Open House Sunday!!!!!

built 1939

Well.....it's been a long time....hasn't it?

I never meant to be gone so long but your know life gets very busy these days.

I'll catch you up with what I've been doing in other posts. 

Not that it's fascinating. It's not.

I've been working as an Interior Designer for a couple of furniture stores. 

I'm still designing...but for the moment not affiliated with any store.

Let's get on to this week's house.

That house above used to belong to my cousin.

She and her husband sold it back last fall because they wanted a mid century house 

near the lake.

And they got that.

Now they spend every afternoon at the lake after work. 

This house is in the historic Cleveland neighborhood in OKC.

My cousin, her name is Stacy didn't like the house. 

I always knew it had great potential. 

I wish I had photos of the inside from when she lived there. 

It was a great house just not her kind of house. 

Here is the before on the outside -

As you can see it has lots of room for improvement.

It was an old house without much character.

Now it's cute. The outside is not what I would have done to it but you have to admit it's an improvement and probably was not to expensive to do. 

Since this was a flip, I'm sure they were trying to not go crazy with the budget.

 Inside it's staged to perfection. All set for a nice millennial couple.

I can't remember what the original fireplace looked like. 

This one is a little minimalist for my taste but but I think the original one was nothing

special so I really have no objections.

 Mom and I went by to see this house last weekend. The realtor was young in his 20's and an older gentleman (Biden's age) came through the door while we were there and yelled

"Who staged this thing! I need their name!"

I thought it very funny. The man was dressed in overalls. He did not look like a person

that would even know what staging was.

I hope the realtor gave him the info.

I thought it hysterical. Mom didn't hear it.

Mom can't hear anything. She is practically deaf without her hearing aids and she 

has lost both of them at present. 

Probably the dog ate them again.

I do love how modern and colorful everything is in this staging.

 

 There used to be a large arched door way here. I do love those. 

I have that in my house but I'll admit this being wide open is 

nice in this house. Very nice.

 This room is just to the left as you come in the front door.

A little study. Originally all knotty pine. 

So much better painted all white.

Stacy's husband liked the wood color so they never painted it.

You know how men are - they like to be surrounded by wood so 

they can pretend they live in a cabin.

Cute little corner fireplace.

Now let's get to the jewel of this home - 

the KITCHEN

 Used to be nothing special about this kitchen but look at it now!

 See the cabinets past the Fridge?

The top part is a pantry but the bottom part contains front loading washer and dryer.

The hook ups for these were always in the kitchen.

But what an amazing way to make them look great.

You just assume that's all storage. You'd never think there was a washer and dryer hiding in there.

Kind a love that!

 The green of the cabinets is darker in person. 

But the whole space is really lovely. 

Very much so.

 Upstairs a sliding barn door to the bathroom.

I am way over these sliding doors. Very tired of them but I admit this one

looks nice here but I think I would have just gone for a regular door although this 

does go with the decorating vibe of this home.

 It's a small bathroom but high in style.

Are you sick of subway tile? I should be but I still like it a lot.

 Master is large and overlooks the quaint neighborhood.

Of course every Millennial couple has to have a teepee in their kid's room.

There is a third bedroom too but it was not staged.

See the full listing here.

I hope to reconnect with all of my friends whose blogs I so enjoy reading.

I'm still very happy in my little cottage.

Not much has changed around here because I've been too busy working but I'll 

be sharing things soon. 

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Open House Sunday

Follow the Yellow Door!

 built 1929 

in the Morningside addition of Atlanta

This old tudor has been modernized with bright color choices.

 

 Look how fun and inviting the front door is to this place - complete with gray and yellow awning.

 You step into the sun porch.

 I love how they mixed traditional with bright pops of color along with neutrals to create 

a modern and fun but still tasteful home.

 The yellow and gray color scheme continues into the front living room.

 Just enough yellow to make it a happy place.

 

 The yellow continues into the dining with the rug but the rest of the room goes cool blue.

 Love the art propped on the chair rail.

 I love that they did a nice classic kitchen in this home instead of something very modern.

  The sitting room off the kitchen has pops of orange.

 A single man friend of mine recently bought an orange sofa without consulting me. 

Everyone told him he'd made a mistake.

He loved it and just bought cause he liked it but then was regretting the decision because everyone told him he should have bought neutral.

I told him not to worry, we'd make that orange sofa work in his apartment.

We'd add neutrals around it and it would be amazing. Which it is.

I think this orange sofa is perfect in this room.

 

 

Love the bright paintings on the wall in the stairway.

 Notice the brightly colored fish in the aquarium? They fit right in with the color scheme of this home.

  Tranquil bedroom with bits of color.

 A pretty little bath.

 The outdoor space has nice details too. Notice how the garage is surrounded by lots of 

potted containers? 

That makes the driveway appear to be an extension of the patio instead of just a 

place to park your car. 

See the full listing here.

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Keith's Garden

 Today, as promised a tour of my co-worker and friend Keith's wonderful garden including his 

new pea gravel patio.

His house is a sweet little tudor in one of OKC's Historic neighborhoods.

 He freely admits that he neglects his front yard because for him it's so much more fun to make 

the backyard beautiful. 

He has intention to do something more to the front but it has not been a priority.

His front flower bed is full of cactus...which is very low care.

That's a banana tree to the side of the front patio.

 Keith says he ignores his front yard but the front porch includes this amazing planter.

I think it all looks very nice...perhaps not as fully realized as the back...but still beautiful.

this planter full of a nice variety of plants

 Now, we step out his back door and one of the first pots is planted in hostas.

I am so doing this! I have not had much luck with hostas in the ground but a potted one...

I bet I can handle.

 

There are many planters here and there around the backyard.

 

 This photo came out blurry but it was a nice composition so I included.

 His yard includes a large variety of types of planters and many kinds of plants.

 

 In the center of the yard is the new round pea gravel patio. 

A flagstone path beyond leads to the furthest part of the yard.

 Bits of glass art dot the landscape.

 This gravel patio was created by spraying the yard with round up and then putting

down black landscape cloth. Then a few inches of pea gravel are shoveled on top.

The view to the back of the house.

The pergola was added onto the house by Keith.

 The back corner of the yard is watched over by this Buddha.

 A happy fellow.

 This rusty rooster is big. He stands about four feet tall.

 Here we have a few succulents in a planter.

 This is a giant panda. Keith found it at a Restaurant supply place.

He came from an old Chinese restaurant. He's big - like 5 feet tall.

He hides among the smoke bush.

 more of the pea gravel patio

 This yard his so full of plants! This is the far corner of the back of the house.

 A bubbly fountain sits right outside the dining room window.

I hope you enjoyed the tour of Keith's yard. 

I'm kind of amazed by all the plants in it. He just keeps adding and adding to it.

Very inspiring. 

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