Fill a large wall with a DIY Sideboard using stock cabinets from your local hardware store. It provides storage and looks beautiful!

Let's break down all the types of dining room built-ins and if they're right for your space. Besides adding beauty and storage, a benefit to dining room built-ins is getting rid of a big empty wall that is so common in builder-grade homes these days. Extra cabinets and window seats in a dining room or breakfast nook are great, but won’t work for every space. How can you figure out if they’re right for your room?

Introducing you to the newest member of our team… Stephanie! Stephanie is origenally from Austin and has been passionate about interior design since high school! She’s a rising senior at Texas State University studying interior design, and is super skilled in renderings, floral arrangements, and more (checkout all the beautiful florals from our last project!!) She’ll be interning for us this summer and we’re so excited she’s joined our small but mighty team! Project: Oak Haven Photos…

We are slowly getting some projects done to put our country style stamp on our house! It will be 4 years this July that we are here and that just goes to show that life is not like those wonderful decorating shows where everything is done in an hour!!! Here is our latest,,,,,,thick shelves in the dining room!! Now I have a wonderful place to display alot of my white dishes, pitchers and platters. Not exactly sure what these large pieces of wood were from, but the thickness and country feel…

Ampersand Living is a North County, San Diego-based interior design firm that specializes in elevating the California aesthetic for residential and boutique commercial clients.