Lifestyle Brand & Interior Designer
I love taking spaces that seem to be of no use and turn them in to something special. Every home has areas indoors as well as outdoors that just feels like wasted square footage. Clients tell me all the time about hallways, corners, nooks that they simply never use and have a millions of reason New home renovation! Our tropical spa area
While the front of the house looks like a complete war zone the back of the house is a different story. The Swedish newspaper Dagens Industri was here to do a story on me and my house. Swedish photographer Anna Maria Zuellert caught this photo of the backyard…. …which is the opening of the article. Renovation Mayhem and our house in Swedish news
Yesterday we started the final renovation project on our house. The Guest House. Turning the garage in to a guest house was supposed to be the first thing we did when we bought it. I would get a great office downstairs and Luke would get a big teen room upstairs. Well, it didn’t happen that Renovations again! DAY 1 & 2 – The Guest house
If you’re living on the east coast or in Sweden I know this time of the year you can’t wait for spring to arrive, so I thought I would share some updates to our outdoor living space. Since we are so blessed with incredible weather in southern California making the outdoors space livable is key. House updates – outdoor living space
Our LA house is slowly taking shape. I haven’t had the house professionally photographed yet but a number of you have e-mailed and asked that I share pictures, so here are just a few snapshots of our dining area in the kitchen. The house has received a lot of updates since I last posted about House updates – kitchen & eat in dining area
Happy Holidays! As this crazy busy year is coming to an end I’m finally sitting down to write a blog post. I hope 2016 has treated you well and that you have tons of great things in store for 2017. We arrived in dark Sweden a week ago to celebrate Christmas with our family and Kitchen renovations just in time for Christmas.
Unless you live in Los Angeles you’ll miss my mini home tour in Malibu Westlake magazine which is out on the newsstands now. Its always fun to see how your home looks in magazines so thought I would share a few peeks here on the blog. You can read the full interview with pictures and My house tour in Malibu Westlake magazine
We left our summer house in Sweden in slightly better shape than we found it in… In case you missed the disaster I’ve dealt with you can check it out here. You can see what the house looked like when we came home in June and I burst in to tears here. The renovations are Renovation plans created in one afternoon
There are makeovers and then there are M-A-K-E-O-V-E-R-S. Seems the most challenging projects just keep lining up. We arrived home to our summer house in Sweden, except what house?? If you follow this blog you know we had bad water damage this spring. Turned out it was BAD. This is our kitchen now…Want to come My DISASTROUS kitchen pictures & the coolest toilets ever
Sometimes you have to look back to realize how far you’ve come. Although I feel like nothing ever gets done around here and feeling frustrated about it, I changed my tune when I looked at pictures from a little more than a year ago. Walls had just been ripped out, there was no floor and What a difference a year makes.