I'm "home" so to speak. So it was really important to me over these past 9 months to create a space that I'd enjoy coming back to and hanging out in. The very first sign that things would settle in was the hanging o

Photo: Penny Millar As an artist and design enthusiast I have dabbled in quite a number of different materials and paint over the years. I've tried countless brands and subsequent designs, however I have yet to find any paint that is capable not only of the range of projects that Chalk Paint® Decorative Paint by Annie Sloan can cover but also the durability and quality of the product. For those that don't know, Chalk Paint® was developed in 1990 by Annie Sloan, a woman now c

At some point, my Pinterest feed started to sprinkle in various ideas for coffee filters. I thought that seemed like a fun thing to do and relatively inexpensive so I started to look into what I wanted to do with them. Eventually I realized I wanted them to somehow be scaling the wall in some way, and that they'd be going over my bed. That was basically the gist of the pre-planning. Fortunately my friend INNA was game, and we set out to dye the filters and create a glitter-fi