Making it Yours

Dream Home (MIY: Borghese Dresser)

Making it Yours (MIY), a new feature for Making it Lovely, continues today. I’m following one piece of furniture through several stages in an imagined life and presenting a mood board for each. The first item I’ve been designing around is the Borghese 3-Drawer Dresser.
The dresser has had quite a journey, showing up in [...]

First Home (MIY: Borghese Dresser)

I’m continuing today with Making it Yours (MIY), a new feature for Making it Lovely. I’m following one piece of furniture through several stages in an imagined life and presenting a mood board for each. The first item I’ve been designing around is the Borghese 3-Drawer Dresser.
The dresser has already been in our fictional [...]

First (Tiny) Apartment (MIY: Borghese Dresser)

Making it Yours (MIY) is a new feature for Making it Lovely. I’ll be following one piece of furniture through several stages in an imagined life and presenting a mood board for each. The first item I’m designing around is the Borghese 3-Drawer Dresser.
We’ve seen the dresser follow our imagined girl from her nursery [...]

Teenage Bedroom (MIY: Borghese Dresser)

Making it Yours (MIY) is a new feature for Making it Lovely. I’ll be following one piece of furniture through several stages in an imagined life and presenting a mood board for each. The first item I’m designing around is the Borghese 3-Drawer Dresser.
The dresser was last seen in a little girl’s nursery, obviously [...]

Sophisticated Nursery (MIY: Borghese Dresser)

Making it Yours (MIY) is a new feature for Making it Lovely. I’ll be following one piece of furniture through several stages in an imagined life and presenting a mood board for each. The first item I’m designing around is the Borghese 3-Drawer Dresser.
The dresser makes its first appearance in a very sweet, very [...]

Making it Yours

I really love the way rooms come together over time, with special pieces finding their way into different rooms at different stages of one’s life. A chair that was once on your front porch might show up in your son’s room five years later, in the family room after that, and maybe twenty [...]