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Flying South for the Winter

On our recent trip to Nashville, we happened into Retropolitan, a  great little modern home store in Hillsboro Village. While we fell in love with tons of sleek furniture options, what really caught our eye were these funky little ceramic swallows. Available in two sizes and facing either right or left, the display options are…

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A New Bed for Jack

On our recent trip to Milwaukee we saw and experienced many wonderful things; art, food, drinks, and this fantastic bathroom. Right around the corner from said bathroom, we  wandered into a really cool boutique pet shop in the Third Ward, Metropawlis. Metropawlis stocks all sorts of cool treats and toys for your beloved pet, but…

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Long Live the Houseplant

Kim and I are not exactly what you’d consider “green thumbs.” In order to end our unintentional murderous rampage of houseplants, we took a recent trip to Gethsemane Garden Center in Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood for some good-old-fashioned advice. We found a helpful expert and simply explained the quantity and frequency of natural light that our…

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Storage, Cubed

As you’ve heard us say time and time again, our place is tiny and space for stuff and storage is at a premium. You get it.  So once our office-slash-guestroom finally got situated in a way that we were happy with, we came upon yet another storage dilemma: where do we store the air mattress,…

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The Tracks In Our Home

As with most couples diving headlong into their first real estate purchase together, it took weeks of searching before we were able to decide on our little yellow brick condo. One of the major selling points of our unit was the great ceiling detail that helped to separate the kitchen space from the living space…

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Magic In An Applicator

As you may have noticed, we like to paint. A lot. Picture frames, furniture, bicycles, you name it, we’ve sprayed or brushed it with a fresh layer of color. Painting is easily the least expensive way to change up the look and feel of anything you may have grown a little wary of, and this…

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