Today’s second diy to-do accomplished in far less time than fixing the leaky sink. Gold mini blinds installed (very imperfectly) so I can cook in privacy. #queens4lyfe A photo posted by Krista Garcia (@goodiesfirst) on […]

The addition of a rug is a pretty basic move that did change the tenor of the space. It all of a sudden occurred to me that my pink and mauve hallway runner made no […]

The kitchen faucet created more chaos than I care to detail right now. No one needs to know. I have a real problem with scale and imagining real-life size based on measurements given in online […]

This is not the range I was envisioning for my future apartment this time last year, but it’s new, it’s mine, it works. Also a tortured metaphor for 2015. #goodenoughfornow #queens4lyfe A photo posted by […]

I’ve nearly accomplished my goal of having zero white in my kitchen. Once the stove is gone, that’ll be it. (And then I’ll just pack up and move, my work here is done.) It’s strange […]

Technically (I’m really starting to lose my mind over whether one needs a comma here–and yeah, it’s all about style and consistency of which I have none) Phase #4 would be the range that sat […]

I bought this ’80s (maybe late ’70s–I’m not sure) chandelier on eBay way back in August before I’d even moved into this apartment and just got around to finally having it installed (along with bathroom […]

I thought that I had already mentioned the fridge swap but I’m either a poor searcher or that was on other social media. Anyway, I had a 5′ tall midget fridge, just 2′ wide. That’s […]

It recently occurred to me–and likely because I have family in town to see my “new” apartment–that I haven’t been accurately documenting my decorative transformations, particularly in the kitchen. I have high hopes for the […]

I’m going to pretend to be a design blogger for a moment (minus the well-staged dslr photos–I don’t have a wide-angle lens that can capture full rooms anyway). Now that I’m well into month three […]