I’m learning a lot about home staging. While my tastes and style have changed over time, my heart has not. I want to create a home that’s warm, comfortable, soft, easy. But sometimes the rooms seem blah, clunky and not at all what I’m trying to create. This past Christmas I found myself wishing I could experience each room with fresh eyes, see it for the first time, as it were, see if I’m really pulling off this vintage/eclectic look.
So I called my mother.
My mother makes everything better, always. What’s more, she’s a gifted photographer.
Maybe Mom can help me see.
She did.
Welcome to my work in progress, a growing collection of aged Christmas trimmings, a ridiculous mouse tree, vintage pieces and cats. Always cats.
(A few of the photographs are captioned. You can read them by hovering over them).
#324, built about 60 years ago for a college professor and his wife.
Christmas Tree 2013
This year’s mantel
The kitchen, where everyone always ends up (mural created by Joanne Lapic in 2003)
In the dining room
The mouse tree
More vintage loveliness
A special nativity that came to our home all the way from Colombia, South America thanks to Brad and Camie
Thank you for visiting. More stories to come, but now it's tea time.
L.
