Um, you mean you USED to have “so-so photography skills.” Right? ‘Cause from what I’m seeing, you’ve got great skills. Major eye candy going on here!

I am SOOOOOOO excited that you were named in one Domino’s list of blogs! I emailed hem after I didn’t see your name for top home blogs, or was it lifestyle? I can’t remember. Anyways, I was shocked that you didn’t make it, but I got a speedy response reassuring me that I would see you featured in another blogger list coming up. So happy for you!

Congrats!! And I can’t WAIT for the new house tour!

Your photography is just gorgeous and the styling feels so relaxed. Wow.

I am so excited to see your whole tour! Your house is so beautiful. I’ve been meaning to put together a house tour for my blog for the longest time, too, so I totally understand the procrastination. I mean, just the idea of having to CLEAN my whole house is daunting enough, haha.

You have major photography skills – what I wouldn’t give to have your skills!

Additionally, thanks for sharing with us – I read every last word and agree with Domino! You have lovely style and I’ve been blessed to watch the Underdog unfold and transform. Thanks…for putting it all out there.

Congrats! I love your blog and have been a long time follower! Your house truly is gorgeous!

Congrats on the Domino inclusion – that’s awesome! You have been my blogger inspiration for several years and I can’t imagine not having my daily fix, visiting your site. Love your home, your family and your outlook on small space living. Keep it comin!

Dana, I love your blog. I don’t even know how I stumbled acrossed it, but it’s one of my two that I follow on the daily. Thank you for being so raw, and just being you. You’ve inspired this non-DIYer in more ways than one.

Congrats lady, you deserve it!! It has paid off to take a leap of faith and do what you love. I have been following your blog for awhile now and am glad that you are getting recognition for your talent and DIY inspiration! Can’t wait to see what you do in the years to come :)

You emailed Domino?! You’re the sweetest.

Bad blogger? Are you kidding? There is a reason Domino picked House Tweaking! I’m looking forward to the new house tour and the clubhouse too.

What? Bad photography skills? Bad blogger? No, no, no… you’ve got it all wrong!

Your blog is fantastic and it is so wonderful to come check in and see that there is a new post up! I can’t wait to see the whole house tour – your style is beautiful – I seriously wish you could come fix up my house, your eye for little quirky details is one of my favorite things! Keep doing what you’re doing – you’re great at it!

You show personality without being overbearing, color without overload. That’s a gift, not something you can replicate without it being a part of your core. On a daily basis you put it out there that cherishing the journey and being present is evident in each corner of your life. Makes me want to drop an fbomb it’s so darn fabulous. Well done!

eeee can’t wait to see all the pics!

So well deserved! Congrats! And even though I think I’ve read every blog post you have done, I’m still excited to see the updated house tour. Keep up the great work!

Ooh, I can’t wait to see it all!! And congrats on the feature! So well deserved – I love your style (blog AND house!) and your realness.

Ditto to all Kimyee said. Plus, I LOVE that taking a jillion pictures of your home was how your spent your last “free” day at home, blissfully, quietly alone. It would likely have been way too, uh…not calm for such a session after summer started.

jbhat

Yes!! I have been waiting for this update ;)
Side note, you often discuss perusing ebay and etsy. I would love to get better at navigating. Do you always know exactly what you want & type that in to look for? How do you find such amazing treasures?

But we’ve already seen every. single. inch. of your house. Unless you’re moving, this is absolutely pointless. Bonus – how many pictures will have the sheepskin in it???

Congrats on the Domino feature. That was convenient right?

This looks amazing! And you definitely deserve some big name media love, your transformations are inspiring and accessible.

I’ve got every bit of info on IKEA kitchens that you’ve put out there saved on my Pinterest and am chomping at the freakin’ bit to design and implement my own soon. And your experience, along with those that you’re collecting from others and putting together here, will be simply invaluable.

Hope you post the Domino link when it’s live!!

I love your blog! It’s one of my daily go to blogs that I read for inspiration. Love your style….very clean and comfortable and eclectic!

