HOUSE TOUR | Inside an Eclectic 1950's Rambler Home in Minnesota

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story I'm Kate erens and we are at my home in St Paul Minnesota this house was built in the ' 50s the style of this house it's really hard to Define it could be called kind of like a Frankenstein house because there isn't one particular style that it would fall into in terms of the category I call it a Cape Cod Rambler um it's got traditional elements it's got some Modern elements it's got a stained glass ceiling um it really is is a lot of fun I think that's what you would call it we moved in in 2020 this house is less than a mile from where we were living and someone sent us the listing and was like this is your house and we walked in and looked at each other from across the room and we just knew this was the house for us I think we we just loved the personality we love the quirks you know we love the challenge of it and knew that we could you know really make it our own I really like homes that have a lot of personality and I don't think I really knew that about myself until I walked into this space and really just felt lit up by the idea of living somewhere that had so much energy around it I live here with my partner Joe and our two kids uh who are six and seven and our sweet dog Winnie she is almost 10 I am what they would call hul an original gangster of the blogging world I have been writing and creating things online since 2009 and Whit and Delight has been around for that long so I think I was 24 and I was working as a graphic designer and just wanted to really write about things that I wasn't necessarily getting to create at work and so the role of content creator I guess kind of grew up around that um I don't know impulse to create and share that was part of the emergence of what we now call social media um so I have been a lot of things and I think content creator probably isn't the right one word for it um I create product I design spaces and I think when I look back at kind of the through line with everything that I've done and created it has been about creativity and expression and I think living in a way that combines like curiosity and creativ ity and the hope is that my work inspires other people to do that you know whether or not your work is creative um how you create your home in your life um can be a platform to do that whether or not you share it on Instagram or not this is the entryway it was the room when we walked in and saw the house for the first time that we fell in love uh the star of the show is this chandelier it's from the 1920s and it was an estate sale f that I saw and just immediately knew I had to make work in the space I love the scale um we added The Medallion at the top and it really just makes this entry Moment Like sing especially when you first walk in the door I've always loved round tables in an entry I often have fresh flowers here these are dried that I got at a local coffee shop I love this rug this is one of those things where I had like a full body yes when I saw it it's a Swedish kilum rug in this these beautiful shades of pink all of the little side tabls have lived in different aspects and parts of my house and right now they're just here to kind of hold junk cuz every entryway you need to kind of you know hide your stuff sunglasses Keys all of that this mirror I found at an antique store and I love it so much it's also had a lot of different homes in different SP like parts of the house but I love it here it's like the last look before you head out the door and it just makes me really happy one of the things I love most about the house is that when you walk in the entryway you have like a full line of sight all the way through to our dining room and we wanted to really highlight that view because it's lovely to see through the backyard so we've really designed the flow of the house to elongate and enhance that we've tried a lot of different layouts and have found that this is the best one where we have a sitting room and then the dining room that goes all the way through and really this space is all about framing that view when you walk in and it's probably one of my favorite parts of the house and I just wanted to have a little bit of fun with color do something unexpected and I fell in love with this kelly green color and wanted to put it somewhere um so I decided to do it on our doors um the entrance is black when you come in and it's sort of a surprise to see the green when you leave and I love that it's in a high gloss I love that it's unexpected I love that it's like a happy color um and just to add that like unexpected pop of something is just a design philosophy I love to live by I I would say the vibe is me uh there isn't really one I think style or look I I think I've gone with what the house has sort of told me I think that also is partly influenced by who lived here before the previous homeowners from what I understand traveled a lot they loved color they loved creating rooms with personality and I would like to think that I put my own space spin on what was already here so a lot of color a lot of layer and texture I would say that it is an Eclectic expression of the things that I love and we love as a family so green is one of my absolute favorite colors and you'll see it sprinkled throughout the house and speaking of green I want to take you into the room that is right off the entryway and that is our living [Music] room so this is the living room uh our family calls it the Green Room as you can see we are wrapped in this lovely green color that is it just reminds me of spring I think that's the the best way to describe it it is where we watch TV it's where we play games it's where we hang out it's just where we like completely relax we have fires going as often as we possibly can it's one of my favorite things to do this is a wood burning fireplace and I love the process of building fires and tending to the fire and the smell of fire so um I love to have them