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August 27, 2020

weekly musings | warmth

weekly musings | warmth

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design feature | ceiling play

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Candid Home View • This space has changed a lot

Candid Home View • This space has changed a lot in the last year. And we’re not even done. Still thinking about adding picture frame and crown moulding all around the perimeter. Design happens slowly sometimes, celebrating the little achievements along the way is important.
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Favorite View • Favorite Season This lamp has

Favorite View • Favorite Season

This lamp has been on the third floor in my office but I think it looks better in here. For now. I’m always rearranging. Nothing ever really stays in the same place around here.

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“Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; st

“Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.” - Charles Dickens
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If you haven’t guessed it by now, I am a very sentimental person. Proud to be. I put my heart into everything I do.
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The idea of -home- is something I’ve truly struggled with for most of my life. I grew up in a divorced family. I’m sure many can relate. Spending time in various different places, part-time with my father in New Hampshire, my grandparents house outside of Pittsburgh, my mother’s home, and then the merging of our family with my step-father and his, then after my mother’s death when I was 20 dealing with no longer having a “home” to come back to. When I was a kid, I was always studying other people’s houses. Fascinated by how they put things together and the way each space reminded me of them, aspects of their personality, reflections how they lived their lives. It was powerful to me how different each home was. I wanted to learn how to create my own. Even when I watched movies, I always paid more attention to the set design. How different characters live their lives, studying the sets, how people interacted with the space around them. It all started when I was a kid, I became mildly obsessed with observing and how other people “home” because I never felt like I really had one of my own.
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I’ve turned this focus into the cornerstone of my practice as a designer. I never want your home to look like me, or how I made my home… I want it to feel like you! I don’t want to fill your home with useless “things” just to fill the space (yuck!). I want to help you curate and build it around the pieces you’ve already chosen to bring into your home. Believe me, you already have it, I’ll help you find it. Even if it’s one work of art, a family heirloom you cherish, a souvenir from your travels, a dress that you love - that one object can tell me a lot about you. Home is sacred. Home is yours, all yours. It should feel like you, look like you. It should be a reflection of you. It should tell your story 🤍

Happy Taurus season, from yours truly. 🐂🌿🌎
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Enjoying a relaxing Sunday before a busy week ahea

Enjoying a relaxing Sunday before a busy week ahead. If you need me I’ll be cuddling with the cats and watching hockey.
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Allegheny West, The North Side • The best kept s

Allegheny West, The North Side • The best kept secret of Pittsburgh.

During my search for a home in 2019 after moving back to Pittsburgh, I knew wanted a home in a neighborhood that felt like my beloved Capitol Hill in Seattle. Where I could walk everywhere. To multi grocery stores, the market, parks, museums, restaurants, nightlife, shops, catch the light rail and be downtown/the airport, etc. But it was also a neighborhood full of history, big craftsman houses, big yards, and gorgeous architecture. My need for a walkable neighborhood didn’t occur to me until moving back to Pittsburgh. I hated that I had to drive everywhere. It really started to bother me. I definitely learned that suburban life is not for me - I felt so isolated.

Long story short, walkability is a huge reason why I chose my home. This neighborhood is very similar to Capitol Hill, just on a smaller scale. I have all the same necessities all within walking distance, again. (Just not a Trader Joe’s down the street... or Smith, or Olympia Pizza... Bakery Nouveau... I could go on and on🥺.) But I can walk everywhere again! I’m situated in a beautiful, quiet, historic neighborhood that is minutes away from downtown. I’m within walking distance of museums, grocery stores, restaurants, shops, nightlife, parks, the light rail.. etc. It’s pretty wonderful.

Location really is everything. I may not be able to see the Space Needle at the end of my street anymore but I’ve replaced it with Heinz Field so it could be worse I suppose. 🤪🤍

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