Ideas & Inspiration

When you have beautiful countertops, you want them clear and gleaming on display. But keeping countertops clear is a constant battle in any active household. People and things move through the kitchen constantly, and junk can pile up. The more cooking you do, the more likely cooking utensils, spices, or regularly used tools will be left out and small appliances will demand counter space. But all is not lost.

Anyone can have clear countertops if they first use a few design tricks to help conquer the clutter. It's true that a perfectly pristine kitchen is tough to keep clear - but only because there's nowhere to put all the little things you use each day. Today, we're here to talk about clear, beautiful countertops and how to maintain that in a busy household routine.

What makes a great home office? You need a space where you can focus, relax, and enjoy your work. Most of all, you need an area where your work stays organized so you always have mental and physical space to tackle the next task. The challenge is organizing your home office in a way that will stick. How do you fight back the piles of clutter or the disorganized shelves and surfaces? 

It turns out if you use the right techniques keeping your home office organized is easy! These simple steps can make your home office more organized, more attractive, and more enjoyably productive during your remote workdays. Give these a try.

Fall is in the air, and it's time to start swapping your brightly colored summer décor for the muted hues of fall. Your favorite summer tablecloth printed with colorful designs may have served you well for the past few months, but now is the time to choose your next seasonal centerpiece and the best items to set on top of it. 

From the first day of October until you start putting up your Christmas decorations. Filling your home with pumpkins, apples, and fall leaves sets the tone for making the most of the brisk weather, and creating a fall tablescape is an important step in making your home match the season. Here are some of our favorite ideas for creating a festive fall tablescape.

A new home is a perfect excuse to go all out with new décor, play around with themes, colors, styles, and a chance to add a dash of your personality to every room. You have infinite choices with everything –furniture, decorating style, window and door sizes, floorings, paint, and everything in between that makes your home truly unique.

The big question is, where do you start, and at what point do you hang your designer boots, call it a day, and celebrate with a calming glass of wine? This blog gives you helpful tips on how to decorate your home from scratch.

When you approach your house from the street, what do you see? What is the experience created by the walk to the front door? Some homes are warm and welcoming, with pathways that beckon toward a glowing front door and inviting porch. Some have decorative shutters, some have covered porches, some have steep, rocky front yards, and some a gentle strip of grass. But the one thing all homes with welcoming curb appeal have in common is an inviting front walk crafted with landscaping and lights.

You want to bring in the focus to your home, while also providing an elegant stylistic accent to the home's architecture and landscaping design. Whether your front yard has a porch or patio, steep or gentle, you are sure to find a few methods that will make your front walk more welcoming.

When designing your bathroom renovation, you want to create a space that is both comfortable and uplifting. You want a bathroom that makes you feel positive and charmed in the morning and easily relax into your bedtime routine at night. That's why many people choose the farmhouse style for bathroom renovations. A farmhouse bathroom is charming, efficient, and a little bit rustic: mixing old-fashioned finishes with natural tones that inspire a sense of comfort and tradition that can't help but bring a smile to your face.

But how do you choose the perfect farmhouse features to make your bathroom renovation complete? Here at Fossil Blu, we're passionate about the Farmhouse style, so you know we have a few ideas that you'll love.  

Busy homes often have cluttered pantries. It's a natural side effect of cooking quickly, stocking groceries quickly, and always keeping a little extra supplies in the back of your pantry. In a new house, that pantry clutter is comforting, knowing there are always a few boxes of stuffing or cans of beans for a rainy day. But over time, pantry clutter can start to weigh you down.

Why let that happen when you have warm summer weekends and spare time for home projects? If you're refreshing your home and your mindset for summer, why not refresh your pantry?