![]() The light on the right is coming through the hallway to the kids bedroom wing (below): Adding this kind of greenery inside really adds to the ethereal look and feel of any interior. She said it doesn’t really like it inside but for $75, it’s easy to replace every 6 months if necessary. I took this photo of Brooke’s olive tree in her living room. Look there’s two of them settled into the holes they’ve dug (above). This is Brooke and Steve’s view from their kitchen sink.īrooke’s office is connected to this vegetable garden where some of her chickens hang out!īrooke says every Tuesday the gardeners put the dirt back in the garden beds that the chickens kick out all day long, haha. Related post: Ask Maria: What’s Next After Subway Tile There is simply no reason why your bathroom needs to have all the latest tile trends combined. That’s where white or cream subway tile comes in. So if you’re stressing about which shower tile to choose for your shower walls and you don’t have this kind of house so plaster walls aren’t going to cut it? Nothing trendy to worry about because it’s only on the floor. Notice the absence of wall tile here in any trendy shape or form. I didn’t take a picture of the shower in the guest house so here’s a picture of Brooke and Steve’s bathroom renovation in Oxnard. Transition between the white oak floors and limestone in the guest house. Related post: The New Timeless Hardwood Floor Here’s how you know the floor you’re considering might be too grey: If the overall read of your floors are grey, then they are most likely too grey, but if the overall read is pale yellow or medium brown first, that’s how you know you’re on the right track. Installing hardwood floors with grey in them will instantly place your new build or renovation inside the grey trend.Īnd, I know it’s hard to find pre-made flooring WITHOUT grey in it, so a little is okay. Notice there is not a stitch of grey or charcoal anywhere (below). There’s very little tile or stone out there that doesn’t eventually date. There is no tile or stone anywhere except the limestone floors which transition almost seamlessly with the white oak floors. Here’s what makes this house so classic and timeless. This was a photo of the same pond styled for their beautiful book, Patina Farm. These were the very rusty and awesome upholstered outdoor chairs right outside our window in the guest house.Īnd here was our view from the guest house in the morning. This was where we spent the night, it’s positioned in front of their lovely pond. She immediately responded with an invitation to stay in her guest house (below). Brooke and I started our blogs at the same time in 2008. Then I scheduled one of my colour training workshops in Los Angeles last month so I contacted Brooke and asked if I could come by, see her place and review her book. It was easier to click once and gaze at her gardens whenever I needed to feel peaceful. I kept this post open on one of the tabs on my laptop for weeks afterwards. They have lived there now for three years since it was finished, but in the Spring of 2014, Brooke posted photos of her gardens here, only one year after it was installed. Many of us in blogland followed Brooke and Steve Giannetti when they built their dream home in Ojai, California and moved from their previous house in Santa Monica. The Giannettis declined to say how much they spent on construction, which was completed in 2012.Roses from Brooke’s garden to greet us in the guest house Giannetti said, “which was fabulous for us because we could just dream up whatever we wanted.” It took them about a year to build the farm, where they grow their own fruit and vegetables and raise their own animals. “All there was on it were a couple of mature oak trees,” Ms. They discovered the property while working on a project in Ojai, which is located between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. They said they bought the farm as an empty lot about 11 years ago for just under $1 million. The Giannettis are the founders of Giannetti Home, a design firm and online lifestyle store, and the authors of several design books. Spanning about 5 acres, Patina Farm has a three-bedroom, roughly 5,300-square-foot main house, a one-bedroom guesthouse and farm buildings including a greenhouse and chicken coop. Patina Farm, the Ojai, Calif., home of interior designer Brooke Giannetti and architect Steve Giannetti, is hitting the market for $14.5 million.
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