I often find homes abroad that I lust after, but this week’s home tour is a mere 45 minutes away from me tucked on a ranch property in Sonoma, California. Photographer, Laura Resen, and her partner, Cloud Devine, stripped away shag carpeting, unfortunate wood paneling, and an overall dark interior and exchanged it for an open floor plan with a whitewashed interior where natural light spills in. What’s not to love about that? The perfect mix of warm wood tones, vintage…
Sunset magazine is a magazine I grew up with; I have memories of my mum pulling out pages of recipes, garden, and interior ideas that we couldn’t wait to try out. We loved testing out their ideas in my childhood home, which helped to…
There are those families that go around the dinner table and repeat the highs and lows of the day or week; this week I can’t help but smile over the “high” from the past seven days. Yesterday, my friend and photographer, Elena Graham and I…
I don’t think there is one person that doesn’t love to travel {for pleasure that is}. Why is it then, that it can be so hard to pull ourselves away from our work to take the time to plan a vacation? With a promise…
Finally, San Francisco received some sun and last weekend I’m so glad that we embraced every second of it because as of right now, rain is coming down and it doesn’t seem to want to stop. So much for another sunny weekend. Writing, Scenes…
Last weekend was my birthday {Friday to be exact}, but we continued to celebrate with a day trip to Sonoma and by simply relaxing. Life has just felt a bit of a whirlwind, and I am craving some downtime to soak things in and…
Last weekend we were invited by some family friends to help them bottle a small batch of wine that they make – approx 200 cases. With Sonoma being a quick 45min drive from SF, we jumped at the chance to help out and test…