Lauren leiss

I hope you’re having a great week! We’ve been working in the garden like crazy and it’s blowing my mind a bit that October’s already here!! It’s one of my favorite times of the year and it never feels long enough. In a few days, Dave and I will celebrate our 18 year wedding anniversary. […]

Each year of life generally feels like it’s flying faster and that things are getting busier and busier… I’ve kind of realized that it won’t ever really slow down and that I might not necessarily get to that “I have time for things” moment that I think I’ve been expecting would arrive at my doorstep […]

Don’t neglect the “fifth wall”

Get inspired by Lauren Liess, an amazing interior designer whose style embraces authenticity, not perfection.

Interiors offer far more than what meets the eye. They are the spaces that greet us with warmth and comfort after extended time away and where we gather to celebrate joyous occasions. Lauren Liess delves into the emotional connection between design and lifestyle in her third book, Feels Like Home: Relaxed Interiors for a Meaningful Life.

The majority of the projects we work on at Lauren Liess Interiors are either ground-up new builds or major overhaul renovations but I have to say, I still love me a good ol’ fashioned decorating project. We recently completed some work for our good friends, Mike & Tara Carr. Mike runs CarrMichael Construction and has […]

A Collected Look has personality, interest, and history. If you would like your home to reflect your own personal style and taste, a Collected Look might be for

Our conversation with designer & author Lauren Liess

How We Got Here For me to truly tell you the story of this house and this room, I need to go a bit further back than the room itself… to our life before I ever saw the room. As I wrote about in my books, we’ve got a roaming real estate eye. Even when […]

We’re back from being away almost the whole summer and it feels gooood!!! We had an incredible summer living and working down in the Outer Banks! We didn’t quite finish the main project we were working on down there- Dune House- and are headed back soon to hopefully wrap up and get it on the […]