Art and Design
If you enjoyed our Before & After feature in At Home in Arkansas this month, you’ll definitely want to click on over to their blog today for a bonus feature from this family friendly kitchen design!
They will show you how we built in flexible accessories to be able to swap out styles in a pinch, creating two different looks and feels. Hopefully you’ll get some ideas on how this could apply in your home!
Click on the image below to connect to their post, “Styled Two Ways“!
Good things take time, and they are always worth waiting for.
I’ve been waiting awhile to unveil this never-before-seen, major kitchen remodel with you all. Thanks to At Home in Arkansas, I get to share it with you today!
Head on over to www.athomearkansas.com right now for the full article covering this Family Style kitchen, including unbelievable before and after images!
(Photo by Nancy Nolan via At Home in Arkansas)
In the coming months I will be sharing a post series that you won’t want to miss, walking you through the behind the scenes of the project. I invite you to subscribe to my blog to make sure you don’t miss a post! 😉
Stay inspired,
-K
First of all, Happy St. Patrick’s day! Did you get your green on today? I didn’t go all out, but made sure to add a splash with one of my favorite scarves.
The main reason for this post though, is because Gibson and I have a very important announcement to make that will explain our current state of jubilation – (who’s Gibson, you ask? Why he’s just one of my favorite furry, four-legged nephews who likes to be included in everything) – ahem:
We are so excited to announce that the Kitchen project we shot with At Home in Arkansas last month will be highlighted as the Before and After feature in their April 2014 issue! (See some behind the scenes from the shoot here.)
We’re so excited!! Many thanks to the outstanding At Home in Arkansas team for this amazing honor. I couldn’t be more thrilled to share my work with you all through this distinguished publication.
Gibson and I won’t spoil it for you, but as you can see we were mesmerized with how beautifully the feature turned out. The issue will be hitting newsstands and mailboxes soon, so keep your eyes open and scoop one up when you see it! We think you’ll just love this family-friendly, total kitchen transformation, as well as the other fantastic features this issue holds that are full of ideas you won’t want to miss for spring inspiration.
Please spread the word! When you get a chance to check it out, we’d love to know what you think, so come back by and drop us a line! 😉
We hope you had a great St. Patrick’s Day and Monday all around and wish you a happy week ahead!
xoxo,
-K
Don’t you just love a reason to celebrate? I sure do, especially when the celebration involves cupcakes.
Kathryn J. LeMaster Art & Design turned 1 on Thursday, and by George, that’s a darn good reason to celebrate!
Come along with me and my lovely sister, Hannah, and join us for a whimsical picnic in the woods complete with delicious cupcakes and teacups full of milk to celebrate KJL’s birthday!
I am delighted when I think back on what an amazing 1st year this was. I didn’t really know what to expect in the beginning, so I’m truly thankful for all of the amazing opportunities that surprised me and exceeded my expectations. God is so good.
Thanks for sharing this journey with me! I would not have made it this far without the unfailing support of faithful friends, family, readers, clients, and professionals I look up to and learn from. You guys rock my world.
Please lift your cupcakes and let’s “cheers” to another great year ahead!
xoxo,
-K
This was a very special week for me!
Why? Because I had the honor and privilege of working on not one, but TWO incredible shoots. One film and one photo – both chart topping highlights of my year! I’m usually the quintessential anti-morning person, but I was actually chomping at the bit with excitement to wake between 3am and 5:45am five days in a row.
So I’m kicking up my heels this weekend, celebrating a very rewarding 60+ hour week!
The bulk of the week was spent putting my styling skills to work designing and dressing sets for a furniture commercial shoot with 5 Star Productions. Film opportunities don’t come up all the time in the Little Rock area, so I was beyond thrilled to be included in this project and to get the chance to work with such an awesome crew!
As soon as the film shoot wrapped each day, I’d switch gears and spend time preparing for the Friday photo shoot with At Home in Arkansas. This particular shoot was really special to me, as it features one of my very favorite kitchen projects that I’ve been so excited to share with you all! The shoot went amazingly, thanks to my super supportive clients and the pros in charge: Editor in Chief, Chip Jones, and Photographer, Nancy Nolan!
For more behind the scenes photos from both shoots, be sure to check out my Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter feeds.
Stay tuned for more info surrounding my kitchen project that will be featured in a spring issue of At Home in Arkansas!
I was ecstatic to receive the below email from Houzz earlier this week and couldn’t wait to share it with you all!
I’m truly honored and want to thank each one of my amazing clients who offered up their time to write about their experience with Kathryn J. LeMaster Art & Design last year. It is because of your honest testimonials that I was voted to receive this award! So thank you, from the bottom of my heart!
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If you’d like to read the reviews that contributed to this award, click here!
If you’re not familiar with Houzz, I invite you to check it out today. It’s the number one tool I use to communicate with clients in the beginning of their projects to share inspiration and ideas. Think of it as a social media website for everything house related!
It’s free an easy to create an account, and once you do, you have access to millions of photos to save to “ideabooks” you create for your home projects! It’s a great resource to locate building professionals, ask questions, read helpful articles… I could just go on and on. You can follow me on Houzz, here!
Thanks for being here today and sharing in my excitement. I hope you have a wonderful weekend and I’ll see you next week!
Stay inspired,
-K
I made it back from “The Golden State” last week and what a fantastic trip it was. One of the highlights: finally getting to see the Hollywood sign from Griffith Park!
I can’t wait to share a few of my favorite photos from the trip with you after I finish sorting through them.
