Penelope Bianchi
Exciting news! The new issue of Veranda March-April has the 2020 Outdoor Living awards. The first time ever! And our garden was selected to be one of the eight awardees!!! The talented garden designer who originally designed our landscape came …
Veranda’s First Ever Outdoor Living Award For The Montecito Garden Restoration ProjectRead More
*This post was originally published on The Art Of Outdoor Living by Margie Grace We hear about disasters around the globe on a daily basis, but it’s hard to imagine that such devastation will ever hit so close to home. In early December 2017, the …
Rising From the Mud and the Ashes – Restoring MontecitoRead More
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 …
GLORIOUS GARDENS: FRENCH COUNTRY STYLE MEETS CALIFORNIA COOL Penny Bianchi Interior Decorator and photos by Amy Barnard When Penny and Adam Bianchi bought a modest slice of undeveloped land off of East Valley Road 20 years ago, they had a golden …
Montecito Gardens: Our house featured in Santa Barbara Seasons magazine!!!Read More
My very favorite mirror above a fireplace or console is a "trumeau"! A "trumeau" either has a painted scene or some lovely carving. They were always part of the "boiserie" (paneling) in a french house; and are very popular here, especially in " …
Trumeaus: Lovely mirrors that were formerly part of paneling.Read More
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 …
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 …
Garden update on the Monterey Colonial in Montecito!Read More
(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 …
