The new casual dining area for my Los Altos Hills clients’ kitchen/family room installed recently. The 5′ x 5′ large square table features a salvaged live edge maple wood table top, resting on a stainless steel base that I designed specifically for this table.
My design of the table base & bench legs were inspired by the youngest members of the household - the family’s three ‘kids’ (including ‘Starlight’ the yellow lab). The legs purposefully have a playful and anthropomorphic quality to them.
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My Los Altos Hills clients have another room that I am working on – the kitchen & family lounge. The ‘family hub’ is an open plan room that encompasses the kitchen, informal dining area and family lounge and has access to the large deck and bbq area.   My clients have two pre-teen children & young labrador so my goal was to create a space that was fresh, vibrant, multipurpose, durable, and comfortable.
We recently installed part of the project – …

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In December my Los Altos Hills clients had their gorgeous new cow hide rug installed.  It was a custom rework between myself and Kyle Bunting Rugs of their ‘Jet Stream’ design.  My client wanted a rug that would be beautiful & different and have visual interest, but not be intense in color.  We used a base color of ‘maple’, with accents in ‘silver’, ‘oak’ and ‘brown speckle’.  I picked up the blue/grey of the mohair chairs in some surreptitiously placed …

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Bedrooms are such special places for children as they are usually the one space in their lives that is under their own control – a place where they get to choose where there things go, create their own world and entertain their secrets and fantasies.

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My ‘Beach House’ clients had a very specific feel that they wanted their house to have and gave me very clear parameters. They wanted their historic Cape Cod style landlocked home to feel like a house at the beach and they love blue and white interiors.
The living room in this project involved the design of a new fireplace and entertainment center, new furniture, new window treatments, lighting and paint colors.
The fireplace featuring a custom stone mantel and incorporating a entertainment …

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