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Monterey Colonial garden update! Big difference!!!

May 24, 2016 By //  by Penelope Bianchi 3 Comments

Hi there!  I have had a lot of requests for more updates on the Monterey Colonial our daughter purchased a few years ago here in Montecito! The previous posts are at the end of this post! She removed some shrubbery crowding this beautiful …

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Filed Under: Blog, Design, Gardens, Landscapes, Montecito Gardens Tagged With: Anduze pot, boxwood, gardens, Joseph Plunkett, Montecito, Monterey Colonial

Marcel Vertes

February 8, 2016 By //  by Penelope Bianchi 50 Comments

Some people have requested that I republish a few of my blog posts! I decided to start with this one!! I hope you enjoy! In 1961, my very talented mother was in Paris on a trip.  She had admired an artist throughout the 40's and 50's.  His name …

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Filed Under: Blog, Design, Marcel Vertes Tagged With: "Le Cirque", "Moulin Rouge movie", "Shocking perfume", animals, art, Bemelmens Bar, Cafe Carlyle, circus, collecting an artist, collection, ebay, hand made ceramic art, loving to animals, loving to children, Ludwig Bemelmems, Marcel Vertes, oil paintings, Sciaparelli, shocking perfume bottle, signed and numberedlithographs, whimsy

The last “by invitation only”! WHAT AN HONOR!!!!

December 19, 2015 By //  by Penelope Bianchi 11 Comments

Hi there! This is the last of "By invitation only" I adore that Marsha;  who started it.  I have no idea how she did it;  and I am still relying on her to connect me with "Mr. Linky" tonight ! My first experience with a blog (and there was not …

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Filed Under: Blog, Design, Friends, Travels Tagged With: adaesthete.com, anaesthet'slament, antiques, blogs, david patrickcolumbia, DONNA KARAN, elizabeth, James Andrew, lacontessa, newyorksocialdiary.com, taste, the vintagecontessa, velvet andlinen.com, what is james wearing, whatisjameswearing

New tv show! “The Real Houses of….”

October 19, 2015 By //  by Penelope Bianchi 7 Comments

Our house is featured in an episode of "The Real Houses of....."  on the W network in Canada! The series of shows were filmed this last Spring;  and were shown this fall season.  We were in the episode "Southwest USA";  and we thought they did a …

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Filed Under: Bedroom, Blog, Design, Dining Room, Gardens, Home, House Featured, Kitchen, Landscapes, Living Room, Radisha, Video Tagged With: decorating, decorator in Montecito, French farmhouse, monograms, patina, pigments from Provence, provencal farmhouse, Provencal home, Provence, Radisha, tv show, Vertes

A blogpost from Brooke at Velvet and Linen about me!

July 15, 2015 By //  by Penelope Bianchi 5 Comments

This was a post a few years ago by Brooke Giannetti at Velvet and linen! an evening with penelope bianchi and lars bolander... Having never attended school for interior design, I've always wished that I had a mentor. There have been a few …

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Filed Under: Blog, Design, Friends, Gardens Tagged With: Anduze pot, animals, antiques, bantam chickens, Brooke Giannetti, decorating, garden, habitat, House Beautiful, Lars Bolander, patina, pond, Velvet and Linen

A lifelong collection of a "Happy Bird"!!!

July 15, 2015 By //  by Penelope Bianchi 98 Comments

I was minding my own business, (yes working!)  looking for furniture for clients in my favorite antique store in our area;  and this bird;  this happy little bird caught my eye! What a delightful, fey,whimsical, little bird!  I was …

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Filed Under: Blog, Design, Dining Room, Kitchen Tagged With: artist, bird, chip, collect, Flood family, glaze, happy, happy bird, inherit, Italian pottery, joy, joyful, life collection, Lupa, majolica, Monte Lupa, Rancho Sisquoc, whimsical

Garden update on the Monterey Colonial in Montecito!

May 4, 2015 By //  by Penelope Bianchi 12 Comments

The gardens have  been worked on extensively for the past few  months! Huge improvements!!! Not too much has changed in the front; Things are starting to bloom! The real changes are on the side.... what was a shady mess where nothing much …

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Filed Under: Blog, Design, Gardens, Montecito Gardens Tagged With: Anduze pot, before and after, garden, Joseph Plunkett, landscape, Monterey Colonial, pool, restored, terrace

Question: “Do you follow trends in decorating?”

February 10, 2015 By //  by Penelope Bianchi 18 Comments

(Don't forget to click on the title!! To see the whole post!) "Do you follow trends in decorating"? That is the topic on "By invitation only" on the blog:  splenderosa.com.  Everyone is different;  but this is something I decided many years ago …

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Filed Under: Bedroom, Blog, Design, Dining Room, Gardens, Home, Kitchen, Landscapes, Living Room, Montecito Gardens, Press Tagged With: antiques, appliances, classics, family heirlooms, furniture, lampshade, landscape designer, Mario Buatta, Montecito, plumbing fixtures, rugs, tile, timeless decorating, trends, trompe l'oeil, troupe l'oeil

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Look what I found! I was on a delightful television program in 1996! It was called “Dream Living”; and it was about people who live in their Dreamhouses. I had seen our house in Pasadena when I was 13 and was determined to live in it someday. And I DID!! It is kind of blurry, …

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