Ding's Design Blog
Design Tips, Project Updates + Links I Love
Some say that the living room is the heart of your a home. The warmth, mix of styles and natural elements in this space make it feel instantly comfortable and homey. But if I had to guess, the cost for this design probably came in around $20k. That's likely more than the entire renovation budget for some homeowners... So, I wanted to recreate this design at three different price points to show that you don't always need a lot of money to style the perfect living space!
I recently finished a home staging project for a local Austin family looking to make a big move, and I'm so excited to reveal the transformation!The McLoud's had their home sitting on the market for around 100 days before contacting me. They were having trouble attracting interested buyers and wanted to enlist some help with updating their listing.
One of my favorite design trends right now is raw wood. I think it adds so much warmth to a space, and my home office had been feeling a little bare. So, after seeing a few of my favorite bloggers, Emily Henderson and Studio McGee, featuring unique ways they've incorporated wooden bead garlands into a space, I thought to myself "I could make that!" Check out what I came up with...
Since moving into my newly renovated home, I've been budgeting a lot more than usual for all the unexpected little things you want + need to make a house feel functional. So, on this edition of Links I Love, I'm sharing my favorite new home goods as well as a few must-have items that have quickly become creature comforts!
The raw wood trend has been all the rage, and has recently inspired an ultra-modern twist on pegboards. In the past couple months I’ve helped two of my clients, Natalie and Pei, create pegboard-inspired feature walls in their home offices as a part of their Spruce Kit pacakges, and couldn’t be happier with how well these capture both of these girls' personalities. Check them out!
Last Saturday was a pretty momentous occasion for me, one I’ve been tirelessly planning for the past 9 months! Project #RenovateDING is (nearly) complete, and am officially all moved in—well, despite my storage unit looking like a hoarder’s paradise…haha! Although I still have a lot of unpacking and decorating to do to make it FEEL like home, it’s already a dream to be living in this house!
It’s pretty well known that potential homebuyers tend to have a difficult time seeing past the paint color, let alone your own personal decor. So, in order to sell your home quickly (and close to the price you’re asking), it’s crucial to stage your home in a way that allows for others to easily picture themselves living there. I’ve created this (free) printable checklist below, and hope it helps provide you a little bit of sanity as you hustle to get your home SOLD!
Shibori dyeing, to me, has always felt a little synonymous with summertime (probably because of all of the tie-dye I used to do as a kid during summer breaks). And while I have several shibori tea towels, and scarves that I've collected over the years, I had never actually dyed any of them myself. This summer I made it my mission to change that!
A few weeks ago I reached out to some of y’all on my Instagram, asking whether or not you would enjoy a new blog series called “Links I Love.” There isn’t really a time I don’t love shopping, but I’m particularly prone to stress-shopping! And with a lot going on behind-the-scenes as I prepare to move into the #RenovateDING house in the coming weeks, I figured it would be a great time to share my top 5 favorite goodies I’ve picked up this summer!
Things are moving along fairly quickly now at the #RenovateDING casa! I finally got around to ordering my new letterbox mailbox, countertops have been ordered, and kitchen cabinets installed with pretty new hardware. I got really excited when it came time to picking out the pendant lighting for over the kitchen island, because I knew I wanted them to be the furthest thing from plain! Want to see what I chose?