Congrats! You most certainly deserve it. And I excitedly await your house tour pics! I have a 1,000 sq ft1971 ranch style house that has been a renovation labor of love. It’s almost a miniature version of yours home – very similar layout. I have yet to find another blog as stylish and inspiring as yours. So glad your aunt (Janice!) shared a link to your blog one day on FB. Best click I ever made! Keep up the great work!!

New Girl & red wine…they are worthy roadblocks. But your home is amazing. And your images do your home justice! It is beautiful and worth the wait!

I love your blog and your home! Congrats on the Domino nod, totally deserved! I never considered dark colors on a bedroom wall until you featured Mabrey’s room (which I think is when I first started reading your blog) and I fell in love. You have wonderful ideas and I’m so glad that you share them :)

Aw, my Aunt Janice…she’s a good lady ;)

The house tour will be featured here on House*Tweaking! I hope the Domino mention at the end wasn’t misleading.

Well, I do own five of those sheepskins so…they’re pretty much in every room. Love the texture! We have no plans to move right now. Just thought it was about time to update the “see my house” link with current photos and info. Feel free to skip them if you aren’t interested.

I took the photos for the house tour before knowing about the Domino feature. It was a happy coincidence if you ask me!

Yep, the clubhouse is coming up too!

Thanks! I’m hoping the online photography class I took last year and all these months practicing with my camera will help capture our home the way I see it every day. (I had photography issues early on.) The info will mostly be a synopsis of what we’ve done here over the last few years with source lists so hopefully it’s easier to digest than three years’ worth of posts. That’s the thought anyway.

Beautiful, thoughtfully designed home…inspirational, indeed :)

I discovered your blog when you were a finalist for “The Homies” on AT. And now yours in my FAVORITE!!!! Super inspired by your design style – I keep coming back again and again but have to do some crazy archive search to track down your house photos. Thank goodness you are updating your “House Tour” tab- can’t wait!

Actually, I don’t think we’ve seen the main bathroom. Have we? Maybe I missed a post. I agree with you, House Tweaker, it is time to update the house tour to your current home (bring on the sheepskin!). I do hope you leave a link to your previous home tour also though. It’s interesting how your taste has evolved.

Congrats on the feature! It is well deserved.

Tours are great – nice to have all those sources and paint colors in one easy spot for readers.

Oh…. Your house truly is one of my favourites in the world x

So exciting, Domino is an amazing opportunity. Your photos are lovely and I recently took Nicole’s Photo 101 class at your recommendation and wow so much more clarity now on getting a good photo. You have obviously mastered the art. Can’t wait to see the full house tour, I have been blogging almost a year now and just got my house tour link up last week. So much to do so little time.

I was actually one of those people who went back to the start of the blog and read every post word for word! I am absolutely in love with your home. I have always thought my style was a bit rustic, a bit Hamptons, a bit modern country, a bit industrial – until I found your blog. Now I’m completely reassessing everything haha! I’m very excited to see the completed tour, and even though I don’t know what Domino is (I’m in Brisbane, Australia), congratulations!

So excited for the full tour!

I just have to say that your blog is a huge inspiration to me– we live in a pretty tiny house too, and with a baby on the way we’ve been really trying to maximize space, which is something you are great at. I loved the nightstands that you guys put in your bedroom so much I bought them for our own bedroom. Kudos!

My husband and I are buying a house (pause for cheers)… it needs some serious lovin… I’m talking beige/taupe/tan-ish toilets and wood paneling…lovin’ but it’s in the ideal school district for our son, and it’s on a prime piece of property across the street from a park! i just need you to tell me i’m not crazy for buying a house that needs “tweaking” while raising a toddler and working full time!

Your home is beyond beautiful! I’m inspired by every stinkin’ room – seriously!

I know this is annoying, and I know you will be posting a full list of sources but I’ve been looking high and low for a pair of antlers similar to those above the door in your kitchen. Any chance you can share the source early?

Thank you! Thank you!

Wow, Snark-la. Nice, constructive comment. Way to troll.

Dana, I think your house is beautiful, and I have clicked the house tour link many times hoping it had been updated. I love your blog and your style very much. Thank you for sharing your life with us.

It makes PERFECT sense for you to post pictures of your current home. It will be so much easier for me to pop on the site and get my fix of your unique, relaxed-modern style. Your photos are beautiful!