going as often as we can this is where I have another of my beloved Swedish kilum rugs I'm obsessed I love it I love the green and the blue and the scale in here this sofa is probably the most comfortable sofa I've ever sat on it's a down velvet huge sofa that is great for napping and relaxing one of my favorite details in this space really is that you feel fully enveloped in color and we gave it a lot of Dimension by doing a flat paint on the walls and then going high gloss in all of the woodwork and it just adds like a little glint in a shimmer when the light hits it and you're allowed to sort of feel wrapped in color but you're not sort of like overwhelmed by it um or it doesn't feel super flat when we add in we add it in that contrast of flat and high gloss all of these things are just items that I have purchased or thrifted again when I see something and I have just this visceral like it needs to come home with me moment and the way that I set up my mantle it changes all of the time this just so happens to be the one that I have up after the holidays um these two horses are meant to be door stoppers so they're incredibly heavy um and I just love how Regal and um I don't know just like I love that I love a little bit of metallic um in any space and I love that they bring that in here the warmth of this mirror I love a medium tone wood um and I specifically Loved These carvings um and I just really felt that this space the green and having green on green bringing in a natural element really livens everything up I think green you know goes with so many so many of the colors that you find in nature um so I think just having that rich brown was lovely always have to have a plant and then this candleabra reminds me of like Beauty and the Beast at any moment am I just sort of come to life it's just got a lot of personality and it's super fun everything's a little wonky in this house and that's how I like it you know everything's just like a little off skew and um I think that's kind of what makes makes it feel at home without sort of like I don't know being in your face it's not like the house feels like it's like sinking or anything but everything's just like a little off everything in my house I always joke that whenever you come over something that was in one room is now going to be in another room and use it a completely different way this is a tapestry that we had hanging in the kitchen uh vertically and I didn't know what to do with this big long space I'm still kind of looking for the right piece of art but I love the idea of having you know something that is woven something that is textural and so I just went into the basement and grabbed this and just stuck it on the wall um one day when I was feeling impulsive and so it lives here now um and I think it's just like a good a good way of I don't know trying stuff out if you don't know what's going to go in that spot like I don't know what's going to go there yet I like the scale I know I like the the pattern and right now this works here I love these English roll back chairs this is where I do a lot of my reading being in this little Nook this bay window with floor to ceiling Windows sometimes it's hard to know what to do within that space so these chairs you know is just a great way to catch a lot of light I love the view out this way too so sometimes I just rotate the chairs and look outside our TV is somewhat hidden in this Gallery wall it's a frame um these are just a couple of my favorite pieces that I've collected over time this is from an antique store this is an original some Impressions um and thrift store finds and I just I like the idea of the TV not being the focal point above the mantle it works really well it kind of Blends in but it still is really functional for like game day you know and cartoons in the morning these are all of my favorite antiques I think probably one of my most beloved things is this Dalmatian lamp I can't tell you why I just I find it delightful and it's one of the things that I would grab if my house is burning down yeah I think I bought it during the pandemic and I was just really feeling I think it was one of the first things I bought for this house and I think it kind of had the irreverence and kind of playfulness that I felt while I was here um and so I love this lamp so much this is actually a printed um replica of an original from St Frank and it's so good it really looks like it's actually woven I love the pop of red Theory the idea that if you bring in just a tiny bit of red it just sort of like creates this elevated expected kind of playful element to a space and so this is the pop of red in this space I think I have a little pop of red in every space actually so I love this print I love the scale I love the depth I like that everything sort of feels really textural here this is one of my favorite pieces that I found in an antique store um it has a secret drawer down here that isn't holding anything right now but I will put Treasures in here someday to hide from my children but it's in just great condition and this is a I think it's a Victorian era um type piece piece this way this is a cupboard from uh a kitchen that was reclaimed I found at an architectural salvage store I love it it's crooked it's wonky but it has you know just all of my kids toys um we just shove it away things don't have to be organized or anything like that but and the doors don't always close but I love the warmth that it adds to the space and um that is really informal and feels cozy I feel like the space behind our couch is a place where I'm still kind of playing around I love having console tables behind sofas because one you need a spot to put your coffee and two it's a great styling moment um so that's something that I am playing around with right now the golden horse is again something I picked up at an antique store I have I love horses I don't know why I think they're they're just impressive Regal Beautiful Creatures I love to have them around my house yeah and