home series: backyard breakdown

                                                                                           

A few weeks ago, we broke ground in the mud pit called our backyard and began a little project that we have wanted to do for a long time.  I chose KD Design to do the work, and here are some photos of them getting down and dirty, while putting in the steel edging that frames the new landscaping.  Dave Tekyl, the owner, could not have been more nice and easy to work with.  It was so cool to have him take our ideas and put them into his own design.

Check in tomorrow to see the big reveal of how it turned out!  You are gonna love it!   

going vertical

I'm in LA this week and trying to hold off before I reveal more of my Home Series, so that it can be debuted on Design Sponge first (that is the criteria).  So, in the meantime, check out Flora Grubb's website and San Francisco gardening store!  I think that this vertical succulent garden is amazing and I really want to take the inspired idea and do something of my own with it - possibly indoors....There are so many ways to translate this into a work of art all your own.

week of years past....a collection

I just put together a collage of many inspiring images to sum up my "week of years past".  These are all over the board and maybe don't completely all fit into a interior design or architecture category, but they in some way have influenced my ideas for design, therefore I felt they were worthy.  You'll see photos from Marfa, TX, Austin, Post, TX, Thailand, Beverly Hills, Hollywood Hills, Sonoma, Southampton, Chicago, and there is even an LA bar in there.  I had to sneak one in of my most precious little nephew, who was born last August.  New life is always an inspiration to live your better!  

(Feel free to ask me more about these photos, if you are curious.)