A CRAZY YEAR...WORK!

2019 was a crazy year - both good and bad - and I've fallen behind - way behind - in my posting...
so I'm attempting to catch up....

Despite the water damage and repairs going on at my house, I was able to accomplish quite a bit of decor and design - here are a few of the tidbits...
(or here are the ones where I actually remembered to take a photo)

We put the finishing touches on this sweet guest bathroom

I promise to get my prints online soon,
these came from my collection
Aren't they gorgeous?

I used prints from my collection to finish up this sweet guest bedroom...

I designed a large kitchen and a guest bedroom and bath for this home

This is demo happening!

Sometimes I'm only hired to design a space and don't actually get to work on it - so its kind of fun to have a peek and see what they came up with on their own...

In another home, we  finished an art installation for this blank wall behind a grand piano

including framing this actual violin and sheet music

in a shadow box

and all the music related Sid Dickens plaques we could find...

and some custom photography

More of my prints on this office wall - all white flowers -

and a great concrete planter find, which we filled with succulents

Thirteen foot ceilings in this powder room -
we had to bring the eye level down a little - it was just too much blank space.
So, we had a nice high wainscot installed and some black and white photography brought the scale of the room down to size.

We also added a bench in this cavernous room...

 This wall of photos is from the beach photo shoot my friend, Lorie, had with James (my son).
 So fun to see his talent displayed!

ADVENTURES IN THE BEEHIVE STATE

SEVERAL OUT OF STATE TRIPS
Work this year included several trips to the Beehive State.  I have family in Utah, and friends,
and have a hard time resisting springtime in the Rockies -
plus we made it a girls trip!
Fun!

I found a new favorite shop
Brambles & Blossoms, Provo

hELLo Salt Lake City

I don't usually stay in the city when I come to Utah.

I lived here during grade school and Jr. High but our epicenter was farther south.

I worked in the city in my early 20's before moving to California, but its a different feeling altogether to actually live IN the city.  I was here to help a friend who owns an AirBnB in the Avenues.  

So we stayed in the Avenues, a stones throw from Downtown SLC.  It was a very fun and difference experience.  The Avenue's are very quiet and the city was bustling and busy.

My friend Betty took us to a secret little canyon - City Creek Canyon-
(the same creek that runs through SLC)
despite having been born here, I had never been to this little canyon.

crazy friends

State Capitol Building at night was so pretty

Salt Lake City library - (it was my first time to visit this)

Utah Arts Festival was in full swing - so of course, we went!

These giant puppets were fun!

We stopped at Trolley Square for dinner.  Such a cool old trolley depot turned shopping mall - wish they still had all those unique stores I remember from college days...

We stopped to see our besties along the way.  Dannee and family moved from Orange County to Utah and built a beautiful house of their own design.

Dannee did a great job building and decorating her darling home!

(my prints again on her gorgeous brick wall)

We stayed at this adorable Queen Anne (AirBnB) in Salt Lake City -
where I am redesigning the kitchen.

Quiet street, amazing backyard, and the best tree ever over the upper deck...check it out here.  I would definitely stay here!