I often will like put in dried flowers into that big ear that's again one of those things I found at a thrift store that you know sometimes you find these things that have great size and scale and shape that are hard to find and you know retail today and so I just grabbed it and it always has a home in my house right now it happens to be in this room so this color is not for everyone and it changes a lot based on the time of day and in the morning time it feels really bright and springy and at night it feels very like I don't know cozy and cooler I think it's better in person to be honest I think the whole house is better in person than it does than it looks actually when it's kind of lit up in camera and I mean and that's sometimes the point I guess so this is where our dog Winnie sleeps um this is the folding laundry chair my husband my husband like has to sit upright when he folds laundry so we called we called at his folding laundry chair so he can watch sports and fold laundry that's Papa Joe's chair this this is just for throwing our feet up and I love the size of these these two pieces of artwork I think you know if you're going to go with a color that's this bold bringing in elements that ground it and really give variance and um and kind of bring out all of the different tones was important and those pieces were specifically selected for those for these two locations so one of the few things that hasn't rotated out of here are these two pieces okay let's go check out the sitting room it's just this way [Music] okay welcome to the sitting room this is one of the rooms in the house that people usually look up and go what like this is one of the rooms I'm talking about when I say that the house is sort of a Frankenstein house um there's just this lovely glass stained glass ceiling u in the middle of the house when we bought it there was a piano in here and I imagine this was the music room it is right off the dining room and there's this great connection between the space the dining room is a step down so I imagine that people had dinner and maybe someone played music and that was sort of how the evening went um we are not those people I don't know how to play the piano so we had to pay someone to move it um and now it's just it's a sitting room and we've tried a number of different layouts for this space this is the one that works the best we have a love seat and two chairs um these are beloved I found them at an antique store in their I think 1960s Danish um Danish chairs that have been refurbished and um I love them and it really is about conversation and hanging out and our kids love to sit here and you know talk about what happened after school we play chess um I serve cocktails in here and it feels very civilized um and we enjoy the view this is our chess board my kids are in chess Club at their school and it is one way that I don't know I think it's a great way to figure out how to talk to them about what happened in school without really like like I don't know asking them a million questions um I like to beat them at chess I still can right now but the my days are numbered so yeah we like to just kind of Crouch down here play some chess often times when we're having friends over for dinner we'll have cocktails in here one of my favorite views of the house is like this moment right here it's I feel like it's my personality and style in like in a moment um this is a Gil Albert hollan print that I purchased from a local gallery and it's a Venice and I love it so much there are these moments happening within the still life um so there's always something to kind of discover within the print um her work is incredible this piece right here is also beloved um I found this at an architectural salv place and I fell in love with the scallops it's wonky I have to fix it often um but it holds a lot of my absolute favorite things I got these French coupe glasses for Christmas um I just love like you know the bulous shape of this really cute picture um I can't remember I know that these were made in the' 60s and the 70s all different sorts of little coups and things to serve drinks in um toothpicks and some books on making drinks so this is just one of my absolute favorite pieces and it's got so much personality and I think there's markings in here from the Builder who made it and um it makes me really happy I love a ju to position that clashes I think it like makes sense to me um because there's tension between those two things and in a room like this it works because we have a really ornate ceiling but we have a white box to work within and so all of the traditional elements um serve as sort of this grounding space for other more modern elements to come in and little pops and that's really what the chairs do and the lights do and the coffee table does um and so it was a moment in this house where I was really able to I think enhance that jux toos where in some of these other rooms they lean a bit more traditional or a bit more modern this is the room where I think they all come together and I love that it's in the center of the home my daughter when we first moved in called them Mickey mousers and I cannot unsee them and now you won't be able to either I think this was very traditional of the 1950s like Rambler style molding and they were everywhere I actually took a couple of them down and I just it was a little bit too much especially once you see Mickey Mouse everywhere but I love how they punctuate the more formal spaces and I think they have they have a nice moment here the lighting in this space in the dining room this existed I added some of the lamp shades um just to add a bit more texture and a bit more contrast I love a contrasting piping um but that's really all that we did here this originally had this hand painted silvery wallpaper and like a teal color like a light teal uh molding and I really I really liked the idea of letting just one element saying and that was the chandelier and the stained glass ceiling so we painted it a