As far as Domino, I was soooo psyched to see your name on that list! Such a well-deserved honor!
You are the first blog I click on each day, and you are followed by the likes of Emily H., Jenny K., and Sherry & John. :-)

I really enjoy your blog and I love looking at pictures of your house. Your taste has definitely inspired my own house renovation. Congratulations on the Domino article!

These photos are stunning Dana! Can’t wait to see the whole tour. And congratulations on Domino!! What an accomplishment!

Ahh finally!!! I can’t tell you how many times I’ve clicked over there looking for sources from your kitchen to your bedroom and every time I do a little grumble. Like get on it Dana but then I remember hey she has a life and kids and keeps up this blog so then I have to be thankful that I can just do a search. :) #firstworldproblems am I right??

Yay!! I can’t wait to see your entire house–I’m in love with the teasers!! I’m hoping to do something similar…if we ever finish our house! :)

Your home is just amazing, I am so inspired every time I see the photos. Only can hope my tiny 800 square foot Manhattan apartment can someday look as put together!

I absolutely think you have such an amazing talent at decoraing your home while still making it livable and functional. You have mad skills! Your photography is awesome. Congrats!! You deserve it.

No apologies. Ever! You are amazingly talented and clearly work very hard to publish great content on a regular basis while also raising three human beings and running a household. And those photog skills are way more than “so-so”! Silly girl!
I’d say all you have to be sorry about is the fact that now all I want for lunch is chocolate and wine.
Keep being awesome!

i know it caused a BIG stink and some nasty comments…but i’m still SO SO SO in love with the huge gold and white painting in your room! :) still looking for a canvas that large for a good price so i can do the same thing!! :)

Dana, I’d like to echo a previous poster’s comment about checking your blog daily, I do it as well! I find your style very approachable and I enjoy the way you write. Plus, I have 3 kids too (all girls mind you, and all under the age of 7) so I never know when you’ll toss out some parenting gems! I will say, when we were in the market for a bunk bed for my oldest girls who would be sharing a room since we needed one for their baby sister, I LOVED your post about the bunks in your son’s room, AND how to make their beds. VERY helpful and I followed it almost to the letter and have been thrilled with the results. Can’t wait to see the house tour!

A huge congrats to you Dana!! I was absolutely thrilled to see House Tweaking on the list when I saw it yesterday. Your style is sooo Domino and I would have been shocked NOT to see you there. Ive been looking forward to the house tour for sometime now, so im excited for that. As a reader said earlier, House Tweaking is a must for me everyday. I love your fresh, relaxed, modern take on design. Its so different than my style and I love that. I was looking back at your old house tour the other day and was surprised by how much your style has changed over the years. I think its great. One of the things about the design process that I love is that its ever evolving. I also love that you let the Underdog guide you in your design choices. It was SUPPOSED to be exactly what it is.:) Thank you for your constant inspiration.

Love the pictures and can’t wait to see more. Even though we have seen the rooms, I love seeing the different angles and all of the little details. Congrats on being featured in Domino – sooo cool!

Which online class was it? I’d love to take a photography class but the ones offered in person in my area don’t fit in my schedule.

Thanks for keeping it real. Your home is amazing and your honesty is even better!

Can’t wait for an updated house tour tab. I have many friends in the market to buy their first home and when they complain that the only thing in their price range is a “boring brick ranch”, I send them a link to your blog. If we can just get all these brick ranches transformed the way you’ve done yours, my corner of the world will be a prettier place. :)
Congrats on The Domino nod! I will say that of that list, yours is the only one I check in with on a regular basis.

Congrats! That’s super exiting news about Domino. And perfectly accurate. I love you blog, your house, your style, and your writing. And this is your “impromptu, un-styled” house, well, damn. You really are fantastic at this.

Thanks for the kind words. Made my day!

Photo 101 from Nicole’s Classes online. It’s geared more towards portraits / product photography but the information is applicable to interiors too if that’s what you’re interested in. Mainly, it taught me to shoot manually.

To know that you even think of me in that group of awesomeness is mind-blowing. xo

It was a random etsy find. I searched etsy and ebay high and low for months!

