When not working, Erin Patterson and her accomplice, Trevor, can normally be discovered within the kitchen, with their combined brood of 4 curler skating in circles round them. “With 4 curious youngsters and two dad and mom who like to cook dinner, issues can get wild! We joke about hanging a velvet rope across the island and attain to maintain them out,” laughs Erin, a licensed social employee with a specialization in baby adoption. The open door coverage is not only restricted to the household or the kitchen. Most weekends the home is stuffed with folks and everyone seems to be welcome all over the place. However when she moved into the home in Austin’s Misplaced Creek neighborhood a number of years in the past, it did not have the feel-good vibes it does right now.
In an effort to money in, she enlisted Avery Cox—founder and principal of her eponymous Austin inside design agency—to show her consideration to the primary ground, particularly a full kitchen rework. “We spend nearly all of our free time within the kitchen, and it was in determined want of some love,” says Erin. As for the type, she was clear she wished one thing European eclectic, with considerate textures, moody colours, nice lighting and objects with a narrative. “We additionally had lots of journey items and delightful images that we wished to point out.” However none of those had the best precedence. As a substitute, it was a long-held dream to in some way put a mango-colored Dutch door someplace. How and the place precisely was as much as Avery.
