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It’s reveal day for this month’s $100 Room Challenge!!! And this month I worked hard to give my daughter the perfect closet to keep her organized. In case you haven’t been following along, the $100 Room Challenge is a fun challenge my friend Erin from Lemons, Lavendar, and Laundry hosts where you makeover an entire room for only $100. And you do it all in 1 month! It causes you to get creative, use what you already have, and learn to think twice before just running to the store fore more supplies. This month I was able to turn piles...

Friends whose kids also had dust allergies had major advice for me right away, typically in two categories: “Get the drops – they’re amazing.” “Clear out everything from their rooms – it makes an incredible difference!” And all the online sources of information agreed: No stuffed animals in the room, period.  Well, shucks. Where are all the toys and books going to go? I didn’t really want more stuff in the common areas of my house, and our basement, yet to be finished, just isn’t a cozy place to play. It seemed like a major sacrifice for everyone to strip both...

Friends whose kids also had dust allergies had major advice for me right away, typically in two categories: “Get the drops – they’re amazing.” “Clear out everything from their rooms – it makes an incredible difference!” And all the online sources of information agreed: No stuffed animals in the room, period.  Well, shucks. Where are all the toys and books going to go? I didn’t really want more stuff in the common areas of my house, and our basement, yet to be finished, just isn’t a cozy place to play. It seemed like a major sacrifice for everyone to strip both...

We all have distinct memories of our childhood bedrooms. When Sweet Laurel Bakery cofounder Laurel Gallucci’s now 2-and-a-half-year-old son, Nico, looks back on his, it will surely make him think of crowded sleepovers with his cousins and curling up on the soft yellow sofa for story time. Laurel and her husband, Nick, will recall something different. They’ll remember upgrading to the 1950s Los Angeles cottage from their one-bedroom apartment in Venice, California, finally being able to spread out, and deciding to vault the ceiling to allow for maximum natural light. No one, though, will forget Nico’s bunk bed.  “My husband...