HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Happy Thanksgiving everyone, I hope you all enjoy your friends, family, and food. We've packed up the car full of dogs, off to Austin, see you next week.

ART EVENT

This weekend Annalee Aston, Co-Director of Dallas's Gremillion & Co Fine Art Inc., and myself, visited a great art event at the amazing Gary Riggs Home. They featured over 150 pieces for sale from a Florida Contemporary Art Gallery, and altered the entire space for the event with coordinating colorful vignettes.

The event is now over but if you're in the neighborhood you can still take a tour through this amazing 45,000+ SF interior design space, GRH always leaves me feeling inspired.

 

TOUCH OF TURQUOISE

I thought it was time to give a little update on a few of the not-so-secret projects I've been devoting most of my nights to. My client has great taste but she wanted help reining it all in, she claimed to be very Pottery Barn and wanted to stay that way. After a few sessions with me, she found herself  moving away from the traditional and more toward the eclectic. Here is a preview of her newly styled living room style. 

DARE TO DREAM

With Bryan being away for five days, I've had a lot of time to play design catch-up and brainstorm new ideas. A late night phone call came from Bryan from the GSA Annual Convention letting me know that graduate advisers had informed him that UT Galveston would offer all of the graduate programs he would be interested in.

Now, I love my house in Dallas, it's our first home, and we've completely renovated it to our specific liking, but one can't help dream of what it must be like to live in and remodel a Historic home, à la Frank Lloyd Wright, near the beach, even if it is in Galveston, Texas. The beach is still the beach.

 If only this house were right on the beach.

 Light, airy feeling with beam details and mini craftsman pendants.

 Beautiful Prairie windows that open up to the ocean air.

Coastal seating Arts & Crafts detail in the mantle, mirror resembles a port-hole.

 Shower off outside after a morning of surfing, if there were any.

... I'm only dreaming. CHEERS