I love going to the movies. Possibly because I grew up in small-town Idaho and didn’t really see that many movies in an actual theater. I remember traveling an hour to see Julie Andrews sing do-re-mi in The Sound of Music at a movie theater in Idaho Falls. I fell in love with Timothy Dalton [...]
For a house built in a canyon, our new place is surprisingly light and airy, unless you’re in our bedroom, which is dark and inspires hibernation most days of the year. That’s all well and good when Mama and Papa Bear want to retire for the evening, but in the January daylight it can be [...]
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas here at the House of Bliss. The front porch is dripping with white icicle lights and the back terraced garden is strung willy-nilly with colored bulbs, creating what my husband likes to call “our holiday light mullet.” Yep. Classy in the front and a party in the [...]
If this graphic illustrating the history of Earth is accurate, human existence is as inconsequential as a plover’s feather. Which would be a bleak thought for a Tuesday if I hadn’t just spent several glorious Indian summer days at the beach.
Though this was supposed to be Tangerine’s year, the Blues Brothers (and their sisters Azure, Turquoise and Indigo) rule! According to San Francisco seamstress Laurel Sprigg, blue is the color she’s stitching up most often for the interior designs of her fashionable clients. She attributes the ongoing interest in heavenly hues and patterns–like this new [...]
And so we moved. Out. Away. Somewhere else. It was a stormy departure as moves mostly are. Packing up all your earthly possessions—even to move them just a few miles away—whips up gale force winds of change. In addition, we agreed to let our buyers do some exterior work the last week we were in [...]
Hello again. After posting about the lovely San Francisco Decorator Showcase I flew off to New Orleans to take in a little jazz and indulge in a beignet or two. More on that soon. But for now, I’m busy sifting and sorting in order to move. Curating stuff is tricky business. Unless you’re a talented [...]
I spent the morning at the press preview for the San Francisco Decorator Showcase and, let me tell you, it was a visual feast! As usual, the designs ranged from the outlandish to the oh-so-tasteful. Many of the rooms were inspired by the current Cult of Beauty exhibit at the Legion of Honor, so fine [...]
When we moved into this house thirteen years ago, the trellised back deck was devoid of plant life. Even the hardy Iceburg roses in the built-in galvanized steel planter boxes were leafless due to a malfunctioning irrigation system. The main garden was a flight below. It appeared that if I wanted to find green space I would need [...]
