Color My World, Interiors

Creating Introverted Spaces with Color

I am increasingly drawn to muddier colors - especially the moodier green side of things. I've noticed this muddy green looks especially good with the cool touch of blue and the warmth of red/coral tones. It's unexpected, interesting and it has an inward, quiet look to it that's really appealing to me right now. With… Continue reading Creating Introverted Spaces with Color

Interiors, Kitchen

Craftsman Bungalow: A Kitchen and Pantry Tour (with a bath thrown in for fun).

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).

Interiors

After the Marshall Fire: A New Build with Joy

Captain waiting patiently in the kitchen because sometimes good things happen here. We have a walnut island with a soft white perimeter for a client who loves to cook. (Photo by Jordan Katz for Laura Medicus Interiors). This home is on the site of the client's previous home which was lost to the Marshall Fire… Continue reading After the Marshall Fire: A New Build with Joy

Current Sensibility, Interiors

Last Week of Summer: Bring on Fall Melancholy Season

We have a really sweet flock of black capped chickadees (called a Banditry of Chickadees) on our birdfeeders and trees the past few weeks after having very few bird visitors this summer and this middle-aged gal was loving it. Youth is usually not spent watching birds and listening to the way the wind sounds in… Continue reading Last Week of Summer: Bring on Fall Melancholy Season

Current Sensibility

Current Sensibility: Vintage and More Vintage

Snow is falling outside right now and I've got a hot mug of Earl Gray next to me. I love the smell of Bergamot - it smells like happiness. I just repainted my office Backwoods by Benjamin Moore and I am loving it. It's a forest green that's so forest green you can smell the… Continue reading Current Sensibility: Vintage and More Vintage

Current Sensibility

Let’s Get Interesting: 7 Rooms with Character

Any time I want to get a little down on myself, I start wishing I were normal. What is normal to me? I think it's someone who watches Yellowstone along with everyone else, someone who doesn't have a home filled with thrift and antique shop furniture and someone who has a "normal" yard filled with… Continue reading Let’s Get Interesting: 7 Rooms with Character

Color My World, Interiors

Get Your Color On!

Note that sky blue ceiling with the gorgeous wood paneling! (Source) Lately painting or papering ceilings is everywhere you look and I love the bright, robin's egg blue of the ceiling in the sushi restaurant above. I also love the giant sconces on the wall that look like flush mount lights just mounted as a… Continue reading Get Your Color On!

Current Sensibility, Interiors

Imperfectly Perfect: Design Inspiration

"I’ve never felt comfortable looking perfect or being perfect. My taste is weird and I couldn’t make a perfect room if I tried.” Jenna Lyons I am excited about interiors that give me a feeling for the person or family that lives in the space. I think perfect rooms and perfect homes don't exist in… Continue reading Imperfectly Perfect: Design Inspiration

Current Sensibility

Opt Out: Happy Thanksgiving!

I've posted this blog post on the week of Thanksgiving for the past four years and my feeling is the same so I will run it again.   Almost every blog and online article I read has tags and links for where I can buy product.  I am weary of the fevered "Buy Me" presence… Continue reading Opt Out: Happy Thanksgiving!

Before and After, Interiors, Kitchen

Before and After Kitchen: As Seen on HGTV’s House Hunters Renovation

My second House Hunters Renovation episode aired this past weekend.  If you missed seeing it on television, it is Season 14, Episode 9 and is called: “Flying into a Renovation”.  It should be available on demand and I believe you can find it on YouTube as well.  It always blows my mind to see a… Continue reading Before and After Kitchen: As Seen on HGTV’s House Hunters Renovation