Today I have the privilege of kicking off the TLC Book Tour for Kathleen McCleary’s novel House & Home. She’ll be making virtual tour stops all over the blogosphere this month where her novel will be reviewed and discussed.
The book drew me right in with these opening paragraphs, which are read in this video trailer [...]
Better Homes and Gardens’ book New Cottage Style ($19.95) seems like just the thing to read for Spring, so I’m giving a copy away this week as a part of the Bloggy Giveaway Carnival (read about the giveaway here).
Today also happens to be my 3-month “Blogiversary,” so this is a great way to celebrate all of the [...]
By JULIA @ HOOKEDONHOUSES.NET
Real homes are to model houses what we normal women are to fashion models. Supermodel Cindy Crawford famously admitted, “Even I don’t wake up looking like Cindy Crawford. I have fat days, ugly days, blimp days, days that I just feel terrible about myself. I don’t want to have to be beautiful all the [...]
One of the biggest problems with houses today is that so few of them have any real character. If you read my post about our family-room makeover, or saw the photos from my writing-room makeover, you know we started with a big, blank slate of white boxy rooms when we moved into our house.
Our solution? A [...]
Sometimes it’s hard to know when it’s time to move on, and when you’re better off staying put. Especially in this real estate market, things are trickier than ever.
One of our neighbors argues that we should all sell now because the market might get worse before it gets better. Another wants to sell but is putting it off until the market [...]
In the interest of full disclosure, since we’re talking about wallpaper today, I have to admit that I used to sell it. I not only worked for a year at Wallpapers to Go, but I sold more rolls than I can count as a designer’s assistant in the 1990s.
Maybe this explains my aversion to it [...]
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I’ll admit it. I have a history of picking the wrong paint colors. There was the Craftsman White, which looked completely neutral on the chip but turned a pale yellow in our foyer. The Irish Spurge, which turned our upstairs hallway into a dark, depressing cave. And let’s not forget Compatible Cream, which was a decidedly incompatible yellow-gold in my [...]
I just discovered a fun new book called The House Always Wins by Marni Jameson. Not only is it filled with helpful advice for the do-it-yourself decorator, but it’s laugh-out-loud funny, too. My favorite combination!
Some of the topics the book covers:
Why your house will never look like a model.
A sane person’s guide to choosing flooring.
Cabinets are like [...]
Well, everybody, it’s been another exciting day here at Hooked on Houses.
I just heard from Sarah Susanka, author of the bestselling Not So Big House books, saying that she read my interview with Dan McGinn and has a few things she’d like to contribute to our discussion.
In yesterday’s interview with the author of House Lust, [...]
I recently had a chance to talk to Daniel McGinn, author of the hugely entertaining new book House Lust. Listen in on our conversation to hear what he has to say about the future of McMansions (like the one pictured above in Potomac View, Maryland, that he writes about), the phenomenon of “new-house” lust that causes buyers to spurn “used [...]