Today though, I wanted to share about the goings on around the office lately. For starters, I’m getting organized for 2014 with some new office supplies, which is always super exciting!
More importantly though, I’ve hit the ground running with projects for the year, which trumps my excitement about the new office supplies by like… a zillion times! 🙂
Progress is in motion on current projects gearing up for completion, as well as on new projects I’m just diving in to. Above is a peek at some of the treasures I’ve scooped up to do some styling for a project next week!
At the end of 2013, we made it just in time for the holidays with some custom textiles and reupholstering for a project. Check out the before and after of these breakfast chairs:
This sneak peek was shared on my Facebook page, but incase you missed it, here was another before and after preview from the master bedroom:
Exciting, right?!
While things are busy around the office, blog posts may still be coming out on a weekly basis until I can return to multiple per week. However, I’ll continue sharing on a daily basis between Instagram (@kjlemaster) Facebook and Pintrest so please take a moment to “follow” or “like” through one of those venues too if you haven’t already!
You’ll get to see more “behind the scenes” photos like the color board above, as well as shopping finds, inspiration and tips, so don’t miss out! Find me on your favorite social media channel. I’d love to see and hear from you more throughout the week and in between blog posts. 😉
Until then – have a lovely Monday evening and stay inspired!
-K
Happy December everyone! Lovely weather we’ve been having, yes? I don’t know about you, but I’ve been iced in for about 4 days now.
Everything’s coming up frozen in our back yard!
Rather than succumbing to cabin fever, I’ve focused on decorating for Christmas around our “cabin.” It’s coming along!
Here’s my Insta-recap of the first week of December:
Thankfully we made it to the tree farm and picked out the perfect Christmas tree before the ice storm hit. With the help of our neighbor, we even added some flocking to give it that snowy look. Although if we’d waited a few days and just left it outside, we could have had a nice coating of the real deal complete with sleet.
Hope you all are already enjoying some holiday cheer and staying cozy warm if it’s cold where you are too!
I’ll be back later this week sharing a few of my favorite Christmas picks from a great online shop I recently discovered. A few other things to look for on the blog this month: a furniture design reveal as well as a guest bedroom before and after, so stay tuned!
-K
So I’ve been missing from the blog this week – sorry about that! But I can promise you it’s been for a good reason.
As some of you may know, when we purchased our home last year it was a foreclosure. Needless to say, it needed alot of TLC and updates. We’ve been on a mission to bring it to it’s full potential ever since.
We took this last week to focus on finishing up some house projects that we’ve been needing to get to for awhile, including landscaping, trim work, light fixtures and touch up painting. The biggest undertaking, however, was bringing our master bathroom from about 30% to 98% completion!
So are you ready to see what our master bath looked like before we got started last year? The below picture was taken by one of our neighbors (and now good friends) before the house was even ours:
(before)
Yikes! I’ll just point out a few of the problems with it that were apparent right off the bat.
The vanity was only 22″ deep and 28″ high, so small and low, not to mention a dated yellow oak finish and cultured marble moulded sinks and counter top.
The forest green walls were dark and depressing for such a small space and made the room feel smaller than it already was.
Come to find out, it was dark green paint over TWO different layers of old wallpaper. Yes. That was fun trying to take off. When it stopped responding to all traditional methods of stripping and started damaging the sheet-rock in the process, we ended up sheet-rocking over with a thin layer to get a fresh, smooth surface.
Here was a picture from a couple months after we started remodeling once the new walls, floors (minus the grout), and 24″ deep by 36″ high cabinets were in:
(during)
Looking better! Now, if you remember from my previous post, Designer House Reveal: The Process, the inspiration for that project actually started with Dwell Studio fabrics I’d original picked out for our master suite. As we hadn’t finished our master project at the time, I used the materials in the show house instead and decided that if the items didn’t sell, I would re-purpose them in our project as originally planned.
So if you followed the Designer House project, you’ll recognize that some of the original items used are now in our master bath, including some of my original art!
Here’s how it looks after our big push this past week:
Quite a transformation so far, right?!
It still needs a few finishing touches including the final light fixtures over each mirror, drapery panels under the valance, and crown moulding. All in good time. Right now I’m just basking in the joy of having working sinks just feet away from my bed! Not to mention thick, coke bottle-like glass sinks. Ooo la la.
So that’s a sneak peek of what we were up to all week. Hopefully it makes up in some small way for my absence. 🙂
Have a wonderful rest of the week and stay inspired!
-K
Today it’s my pleasure to introduce to you the incredible Trevor Thurow Custom Furniture and Design! Trevor and his lovely wife, Jenni, are based out of Austin, Texas – a state near and dear to my heart. (I was born in Dallas and let’s face it, once a Texan, always a Texan!) 🙂
Trevor is ridiculously gifted at was he does – his work is simply spectacular! Everything from the furniture style to the variety of materials used is precisely my cup of tea. Check out some of my favorite pieces of his work below!
Awesome, right? To read more about the above pieces and see more of Trevor’s work, be sure to check out and like their Facebook page and visit their website.
Now that you’ve met Trevor Thurow Custom Furniture and Design, I’m so excited to share that I’ve been asked to work with them to design a piece of furniture from these amazing old barn wood beams! What?!
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I’m extremely honored to be teaming up with them on this one-of-a-kind project. It’s going to be a blast!
Stay tuned to my blog and Trevor’s blog to follow the design and production process over the next month.
Back to sketching! 😉