About: KellyThacher
Website: http://site.bluedooreditorial.com/About.html
Profile: Kelly has been a writer since she was in grade school where she received early recognition for her Young Author's project. Magazines like Home Entertainment, Luxury Consumer Electronics, Vertical Living, Luxury Home and the Robb Report were happy to have Kelly's editing talents on various projects. A series of career twists and turns has offered her invaluable experience in journalism, magazine and book publishing, and fiction writing.
Posts by KellyThacher
Green All the Way
Posted on December 03, 2009
As sustainable architecture and building not only becomes more popular, and possible, there’s almost no excuse for not taking some steps to engage in more environmentally sound practices in building and renovating our homes. Some of the small... Read more »
Love at First Bid
Posted on December 02, 2009
A “significant other” is not usually on the list of must-have ingredients for most room recipes, and most of us certainly don’t expect to find one when we call for bids on our home renovation projects–well, ok, maybe some do after... Read more »
Craft and Creativity
Posted on December 01, 2009
Each of us, on some level, is busy creating the lives we want to live, which is also reflected in our living spaces. For educator and writer Jon Carroll and his wife, actress and filmmaker Nkechi Carroll, of Encino, California, that means not only time... Read more »
Decking the Halls . . . Already!
Posted on November 30, 2009
Black Friday came and went quietly for me–I successfully hid under my bedcovers for a good part of the day and happily avoided long lines, crowds of crabby shoppers and equally crabby salespeople, and parking lot trauma. But apparently it’s... Read more »
My Space
Posted on November 29, 2009
As I approach the end of my first week as a guest blogger here at Room Recipes, I find myself pondering next week’s crop of stories. A renovation-turned-love-story, a big city transformation, an architect who’s building an entire green community,... Read more »
The Realtor Says . . .
Posted on November 28, 2009
Like many folks out there, you may be primed to get your house ready to put on the market—and willing to do whatever it takes to get it sold. In this current economic climate, even with murmurings of a recovery for the real estate market, most of... Read more »
The Man Cave: Open Sesame
Posted on November 27, 2009
Warning: this post is not for the technically faint-hearted! Listen closely . . . you can just barely make out the battle sounds of the Spartans versus the Persians in 300. Or maybe it’s the collective groans and cheers of the guys who disappeared... Read more »
Feeling Thankful with Sarah Susanka
Posted on November 26, 2009
This blog post is dedicated to Eric and Susan Thacher, for whose love and support (and for this blog idea!) I am so grateful. As we gather with our loved ones today, it’s hard not to feel the lingering undercurrent of our economic woes: the housing... Read more »
The Contractor Says . . .
Posted on November 25, 2009
There aren’t many of us out there who don’t have at least some idea of what we’d want our dream homes to look like–or at least our dream kitchens, bathrooms, or home theaters. We all carry around our mental list of what we’d... Read more »
A House of Her Own
Posted on November 24, 2009
The road to home ownership hasn’t been easy for Kimie Halberstadt and her fiance Art Renshaw. A process that is always lengthy and fraught with tension has been made worse by unforeseen hiccups with financial issues and paperwork, bids gone bad,... Read more »
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