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.
Lately, I started letting Charlie, our year and a half old Yellow Lab/Border Collie mix sleep out of his crate at night. If my husband goes to bed last he always puts him back in the crate but I would really like to get the crate out of my living room so I am trying to… Read More MY DOG IS A HERO
Once upon a time…. I fell in love with this butterfly fabric Usually I go with graphics and solids… but this fabric was so unique…so rich looking… ….The texture is so delicious… it is a heavy woven linen and it has ALL of my colors!!! and even at U Fab, ….my discount fabric place, it… Read More BUTTERFLIES AND PINK GIRAFFES
THESE ARE BUSY TIMES… The end of the school year, as everyone knows can be crazy busy…. Everything comes to a head… Everything HAS to get done and in my house…everyone but one child is having a Graduation. It is all very VERY exciting. Grandparents are coming and gifts are flowing, parties are being planned… Read More LESLI DEVITO PAINTINGS…"BLUE RIDGE MEDITATION"
Okay, Breathe Lesli …..Breathe.. I have some seriously exciting NEWS. (no, I am not pregnant , lets just get that out of the way) So, about 3 months ago I got an email from a guy named Max at House Beautiful magazine. Yes, HOUSE BEAUTIFUL MAGAZINE!!! THE House Beautiful Magazine Apparently they had liked a… Read More My Old Country House is IN HOUSE BEAUTIFUL MAGAZINE!
I don’t get to yard sales as much as the old days, but one Saturday I did a u turn and snagged an awesome mahogany coffee table for $6.00. I took it home and spray painted it satin black. I gave it a little distressing and put it in front of the chevron sofa. but…It… Read More THE CLUTTER BUSTER – SEEING DOUBLE
I am going to go on record saying “I hate the SOLs”The “Standards of Learning” Tests I think I am in fairly good company. And I think I am in such good company that I am not even going to go into why I hate them. Why did I even bring them up, you ask? Well,… Read More lensrental.com and the SOL’s
From House Beautiful – 101 Designer Secrets But you don’t have to be a Professional designer to have your“secret” solutions….am I right?If you have been following my blog…then you know about “the incident”… to be precise… SAD STORY PART I HERE SAD STORY PART II HERE The SOFA incident. I received so many supportive comments … Read More DEFENSIVE DECORATING AND THE SOFA SAVER
I love wallpaper. I have been thinking about wallpaper for a while now. Ironic? yes. Peyton Cosell Turner and Flat Vernacular Ironic in that 100% of this house was wallpapered (including the ceilings) before we moved in and in fact 93% is still wallpapered, and we then painted over it. We contemplated removing the wallpaper… Read More FLAT VERNACULAR and Payton Cosell Turner
Happy Mother’s day!!! (a day late) How did you spend yours? With your Mom? In Bed? With your kids? On the soccer field? I spent mine quietly painting in my kitchen while the buzzing family life happened around me, I stayed in my in PJs until 5pm. Sweet gifts and cards picked out by… Read More THE MEASURING WALL
Let me preface this by saying that I know we are talking about a sofa here. No one is dying here and everyone is in one piece. I have perspective, trust me there are plenty of “real” issues to keep the balance. That being said… I am JUST SICK about my sofa. I think It… Read More BAD…TO WORSE….
