I love this house and studios! What is the paint color in the nursery and also the orange color in the bathroom and breakfast area?

I have a ring dish from Paloma's Nest that I love. It was fun to peek into their house :)

Can I move in? I promise I'll be quiet and clean. :-)

My forehead has my palm print on it after seeing the plywood discs used over the dining table. It's will be a great way to center my light over my dining table without make holes in the old canec panels that make up my ceiling. I am so doing this!

Man, if I was that little girl, looking out of my door at night and seeing that eyeless portrait painting would totally freak me out!

What a lovely family! Those parents made a really sweet home for their kids. So warm and inviting and creative.

What an adorable family! I love the house and the fact its decor seems attainable for most folks,nothing struck me as super high end and I for one appreciate that! I love to look at high end homes and dream,but a $6000 sofa or $1200 end table are probably NEVER going to be in my budget,so its refreshing to see a home like this.The ONLY thing I didnt like was the tile floor,not that I dont like tile,but I dont like that tile.other than that,loved it!

Hi John- no worries, we don't like the tile floor, either. They were done by a previous owner. Slowly we have been changing the flooring room by room. With young kids and the hot Texas weather, tile floors are so functional here. So for now, it works. Thanks for your comments!

Maybe that is what is keeping her up at night!? Just kidding. The painting is a work in progress, and the children have seen me working on it and adding to it over the past weeks (months?); so I think she knows the eyes are coming, and that makes it not-so-scary. Thanks for your comments.

The orange in the breakfast area/kitchen is called Orange Essential 328-5 by Pittsburgh Paint. It is a great peachy- terracotta color and almost acts as a neutral in this space. I don't have the name of the color for the nursery, but its a very creamy/buttery white contrasted with bright white trim/floor/ceilings. Thanks for your comments!

Very charming!
My personal change would be to scrape the acoustic ceiling and change the tile floors.

I love that you're letting the home be what it is, while making it unique for you (leaving the ceiling and the floor, they function, right?) The red/white/tan colors in the kitchen are very interesting, I normally would not like that but I do. Your home feels very lived-in, loved-in, creative, comfy and happy, just what a home should be!

I cannot get past the 'popcorn' ceiling. I couldn't live with it, no matter how the rest of the place looks. Sweet family; wonderful house to grow up in. But please put the right shape/SIZE shades on those beautiful turquoise lamps!!

Beautiful home! I am absolutely in love with those dining room chairs! You definitely get their personal vibe in each room of the house.

Amazing quilts. You have done wonders with a house with a popcorn ceiling. Hats off to your stellar decorating abilities.

it's amazing what people "see" & comment on during a home tour. I never even noticed the lamp shades nor the painting without the painted eyes. Actually, I probably would be "called out" for the same things if someone toured my house. We have a nude of a woman with no eyes in our bedroom... so that's a common sight for us. It's especially marvelous because it was painted by our daughter when she was in design school - she's now a successful toy designer. And, although we have plans to remove the popcorn ceiling in our condo, I would imagine this task would not be high on this families priority list. I've lived in my condo for 13 years - but haven't done anything about it. It will create a dreadful mess.
The colors are so vibrant... just what a family with small children would enjoy. I'll bet these children have "rich imaginations" being exposed to such creative, resourceful, clever parents. WTG Jose & Caroline.

The kids' rooms are so great!

Also, props to you for running a business out of your home. I love that you can really get the sense through the pictures of the house that it's one where creative people live, and one where beautiful things are constantly being made :)

I love this home, with its freshness and authenticity. I would love more information on the corner storage with curtain in the master bedroom. We could use something similar in our old, storage-challenged house. I love that the kitchen has original elements and that the studios fit the design of the original home so well.

It's weird but it's nice to see people with popcorn ceilings. I can't do anything about mine either.

I hate my popcorn ceiling more than anything else in my home but can't bear the mess of removing it. The next owners can do that if they want. I also like to see that you can have a cute family home while working around it. Nicely done.

POPCORN! Who knew it was such a hot topic. Yes, we have popcorn ceilings in the dining room, the kitchen, and in one bedroom (about 20% of the main house). All of the other rooms have been updated with other ceiling treatments. As some comments mentioned, removing popcorn is a huge, messy job- and for us, it just hasn't been a priority unless we were doing something else major in the room. Most every house in this part of Austin has it, it is so characteristic of the age and style of architecture here. We choose to focus on other details instead.

This is one of my all time favorite AT house tours. Why? For starters:
The beauty of this space emerges from original vision, not from buying what's hip or status-seeking. The home is highly functional and graceful without fussiness. Art is not crowded, and furniture and objects have breathing space. The palette is complex and rich, yet the rooms flow together. The end result is a home that is both dynamic and serene and again, truly original. And what a beautiful family it shelters.

Handmade quilts are the new [old] awesome. Glad these homeowners agree!

Amazing home, well loved and lived in ! Can u tell me the paint color in the master . So fresh and I love that its paired with purple !

