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Montecito Gardens

Veranda’s First Ever Outdoor Living Award For The Montecito Garden Restoration Project

March 30, 2020 By //  by Penelope Bianchi 4 Comments

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 …

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Filed Under: Article, Design, Garden Design, Gardens, Montecito Gardens, Press Tagged With: animals, baby chicks, bantam chickens, birds, chickens, duck house, duckhouse, ducklings, ducks, floating duck house, garden, gardens, habitat, Montecito

Rising From the Mud and the Ashes – Restoring Montecito

August 30, 2019 By //  by Rena McDaniel 16 Comments

*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 …

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Filed Under: Article, Design, Family, Friends, Garden Design, Gardens, Home, Landscapes, Montecito Gardens Tagged With: disasters, Margie Grace, mudslide 2017. rebuilding, The Art Of Outdoor Living

A Look Back! Living The Dream In 1996

November 10, 2018 By //  by Penelope Bianchi 10 Comments

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 …

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Filed Under: Bedroom, Blog, Design, Dining Room, Home, House Featured, Kitchen, Living Room, Montecito Gardens, Press, Video Tagged With: decorating, decorator, Dream Living 1996, French Regency, interior design, Montecito, Pasadena, pavillon, Video

Montecito Gardens: Our house featured in Santa Barbara Seasons magazine!!!

January 24, 2018 By //  by Penelope Bianchi 4 Comments

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

Filed Under: Article, Bedroom, Blog, Design, Dining Room, Gardens, Home, House Featured, Kitchen, Landscapes, Living Room, Montecito Gardens, Press, Santa Barbara Seasons Magazine Tagged With: birds, butterflies, decorating, gardens, Montecito, national wildlife federation, nature, wildlife

Trumeaus: Lovely mirrors that were formerly part of paneling.

September 11, 2017 By //  by Penelope Bianchi 13 Comments

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 " …

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Filed Under: Blog, Dining Room, Living Room, Montecito Gardens Tagged With: antique, antique mirrors, boiserie, French architecture, French paneling, French pavilion, Los Angeles House by Tim Street-Porter, mirrors, painted panels over mirrors, Santa Barbara sStyle by Diane Dorrans Saeks, trumeau

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

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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A Look Back! Living The Dream In 1996

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, …

Montecito Gardens: Our house featured in Santa Barbara Seasons magazine!!!

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 opportunity to build a custom home in the heart of Montecito. The property sits at …

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This post was originally written in May of 2011, but it has been revised just for you! I have often said that my ideas are really unfulfillable without my treasured “team”.  One of my favorite team members has and will always be my dear friend and talented artist Radisha. He has been creating sensational works …

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