Category: Most Popular & Our Favorites
March 8, 2012 by Laura and Alison
A Healthy, Earth-Friendly Transformation
We had so much fun putting together the before and after pictures of Laura’s new home in the mountains, we decided it would be fun to share all of our before and after pictures from our healthy, green renovation of Laura’s old home in Los Angeles. The after photos you may recognize as our renovation was featured in one of our favorite magazines, Traditional Home, which we’ve mentioned in other blogs. But this is the...
February 15, 2011 by Laura and Alison
How to Change Your Bedroom to Improve Your Love Life!
We were invited to be on KCAL9 CBS News at Noon on Valentines Day to discuss tips for improving your love life by re-arranging your bedroom. Enhancing your bedroom (the room we most associate with romance) can have a big impact on your current relationship or it can help you attract a new relationship. We had a great time on the show. Thanks to everyone at KCAL for being so welcoming! If you missed...
January 31, 2011 by Laura and Alison
The Joy of All Natural Cleaning Products
Next time you walk into a room that has recently been cleaned with conventional cleaning products notice how your body reacts. If you take a deep breath do you cough or sneeze? Does the room smell fresh or does it smell more like chemicals? Although for years we associated that chemical smell with cleanliness, once we switched to all natural cleaning products, we could never go back. Conventional household cleaning products contain harsh chemicals...
January 27, 2011 by Laura and Alison
Live With What You Love
One of the most effective things you can do to create a home that nourishes and inspires you is to live with things you love. This may sound obvious, but when you take a close look around your home, you might be surprised to find that you’re living with things that bring your energy down rather than inspire and lift you up. It’s amazing how easy it is to tune out to our surroundings...
January 24, 2011 by Laura
Saying “No” to Being Busy
“It is not enough if you are busy. The question is, “What are you busy about?” -Henry David Thoreau Everyone I know these days is really “busy.” I would bet that nine times out of ten if you ask someone “how are you?” the response will be “busy.” “I am well, thank you” or “doing great” have been replaced! A great deal of our lives, and our precious time and energy, is spent being...
January 20, 2011 by Laura
Changing Habits That Create Clutter
Learning how to get rid of and organize our clutter is useful, but clutter is really just a symptom, rather than the root, of the problem. The real issue is how to stop the pattern of accumulating clutter in the first place! As long as we have too many things in our lives we will always be caught up in an endless cycle of organizing our “stuff.” Dealing with our stuff takes a...