creamy just offwhite um white and I think it it really does that it lets those elements shine how I would describe my sense of style I think it's like an amalgamation of words and feelings um comfort and warmth I think is like the number one thing that people say they feel when they come into my house um classic I really do love um traditional elements of architecture and furniture and then like a little weird a little zany I'm always kind of bringing in something that is modern or it's going to kind of like mix things up so uh I would say it's a mix it's like the Kate mix and I'm always really happy when people walk in and just sort of you can see they feel relaxed and like nothing's too precious here and that they can stay and kick off their shoes and really feel at home welcome to the dining room we call it the peach room for obvious reasons I love this space so much it was probably the room that sold us on the house to be honest the view the ceiling height the floors the color everything about it just I mean it it was like my dream room it is my dream room um it works really well as a dining room that's originally how it was designed we for a long time had this as a living room and just found that we weren't it didn't really feel right we weren't using it in the right way and one of the things I love more than anything is to host and when I realized that this that's what this space was really wanting to be we redesigned the space to really be that and I think it sings This Way um I want to show you one of my favorite things about the room and that is that these are China cabinets for plates and things which is just like I mean that's how you know it's meant to be like this was meant to be a dining room it's got enough room for like a really big table and it's it makes me so happy this fireplace when we got here it wasn't working um so we put in a gas insert just for ease and we love it it I will often sit at this table and flip through cookbooks or meal plan or you know write or things like that and I'll have the fire going and it's just a nice change of pace um to come here and enjoy the view and the color and just the grandness of the space it's it's really beautiful uh this piece of artwork is one of my absolute like favorite things that I own it's a painting that was done by artist Paulo Ventura during the beginning of the pandemic the date up there 43 2020 he is based in Italy and painted this when the pandemic was just ravaging Northern Italy um and he painted just inanimate everyday objects that he found in his house and we bought it uh I think a year a year after the series was done and just loved how it worked with the colors in this space um this paint color was here when we moved in I in definitely thought I was going to paint it and the day that we were bringing all of our pieces in here I was sitting on a couch and I was like I absolutely cannot paint this like I I have to keep it this room is an example of letting the house and the previous homeowners really influence the design decisions we made we loved this room and realized that removing the paint color and the chandeliers would really just change the feeling of it in general it's not necessarily us but we've brought in our own personality to what was already existing so the paint color is here the chandeliers were here the sconces were here and we really just brought in furniture that doesn't skew too formal doesn't skew too uh traditional in fact I thrifted these chairs they're from an old from a Thai restaurant that went out of business and painted them a fun blue and recovered them and this table is secondhand and you know the the artwork is kind of a mismash of all different styles and I think that that really that's us you know know it takes the sort of formality of this room and makes it feel really approachable and comfortable and creates a really fun dining experience what type of host am I I am a like celebrate the little stuff kind of host I'll say come on over for soup or I made a big thing of brazed pork belly like whoever is available in the neighborhood come on come on over and we can you know just Chow Down um I love to put love into the food into the Ambiance and cooking is a creative outlet for me so to be able to share that with people the space really allows me to do that in a way that is really easy um and I think too it creates Community especially within our neighborhood I love the idea that I can host here and it's pretty easy for us to have you know three other couples over um it feels like that's one of those like dream come true type things about the house that I'm able to do my ride or die tip for hosting is to make things that you know are good and that you are really comfortable cooking like do not cook something new try something new do not put too much pressure on yourself you know I think that that's the biggest the biggest tip I have and I don't know to not overdo it like I think like a great pot of soup is like totally dinner party worthy um and so I think a lot of people kind of like put the pressure on the menu or sort of like I have to like create something that's really like dinner party worthy and I don't know I think just being being yourself doing the things that you know how to do well is really the ultimate like tip for hosting a party that people really enjoy um being at as I mentioned before I love artwork and this is where we have a gallery wall it's a it's a big space that we had left blank for a really long time and we didn't necessarily purchase any of these pieces for this space it was something that I just looked at what we had and kind of curated something that felt like it had a a nice sort of skin scale and movement and variety um within it I love texture I love things that don't necessarily feel all of the same medium and so you have this beautiful grass necklace um that's been framed this is printed on linen I got that at an antique store I love paintings that people like give away at thrift stores some of them can