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Montecito Foothills Meet French Country Chic! Our clients house in SB Seasons magazine!

September 25, 2018 By //  by Penelope Bianchi Leave a Comment

    When attorney David Cohn and his wife, Debby, came to Montecito from Bakersfield, they connected with two key people who helped make their dream home a reality. After buying a remodeled 1960s-’70s ranch-style house, they …

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Filed Under: Design, Uncategorized Tagged With: antiques, Chinoiserie, decor, French country, landscape, Montecito, remodel, seasons magazine, stone house

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

Grace Design Associates …..our wonderful landscape designers!!!

August 9, 2013 By //  by Penelope Bianchi 6 Comments

I was showing a friend the photographs of our garden on our landscape designer's website;  and read the story of our project!   I realized that our project from their standpoint was quite different from ours;  and thought a lot of people would …

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Filed Under: Blog, Design, Friends, Gardens, Home, Landscapes Tagged With: bats, Bianchi, birds, deciduous trees, drainage, dry creek, Grace Design Associates, gravel paths, landscape, loggia, Margie Grace, nature, permeable, sustainable, waterbirds, wildlife

The Secret Garden!!!

May 26, 2012 By //  by Penelope Bianchi 21 Comments

My friend Bonnie  lives in the neighborhood where Ty Warner (beanie babies) built the most enormous house in Montecito! He bought 5 houses on a bluff overlooking the ocean; tore them all down;   (all of them multi-million dollar houses)  and built …

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Filed Under: Blog, Design, Gardens, Landscapes Tagged With: beautiful barbecue, borrowed view, brocantes, charming garden, chateau gates and posts, landscape, preserve, protected view, quirky garden, rescued treasure, roses, trumpet vine

Hooked on Houses Provencal farmhouse feature

October 30, 2011 By //  by Penelope Bianchi 10 Comments

One of my very favorite blogs is "Hooked on Houses"!  She has a huge following and is always interesting! She did a whole post on our house;  and combined some photographs from a House Beautiful article with others, and I was thrilled with the …

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Filed Under: Blog, Design, Gardens, Home, House Beautiful, House Featured, Landscapes, Montecito Gardens Tagged With: decorate, farmhouse, House Beautiful, landscape, Montecito, Penelope Bianchi, pond, provencal, real estate

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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 …

Radisha

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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