Sisters Laura and Alison co-founded The Art of Everyday Living, a home and lifestyle consulting company in 2003. They work closely with clients to create environmentally friendly, healthy, organized, beautiful homes and nurseries that support and enhance their well-being. They believe everyone and everything are connected so by creating a conscious lifestyle and home, your positive intentions will enhance your life, your children's lives, as well as those people around you.

Alison and Laura had their first book, The Peaceful Nursery, published in 2006 by Delta Books a division of Random House. They have also contributed to magazines and websites including Natural Home & Garden, YogiTimes and ClubMom.comand have been featured in numerous publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune Traditional Home, C Magazine, Angeleno, ePreganancy, LA Parent and The Hollywood Reporter.

Alison has a Masters Degree in Education from Harvard University, and a Bachelor of Arts from Tulane University. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband. Laura holds a Master's degree in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica, and a Bachelor of Science in Communications from Northwestern University. Laura lives in Santa Monica with her husband and two sons.

They are experienced public speakers and are available to give lectures and teach workshops.

Five years ago we co-founded The Art of Everyday Living, a home and lifestyle consulting company, specializing in what we call “Life Design,” a unique service that combines healthy, green living, feng shui, life coaching, and interior decorating. We began by helping our clients recognize that making a home isn't only about creating beautiful surroundings, but includes designing a healthy, comfortable, well organized home that supports their needs and enhances their life. Over the years, we witnessed the positive effect Life Design had on our clients’ lives, as well as our own. We have found that as we design our homes—we are in fact designing our lives.

When Laura learned she was expecting her first child, she soon began preparing her home for her baby's arrival. She started decorating and arranging her house by applying our "Life Design" techniques to create a comfortable, healthy and beautiful room for her son, as well as an organized home that would best support her and her husband’s transition into parenthood.

The importance of creating a healthy, green nursery hit home for Laura when she visited a closet where she was storing many of the new furnishings, toys and linens she had bought for her son. When she opened the door she was overwhelmed by a horrible, chemical odor. Her first thought was that her husband had spilled paint thinner in the closet when painting the room. However, she soon discovered the smell was the result of toxic fumes being emitted by the baby's new furniture, toys and mattress. Common sense told her the fumes couldn't be good for a newborn, so she began doing some research. Her research confirmed her suspicions and inspired her mission to create a healthy, earth-friendly nursery.

Little did we know just how much time and research creating a green nursery would require! Even with Alison's help, it took months to find healthy, green (and stylish!) versions of everything she would need—from a PVC-free bathing tub to organic wool puddle pads to fragrance-free diaper creams, to a solid wood crib with a non-toxic finish.

Laura learned firsthand how overwhelmed new parents can be by the amount of stuff they're told they need just to care for their baby, and when she added on any attempts to be green and healthy this feeling just grew exponentially! Realizing just how time-consuming and confusing the process can be for new parents, inspired us to write our book, The Peaceful Nursery, and create our nursery consultations. We hope our experience and research remove any stress from the process and make creating a nursery an enjoyable, special time for you and your family.

-Laura and Alison