be really fun um so these are I think paintings that people have done um I think they've been like kind of dubbed amateur work but I love them this is a Picasso print um I've got a few original pieces that I've collected over time I would say that each one of these things I I individually love and I I think sometimes we overthink how we curate Gallery walls like they all have to sort of feel like they match or there's just sort of like this right amount of like tonality or size and scale that goes with it but I I really do think that if you put the things together that you love they often kind of hang together in a way so I I try to have a bit more of a loose grip on the way that I throw together Gallery walls and I think this is a good example of that this console table used to live in there it's not the right Siz or skill but it works for putting dishes down you know we've lived in this house a couple of years but so much of Designing a home and curating home was about knowing how you're going to use it and so having all of these pieces that have lived in different rooms putting them where we know we need to use them has been a really great way of just figuring out how utilize the house as best as possible so this is actually a sofa table that I have standing in as a console table eventually I'd love to have a buffet where I have a bit more storage but here I love it I think it's like it's got this really fun texture and print and it really just is here to flank the gallery wall and to put Wine and Food on when we have a dinner party I would love to show you the kitchen next so come with me what I think makes a home come alive is when the people inside it are really expressing themselves um for me it's all about artifacts and seeing someone in a space the homes that really influenced me as a kid were ones where you could tell that the people inside just did a lot of different things my grandmother's house was full of furniture that they collected from the' 60s and fossils and books and whatever they were interested in at the time and the line between decor and hobbies was really blurred and to me that is the soul of a home it's almost like the objects themselves are they hold the energy of the person and um I don't know I think sometimes you walk in a space and you just sort of feel that it's more alive and uh more like the person inside and I think that's a really special moment and I think all spaces really have it I think some people are more in tuned with what that means than others so this is the kitchen it's a pretty unique shape so you're only seeing one portion of it right now and this is what I call my portion which is where most of the cooking is done it is bigger than it looks I have had six other girlfriends in here and we have cooked an elaborate meal um but what I love about this is that it is a really contained creative beautiful space I mean the views are amazing and it's really bright and it is my like creative my creative space in the house I love to cook and um this is I don't know I feel like it it gives me a place to do that that is often away from the you know the chaos of family life the people in my neighborhood what my signature dish would be I would say it's a pork Wellington and the only reason why is I had to make it for a photo shoot and I made like three of them and they all came over and ate them um because I was like practicing um but I think yeah I think I'm just sort of known for throwing together a spread it's usually bold with flavor and um what did I make what did I make last week I made this really great sweet potato soup with what I had left in my fridge it had like apples in it and fresh ginger and cumin and tumeric and it was just sort of an amalgamation of what I had and I blended it all together and it was really lovely and smooth so yeah I would say that it's kind of always it's always an adventure this space is really special to me because it was design-wise a really big departure from the rest of the house all of this woodwork was originally here it was a very I don't know it felt almost Japanese inspired the way that this kitchen was put together in the original footprint of the house and I wanted to keep that um but I don't make it more me and also kind of bridge the gap between the rest of the house and this space um so how I did that was find materials that felt pretty traditional and that felt really bold that worked really well with the modern warmth of the oak wood and I did that really through uh a big design element which is this uh this marble it's leathered which means it has this really great texture it's a Rosa Kolkata so it's it's got all of these beautiful shades of violet but it also has salmon coming through there's actually a little bit of Aqua here and the slab itself just really reminded me of the the expression of the house itself so the stone was the way that I connected the two different uh Vibes of these spaces and tried to make them feel like us the layout is really interesting the kitchen is in an L shape and so this is really like the creation space we have the range and you know the running water and um all of my utensils and and cooking equipment um along with our fridge and then when you come this way our coffee bar wine fridge uh pantry and I delineated those two spaces with different color Cabinetry that felt like they you know were both unique but also kind of fit together nicely um and so yeah the space was a challenge to design around we also knew and still I still have a question mark around what the footprint of the house will look like when we tackle bedrooms and bathrooms which are areas that we haven't renovated yet and there's this thought that the layout of the kitchen could eventually change in 5 years so this space was really about how can we make the space usable and enjoyable to cook in and feel like us without you know blowing the budget it on a brand new kitchen and so this is what we came up with this is like one of those moments in the house where