As far as design trends go, it sort of feels like white kitchens are a thing of the past and warmer, woodsier, darker and more natural or contemporary kitchens are making a comeback HOWEVER, I sort of view white kitchens as a clean slate and depending on the materials used, offer a timeless look that …
Hi Lovecats! Just thought I’d share a little update on the family lake house we’ve been renovating for the last few months, though it’s not all that exciting, I still wanted to share the process, which of course, has taken far longer than we all anticipated. In my experience, construction and renovation always takes at …
LOVECATS! I’ve missed you! Life has been unsteady… April was a dumpster fire but the flames have been extinguished and I’m working on rebuilding and rising from the ashes. Could I use ANY MORE metaphors in one sentence? Probably…. but I’ll spare you 🙂 After almost a month of silence and self care, I finally …
Lovecats, this is MY HOUSE… & I’m still crushing HARD on it! The last two weeks have been insane. I decided it was time to make the move… Called my realtor and by the following week already had a showing. Two days later, a photographer was here then another showing after that. It was listed …
I sit in my living room at the end of each day and look around and smile. I love my house. It makes me so happy and for some reason I still don’t feel like that in itself, is enough to stay in it. But it should be. Why do I feel like I don’t …
I’ve shared in a few posts about having to sell my house… Things have changed a little bit and I have a choice to stay, though it’s an expensive one, and as quickly as I can usually make decisions, the choice to stay in this house or to sell it and move is one that …
Growing up and living in Los Angeles with hundreds of restaurants and food options just minutes away, eating out or delivery dinners were the norm, but since moving up to the mountains, where our choices have diminished, we actually use our kitchen and eat in nearly every day of the week now, which I love. …
Every time I talk about our house, I refer to the original listing and can’t help mentioning that it was low on my list of homes to see in Lake Arrowhead. I didn’t like the way the exterior looked at all and since there were no interior photos listed, I begrudgingly added it to the …
I love that our living room, kitchen, and dining room are all in one open great room {you can check out our open space before we moved in here if you like}. This is the room we spend most of our time in, when we’re not working that is -and sometimes when we are, and …
Our house is never done. I have ideas and thoughts about how it “should” look and how to make it better and they are never-ending and forever swirling… you’re probably the same 🙂 But for now, this is what our living room looks like. And I am content… for now. It’s a good thing though, …
A few weeks ago I met with Lorenzo at SPLA | Scott Peterson Landscape Architect, a local landscaping firm here in Lake Arrowhead, and with the owners of my favorite local nursery in Cedar Glenn as well, to get started on reimagining our residential home exterior space -front yard and back- and last Friday I …
But first, this is our house now… Click to see more: how our property looks now | 2 Above: Front | 2 Below: Back I’m sure I’ve said this before, but one of the things that turned me off to the house we ended up buying, was the way it looked from the outside. It …
Our new master bedroom, like most of the rooms in our new home by the lake, is only partially complete… eight months after moving in, we are still only partially done with everything. I guess that’s normal, but it’s constantly nagging at me to finish! Since the master gets the least amount of traffic on …
My living room/great room {I never know just how to refer to it really} is an ongoing project of decorating and redecorating, as many of the rooms in your homes probably are as well. It’s just never complete and never quite right and now that it’s Summer, my winter-warm accents seem too heavy. The Summer …
As I’m sure I’ve mentioned 1million times, but just as a quick refresher, this house was second to last on our list of about 18 houses we wanted to look at up here in Lake Arrowhead when we were on a serious hunt for real estate. I was 100% reading a book by its cover …
