A Guide to Creating the Ultimate Home Bar

When it comes to entertaining, it’s great to have a well-stocked bar so you can be ready to entertain at a moment’s notice. Every grown-up home should have a proper bar and if you don’t, setting up the perfect home bar is way easier than you think! Read on for my tips on creating the ultimate home bar including how to style it, the essential spirits to stock it with and the most stylish tools and accessories to help you mix up the perfect cocktail!

I love a good bar cart because of its versatility. You can style them up …

7 Tips to Keep Your Live Christmas Tree Fresh

There’s nothing like the fragrant smell of a freshly cut Christmas tree! But if you’re like many people who buy their trees just after Thanksgiving and keep them up through New Year’s, this means you’ll need your tree to last for up to 6 weeks. Here are my 7 top tips for maintaining your cut tree and keeping it nourished, fresh and fragrant all throughout the holiday season.

1. Get a Freshly Cut Tree
The best tree are ones that are freshly cut tree from your local tree farm. Often you’ll find pre-cut trees at your local nursery, grocery store …

The Best Natural Remedies to Help You Battle Cold & Flu Season

I’m a big believer in homeopathic medicine and try my best not to take prescription or over the counter medications unless its absolutely necessary. Since we’re in the thick of cold & flu season, I thought I’d share a few of my favorite natural remedies to help fight common cold and flu symptoms as well as shorten the duration of your illness. Read on to learn about my five favorite natural ingredients and the three immune boosting recipes I swear by to help me fight the cold and flu.

These are the five natural ingredients which have been incredibly effective …

NYDJ Office Makeover

A while back I worked on a pretty fun commercial design project for NYDJ redecorating the lobby of their NYC office in Times Square. While the project was finished a couple of years ago, I’ve never shared any photos of it here on the blog so I thought it would be fun to take a look back at and show you how the project came together. If you’re not familiar with NYDJ, it’s an LA based denim label best known for its slimming jeans that make you look a size smaller (they seriously do!). You can find them at major …

How to Remove Candle Wax From a Tablecloth

When you’re entertaining at home little accidents are bound to happen and I absolutely hate it when I get melted candle wax on my table linens. It’s of the most stubborn messes to clean up so I thought I’d share this super easy hack to help you solve this problem if it ever happens to you. Not long ago I designed this lovely little table for a charity food tasting event…

But once the event was over I realized that the melted candle wax had leaked through the hurricanes and had absorbed deep into my tablecloth. This is the mess …