it's like all of my favorite things I think my kids would say like this is like the one area not to mess around with I have my favorite things here so this is a swan terine that I love this is a it's like a super Magnum um wine from a dinner party that I hosted friends giving last year um one of my favorite ceramic artists is on jinny Sims she's local and I have a picture from her and a number of teacups or they're not teacups they're just you know massive mugs that I Adore we do have a lot of tea and coffee in our house so this is really where it all happens and I love to have variety I just want to be able to pick what I want when I want it so that's what this SPAC is is really all about so light fixtures are where I like to amp up the modin or like the J position that we talked about in the sitting room uh this light fix fixture right over here is the dancing Light Pendant and it's made out of felt and I loved the idea of doing something really large in scale um but also bring some warmth into the space um it is great for Acoustics and it also just is like really visually beautiful um and so that was one of the things that I picked out first um other people have lovingly called it the coffee filter light which I can see but it's huge I mean I would say it's probably you know this is a foot it's probably 2 and 1/2 ft wide and there are moments I think in houses where scale really you need it when it comes to lighting and this was one of those moments when you move into an older home and you you're not gutting the whole thing sometimes you end up with spaces like this this is like a little sun room on the floor plan when we moved in and it's you know 3 ft wide but sitting here is lovely so there's a chair there now and I would say that my daughter sits there every morning I sit there and have coffee and it's just sort of this like odd little spot um and it's right next to where we do all of our homework and breakfast and coloring and this is our Workshop table kind of and it's I usually have to sand it down to get it clean because there's all sorts of crayons and markers and things on it but that's just you know part of life where I look for inspiration is really I think it's been places that I've traveled in my life it's also been spaces and experiences I think where I have had sort of like all of my senses enveloped so it's usually been like I mean I like to think of like hotels and restaurants are a really good example of feeling inspired because all of your senses are really immersed in those experiences you know I recently took a trip to the French Alps with my my husband you know I think it's a kind of about being around the the architecture and also the sense of place and sort of seeing how those things combine um I think is a greatest source of inspiration and what I love about that is it really teaches you to look at what you have and where your home is located and maybe make design decisions and choices where your personal style and your home intersect and personal style to me isn't really formulaic I think there are it's more about a set of values and knowing who you are and letting whatever period you are in your life whatever your budget is wherever your home is um those are the conditions that bring about a unique expression of your personal style um and so I think I've been really drawn you know we' been really drawn to places that are unique expression of a place you know going to hotels and Shaman that felt just so true to the place that type of authenticity I think really inspired me to come home and look at I think my own home and think about what is you know my uniquest expression of a home in Minnesota look like the other thing I feel like really inspires me um I think to understand my own personal style too is just watching films that are really visually beautiful um the last one I watched it's kind of a it's a thriller from the early 2000s but it's called birth um and it's with Nicole Kidman and it's a very you know kind of strange sci-fi thriller movie but the apartment inside and the clothing I mean it all just sort of to me those things really just jump out at to out at me as much as the stories do here we are in my office I love books um this is where I have my collection of design books all of my cookbooks the books that I love um I feel like they're I love to be around them and so to be able to have an office with built-in bookshelves like this is you know again one of the reasons when we walk through this house we knew it was the right one for us um these were here when we moved in we painted them they were a bright paint color I love the offset knobs they're just quirky and fun um I have a record player right here which I'll put on sometimes this is my reading chair and yeah there's nothing about this space that's like finished or designed I think I like a tidy office but I also like places where it's like you can be creative and the fluidity of this space is that it's about I don't know just kind of sinking into work um and so there's usually books piled up and work everywhere my desk is never this clean um but this is really where I get creative um most mornings I do writing from here um I like to read in this this chair this is where I spend most of my time I love this wallpaper it is like being wrapped in a field of flowers it's on the ceiling I love the texture I love that it feels just you know like you're it almost feels like there's a lot of movement um coming from these and yeah it was one of the first the first selects we made for the house was this wallpaper and I remember when I was selecting it I was going to go with something a little bit more traditional there was like a tall that was here before and what I liked about this is that it felt like it had like the texture and the richness and the layering and the depth that this house needed but it also felt decidedly modern too and uh that's why that's why we picked it I haven't decided what to do with it again this is just like a little bit of my