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6 Ways to Bring the Outdoors In
Each September, our annual Gardens of the Year issue always leaves us with greenery and blooms on the brain. But, for those without a green thumb or space for a sprawling garden, there are certainly...
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One Doorway, Three Ways
Your front entrance—whether a humble stoop or a sizable courtyard—is your home’s first impression. It’s also an easy way to increase your home’s livable space in San Diego’s mild climate, says Rachael...
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Tips for Hanging Up
When I moved from a two-bedroom home in Golden Hill to a three-bedroom home in the College Area, a lot of artwork and photographs needed to be taken down, rearranged and rehung. I left the hanging up...
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Around Town: Vintage Style
Jenna Pilant is a self-described music theater nerd-turned-full-time creative. Since giving up acting several years ago, she’s added upholstery artist, lifestyle blogger—with a fun fashion sense—and...
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The Art of the Thanksgiving Table
For Jayme Sanders, entertaining at home is about a lot more than setting a pretty table. The master mind behind Carmel Valley’s Mint Studio, a retail shop-meets-gathering space that focuses on the...
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6 Secrets of Staging Your Home
Best friends and business partners Chelsea Bradford and Tiffany Garcia started their chic furniture rental company, Witty Rentals, nearly five years ago in a garage. Today, it’s expanded to a photo-...
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Shop Your Home for a New Look
Interior Designer Abbie Naber shows us how to shop what we already have in our homes for a new look. Maybe it’s because she’s a designer. Maybe it’s because she has a self-described short attention...
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8 Design Tips to Steal from One Hip Hotel
Building a design around a theme often yields very predictable (and often boring) results. That’s not the case for the interior spaces of the East Village’s new Moxy San Diego, a boutique hotel under...
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7 DIY Kitchen Changes When a Remodel Has To Wait
7 DIY Kitchen Changes If you’ve ever researched a kitchen renovation, you understand that it’s no small task. You also are not surprised by Remodeling’s 2018 Cost vs. Value Report stating that the...
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8 Tips for a More Sustainable Lifestyle
Warmer and longer days call for lingering shopping trips at farmers markets, full Saturdays spent at the beach, pool parties, backyard barbecues and keeping the whole house open (before it gets too...
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9 Ideas for Blank Walls
Like so many other homes constructed or renovated in the last 30 years, Regina and Bryan Moomjean’s Clairemont home began with a wide-open floorplan that makes their 1,700-square-foot home feel much...
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How to Use These 8 Household Items in the Garden
You may have heard the myths. Sprinkle human hair around your garden beds to keep deer away. Bury a banana peel to give roses a potassium boost. Or toss spent coffee grounds around acid-loving shrubs...
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Paint Your Own Dramatic DIY Tree Mural
#DesignRisks: With design, you shouldn’t always play it safe. Taking risks and challenging your own creativity can lead to fabulous, inspiring, one-of-a-kind designs. We know, we know. Easier said...
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Paint Your Own DIY Abstract Mural — With Kids!
Pick a blank wall in one of the rooms in your house, grab a paintbrush—and several cans of paint (along with a few other tools)—and take on one of the two bold-move projects detailed in our...
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Whole-Animal Cooking: 6 ways to make sure nothing goes to waste
Nose-to-tail eating means using every part of the animal in food preparation, letting nothing go to waste, says Urban Kitchen Group’s executive chef Tim Kolanko. It’s one of the most economically and...
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