Hi. I’m Katerina.

I’d just finished my reading nook — a corner of our Thessaloniki home that finally felt exactly right. Sat in it for twenty minutes. Thought: I want to know how to do that for every room. That’s the whole story.

For years I believed expensive things always looked better. I was wrong. Provably, expensively wrong. I write about it a lot here, because I don’t think anyone is telling people otherwise.

Winter person. No apologies. I have two daughters — Maria, 11, and Marina, 8 — who share a bedroom and can destroy it in under an hour. Every single time.

This is Tasos. My husband. The other half of this.
Research, topics, planning, DIY projects he builds and tests before anything gets published. If there’s a project on this site, he made it first and figured out what goes wrong so you don’t have to.
Also a Harry Potter collector. Books, films, collectibles — all of it. Our home has rules about this. The rules get renegotiated regularly.

What this site is:
Real rooms. Honest budgets. Projects for people with one free Saturday a month. Not a hotel. Not a showroom. Just what we’ve actually done — what worked, what didn’t, and what we’d do differently.
— Katerina & Tasos