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Below is a sampling of my work, or you can browse by category above.

Padma Rug, Annie Selke, Dash & Albert | Designed by Nicole Balch

Lulu Lovely: Sims 4 Lovely Tumbling Blocks Floor Tile

Lovely French Range (CornuFé) | Sims 4 Mod by Lulu Lovely

DIY Mosaic Tile in Bathroom with Border

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Three things: 1. Stress fracture? Stress injury? E $Three things: 1. Stress fracture? Stress injury? Either way I have to wear this sweet shoe for 6 weeks. 👞 2. I’m getting a second tattoo next month - a pomegranate branch. 🌿 3. I’m not bad on bass, even better on guitar, but I’m playing music regularly with another lady in town - two women on ukulele playing songs from 100 years ago. 🎶$

This is a cabinet color and cat color appreciation

This is a cabinet color and cat color appreciation post.

This has been a summer of shows, fests, and family

This has been a summer of shows, fests, and family outings. This was a nice one - ice cream with B, seeing @andrewbirdmusic

I worked on and am quoted in an article for @theda

I worked on and am quoted in an article for @thedailyherald about the @lfshowhouse that ran on the front of Sunday’s Home & Garden section.

"One of the delights of a Showhouse is the level of equal attention paid to all spaces," said Nicole Balch, an interior designer and blogger from Oak Park. One may expect to be wowed by a living room or kitchen, she said, "but a show house may have you walking away still thinking about a particularly beautiful hallway."

Lots of gems like that from me to you. I’ll link to the article in my Stories. And go see the Showhouse! It’s beautiful.

Today is the Wright Plus Architectural Housewalk!

Today is the Wright Plus Architectural Housewalk! I fell in love with this Queen Anne Victorian ten years ago when I stopped into the open house after #wrightplus that year and now it’s on the tour for the first time. We have loved living here, renovating, decorating, and caring for it for the last decade. I hope today’s visitors love it too. Thank you for having us @flwtrust - we are so happy to share our home.

#loweryhouse #oakparkil #architecture #housetour #franklloydwright #thelovelyvictorian #thelovelygarden #makingitlovely

I keep thinking I should fix my lil bug friends an

I keep thinking I should fix my lil bug friends and hang them back up but then you know. I forget. Even though I see them every single day because they’re leaned against the far closet wall. A pair of foster cats we had at the time kept attacking them (leaping!) and I took them down before they were too far gone but it has literally been YEARS. And I do kind of like them hanging out back there when I’m checking my fit.

Planted this magnolia in memory of my gramma and I

Planted this magnolia in memory of my gramma and I’m so glad I did. It’s thriving. It’s the prettiest thing out here by far and the only thing blooming this early, and it makes me think of her.

The guitar I bought for myself when I was 18, a ba

The guitar I bought for myself when I was 18, a bass that’s even older and only sometimes works, a secondhand keyboard, a quite loud amp, and the newest addition, the guitar on the wall that I’m over the moon about. Really leaning into this whole “music room” thing here.

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