by christina britt lewis | photography by angela statzer every time we do a home in plaza midwood, i fake like i live there. it's the hippest part of our pretty little city. this charming bungalow is in walking distance to some of charlotte's best restaurants and coolest shops. we headed over to the peculiar rabbit after our installation and pretended we are not from the suburbs. this fun family has fabulous original art. that's a duy huynh, people! he is one of my favorite artists in the whole wide world. duy and his wife, sandy snead, own lark and key gallery in charlotte. you know how much we love couples who work together to give their gifts back to the world. that's duy and sandy. go visit their gallery. original art is what makes this redesign such a great one. these people only buy what they love. great art doesn't have to cost a lot. lark and key sells prints too. so do many of our other favorite artists in the whole wide world. if you want to have a home you love, find what moves your soul. ready, set, click... susi sahlman | kent youngstrom | jane copeland | angie moses mike watson | krissy feighery | peter noonan | eric mcconnell | jason burgess all their things, just redesigned. angela found the crate that is on the bottom shelf on the back porch. the green dish with the yellow flower has been in their family for four generations. how beautiful is that? they have the sweetest little girl you ever did meet, so angela made her an owl. you can have your own button bird designs owl too. tomorrow...
the family room and kelly's anthropologie plate gallery wall fabulousness oh AND we leave for DALLAS! follow our adventure and redesign on instagram 'cause we are way too psyched to pretend to be cool about this. xo.. christina for all by christina britt lewis | photography by angela statzer this weekend is why we moved to north carolina.... windows and doors wide open, cool breezes making the new leaves make that rustling sound, birds singing so happily i have to forgive them for doing their business on the deck...and two days of sitting in the sun reading myquillyn smith's new book, remembering... it doesn't have to be perfect to be beautiful. #idhtbptbb i would not know myquillyn if we had not moved to north carolina. and if i did not know myquillyn, i would not know angela. and if i did not know myquillyn and angela, my world would be less beautiful and i would not have these photos to show you. and if you give a mouse a cookie... after... in her brilliant and beautiful book, myquillyn quotes matisse who said... much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle the artist wages with his limited medium. ...ohmygoodness that helps me understand why i love what we do. anybody can start from scratch and make a beautiful room. all you need is an empty room, a page from pottery barn or whatever, and a credit card. but what makes me and angela and kelly come alive is making beauty with what you already have and whatever budget is comfortable for you. this is our limited medium. there is so much beauty in what you already have... photos from myquillyn's book release party
and the thing she said when she came for dinner that changed my life forever tomorrow... happy sunday, beautiful people! xo... christina for all by christina britt lewis | photography by angela statzer once upon a time, a fun family from boston wished for a beautfiul dining room. just like their guest rooms, they love what they already have, they just wanted it to feel finished, warm, comfortable, meaningful, and most of all, real. so we found some fabulous things to help them love what they already have even more... we happy danced when we found this perfect painting at dutchman's. if you have not been, go. it is a happy place with happy people who help you love coming home. they helped us find big comfortable chairs for big family dinners and these fabulous wooden bowls too. just go. but the thing that makes our redesigns feel like home is that we use what you already have too. everything below they already have and love. the basket is actually her sewing basket. angela found it in a cabinet in the laundry room. hehehe... i don't know for sure, but i have a feeling a grandmother made the doily. i wouldn't even know where to buy a doily. but there is something about it and the things you already have that make our redesigns feel real. you know, like the velveteen rabbit. "What is REAL?" the Velveteen Rabbit asked the Skin Horse one day. "Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?" "Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real." "Does it hurt?" asked the Velveteen Rabbit . "Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt." "It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand. But once you are Real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always." the end xo... chrisitna for all |