collection um I had thought that I would put it up and I got a little commitment phobic there's also a hallway into the bedrooms that is right now empty and I thought maybe I would do a gallery while there but yeah this is just kind of in a like things that I've collected over time some of these are my my artwork some of these are my daughter's um antiques um and they all all together they they they work so I don't know where they're going to go yet I have just like in this corner over here you know little things that my kids have made I love rocks and so do so do my kids so they I've got some crystals here my daughter made Valentine's and I just I thought this was just hilarious so I kept this one it looks like a k garan like it's just hilarious to me so anything that really like is delightful to me this is from our trip to Switzerland you know little clay things that my kids have created I was a graphic designer for a long time in my life and so when I find packaging that I love I I still often will buy it that's an example here I also love to take up hobbies that I have like no time for and like you know kind of half-heartedly attempt and that's why I have this guitar I started like right before the pandemic and really intend to get back into it um I have to cut my nails in order to do that so now it's sitting there just to remind me that I need to get back into it yeah and then just like my cookbooks they're like well-loved and you know there's all sorts of all sorts of things that have come out of these I think my favorite thing to do in here is just like I love to read cookbooks like I in bed I'll just sort of I read them like books yeah and so my the new one that I got that I'm absolutely obsessed with is Julius Roberts he's this British um Chef that moved to the countryside and is you know tending his own animals and this is just about that experience and what he cooks there and I just it's yeah I just was like curled up reading this over the weekend what I love most about our home is the location and probably the views it's just a on story house but we live right on the Mississippi River and there's a bluff outside the front and a walking trail and we've got a beautiful backyard and to me there's this beauty of like what's happening on the inside and the outside there's it's always changing in the summer it's very Lush you know in the winter when there's snow on the ground all the colors in the inside really pop and that's what I love the most about it the way that the inside and the outside really really relate to one another so here we are in the primary bedroom I love this space so much the green color was here when we moved in but they had sponge painted the walls sort of this like drab brown color and one of my favorite wallpapers that I had collected from years before we moved into this house happened to be the perfect match to the molding that already existed in the space so we just went with it and put it up I did not ask my husband if he was okay with pink birds he's not complained but I think it's again like it you just feel really relaxed when you come in here we have huge windows that look out onto the walking path and in the winter you can see the Mississippi River um and it's just lovely and relaxing and that's what bedrooms should be I love these um they were here we decided not to paint them instead of deeper wood and they've got this great Locking System that um you know allow for you know Florida ceiling Windows to be pretty safe and secure I love a graphic shape and you just the way that oftentimes modern pieces can bring in like visual interest to a space and so when I saw this bed frame I instantly really loved it I also loved the idea of bringing in a mustard color uh to bring out some of the colors in the birds um in this space and so that's really what the whole scheme was for this is really bringing out those golden elements in the bed frame and in the bedding and um yeah it's just like a great place to rest your head at night I love this light fixture I found this at front gate and I had my eyes set on this so um Sloan like shell fixture that was it cost probably as much as like all of the furniture in like multiple rooms combined so I found I basically like found the look of that for this and um my kids like to throw things in it I think I found like a football and multiple Easter eggs in here um when I was dusting the other time the other day but I I love the texture that it adds um the natural elements in a space so our bedside tables I found them from the same vendor that I found the Victorian dresser in the green room and I had a dresser like this growing up with these black knobs like one of my childhood memories was like twirling and playing with these as a kid so when I saw them I had sort of this visal reaction to them and I just really think that old pieces of furniture that are you know made out of wood just I don't know why you would buy them new I mean you absolutely can and in this case I have like a very old dresser with a very new dresser and I love the the way that they look together but there's something about these like old antiques and the knobs that I just they're so nostalgic for me um I really love them in these spaces the word home to me means that I can be fully myself in all of the ways I can be here and feel totally held when things are not going okay and I can have the most joyous celebratory dinner party for my friend when things are amazing and to have a place that you feel held and fully expressed um you know we are all whole people but often times the world kind of doesn't feel like that always and when we're home you know that's the one place where we can really come back to ourselves and feel like it's really okay to be fully human and that's what home means to be thanks for watching for more homeworthy content be sure to like And subscribe

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Length: 47min 24sec (2844 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 01 2024