Tuesday, August 11, 2009

The sunporch on Woodward


The beginnings of my latest project at the Woodward Cottage: transforming our sunporch into my studio space because I'm really tired of this......

And this........
I am normally an abnormally clean, tidy person but since I have started working a few residential clients in the afternoon's, which I really love, our house looks like a fabric store and magazines exploded in our dining and breakfast rooms. I can't believe John hasn't told me I can't say anything about his crumpled receipts laying EVERYWHERE. =) Let's see if I can get his one done by the end of the weekend!

Monday, August 10, 2009

Friends....

A person with whom one is allied in a struggle or cause; a comrade
It doesn't feel right to move on without writing about is weekend....John and I wouldn't be the people we are without our wonderful friends, our Monday night bible study. Words can't describe what God has put together in our group of friends! Most of the couples (us most definitely included) are made of boys who needed to move to Montgomery for jobs and girls who kicked and screamed all the way here =) But you couldn't pry us away from each other now or Montgomery no matter what or who comes a calling! In the last two years (which feels like 10 years) we have helped each other through deaths of family members, new marriages, first pregnancies, first borns, finding the right church, buying our "forever" houses, but this weekend we walked through the biggest hardship we have experience so far, the lose of Ashley and Barrett's twins girls, Reed and McAdory. We love you, and are constantly thinking of and praying for you!


The McIntyre House: Before
Jeff and Rebecca, are part of this great group of friends, and are two of the most giving people. They truly deserve the blessing of their new house....a 1960 Mod house in a great neighborhood here in Montgomery. After stumbling on this perfect house on lazy Saturday afternoon, they have patently waited for several months to sell their adorable but small cottage so they could start growing as a young family in a bigger home. Now the time has come to move and start remodeling, and Rebecca has been so excited she has made me want to buy a house all over again! I have had the honor and pleasure to help Jeff and Rebecca as they begin the task of transforming this house into their home. It is a perfect, comfortable house for Rebecca's style of mixing modern/traditional! Here is sneak peak at a few of my favorite areas of their new house....

Dining Room: Great Crystal and Brass Chandelier (don't worry Rebecca already kicked the shades =) Anyone want them? Pleated silk?
Den/Fireplace: this room opens to a great patio, can't wait for the saturday football parties!
Kitchen: it is getting paint for now, the real facelift will happen in about 6 months. (opens to den and dining room!)
The painting prep began today, hopefully we will have pictures by the weekend to show the transformation! Thank you Jeff and Rebecca for letting me be a part of this!




Wednesday, August 5, 2009

The Perfect Post or not....

My sweet and wonderful friends, whose blog's I adore, have been asking "when are you going to start your blog" well.....it's like a newly painted room, what do you hang or place first? I am having designers block with this newly painted room or blog, whichever! I have been asking myself these questions for weeks: How do you make a "perfect" blog? What to title thy blog? Do I want this to be personal or professional? If you have something to journal or share this should be easy?! But my problem has not really been any of the above, it has been the anxiety about what is the "perfect first post", is there a perfect post? Isn't the point of a blog, to be candid and honest about who you are no matters whose reading? Well...not when your an Interior Designer, it is our inherit nature to be a perfectionist.

Two months ago, a great friend, Ashley, introduced me to blogs, Urban Grace to be exact. It was my first blog addiction. After long, long, hard days at the commercial design firm where I work, I found laughs and and encouragement reading Erica's blog. (I'm kinda embarrassed to say I read her whole blog in a week). Her blog lead me to so many other "perfect" Interior Design blogs soooo the pressure grew.....well here I am in my "unperfection" starting my blog.

Our Heavenly Father is teaching me a life lesson through my work, life isn't "perfect" and our earthly work doesn't matter. What does matter is that I live my life, daily, to build my beautiful newly painted room.....in Heaven.

But while we're here, its a great blessing to have a job as an interior designer! Stay posted for beautiful things to come....