A much-loved house on a hill gets a makeover.
(Queue the dramatic 🎼) Had the best time working in this one with our clients, the build team and the architects!!
Interior Design by us @laurenliessandco
Architecture by @sutphin_architecture
Renovation by @casecohomes
Cabinetry from my collection with @uniquekitchensandbaths
Furniture is a mix of vintage, antique pieces I designed from my collections. (That amazing sofa is the “Libris” by LL x @taylorkingfurniture )
Thanks to my client, Andy, for this idea! (he saw me waving and blowing at the arrangements to get them moving and used his noggin’ 😉) I bring a fan to all our project shoots now 🤣
Whelp… goose planning for the meadow. 🪿 When we moved from this house to the meadow, something big got them from the sky (😞) and so we won’t be able to free-range there like the geese on this last property were able to do for 25 years. This makes things complicated but we’re trying to figure out some sort of large aviary situation and/ or a series of pens they can rotate to and from for grazing. (Geese love grass!!) I miss our geese so much and it’s just not the same without them. Simone used to knock on the door with her beak to come inside and hang 🤣🤍🪿
Girls’ bedroom tour {snippet from our full house tour on our you T u be channel} I’m SO excited to share that we have FINALLY gotten some professional help and our videos are about to get waaaaay better with a fully produced docu-series on our new house at the Meadow!! (There are still a few of my homemade ones coming out that will share what’s gone on up to this point but new ones are in the way!!) We’re putting our house on the market April 11th and have so many finishing touches to get to before then!! Eeek!! 😆
Details matter, especially when it comes to Mother’s Day 💐 We’ve partnered with celebrated interior designer, Lauren Liess, to bring an extra special, personalized touch to your gift. Starting today, you can add our limited-edition magnolia paper backing to any custom frame (on us!). Head to the link in our bio to start framing the gift that’ll make mom’s day.
Details matter, especially when it comes to Mother’s Day 💐 We’ve partnered with celebrated interior designer, Lauren Liess, to bring an extra special, personalized touch to your gift. Starting today, you can add our limited-edition magnolia paper backing to any custom frame (on us!). Head to the link in our bio to start framing the gift that’ll make mom’s day.
“I can feel my summer spirit,” my (then) six year-old daughter said to me one warm spring day at home.
“What do you mean?” I asked, though deep inside, I knew.
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– opening lines from Beach Life: Home, Heart & the Sea 🤍🌊Can’t believe it but my 4th book is coming out next month!! 🤯 {swipe to see all 4 in case you missed any} All about how life is different at the beach, how we are different at the beach, how our environment not only affects our senses, but how it affects our soul. I’m sharing a piece of my heart in this one including some of our most challenging projects yet including @thelostcottage and I hope you love it. Preorder now for May 21 arrival whenever books are sold.
A favorite corner of our clients’ library/ family room 🌿 antiques mixed with pieces from my furniture collections make for a timeless puzzle/ reading/ game spot. 🖤 design by us @laurenliessandco | photo by @helennorman
Hello Spring- I love you!!! Friends- This is your PSA to propagate your carrot tops for the garden! Those Queen Anne’s lace-looking blossoms on the coffee table are the blooms from carrots we propagated. 🥕 just cut the top of the carrot off and sit it in a little dish of water for a few days until it sprouts roots then pop it in the ground. In a couple of months you’ll have the most beautiful blooms!! {A favorite farmhouse living room we designed featured in my last book, FEELS LIKE HOME. sofas are the slipcovered “Libris” from my collection with @taylorkingfurniture | photo by @helennorman }
Sharing some of my favorite goods from my shop @laurenliessandco today in stories 🤍🌿 looooove our handmade laundry baskets and don’t mind so much when they’re hanging our full of clothes to fold 😉 most of my favorite shop good are beautiful, functional items since the reality is that our interiors are full of the functional – it may as well look good! 🤍🌿 This the laundry room from our #wisconsinfarmhouseproject. Our client painted the old boards with green milk paint and the cabinets are the “primitive” from my collection with @uniquekitchensandbaths | photo by @helennorman
They started digging for the garden walls at the Meadow (they are currently held up waiting for final okay from power company!) and my mind is on our vegetable garden!! I cannot WAIT to get planting!!! I’m leaning towards doing gravel with the same boxes with top ledges we had at our old place (pictured here) because it was really nice to be able to sit down and weed or relax. The kids also loved walking along them 😉 I wanted a terracotta roof so badly at the Meadow but it turned out that the existing structure couldn’t support the weight so we went with cedar instead and I’ll be sharing how that turned out soon on our you t. U Be channel. 🤍🌿
Happy Monday. Branch season is coming!!! 🌿 photo taken by @helennorman from my book Down to Earth 🌿
