Do the autumn weekends ahead include Chili and Football around your house? Take a page from my decorating playbook and celebrate team spirit with this fall football chalkboard schedule. Choose a chalkboard to fit your space. I like an easel style chalkboard that is mobile and can easily display the 716 hometown favorite. It sure…
House Number Cutting Boards
As autumn quickly approaches I am jonesing for added richness and textures in my decorating palette. To help spice up my fall home decor, I tackled an easy house number cutting board project that combines the texture I longed for with another one of my favorites – typography. For this project I wanted to place…
Lighting beyond the barn
As we tackled the renovations at 716 one of the first purchases made was our kitchen lighting. First and foremost we wanted work horse lights that were as unique as they were purposeful. Good lighting sets the tone for the room but because kitchen lighting is used for as variety of things, from cooking to…
Anatomy of an American porch
I often say that 716’s front porch – is the best seat in the house. Nothing says Americana more boldly than a front porch. In many ways our porches in America represent a cultural ideal of family, community, and a bridge between the outside world to our living rooms. As we prepare to celebrate this…
Pillow talk
This month 716 and it’s renovations were featured in VintageKC Magazine. If you would like to see the entire article and summer issue you can check it out here: http://issuu.com/vintagekc/docs/0301_vintagekc_summer_2014. If you love the magazine like I do, you can subscribe and follow VintageKC here: http://www.pinterest.com/vintagekc http://www.facebook.com/vintagekc Using the beautiful photographs via Jill DiMartino &…