Modern Redux

 If you haven't picked up your 2011 September issue of Kansas City SPACES magazine yet - GO GET IT!

My friend Valerie's home is featured in a 10 page spread this month.

She decided to fully remodel her Old Leawood home to her clean, simple, modern taste in planning on staying there for a long time.  Life and family dynamics changing caused her home to be THE place for extended family get-togethers and holiday celebrations.  She wanted her home to easily satisfy entertaining needs and large groups of people with an intimate setting.  She did it fabulously!

[please forgive my photography of the page layouts - go get the real thing; it's better!]

[my personal fave- her custom sideboard in the dining room.  I have to admit at times when she had a hard time making a decision- she'd call me for my opinion or advice, and the sideboard was my HANDS-DOWN favorite thing to help her decide on.  She used the wood grain formica vertically with a white back-painted piece of glass on top]

Our friend, Jeff Hanson's canvas collection titled "Cabo in Chrome" is featured in the first photo in the Lounge area of Valerie's home.

Check out more of Jeff's inspiring art and philanthropic events by clicking these links:

www.JeffreyOwenHanson.com

Jeff's video story

Jeffrey Owen Hanson LLC facebook page

Jeff Hanson's blog

Go read the article if you want to find out what companies were used and where products are from.

Peace & Happiness

Here are the photos from a 13 year old's bedroom that I helped decorate.  I assisted in picking out her bedding, wall colors, accessories, and her curtains.  Also shown is the painting I did as a gift for her hung above her bed.

Wall paint is "Green Vibes" from Sherwin Williams; chandelier, bed frame, and rug are from West Elm; curtains, beanbag, and bedding are from PB Teen.

 I painted the Peace canvas for my friend Shayna's Bat Mitzvah.  It's textured with blue and purple torn tissue paper, modge podged, splashed with many colors of acrylic paint, then lacquered with a high gloss. Small glitter tiles and mirrors adorn the top.

 The room is a light-filled space full of happiness, youth, and peaceful rest!

Mural Mural on the Wall...

My mom and I painted this African-themed mural on the walls of my cousin Tucker's room.  The lower pattern that surrounds the room was inspired by a piece of pottery that my mom had. 

my favorite elephant

I thought the hippo my mom did was so cute!

There's Simba!  I looked at a picture from the Lion King to paint him.  That green frog is 3-d and is hanging on the wall!

CLUB 56

I was hired to give new life to the middle school room at our church named Club 56 [since it's mainly 5th & 6th graders].  It was more of a "catch-all" room for donated furniture and other items.  We simplified it and gave it some youthful soul!

The colorful carpet tiles were custom picked from Flor to tie all of our colors together

The beanbags are from Fatboy that I ordered through 2modern.com

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 after

The orange, purple, white, and gray stripes were hand-painted by my mom & I (with some help from my brother Trevor) 

before

 after

The stripes were meant to "burst" from the wall decal of (a reference to Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam) God & Adam's hands I got from Dezign with a Z.  A modern take on a Christian message

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 after

This strip of galvanized metal was attached to the wall for groups of kids to post projects or artwork on with magnets

Blessed with ART!

We got our house-warming gift from Jeff Hanson this week!!!

This canvas is titled: "Kersten Haus Rooftop", How perfect!

Jeff is also being featured in People Magazine soon- the photo shoot was this week!  I updated his video to show his most recent painting sold at auction for $15,000 at the North Texas Make-A-Wish gala!  He has now raised over $325,000 for charities that have "touched" his life!

Check out his video:

Since we recently added our laundry closet, I had to move the paintings my Nana painted of & for us to a new spot.  Now much more predominantly displayed, they are in the hallway as you walk in the house.

This is the painting she did of tomatoes that she gave us after we got married!

[it proudly hangs in our kitchen]

 See more of my Nana's work (Barbara Frets Simmons) at these sites:

Eva Reynolds Fine Art Gallery

Sculpture in the South

Kobenhavn

This is a 12 x 24" canvas I did for dear friends resembling Copenhagen, Denmark.  It was my friend, Britt's, gift to his wife, Carly, for their anniversary; they studied abroad there.  It is acrylic paint with heavy gloss.

Paintings

I painted this for my friend Shayna's Bat Mitzvah.  It's textured with torn tissue paper, modge podge, acrylic paint, then lacquered with a high gloss. Small glitter tiles and mirrors are added on top.

A 24x36" canvas textured with gel using a v-notched trowel, acrylic paint, and heavily lacquered

A textured trilogy with branches carved into the plaster.  Acrylic paint and small glass beads added like wet drops of dew on the flower and branches.  This painting was a gift for our dear friends that lost their precious boy an hour after birth.  The branches represent them and the flower is for Jake.

The Living Room

before:

after:

Carpet squares from Flor, Ottomans from Crate & Barrel, Knitted Pouf from cb2, round flokati rug and spine bookcase from West Elm.

Two different kinds of old carpet were replaced with dark-stained engineered hardwood floors.

Reading nook

Breakfast area

Pendant light and breakfast table from cb2, scoop chairs from West Elm, decals from Wall Pops, painting by Jeff Hanson [www.jeffreyowenhanson.com]