Hello to all! - It has been quite awhile! I realized just how long when looking at the date of my last blog post! Things are in a whirlwind here at Katie Denham Interiors to say the least. I have been blessed with a very robust client list  and have hired a new assistant, Curtis, to help me move the company forward and "getter done!" We are working on some large projects which vary from a beautiful Santa Barbara style home which is getting a John Saladino-esque flavor to another modern version of a Santa Barbara style house which is going much more modern in the interior. We also just finished up a private executive office, which I hope I can reveal sometime soon! After the office, the client was very pleased and asked us to work on a vacation home in Phoenix....sun, sun, sun, here we come! We also have a variety of Kitchen and Bath remodels, and fun decorating projects including a pretty Living Room and Dining Room in the Sacramento Fabulous Forties neighborhood, a beautiful new Santa Barbara style home (I am seeing a trend here!) in Granite Bay by Murray Duncan Architects, and a Dean and Dean Tudor in Curtis Park (which also includes a Kitchen and two baths!) . Phew! 

So that is why I am a little late in getting to touch base with you all, AND why I still need to photograph finished projects to show you.

As a designer, I have run across many houses designed by architects that design from the outside in, They look good on the outside, but completely fail to take into account how furniture will work in a room....how a sofa can relate to a fireplace, how different height windows make it impossible to apply window coverings in a logical way, how traffic flows and makes a home livable. I have to say that William Hefner is not one of those architects. He and his Studio "get it". They understand that working from the inside out makes for harmonious living. They take furnishings and layout of interiors into account when designing room adjacency and placement of things like fireplaces, windows and doors. Bravo!

William Hefner's designs are beautiful inside and out. There is also thoughtful integration between the house and the exterior landscape. Heaven knows that life in California is predicated on life outdoors and making a smooth transition between the two is what makes a home so perfect here.

There was a house I had tagged recently in a magazine that I was gong to blog about. It has been laying in a pile of magazines and notes I have set aside that just keeps growing. There was something about it that I just loved. I thought....if I ever get to build a house for myself.....

But then the pile gets bigger and one gets distracted by other more urgent matters. But I was reminded of the house again when going through this book! I had first seen it in C for Men magazine Spring 2013, and was smiling when I discovered it in California Homes as well......