I’m a nester.  I’ve always loved everything there is to do about making a home feel like a home… even when it’s vertically and horizontally challenged! Through the years I’ve lived in and decorated so many small spaces (more times than not with even smaller budgets) that I feel like I’ve sort of perfected the art of living in a nutshell.

On this site, I especially want to share my trials and triumphs with renters out there with what I call “non-committal” decorating ideas and projects that you can take with you when you move on to bigger and better pastures. I am a member of the same “club” and the photos on the site are from my own rental in the city (all 750 square feet of it) so I know first-hand the challenges you face. I feel your pain!

So below are some of the Nutshell-isms that are the heart and soul of this site and my greatest hope is that you, my fellow “nutsheller,” will be inspired to try something new and to design “out of the box” …even when you live in one!

• Good design takes courage. There are no rules. Go with your gut and just give it a try.  It’s when you break the rules that something interesting happens.
  
  
• No design is set in stone. Good interior design should be forever evolving.  From time to time, change around your seating area, switch rugs from one room to the next, rotate photos in your picture frames. You’d be surprised how energizing this can be.
  
  
• No matter if you live in a rental or some other form of transitional housing, you can create a wonderful, stylish place to live in…and you deserve it. In fact, I look at rentals as wonderful decorating labs where I can test out all of my crazy ideas without a full commitment.

Thanks so very much for visiting my site. Write me.  I would love to hear your own stories of living in a nutshell.