Queridos Carolina y José, I don't usually go for saturated colors but both my SO and I love your color choices. Thank you for decorating this charming house. When can we move in? I wish I were as creative and handy as you when it comes to expanding my storage. And the cabinet for the washer and dryer is gorgeous. Love!

I bought my niece a beautiful wooden bracelet with wood burning engravement from Palomas for a birthday years ago. Wonderful site.

It's funny, I don't even notice the popcorn. While this house isn't really my personal style, I really do love that its so unpretentious. The colours work perfectly and the whole place just feels relaxed and oddly calming for such a colourful place.
And as a renter (who can't even paint walls) it's very comforting t see a beautiful space where some of those big, messy, expensive fixes haven't been done! How easy we'd all have it if we got total blank canvases to work with every time we move.

What good taste and creativity can do with relatively ordinary house and furnishings. Love the fact that these folks did not update the kitchen by replacing the perfectly fine kitchen cabinets.

Never be worried about the backyard when you have little ones. My parents used to say they were raising kids, not grass.

Those colors! Those wonderful colors! And we have the same stove! And it's not a billion dollars' worth, I can't tell you how that comforts me after all the $2K fridges and $1K barstools.

Popcorn be damned, I love letting a house be what it is. "Upgrades" can come slowly and carefully, if at all. This is a wonderful, creative, comfortable home for a beautiful family.

i found so many things to love about this home:
all the colors
arrangements of furniture/other things
the DIY choice and outcome
art, art, art
the "dealing with it" attitude about things one might want to change but as of yet cannot/has not (and maybe won't .. priorities!)
the ability to run a successful business from home while keeping the focus on the people who live there
...

thanks for sharing!

a request, please - would you please share the source on that small vase/cup holding tulips in photo # 32? i would love to have one like it for my own home. thank you very much!

I really enjoyed this one -- very creative and functional! It's great to see a "lived-in" house and a work-in-progress.

Must add that we have the exact same tiles in our rental house, and I hate them too!!

Hi there!! Lovely home!!!
Just wondering where the beautiful quilt in your daughters room is from?

Wow, what a beautiful family!

I love your warm and eclectic Austin home.

I live in Austin too, and we've been slowly redoing our popcorn ceilings, room by room. It is a huge, messy undertaking. We finally only have one bedroom left! I don't blame you for putting it off. I can't imagine doing it or having it done with kids in the house.

Thanks for sharing your lovely space!

73 photos - wow! That's thorough; thanks!

Those bar stools in the kitchen are really great.

The quilt piece hanging on the navy wall (dining room?) literally made me gasp. I have an almost identical finished quilt sized for a double bed. Same pattern and, surprisingly similar colors (mine is predominantly navy, white, and taupe, with bright raspberry panels separating the squares. I used to use it in place of a headboard in my high-ceilinged master bedroom, as it's too small for a queen bed.

I got mine about 30 years ago from an antique dealer in Pittsburgh who said she had bought it at a farm auction in Indiana. She had several quilts from that sale, which she estimated at circa 1930. She said a couple of dozen barely used quilts all came out of the same old cedar chest. I chose the one I did because the simple, repeated graphic appealed to me and the calicoes the squares were made of were in unusual colors for a quilt of that era.

I've never been able to find the name of the pattern although it wouldn't surprise me to know it's a common one, given that it's constructed from same-sized squares.

Do have any knowledge about your piece? It's perfect on the navy wall.

Thank you! The bird quilt is an antique from the late 1930's. My mother is a collector and we are lucky to have been given some of her treasures to enjoy here in our home.

The quilt panel in the dining room is a surviving piece of a larger quilt that my mother found in Mystic, Connecticut, where I grew up. It is a classic quilt pattern, and one that was commonly used by quilting circles to create community quilts. This particular panel dates to the mid 1800's, and has a name and date written on each square from the woman who crafted it; one of the names matches that of the family who built my childhood home in 1864, so it was very special for us to find.

There are many wonderful reference books that can help you identify quilt patterns-it's common for these patterns to be repeated through many eras/time periods- the distinguishing feature and best way to date a quilt is by the textiles used to craft it. The history behind them is fascinating. I'm so thankful that I have inherited my mother's love of these incredible art pieces and that we have her as a source of so much knowledge about them.

I hope that helps! Thank you for your comments.

Totally loved Frida's portraits! perhaps it's the neatest workshop I've ever seen, congrats!

I have bought a few things from their etsy shop. It is neat to see inside their home. Very creative space.

I love the silver mirror - it's so chic and rustic at the same time. Love mixing metals and woods. When I see something that makes my heart skip a beat, I can't help but wonder who'd leave it behind! (And say a secret thank you, too.)

Wonderful pictures, family and most of all ENERGY that comes with it... I bet this energy "comes" with the artwork! Best wishes to Paloma's Nest :)

Love the Kitchen bar stools and the kids room

The navy blue paint is absolutely beautiful. Where did you get the white fan? Thanks!

What color paint for the mater bedroom? I love it!

this house is lovely and warm but the master bedroom steals the show for me!
Vibrant and creative like the couple! Beautiful!