Once upon a time, lesli devito was an actress living in new york city. Now she is a self-taught artist raising her family an old country farmhouse. She shares her adventures in parenting as well as her efforts to create a beautiful home for her family to live. With her imagination and a passion for decorating and making over old houses, she takes you into her world, the good, the bad and the old, with sometimes humorous results.
I am 100% certain that it was a man who coined the phrase… “If it ain’t broken…don’t fix it!” Decorating Boys rooms is TRICKY AND EASY at the same time. Tricky because they don’t like change and EASY…well, because they don’t like change. and for as many times as I have done makeovers of my daughters… Read More DECORATING BOYS ROOMS
Phoebe’s Room AGE 6Laura Ashley“Plaster Pink” PHOEBE’S ROOMS Age 8“plaster pink” with periwinkle stripe Age 9Benjamin Moore “Birds Egg” AGE 10Benjamin Moore “Tickled Pink” AGE 11- TWEEN ROOMBM “North Hampton Beige” AGE 13BM “Downpour Blue”, “Cotton Balls” and “Pink Ladies” AGE 14TWIN BED MAKEOVER Phoebe has only lived in 2 houses…her whole life, but… Read More GROWING UP WITH PHOEBE
If you were to come to Charlottesville and pick up the FALL issue of…. LOCALLY CHARLOTTESVILLE ….you would be able to read an article about me…and well, My Old Country House. I was contacted shortly after a photo of the now infamous Pink Cabinet Makeover appeared in the June 2012 issue of House Beautiful. The… Read More MONDAY MAKEOVER – FAUX BAMBOO TABLE REVISIT
Here is what the TARGET parking lot surveillance camera probably saw…. THE BOTTOM HALF of a woman is sticking out of the trunk of her minivan, she appears to be getting stuff out and then the trunk begins to close, with her the upper half of her body… still in the trunk.and in a move she… Read More FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS
When I was a kid, and I would tell someone I had a Retarded brother… they would say things like… “Wow, you don’t SEEM like you have a Retarded brother!” Really? My older brother Reve, is Mentally Retarded. It was a birth accident, something about a difficult delivery and a country Doctor and the missuse of… Read More THE "R" WORD
MY NEW SHOW IS UP! THREE NOTCHED GRILL CROZET, VA 22932 OPEN TUESDAY- SAT 5-10 HERBERT GARDENIA BILLY(SOLD), GINGER PIE AND BIG BLUE ‘TREVOR” AND “#453, 455 AND #456” “DOTTIE” AND “MARGE AKA MO” “ROCKY” AND “SOPHIE” “FAIRVIEW” “SMITH BARN” I love this restaurant…say hello to Cathy and Hayden to owners… it… Read More NOW SHOWING!!!
One of my most popular Pinterest Boards is entitled “A STAIRCASE IS A ROOM”… Staircases are works of art in my book, completely functional and architecturally dynamic at the same time.. I hope I always live in a house with a staircase…. I come by my sturdy , if often unshaven, legs Honestly and by… Read More STAIRCASE IS A ROOM
I love to paint. PAINTING IS quite simply my salvation, and while I am loving painting my Custom Pet Portraits….. I have ALSO been painting ALOT lately. just for me… “reflection” 40″ x 50″ I was inspired to paint this painting by the way things are reflected in car windows…sometimes layers upon layers of things, … Read More NEW PAINTING – "REFLECTION"
LAST FRIDAY, I got exciting news. I (or rather Phoebe’s room) has been selected as a FINALIST in the Washington Post Kids Room Contest!!! woot! woot! Please go HERE to vote for Phoebe’s room!!! There are two winners, 1.A winner who is recognized by the number of votes from the public 2.and a winner chosen by… Read More WASHINGTON POST FINALIST – VOTE FOR ME!!!
THE KIDS and I have this thing we do…when we see “a heart” somewhere….accidentally, like in a cloud or a freckle or a cookie that got too ambitious…a rock at the creek… or in the case photo above … when I dropped strawberries on the floor at the beach…we get very excited. And if we have our… Read More RANDOM HEARTS
