Objects of a Life

Historic pink table, contemporary ceramics, and pink stack of books color story n front of gallery wall.

A couple downsizing from a larger home came to us with decades of art, antiques, and objects gathered from a life of real travel. We took the new house down to the studs, rebuilt it whole, and reinstalled their life inside it.

Some projects are about building something new. This one was about honoring what already existed. Pieces with history, weight, and meaning to the people who owned them. The problem was never what to acquire. It was how to listen. Furniture was refinished and recovered. Objects were reframed and set beside a small number of new pieces, each chosen to talk to what the clients already loved. A gallery wall of collected work sits beside contemporary painting. A ceramic vase earned on a trip abroad sits next to something found last month, and you can’t tell which is which.

I gave the art room to breathe with deep cobalt walls, and styled the shelves to tell a story in objects rather than fill space. The job was editor: what to keep, what to let go, what belongs beside what.

A home built from a life already beautifully lived, edited with care and put back with intention. The objects we live with are the record of us. Treat them that way.

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