JKS Loves: Podcasts

Lately, my podcast playlist has had a greater than usual presence in my life, filling gaps of free time with opportunities to refill my cup via spoken words entertaining, inspiring, and motivating me. You can find me any given day, listening while I’m cleaning, folding laundry, getting ready for the day ahead, and commuting. I’m excited […]

Mr. Waffles’ Puppy Must-Haves

The Klein household is in the midst of full blown puppy love with the recent arrival of Mr. Waffles! Yes it’s true, I’m not sleeping as well and we’ve had our fair share of puppy accidents, but overall we’re smitten with our little fluff ball! Even our ol’ girl Bella is coming around the corner […]

10 Home Tips + Tricks That Take Minutes But Reap Major Rewards

With a new home to dive into, our list of house (exterior and interior) projects and to-do’s feel never-ending. From new light fixtures and furniture, planning kitchen and bathroom renovations, organizing, and more, it’s safe to say that we’ll be working on making our house truly our own for a few years ahead. And that’s […]

AllModern Opened Its First Physical Store!

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This blog post was written in partnership with AllModern. All thoughts and opinions, as always, are my own. I’m all about online shopping; it’s no exaggeration to say that it’s been my go-to method for acquiring new items over the past few years. But there are some items, especially pieces for your home, that just […]

What is Full Service Design?

Interior Designer Boston

We often get the question about our Full-Service Design service and what that service entails. For our clients need help from start to finish, who have a room or a whole house in front of them, but do not have the time or the desire to complete the space(s) from top to bottom? JKS’s Full […]

An OID Vermont Holiday

We are heading up to Vermont for the holidays and I’m planning to add a few holiday decor touches so that next week feels special for the kiddos. We are keeping it minimal, and with the snow, it already feels like a true winter wonderland. One thing I’m very excited about for the holidays is […]

Faux Holiday Greenery with Riverbend Home

This post is written in partnership with Riverbend Home – one of our favorite online home decor shops. All thoughts and opinions are as always, my own. Thank you for supporting the brands that support OID Blog! It’s that time of the year again! Anyone else feeling rather slow to getting into the decorating/holiday spirit […]

My 5-Minute Makeup Routine

I may be venturing out and about a bit more than I have over the past 18+ months, but my day-to-day makeup hasn’t really changed all that much. I still focus on the basics and all in all, it takes me about five minutes to do my look every morning. But I have some new […]

An OID Update – What’s Been Happening as of Late!

Hello, Friends! It’s been A WHILE. How are you? We have been on a blog and somewhat of a social media break as of late. Our social media/blog coordinator and editor went on maternity leave and without her, I couldn’t get blog posts up with the amount of interior design projects on our plate. I […]

5 Things I’m Looking Forward to this Fall

This post was written in partnership with Modern Pest. We are nearing the end of Summer (sigh) and it feels like it was cut short due to the amount of rain we’ve had in the Northeast. But that said, I am looking forward to a few things that the next few months will bring. 01. […]

Getting our Terrace Ready for Summer

Outdoor Entertaining

We are excited to finally take off the covers on our outdoor furniture and get everything ready for lots of evenings dining al fresco. Thanks to our friends at Modern Pest, who are sponsoring this post, we can actually enjoy entertaining outside (more on that below!). I’m currently bookmarking Eyeswoon’s grilling recipes and can’t wait […]

Introducing Our Vermont Home Renovation Project!

I’m SO excited to share this post with you all! It’s been a dream project for awhile but due to COVID – and overall life happenings – it’s taken a little bit to get the ball rolling. We finally decided to dive back in… and I’m so excited to tell you all about it! We’re […]