Decor

February 04, 2025 Let’s explore the last 5 homes on the 10th annual Tribeza Interiors Tour, a tour of Austin homes that shows off the work of interior designers. This is part 3 of my coverage of the late January tour. (Click for part 1 and part 2 if you ...

February 02, 2025 Flora-and-fauna wallpaper with painted trim to match. Fabulous geometric floor tile. A rich use of color and pattern. I’m a maximalist at heart and have a weakness for these bold design moves. You’ll see lots of them in today’s post — part 2 of my coverage of ...

February 01, 2025 Last weekend I went on the 10th annual Tribeza Interiors Tour, a tour of Austin homes that shows off the work of interior designers. I look forward to this tour every January. Color, pattern, jewel-toned tile, bold wallpaper, art, and textiles combine to create beautiful living spaces, ...

January 13, 2025 Ahead of last week’s cold snap, I snipped a bunch of forsythia sage and ‘Little Grapes’ gomphrena for bouquets around the house. This one, in a yellow ceramic vase adorned with leaves and snails, turned out to be my favorite, bringing sunshine into the hall bath. Such ...

December 12, 2024 Lockhart, a small town 30 miles southeast of Austin, has long drawn carnivores as a barbecue mecca. Black’s, Kreuz Market, Smitty’s, and newcomer Barbs B Q put Lockhart on the map with their brisket, ribs, and sausage. More recently, as musicians and artists priced out of Austin have ...

November 14, 2024 Last month I visited my friend Cynthia Deegan’s home and garden, this time with Jennifer Jewell of Cultivating Place, who was in town to give a Garden Spark talk. I wanted Jennifer to meet Cynthia and see the soulful, joyful retreat she’s created at her Tarrytown bungalow with ...

October 28, 2024 Lucinda Hutson decorates joyfully for Day of the Dead, displaying her collection of traditional sugar skulls and skeletons throughout her purple house in Austin’s Rosedale neighborhood. I visited last week with Cultivating Place podcaster Jennifer Jewell, who was in town to give a Garden Spark talk. Lucinda ...

September 13, 2024 I can’t buy the plants at Ravenna Gardens in Seattle — I mean, why torture them by bringing them home to Texas? — but I still love shopping there because of how beautifully they display plants, pots, and garden/home decor. I first visited during the Seattle Fling ...

August 09, 2024 Lunch on Day 2 of last month’s Puget Sound Fling was held at Sorci’s Italian Cafe, which just so happens to share a location with VanLierop Garden Market in Sumner, Washington. Tasty appetizers, pizza, and salad plus plant and garden-art shopping? Yes indeed. VanLierop Garden Market After ...

June 21, 2024 During a walk through the Heights neighborhood in north Houston last month, amid the derecho cleanup I saw cheerful cottage gardens in bloom. I snapped a few of my favorites, starting with this pistachio-green bungalow. Olive-green Vego planters — I’m going to have some in my next ...

May 28, 2024 Deborah Hornickel credits her garden’s timeless good looks and livability to her good friend James David, a hugely influential designer formerly of Austin with a showpiece personal garden and a revered boutique/nursery called Gardens. (He and partner Gary Peese now call Santa Fe home.) Thanks to James’s ...

May 15, 2024 Chickens and donkeys and ducks, oh my! Katie Bird Farm has it all, plus gardens galore and a modern farmhouse and swimming pool on 3 acres in southwest Austin — all of it decorated with vintage signs and repurposed farm equipment. Owners Julie Nelson and Kay Angermann ...

March 20, 2024 Who can resist Lucinda Hutson‘s purple casita with mango trim and festive garden? Not me! When Lucinda invited me over last week for a spring garden visit, I happily said yes. The color-party starts on the alcove-like porch, where grape walls and a deep-rose screen door are ...

February 22, 2024 I love interior design almost as much as garden design. And so every January I look forward to stepping inside some of the most inspiring and beautiful homes in Austin, done by local interior designers, on the annual Tribeza Interiors Tour. I’m grateful to the homeowners for ...

December 19, 2023 In early November, I drove 5 hours south to the Rio Grande Valley, land of citrus orchards and skinny-trunked palm trees. I was there for the final photo shoot for my upcoming book on Texas gardens (due out in 2025 with Timber Press). But I couldn’t leave ...

November 05, 2023 It was a soggy late-September midday at the Philadelphia Area Fling when we visited author and horticulturist Jenny Rose Carey‘s garden, Northview Garden, in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. My bus of 50 (garden bloggers, Instagrammers, and YouTubers) was invited first to have a sit-down lunch in the carriage ...