A few weeks ago I met with Lorenzo at SPLA | Scott Peterson Landscape Architect, a local landscaping firm here in Lake Arrowhead, and with the owners of my favorite local nursery in Cedar Glenn as well, to get started on reimagining our residential home exterior space -front yard and back- and last Friday I …
As part of my partnership with Ecco Domani, last Tuesday evening I took over their Instagram account for a little over and hour and flooded it with photos of my home {and their yummy wine, of course} sharing little tips and tricks I do to make every day a little more extraordinary and special. And …
But first, this is our house now… Click to see more: how our property looks now | 2 Above: Front | 2 Below: Back I’m sure I’ve said this before, but one of the things that turned me off to the house we ended up buying, was the way it looked from the outside. It …
Welcome to our upstairs hallway/sitting area! This space was one of the unique things I really loved about this house. It has a kind-of dollhouse feeling, with a slanted ceiling on one side and a wall of doorways leading to 3 small rooms on the other side, then a walkthrough bathroom to another step-down bedroom …
I follow Harolds Finishing Touches on Instagram and am in love with the rich hues and chic vignettes in each & every photo. They’ve mostly got a darker, masculine feel, but with bursts of color, florals, whimsy, and all include curiously interesting objects. Upon further investigation, wherein I simply followed the link, I found Harolds …
I randomly happened upon these agate knobs and handles at West Elm the other day and instantly fell in love! I generally won’t drop $14 on a single knob, because WHAT!??!, however, these were just the perfect addition to give our upstairs hallway cabinets a little more style and I couldn’t pass them up. I …
I love decorating small spaces. More specifically, I love decorating small spaces that don’t actually “need” to be decorated, like the stairwell to the garage, for instance! This is more of a utility space {for getting things down to the garage from the house and/or up from the garage into the house, you get it} …
I still haven’t decided how to decorate my table for Thanksgiving this year. Actually, that’s not completely true, I recently bought a short money tree that I am in love with and was hoping to find a second one at the local nursery to pair together as part of a centerpiece design… but alas, they …
My home office sitting area is in constant flux. I originally purchased a few black velvet chairs for the space, but quickly realized they weren’t comfy/cozy enough for actually using them for what I wanted, though they looked nice. Luckily, when I bought them, I knew they’d also work in the master bedroom {which I’ve …
When I worked at the art gallery, I always snatched up old frames that were headed for the dumpster for my own use at a further date. I think I actually started hoarding them at one point, as I just couldn’t see these perfectly good -and expensive frames getting dumped because the gallery no longer …
As I flipped through my latest Elle Decor mag the other day, I got as far as the very first page, or the very last that is, and immediately set it down, got up, and started rummaging through my DIY supplies to find my little ball tassels to DIY my own version of the adorable …
I ADORE these textile covered pendant light cords… OBSESSED doesn’t come close to describing my love for them and I only wish I found them a week prior to having a pendant lamp installed in one of our guest rooms, because this pretty pink cord would have made the PERFECT addition to the floaty white …
A few weeks ago I bought this metal 2 Piece Crane Décor Set for $45 at Joss & Main to sort of satiate my Large Animal Statues & Figurines obsession {because I just can’t justify spending hundreds on one} in my Home Office Sitting Area. When they arrived, however, in opposite colors of how they …
The BEST recommendations come from friends, don’t they? ANNNNND bloggers, of course. The other day drollgirl sent me a link to these adorable dipped wooden bowls, planters, and more from Etsy shop Wind & Willow Home and I have gone back just to look at them {and decide whether I need them and can’t live …
Our new master bedroom, like most of the rooms in our new home by the lake, is only partially complete… eight months after moving in, we are still only partially done with everything. I guess that’s normal, but it’s constantly nagging at me to finish! Since the master gets the least amount of traffic on …
