When I was pregnant with our third child, Dave and I were trying to explain to our son that he would soon have a baby sister. We were driving in the car and discussing what made a family. Kel, trying to sort out our conversation in his three-year-old brain, finally had it figured out. He stated in his matter-of-fact way, "A family means you all … Read More »
Living Room and Kitchen Reveal
When we see all of the makeovers on TV and across the internet, it can sometimes seem like they are effortless. Nothing could be further from the truth. Dave and I planned our home at Lost Creek Stables for two years while we remodeled the home we were staying in. Then it took us three years (I say we, but it was actually Dave) to build it. … Read More »
Powder Bathroom Reveal
Fun things are coming your way in the coming weeks, and I'd like to start off by sharing the littlest room in our house: our powder bathroom. It is the tiny workhorse in our home. The footprint is 4'9"x 4'9", but it handles all our visitors and the overflow of the kids, who share a bathroom downstairs. It's situated at the end of a hallway and … Read More »
The Origin of Lost Creek Stables
I believe in the power and mystery of art. It picks you. It takes you on its own journey, if you choose to allow it. It's a surrendering, more than anything. And that's why I couldn't control the subject or the time when I finally figured out what would hang in our main room. To get to that, however, we have to go back even further. The … Read More »
Laundry Room Reveal
We've officially been in our home one year, and today, I get to share with you one space that is finally finished. And when I say finished, I mean that it's finished enough to snap some photos...a house is never done, right? Especially when it's a contractor and a designer's personal home. Over Thanksgiving, we finally put our laundry/mudroom … Read More »
Laundry Room
Today I want to give you a look at what I'm designing for our mudroom/laundry. I am creating final drawings and locking in my cabinet choices. This part always makes me excited and a little bit nervous. Committing to these expensive, hard-to-change architectural details is a big deal! As you know, our home isn't that big, so we needed to combine … Read More »
Master Bathroom Updates
Hi, friends! I promised you an update on our new home, and I'm going to share the adjustments I've {been forced} to make in our master bathroom. When I design, I draw and source items. However, I never know the "life span" of the items I've sourced until I try to order them. It takes a lot of calling and checking stock to verify I can … Read More »
Kitchen Changes
New construction is a trip. I often liken it to herding cats. From a design standpoint, I'm going after specifics, and the construction world functions better on generalities. Thank goodness for processes that help me ride out the curves and navigate when we hit a dead end. When we talked last, I had shared our plans for our new kitchen and … Read More »
Architectural Details of Our Modern Farmhouse
Hi, everyone! Welcome back to my series on our new home. If this is your first time with us, you can catch up on all the details by taking the links below: Kitchen (Introduction) Master Bathroom Design Powder Bathroom Design Kids' Bathroom Design In a sense, we've been covering the architectural details (or the "hard" … Read More »
The Kids’ Bathroom
Welcome back for the final bathroom design reveal. Today we're discussing my kids' bathroom. If this is your first time with us, I have shared previous designs for our new house here, here, and here. I don't have a floor plan for you to view in this blog post. It exists, but I'm leaving out the rest of the house plan (especially as it … Read More »
