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Monterey Colonial

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

Another update on the "Monterey Colonial"! Interiors and exteriors!

November 20, 2013 By //  by Penelope Bianchi 23 Comments

  This story has been a long and winding road! Anyone following my "blog" knows!! Rather than publishing the three former installments;  if you haven't seen them, you can click  on the "search" box on this blog,  and write "Monterey …

Another update on the "Monterey Colonial"! Interiors and exteriors!Read More

Filed Under: Blog, Design, Gardens, Home, Landscapes, Montecito Gardens Tagged With: gates, house evolves with people in it, Joseph Plunkett, landscaping, MIKE WHITE, Montecito, Monterey Colonial, poppies, restoration, Santa Monica, School of Rock, scrapbook, work in progress

Monterey Colonial!! "Progress!" "More Progress coming next" This is the "Interior progress" midway! UPDATE!!!

October 25, 2013 By //  by Penelope Bianchi 34 Comments

Well;  again, instead of just launching into the " update" on our "Montecito Monterey Colonial";  because of my new subscribers, I am repeating the "during" published in January! With three children relocating from Europe; all the things I had done …

Monterey Colonial!! "Progress!" "More Progress coming next" This is the "Interior progress" midway! UPDATE!!!Read More

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Monterey Colonial "During"!! again before the "present" to be posted in the next few days!!! Exterior!

October 23, 2013 By //  by Penelope Bianchi 56 Comments

Hi there again! I am going to post the "present pictures" of our Monterey Colonial;  however, it has been so long since I have posted; and I have many new subscribers; so I decided to republish the  last  post"during"  a day or two before the …

Monterey Colonial "During"!! again before the "present" to be posted in the next few days!!! Exterior!Read More

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Monterey Colonial Restoration in Montecito: "The Before!"

September 7, 2012 By //  by Penelope Bianchi 25 Comments

For two years, we knew our daughter and her family were moving back this fall; and wanted to buy their "first house" !   Time to buy their first house!  Yikes! I have looked at just about every family house in Montecito!  And I saw some wonderful …

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Filed Under: Blog, Design, Home, Montecito Gardens Tagged With: adobe, Brooke and Steve Giannetti, california, Frances Elkins, Joseph Plunkett, Montecito, Monterey California, Monterey Colonial, oval entry hall, Pasadena, Pebble Beach, pool plaster bathroom, Reginald Johnson, Roland Coate

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