My Work: Eclectic Style Model Home, Southern California

Hello my lovely readers! I'm still here, working away and keeping busier than ever. I've missed you all so much and have had some life-changing events happen recently that have re-inspired me to get back into blogging and connect more with the design world. I've been a busy mom to two boys (4 and 22 months) and am pregnant with our third - a baby GIRL due in September!!!

 I'm still working full time as a designer for a firm specializing in designing and merchandising model homes - an industry that's booming and keeping us very busy with projects. It's a great job and I've had the privilege of designing, from top to bottom and everything in between, about 40+ homes in the last 3 years. Needless to say, I have a lot of projects to share with you and look forward to doing so over the next several months.

 Today I wanted to share some raw/unedited/non-Photoshopped snapshots of a job I designed about 18  months ago. What really made this otherwise ordinary tract home stand out were the 13ft ceilings in the open living and kitchen area. I won't go too much into detail on this house (for lack of time today), but you'll get a peek at the Great Room, Kitchen, Master Bedroom and Home Office. I hope you enjoy and find some inspiration here! 

ALL IMAGE CREDITS: JULIE THIGPEN 

xoxo,

California Glamour

California Glamour by juliethigpen featuring Jonathan Adler

Coastal Chic Glamour

Coastal Chic Glamour by julie-71 featuring abstract wall art

Polyvore Style Board :: Coastal Chic Glamour

Are you familiar with the website Polyvore? They've been a great "go-to" tool for fashion lovers and bloggers to create style boards, showcasing favorite products and current trends. Now they've added a home section to their site, which allows you to create amazing style boards with any product or image you want!  I usually use Photoshop to create style boards for my blog and for clients, which can be extremely time consuming. I created the board below in about 30 minutes and it came complete with all of the links to each product for this post so I didn't have to spend forever linking each source!

Polyvore has launched an exciting campaign called Project Decorate where they've partnered with several home decor bloggers, myself included, to sponsor exciting contests and giveaways! Stay tuned for the kick off of the contest I'll be hosting on November 4th, where 2 winners will each receive $500 to an amazing home store that I'll be choosing!!! Are you on Polyvore? Follow me and I'll be sure to do the same. You can see my profile here.

Coastal Chic Glamour by julie-71 

Coastal Chic Glamour

Coastal Chic Glamour by julie-71 featuring giclee wall art

John Richard giclee wall art
horchow.com

Golden mirror
zincdoor.com

Home decor
zgallerie.com

Elisabeth Michael throw pillow
allmodern.com

Home decor
zgallerie.com

Sofa
shopcandelabra.com

Teakwood table
amazon.com