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For those folks asking about shelves, I managed to find the online version of step-by-step guide to making floating shelves from hollow-core folding doors. It’s a simple process, and the results are stunning, but warning: this may not be the best option if you’re renting. Even if you alter Step #7 from “glue and then [...]

If you ask me (and you’re reading, so that counts as asking), it’s important to be aware of the importance of home as sacred space, as a place that’s both protective and inviolate and removed from what’s-out-there. And, as long as we feel like intruders or permanent guests or not-really-here in undecorated/uncommanded homes/spaces, we never [...]

After the last week or so of nonstop go-go-go (with the final note of it all being the news a friend is shipping off to Iraq for a month, sigh), I realized the best sanity saver is to avoid deep thoughts and chase the shiny, which for me will always be How To Occupy Space. [...]