• Our Door County Cottage

    Piggybacking on my Fish Creek guide, today I have a tour of our Door County cottage. My parents bought this vacation house before I was born and we have spent every summer visiting Door County. It is a one bedroom white clapboard cottage that was built in the late 1800’s and restored in the late 80’s. My dad actually happened…

  • I bought a house

    I bought a house!

    Today is a very happy day because…I BOUGHT A HOUSE!  After years of dreaming of owning my own home, it is finally a reality.  This has been in the works for a while now, so for those of you who care, here is my (and our) house buying story.  I’ve also included pictures of my new home that were taken…

  • Chicago Apartment Tour

    Chicago Apartment Tour

    It’s finally here! My most-perfect-wonderful-in-every-way Chicago apartment tour. This apartment may not seem that special to a stranger’s eye, but it represented such an important time in my life. It was the first time I lived alone and the first time I could really experiment with interior decorating. Not to mention, the apartment was cute as heck! This one bedroom…

  • new jersey apartment tour

    New Jersey Apartment Tour

    Welcome to the second installment of apartment tours! Today I am taking you on my New Jersey apartment tour. I had to sneak this one in before moving next month! So let me start the introduction with a little background. This is a two bedroom apartment in Merchantville, NJ, which is about 20 minutes over the bridge from Philadelphia. The…

  • Philadelphia Apartment Tour

    Welcome to my first installment of home tours! I thought my Philadelphia apartment tour would be a good place to start since I moved out 1 year ago. I apologize for the photo quality in most of these posts. Blogging was not on my radar at the time! Who am I kidding? I still don’t know how to take home…