You’re not crazy ;)

I will most definitely keep the house tour of our previous home available!

I enjoy reading your blog because you show people how to live large in a small space. You demonstrate to others that you can still have a fabulous house even if it started out as a dilapidated ranch in a modest neighborhood. You are giving your kids such a gift by being home with them. Your blog is a reminder to be mindful about what I bring into my home and you have encouraged me to start letting go of some things that we no longer need. I have directed others to your blog because I love how you embrace the “less is more” lifestyle.

Love your blog! Been reading it for awhile now, always inspiring. Plus I’m also from Ohio, yay Midwest! We have similar aesthetics in decorating, or at least maybe I tell myself that ;) I don’t have a house blog but you can see a few pics on Apartment Therapy http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/noelles-50s-ranch-small-cool-contest-204183) so I always love to see your posts. Question–where did the pillow in your dining room come from? Love it and need something similar. And congrats on the Domino feature, it is much deserved!

hooray!! Domino! been following you for years and i am continuously inspired. you deserve to be recognized as one of the best! xo

Congrats, Dana! Well, deserved!! :-).

I forget, where did you get the flush mount ceiling light in your bedroom??? Thanks!

Your house inspires me! We purchased our house because of how great of a deal it was but now we realize we need way less space than we have. We hope to downsize in the next year or so and seeing homes like yours, where everything has a place and every square inch is used, is great inspiration. Keep on doing what you are doing and you will “increase readership”.

Lamps Plus!

Your home is lovely! The pillow on the bench is from etsy.

Hi Dana, I’ve been following your blog for a few years now, I just love it. For what it’s worth (I’m no blogger but I read a lot), I think you have the balance just right in regards to sponsors/ house stuff/ family stuff/ projects etc. In any case, it’s your blog, do with it what you will! I feel like I know your house so well from following you for a while, but a house tour is perfect for new readers. Keep up the great work!

Thanks for the source!

I’m digging that rug/carpet in the living room :)

There is an impending death of blogs!?!?! Goodness gracious, I hope not. What will I read at work when I am supposed to be working!? :) I love your blog, your house, and your writing and I hope you’ll stick around the blog world for a long time to come, Dana!

I’m also one of the ones who has to come and search by key word for something I remembered from a past post. The house tour will make it so much easier. I know it’s a lot of work, but from a reader’s perspective: totally worth it ;) Thanks for letting us have full access and congrats to you on your success!

You are amazing! Honestly, your house is so beautiful and you have such unique ideas, but still stay in the realm of what is on trend. Bravo! Can’t wait for your house tour! Thanks for continuing to inspire…

Can you tell us the bedroom blue/grey brand and color name?

Benjamin Moore half moon crest.

Where did you get the sun hat hanging by the door in one of the laundry room shots?

Target!

Yay! Good for you :)

Can’t wait to see the rest of the tour.

holy cow. long time reader. it is just so unbeliveable how dang chic you guys have made that place!! Such a long way from a builder special house, and apartment times! bless!

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Your bedroom is gorgeous!! (Ok, actually your whole house is!) Can you tell me what the color is you used for your bedroom? Thank you!!

It’s Benjamin Moore half moon crest.

I absolutely LOVE everything about your home! I have just a few source questions for you… Where is that adorable grey and white stripped chair from in your bedroom? And the pillow on it? And the adorable baby quilt in your nursery? Thank you! I’m so inspired by your wonderful taste!

Check out the “see my house” link in the sidebar for all the sources in all the rooms! (Chair is from West Elm. Pillow is from etsy. Baby quilt is a family heirloom.)

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Where could i find this armchair?
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Which one?

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Hello!! Beautiful house!! And fantastic site! I am in the process of building our house and was wondering where the lights over the island and the table are from? Would love to use them in my house!! Thanks so much!

BEAUTIFUL :) Come do my house please. lol.
Wondering where your dresser came from in the bedroom i love it. I tried to find the “see my house” link but I think I’m over looking it.

ok woops i see it now….i’ll check if the source for the dresser is on there ;)

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I just came across your blog and I love it! Your house is absolutely beautiful!