A little before mid-install/ almost-after from yesterday’s install in DC. We painted the existing built-ins and completely redid the ceilings with reclaimed wood. Swipe to see befores and the in-between of the new fireplace- sconces styling still happening but you get the idea of how changing up the room’s focal point completely transformed it!!) This has been such a fun one for our sweet clients. More behind-the-scenes from other rooms in stories 🤎 design by us @laurenliessandco | renovation by O’Neill Development
A little before mid-install/ almost-after from yesterday’s install in DC. We painted the existing built-ins and completely redid the ceilings with reclaimed wood. Swipe to see befores and the in-between of the new fireplace- sconces styling still happening but you get the idea of how changing up the room’s focal point completely transformed it!!) This has been such a fun one for our sweet clients. More behind-the-scenes from other rooms in stories 🤎 design by us @laurenliessandco | renovation by O’Neill Development
A little before mid-install/ almost-after from yesterday’s install in DC. We painted the existing built-ins and completely redid the ceilings with reclaimed wood. Swipe to see befores and the in-between of the new fireplace- sconces styling still happening but you get the idea of how changing up the room’s focal point completely transformed it!!) This has been such a fun one for our sweet clients. More behind-the-scenes from other rooms in stories 🤎 design by us @laurenliessandco | renovation by O’Neill Development
A little before mid-install/ almost-after from yesterday’s install in DC. We painted the existing built-ins and completely redid the ceilings with reclaimed wood. Swipe to see befores and the in-between of the new fireplace- sconces styling still happening but you get the idea of how changing up the room’s focal point completely transformed it!!) This has been such a fun one for our sweet clients. More behind-the-scenes from other rooms in stories 🤎 design by us @laurenliessandco | renovation by O’Neill Development
I can’t believe I’m writing this but it’s finally time to move on from our #horsecountrymodern house. 🤎🐴 We’ve loved it here but the Meadow house project is moving along and we’re heading back home soon!! This place was a respite for us during a particularly crazy time in our lives. Reach out if you’re looking for a place in the area- this baby is going on the market next month!! Designed by us @laurenliessandco | renovated by @carrmichaelconstruction | cabinets from my collection with @uniquekitchensandbaths | @propertycollective will have all the property details
Dreaming like a kid again planning a wall in our orangery with lots of random storage niches for books, herbs, garden stuffs, natural curiosities etc. (swipe for sketch) 🌿 it will be stucco with stucco “vines” growing over the shelves as seen in the first image (of Reggio Emilia) 🌿@laurenliessandco @carrmichaelconstruction
Dreaming like a kid again planning a wall in our orangery with lots of random storage niches for books, herbs, garden stuffs, natural curiosities etc. (swipe for sketch) 🌿 it will be stucco with stucco “vines” growing over the shelves as seen in the first image (of Reggio Emilia) 🌿@laurenliessandco @carrmichaelconstruction
Silhouettes at the meadow 🤎 Things are taking shape!! The orangery off the garden is through a moongate from the family room. It will be anchored on the far side by a big ol’ fireplace. We’re doing a combination of modern doors by @otiima_usa antique reproduction oak windows by @parrettwindows and more are going in each day letting the light in!! I’ve been sharing Meadow progress videos on our you T u be channel so be sure to check it out if you want all the details! 🤎 renovation by @carrmichaelconstruction
Silhouettes at the meadow 🤎 Things are taking shape!! The orangery off the garden is through a moongate from the family room. It will be anchored on the far side by a big ol’ fireplace. We’re doing a combination of modern doors by @otiima_usa antique reproduction oak windows by @parrettwindows and more are going in each day letting the light in!! I’ve been sharing Meadow progress videos on our you T u be channel so be sure to check it out if you want all the details! 🤎 renovation by @carrmichaelconstruction
In my happy place 🌿 so close to having my garden back I can almost smell those tomato leaves!!!! I get hit with such longing for green at the end of every winter but this winter it’s particularly strong because it’s been years since we moved and I have been able to get my heart into a permanent garden. They still have ground to move and stone walls to build at the Meadow for our herb kitchen gardens so technically we haven’t really started the gardens at all, but in the grand scheme of things we’re so close!!! Photo by @hectormsanchezphoto for one of my favorite stories ever for @southernlivingmag 🌿
Little bit o’ texture in this farmhouse powder room 🌿 Venetian plaster vintage and reclaimed elements the trough sink from my collection with @atmosphyre_home (if you zoom in you can see see the beautiful LL logo James imprints on the back of each sink) #wisconsinfarmhouseproject designed by us @laurenliessandco
Keep coming back to this image from @fredericmagazine of @maxinesloss magical Scottish garden for inspiration 🌿 Spring dreamin‘ over here because it’s almost time to starting digging in the dirt!!! Credits @dara_caponigro @torimellott @carolynenglefield @francescolagnese 🤍
