A home should tell a story…

…who are the people that live there? Where do they come from? What are their passions? Where have they been? Where are they going? Nothing in a home should be arbitrary. Everything should be carefully chosen because of the value it adds to a room, or because of its personal meaning.

As an Air Force wife I spent 29 years making do in imperfect houses, putting up with cramped spaces, tiny kitchens and bedrooms, dungeon laundry rooms, cracked tile, ridiculously small bathrooms, mold, termites…. I also spent those 29 years designing the perfect house, collecting ideas, clipping pictures from magazines, watching home design shows, scouring blogs and Pinterest - I pinned and pinned and pinned. I learned about construction and architecture. I learned how to draft. I drew up the plans and refined them. I researched finishes and materials. I drew a 3D computer model and furnished it and lived in it virtually for years, tweaking it and refining it until I had the perfect house. We bought land, we had a contractor. And then - plot twist - we bought a house. Yep. Built in 1992. This story begins when my dreams of building my perfect house fell through. I now have a new dream, and I invite you on my journey as I take a beautiful house and make it my curated, forever home.