I love front doors. Like the wrapping on a gift box, they are full of possibilities. What’s inside? Do the people living there have a cozy home? Does the personality of their front door reflect the personality of the inside of their home? Is it weird that I think of these things while looking at a door? I was re-watching Love Actually again recently, and realized that one of my favorite characters is actually a door. There’s a brief moment when Natalie is standing in front of the Prime Minister’s door at 10 Downing Street as it slowly swings open. It’s got this beautiful deep black gloss that you just… Keep Reading
Vacation Rental Hosting: Make Your Home Work For You
Today is the last post in this Vacation Rental Hosting series, and I’m so excited to wrap everything up and look back over all we’ve talked about so far! We have learned so much through this process, mostly the hard way, and I’m hoping to save you some of the bumps along the way by sharing this series with you. If you’re thinking of turning a home into a vacation rental property on AirBNB or VRBO, this is the series for you! ~ This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thanks for supporting The Palette… Keep Reading
Farmhouse Christmas Palette
I love everything about the winter, except the cold. I love the holidays, the merriment, the kids being out of school (at least for the first few days). I love shopping for Christmas gifts and making the house look festive. And I love the smells. Candles burning, cookies baking, fresh pine trees. I love it all, but every year I keep finding myself wanting to simplify. It’s so easy to get caught up in the rat race of holiday preparations and completely miss the simple beauty of the season. That’s what I loved about this photo when I saw it. It’s a simple subject matter, and a very restrained palette…. Keep Reading
Vacation Rental Hosting: Creating the Perfect AirBNB Listing
Creating the perfect AirBNB listing for your vacation rental property is an art form. It takes a deft hand with photography, some creative juices flowing into the wording, and a few specific bits of know-how to get folks to line up (online) to book your home for their vacations. As you probably know if you’ve been researching vacation rental opportunities, there are a LOT of properties out there. How do you stand out from the crowd and earn your first bookings? Let’s dig in! First, and maybe most redundantly, you need a good clean property to rent out. I covered that in my first post of this series, on getting… Keep Reading
Vacation Rental Hosting: How to Clean your Home FAST between AirBNB Guests
Cleaning a house requires a whole list of skills, but cleaning a house quickly, from top to bottom, is a skill that in my book approaches super-hero status. And when you’re getting a whole house ready for guests in under 4 hours, you need all the super-hero-ness you can find. So I’m going to give you our secrets to how we do it with our AirBNB rental home. If you missed the last post about getting a house ready to rent as a vacation property, definitely check that one out first. But if you’re caught up, or just wondering how to clean your home fast, roll up your sleeves, grab… Keep Reading
Vacation Rental Hosting: How to Set Up a Home for AirBNB
Welcome to a new mini-series here on the blog, all about hosting your own vacation rental property! While I’m normally all about DIY Projects, Crafts, and Flipping Houses, today I’m kicking off a new series that goes along with my latest project outside the blog. But first, a little background information. Let me tell you a little story about how I accidentally became a landlord. As you may know, my design partner Jana and I flip houses as a little side business. I say “little” because we’re not a big operation like the HGTV gurus who do dozens of homes a year. We don’t have a lot of time or… Keep Reading
Pumpkin Palette
Pumpkin Palette It’s Fall y’all! We are deep into planning Halloween costumes, decorating with pumpkins, and buying candy. And by “buying candy” I mean buying bags of candy for the trick-or-treaters, which will be eaten by us in the next week, and then going out and buying more candy to actually give the trick-or-treaters. Candy corn should not be made available for purchase before October 29th, as it invariably signals the official beginning of my end-of-the-year diet fail. But I digress. My kids asked for one thing this year – tiny pumpkins. They fall in love with them every time we set foot in a grocery store. And I can’t… Keep Reading
Office Makeover Reveal for the $100 Room Challenge
My favorite part of the $100 Room Challenge is here: Reveal Week! I love seeing how everyone’s projects turned out, and I love the satisfying feeling of finishing my own project. (As opposed to all the other unfinished projects lying around my house at the moment.) Before I take you on a tour of the finished office/guest room that I’ve been working on, I just want to take a minute to thank Erin of Lemons, Lavender, and Laundry for dreaming up such a fun challenge, and for including me in this group of bloggers, each of whom are a complete inspiration to me. If you’re new to the challenge, take… Keep Reading
Progress in the Office for the $100 Room Challenge
This week’s $100 Room Challenge post is all about progress, not perfection. If you’re new to the $100 Room Challenge, check out the first post in this series to get an idea of what’s going on. Then come right back here and I’ll catch you up. Inevitably in any project there comes a time when you’re just working. And working. It’s not pretty, it’s not glamorous, and it’s not really photo-worthy, but it’s got to be done. That’s the moment when I like to look for small victories and celebrate them, because I believe all the big things in life are really just made up of lots and lots of… Keep Reading
Creating Paint Pouring Art for the $100 Room Challenge
Have you heard of paint pouring? Maybe you’ve seen the mesmerizing Youtube videos of people pouring paint onto canvas and making amazing creations? I’ve been captivated by the idea for a while, so when I started thinking of how to decorate our office/guest room for the $100 Room Challenge, I knew I wanted to give it a try. If you haven’t yet read last week’s post, check it out first to see where this room started, and where it’s going, as well as read all about the $100 Room Challenge and how it works. My main complaint about this office is that it’s a little drab and boring, so I… Keep Reading
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