Welcome to Hooked on Fridays, a blog party I host at the end of each week to celebrate the things that make us happy. This week I’m hooked on house projects that we can do ourselves and save some money in the process–so I’m joining Remodeling Guy’s Spring Round-Up party. We all have projects that [...]
By JULIA @ HOOKEDONHOUSES.NET
Welcome to my first Hooked on Fridays blog party of 2009! One of my goals for the new year is to finish some of the hundreds of projects that I started around the house in 2008. I’m a good starter–not such a good finisher. I get bored or frustrated or just distracted [...]
Check out this dining room makeover from Better Homes & Gardens in 1956.
Clearly, the dining room was “hideous” before, deemed “gloomy” in the copy, with its hardwood floors, bare window, high ceiling, and chandelier.
The designer fixed these problems by painting the high ceiling pink to “bring it down,” covering the window with drapes, installing wall-to-wall [...]
On the HGTV show Kitchen Trends they featured this newly remodeled kitchen in a segment called “Pretty in Pink.” I thought it would be perfect to kick off a new feature here at Hooked on Houses that we’ll call (drumroll) Hooked or Hate It?
In this game, we’ll look at rooms and vote that we’re either [...]
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 [...]
“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.”
I’m working on an article about Coco Chanel for Kiki magazine’s summer issue and have to share photos of her chic apartment with you.
Coco Chanel lived [...]
I love touring fabulous houses, even if the only way I can see them is online. I’m betting that since you came to a site called “Hooked on Houses,” you do, too.
Here’s a 100-year old mansion in the Compton Heights neighborhood of St. Louis that has 4,400 sq ft with 5 bedrooms and 3.5 baths. [...]
In honor of the Oscar noms being announced today, I thought it would be appropriate to mention the role that movies play in our dream-house fantasies. If you are hooked on houses like I am, then you may have found yourself willingly sitting through otherwise dull, poorly acted, or just-plain-awful movies, as long as the [...]
