About a Boy
/My child dragged these branches from the furthermost corners of our property for several days to create this. Isn't it beautiful?
Read MoreMy child dragged these branches from the furthermost corners of our property for several days to create this. Isn't it beautiful?
Read MoreMy friend Becky writes a blog and runs a brand called Deluxe. Her slogan goes like this:
Make Your Home Your Happy Place. It really resonates with me...I think that's what I try to do with my space. I have creative, messy kids and an open space house. I kind of have to embrace the small child thing when keeping house and decorating. Here's some pages from my rulebook:
Read MoreI wanted to make an outdoor play space for our kids. We don't have a sprawling lawn, in fact our backyard is a eucalyptus grove, and hilly. Inspired by the architecture of some of the houses around us in the canyon, I came up with the idea of a German style A-Frame. It needed to be water tight, and we needed to keep the wildlife out so I decided to make the roof out of green house corrugated sheets, alternating clear and opaque. I had to dust off my math skills, and of course get some help constructing it from someone who knew how to build structures (Ben Jennings), but it turned out to be a 4 hour project and well worth the money $285 (comparable kits out there are upwards of $1000). When we thought about it, if you doubled it in size adults could actually sleep in it. We added a hanging chair to one of the adjacent trees, and have grand plans of putting an old playground slide into the hill and maybe even a covered sandbox. For now we have a space for the kids to hide, swing and do their thing.
Read MoreMake + Haus is the new name and online home for the blog Poppy Haus. Established in 2011, the blog archive now contains hundreds of original design projects and whole food recipes, many featured on the likes of Apartment Therapy, Martha Stewart, Design*Sponge, Curbly, and Epicurious.