Hi everyone. If you have been reading this blog long you know I favor a collected look in my home, my garden, and even my own personal fashion style. Why? A collected look has personality, interest, and history. By choosing to avoid a matchy-matchy look you can infuse your own personality and individual style into your designs. You can read more about my philosophy in this post The Collected Look How to Get It. For now, let's chat about How to Achieve a Collected Look on Your Patio. Our new ...
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How to Select a Harmonious Color Palette for a Pool Area
Happy Tuesday everyone! I am babysitting Summer this week so this post will be a little short. I thought I would share with you some of my plans for the pool area of our new home. The great news is there is a lot of living area around the pool. The bad news is there is a lot of living area around the pool. If you know what I mean? Let's talk about how to select a harmonious color palette for a pool area. The first think I think about when I am designing an outdoor area is what are the ...
Join me on a New Adventure and Survey Results
Today I want to talk about the survey results and some news I have been waiting to share until now. There is never a dull moment in this household. We purchased a home in the Paso Wine Country in December. The former owners are renting it back from us so we will not be physically moving until April or May. Let's chat about this post "Join me on a New Adventure and Survey Results. We have been looking for a home in the Paso area for several years. We almost bought a lot very near this home ...
How to Remodel an Old Kitchen and Retain Its Charm
Today I am sharing the small but mighty kitchen in our fixer upper. For those of you new here, we sold our long-time family home and moved into one of our rentals, It had a lot of character but needed some love after being a rental for over 25 years. Let's take a look at how to remodel an old kitchen and retain its charm. I am all for creating a modern workable space. However, I am not a fan of what I call "bastardizing" (for lack of a better word) the original space. I think it is ...
A Collected Christmas Home Tour You Will Love
Well, I hope you will anyway! We have to come up with these catchy names to get recognized by good old google. Today I am so happy to join Most Lovely Things and Classic Casual Home and some of our favorite bloggers for our annual Christmas tour. For those of you new here, we recently sold our longtime family home and downsized to one of our rentals. Lucky for us it is a charming Spanish Revival. I like to decorate with either natural or nature inspired decor for Christmas. I usually have a ...
Fixer Upper Living Room Before and After
I have been meaning to do a post on our new old living room for a while but there are still a few things that aren't done like some window repairs etc. but I decided I may as well go ahead. Let's take a look at my Fixer Upper Living Room Before and After. Here is a shot of the living room from the entryway. I probably will get an area rug at some point, but I am loving the openness of the room right now. This room (as does the entire house) has great natural light. It has high ceilings ...
Fixer Upper Bedroom Reveal
Hi everyone. I am finally sharing some of our new old house. If you are new, we moved from our 5,000 sq ft homeinto a charming rental (that needed love) that we have owned for over 25 years. We sold some of our furniture with the home but brought many pieces with us and many more are in storage. Our new home is just over 2,000 sq feet with an additional office and 1/2 bath off the garage. It is all in progress, but our bedroom is nearly done, so I am sharing it as-is. I have ordered a ...
My Dining Room, TV storage hack and more
Happy Fathers Day to all the wonderful dads out there. I hope you all have a wonderful day with your families today. i am joining Mary Ann, and Annie and we are sharing our Sunday favorites, including my dining room, tv storage hack and more. HEATHER BULLARD’S INGENIOUS HACK FOR HIDING THE GIANT TV Do you follow Heather Bullard? She is so creative and always has such wonderful ideas on her blog and Instagram. One of her recent posts really hit home. Steve recently purchased a gargantuan tv ...
Refresh your Family Room with new Pillows
Happy Thursday. You may have heard our home is in escrow, along with our lake house, so we are in clean-out mode. When Mary Ann, Annie, and I got the big idea to do a Spring tour it sounded like a great idea. I ordered new pillows for our family room and TV room and some new lampshades. I was going to replace our counter stools with these great-looking ones from World Market. Fast forward Mary Ann's mother fell and passed away yesterday sadly, and our house is in escrow. So let's take a look ...
