Photography by Melody Carpenter, Interior designs by Sara Davis
Text by Claire Pool
Whether your New Year’s resolution was to learn to cook your favorite dish or to spend more time in the heart of the home with the people you love, allow these…
Image by @littlefarmstead on Instagram
Text by Holly Seng
Whether or not you consider yourself to be a winter person, there’s something to be said about the beauty of a snow-covered exterior—especially when you can enjoy it from the warmth of your home. While…
With the lack of sunlight, many people suffer from SAD. To say the least, the winter months can be mentally and emotionally challenging for many people. I’ve often turned to the garden, even in the winter, to help chase my blues away.…
Shrink the driveway.
Above: Less driveway, more opportunities for plantings.
In addition to changing the material, Mariposa often reduces the overall size of the driveway, which allows them to widen garden beds or sneak in new planting space around the driveway. In some…
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Bathroom Design Inspiration
One thing I’m excited about now that we’re done with the remodel is to personalize other areas in our home, including our bathrooms! We have our primary bathroom, our whale wallpaper powder bathroom downstairs, and now one more bathroom…
Even if you’ve never seen a copy of the USDA hardiness map, you’ve likely comes across its zones mentioned on the backs of seed packets, on plant tags, and in plant guides on website like ours. More seasoned gardeners can use the…
Houseplants have been having something of a renaissance in the last decade–and not just because so many people became plant parents during the early days of lockdown. Plant-filled interiors had already reached such a level of trendiness by early 2020 that the…
Before the internet, or even the printing press, we relied on the knowledge passed down through to learn about gardening. While there is so much to know from our ancestors, some old wives’ tales about gardening just aren’t true. There are still…
As the year 2023 is coming to a close, I thought it would be fun to take a look back at The Inspired Room readers’ favorite decor items from the past year. I was able to do some decorating in my own…
Below the surface, the root structure of each crop is also a finely tuned machine. Corn roots are shallow and take up the top layer, bean roots travel deeper, and the squash roots take residence in the empty spaces. This interlocking root…