Denver Interior Design – let's talk vintage style, old homes and remodeling
I've worked my whole career in interior design and, as I get older, it's eye opening for me to realize how much it's shaped what I think about, what I do in my free time and my outlook on life. Why on earth am I surprised by something so obvious? It's probably something to do… Continue reading Design Insights: Colors, Patterns and Life
My work brings me into close contact with families in a way that's different than the folks who regularly work with families like teachers and healthcare providers. I'm in people's homes, I'm staring at their laundry rooms, I'm standing in their kitchens and asking things like "Who does the cooking around here?" and "Where do… Continue reading Open vs. Closed Mudroom Storage: What Works Best?
Denver sits at the edge of the Great Plains. We get unpredictable weather swings, harsh summers and winters and crazy wind days yet it's a sunny, genteel, dog-loving Western city at the end of the Prairie and at the start to some heavenly Rocky Mountains. I love working in older homes in Denver and imagining… Continue reading Reviving Denver’s Historic Homes: A Renovation Journey
Every year, around this time, I have a scent memory that comes to me unbidden. It's an odd memory in that it's not from anything extreme. You always read about someone having negative experiences and certain smells trigger them, but this is a memory of something fairly mundane that comes to me every single year… Continue reading The Scent of a Primrose
The days are getting longer, the breeze is feeling warmer and my happiness levels are returning. I had a hard winter - the cold and the ice paired with a need to eat my way through January and February. And probably December if I'm being honest with myself. I got out every single day with… Continue reading Good Riddance February
This kitchen and butler's pantry is in a beautiful 1913 Craftsman Bungalow. I showed you a few other rooms from this home last week. The kitchen is half in the original home and half in the new addition. Why are we Americans still calling this usually formal, smaller room off a kitchen a Butler's Pantry?… Continue reading Craftsman Bungalow: A Kitchen and Pantry Tour (with a bath thrown in for fun).
Every year, I get wrapped up in a cinematic idea of Fall. Those Hollywood images and feelings intertwine with my own, much less picturesque, memories and feelings and I experience a let down. Spring always lives up to it's promise, but in Fall the days just get darker and darker and the Halloween decorations gets… Continue reading Classic White Kitchen with a Twist
I still see Pumpkin Spice Latte used un-ironically and when I do, I wonder if the writer thinks twice about it? Shudders internally? Or, is it something healthy people with happiness in their hearts still look forward to every Fall? I think of that drink the same way I think of cable knit sweaters -… Continue reading Days of Walnut and Marble: Custom Bathroom Vanities
School has started again out here in Colorado and I wonder when did it change to going back in early to mid August? When I was a kid it was always the day after Labor Day and I relished those last weeks of August when it was still hot and the days were still long.… Continue reading A Dramatic Black & White Kitchen
There are so many things I'd love to complain to you about but this is a design and decorating blog and I think you could probably use some peace. We both know what's going on in the world and hopefully you're here because you could use a break from the 24 hour a day news… Continue reading Current Sensibility: Never Panic: Let’s look at pretty images together and smile.
The Colorado Nest 