A few years ago, I shared about how I created a closet out of a spare bedroom. Though I have ample space, this room was somehow always on the verge of becoming a disaster zone. Whenever I would seek to reclaim my messy closet, I would spend about every other Sunday afternoon “organizing.” What I […]

Our master closet, which I also refer to as my dressing room, is a repurposed bedroom adjacent to our master bedroom. Plans have been long in the works to adjoin this room to our bedroom with a new private entrance, and to close off the wall to our hallway. At that point, I would consider […]

What is better than homemade bread? I love focaccia because one recipe makes a TON and it becomes a canvas for any flavors you wish to apply to it, like a pizza. I quarter each loaf and freeze half so that I usually have some bread on hand. I kept this batch relatively simple with […]

When my sisters and I were little, Easter was all about the basket. Now that I’m grown up, I build my own basket each year, and all I really need is flowers. After months of nothing but evergreens to snip, our yard is bursting forth with Muscari, Crocus and Narcissus and I’m in heaven. I’m […]

Of all the rooms in your house, the bedroom should be the most restful and calm-inspiring, serving as your retreat at the end of the day. I have long loved a classic neutral room and my heart fluttered at the sight of the master bedroom at the beautiful Patina Farm in Ojai, CA. It is […]

A standalone cabinet, whether IKEA or a marvelous antique, is my most favorite type of furniture because it can not only anchor a space with its scale, there’s also something about a piece of furniture devoted to storing little collections that appeals to my organization and container-loving heart. I had long been on the search […]

Several years ago when we replaced the white gutters on our house with black, it gave me the opportunity to rethink our home’s whole look. I love the overall bones and symmetrical layout of our 1969 brick ranch. These classic proportions make our house rather chameleon-esque and virtually any style can be applied to it. […]

The world’s oldest and most acclaimed candlemaker is Cire Trudon. Dating back to 1643, they provided illumination to the court of King Louis XIV, as well as to the great churches of France. Over the generations of family owners, they perfected the process of wax purification and created a perfectly clean-burning candle with virtually no […]

At the end of last year, we decided it was time to begin the process of replacing some of our existing flooring. Our house had six different types of flooring including carpet, engineered and oak hardwoods, travertine, tile and bamboo, and none of them are necessarily reflective of our style. Upon reflection, I am grateful […]

I’ve read somewhere that in designing your home, the master bedroom sets the tone for your whole house and therefore is a good place to get started. For me, the “catalyst room” has always been the dining room. It’s a room synonymous with hospitality, and becomes the ambassador of your style to your invited guests. […]

The origins of patîsserie are arguably not in France, but from the ancient Mesopotamian civilization of the Assyrian Empire circa 800 B.C. I count this dessert among my most favorites to both make and enjoy, these cookies and pots de crème being the others. Phyllo (meaning leaf) is a super thin pastry, sold in the […]

On this especially cold Valentine’s Day weekend, there’s nowhere I’d rather be than together in our little château. On the menu for our celebration tonight is Ligurian Focaccia (recipe from a great Netflix series), my favorite pasta dish, Bucatini with Pomodoro Sauce, and a great bottle of Champagne. Here are some moments from around our […]