As of late

I am trying to be better about taking pictures of work. This is one of the projects that has kept me from blogging. It has been a great project. The architect is someone I have admired for a long while. It has been wonderful to get to know her. The clients are long-time friends, so really, it has been a dream all-around.

{The above photo is the back facade. They installed the clapboard
and started wrapping the columns this week.}

{office}

{mudroom}

{view from family room into dining room}

{dining room. the two alcoves will have built-in glass-front hutches. the walnut floors are covered in this redish paper until we're ready to finish them.}

{view from front entry}

{upstairs kid's bath}

{master bath}

brown box-it

I'm pretty sure the interior design bug bit me quite early inside cardboard box houses and blanket tents like these.
So much better than playskool or little tykes.

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Kelly Wearstler Vibe Trays

I recently had a conversation with another interior designer about the process of creating, how often a project ends up all over the place. I wish I was one of those people who put the philosophy "a place for everything and everything in its place" into practice. In order to get the vision of something, I have to spread out...all over. Anyone who has ever lived with me knows this. When I saw this designer's space, I felt so much better about the way things run around here. We think alike and organize alike, if you can call it that.


I am intrigued by everything Kelly Wearstler, but am really digging on her "Vibe Trays" as seen on this site. By corralling things in trays, at least there's a sense of containment. This still allows for a very artistic, loose, free-floating creative feeling in the conceptual phase of a project. I could really benefit from something like this.