design*sponge---Before & After: Home Addition Makeover

Design*Sponge blog featured my renovation project on their Thursday Before & After.  Design*Sponge's Kate Pruitt did an excellent job editing the story:  Before & After:  Home Addition Makeover.

See the feature on design*sponge here.

Chihuahua - New Portrait

Above:  Portrait completed this weekend.

Above:  The original photograph from the client.  Such a cute photo.  We decided to "crop" the composition focusing on the pup, making a perfect fit with the 12x12 inch canvas.

Design Projects

Residential Addition:   Sunny breakfast room-chartroom-lounging room-doggie dining and mud room.This is a complete tear-down and rebuild of a poorly constructed addition to a home originally built in 1912.  A "shoe-string" budget was available.
Before and After comparison photos are included.  The completed remodel, furnished as a sunny breakfast room-chartroom-lounging room-doggie dining room.  When possible, "recylcled" building elements were used in the new construction.  All furnishings were found in consiggment shops, on craigslist and on the curb!  For more information regarding resources go here.
Interior Paint Colors:
Walls:  Ralph Lauren color - Montauk Driftwood (matched by Benjamin Moore paint specialists)
Ceiling and Trim:  Benjamin Moore Cloud White
All paint is Benjamin Moore's Regal Line in pearl finish.
Exterior Paint Colors:  Base Color - ICI Paints Virginia Vine; Trim - ICI Paints Casual White

 
Reminder of the way things were...

Above:  Before...Looking South

Above:  After...Looking South

Above:  Before...Looking East 

Above:  Now...Looking East

Above:  Before...Interior brick wall

Above:  Now...Interior brick wall

Above:  Exterior Before

Above:  Exterior After - Materials were chosen to match the existing garage (that I designed in 2007), shown below:

Above:  Front of the main house.  Next will be landscaping around the new back addition.

Commercial Interior Design Project:  Main Lobby, Canopy Properties - Lindon, Utah

Photo and Interior Architectural Design:  Toni Youngblood

Oh Happy Day!

Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/AFP/Getty Image
Prince William looks at his bride Kate Middleton, as she holds her father Michael's hand during the wedding ceremony
More photos and videos here.

Goooood Day Sunshine!

:o)




My girl hound was successful this morning getting me to understand that her whining meant, "Please open the door and leave it open, so I can soak up the warm rays!"  Pure doggie bliss...and then we went for a  "w-a-l-k" around the park.  Life just doesn't get any better.  ~Sparky

Wonder: Door Step Surprise...

I discovered this on my front porch steps this morning.  I've never seen anything like it before and don't know who delivered it.  I touched it and gasped, as it is icy cold---solid ice with fresh flowers encapsulated in it!

If anyone has clues as to its origin---let me know!  :o)

Springing Up!

Have a wonderful Easter Weekend!