Reader's Home Before & After

Well, y'all...it is officially fall.  Yay!!  For many of you was this the hottest summer ever?  I think it was for me.  Yesterday we opened the windows and doors...there is not much better than that first breeze of fall air.  I know that most find spring the most hopeful season with all the new buds springing up from the cold earth.  For some reason, though, I feel most encouraged by fall:  new colors on the trees, college football booming from the tv and new supplies for back to school.  Okay, as usual I digress.

Please see a great Los Angeles interior designer's renovation.  Jessica Davis and her husband have taken their unique home (filled with nooks, crannies and even a hidden door!) and taken it into this decade.  This girl has style and is in the running to win a design contest.  Please go to her blog to vote!

Eagle's Nest Design

(what is it about renovating and blogging?  They go together like peanut butter & jelly.  I think it is such an arduous experience that you just have to show the outcome!)

Before:  dark ceiling, brown moulding...let's face it--a pretty dark room.

new furniture, new light fixture, black moulding (love it!)

against a white ceiling, and no 

window treatment which really allows the sun to pour in

Before:  dated furniture & fan

now--check out that great paint color & headboard.  Wow!  And those

grand lamps really complement it.

Before:  no love given to the patio

Now: after much love....and water

lovely outdoor living space

Here too!  I think I would live out here (especially

with California's weather!)

The office before...

and now  (can't lighting do wonders?)

And of course, like all of us, the home is a work in progress.

They started on the bathroom this weekend so I can't wait to see

how they've changed it.

Here are few more pictures of their work:

I love that you see the same pops of blue and coral/orange

throughout the home....

All the best....Julie