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Moore Residence Kitchen Tour

If I died and came back as a kitchen, I would want it to be this one. Working with Mandy Moore and Architect Emily Farnham to completely gut renovate an ill fitting traditional kitchen in the mid-century home was maybe the most satisfying kitchen renovation to date. The one good thing the early 90’s renovation […]

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Black is the new Black

It was brought to my attention that I never shared the before and after of our LA house exterior on the blog, and since I aim to please… (and because you better believe we will be painting the new house some shade of black as well), here she is! BEFORE AFTER It’s amazing what black […]

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Mandy Moore Master Bathroom Tour

I’m continuing on with the full tour of our residential project for Mandy Moore, we have the master bathroom! Bathrooms and kitchens are my favorite spaces to design and this one measures pretty high in the ranks of favorites. Just wait until you see the before and after (below). As I’ve mentioned Mandy’s house had […]

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Mandy Moore Master Bedroom Tour

This post was created in collaboration with Parachute Ok you guys, it is time! It is Mandy Moore’s house tour time. If you have been following along on our project, you have gotten sneak peeks galore on Mandy’s, Emily Farnham’s (the architect), and my Instagram feeds. In that case, you also most likely saw the […]

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Moore Residence – Arch Digest Cover Story!

If you’ve been following along on the progress with our Moore Residence project over here you know I went radio silent for a while and by now you might have figured out why. I couldn’t be more thrilled about the reason being our project made the cover of Architectural Digest! Mandy, the pups, our custom […]

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to paint or not to paint?

Well we have cleaned the place up a little bit (so we no longer look like squatters) but more like devout minimalists. This room is SO big it is hard to even grasp from a photo. That is the same 10 foot long sofa from our A-frame that took up the entire room and it […]

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#samuelfamilyfixer main floor plans

We’ve been living, no scratch that… camping out, in our new Michigan house for three weeks now (how is that even possible?!). Just wait until you see (below) how we’ve been living for nearly a month. It’s straight up squatter status. Luckily (or rather not so luckily since it was over a month late), our […]

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Trullbrook Powder Bath

Remember Client Trullbrook? I was able shoot a few of the finished spaced before we left for Michigan and am excited to share a little before and after snack with their powder room reveal. The perfectly blush marbled walls, thanks to Rebecca Atwood, are everything. The concrete sink which we rolled the dice on, buying […]

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Client Mad Sugar Ranch Kitchen Reveal

I’ve got a real cobbler with no shoes situation going on over here, I’m just an interior designer with no kitchen and no furniture (wah). The good news is, we made it to our new (old) Michigan house, the bad news is, our stuff has not… yet (hopefully soon). The other good news is I […]

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Barnaby Lane: Shop Picks

I could go on and on about all the great design coming out of Australia,  it seems like every time I come across a new brand or designer I love they are from Australia. Barnaby Lane was one of those brands that I’ve always coveted from afar, I have pinned those Smith chairs multiple times […]

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Mandy Moore's laundry room reveal // sarah sherman samuel

Mandy Moore’s Laundry Room

You guys… I’ve been waiting for this day to come for over a year now! Today is the day I get to share the first finished space of the Moore house, and while you might think the laundry room might be a funny place to start, just wait until you see how gorgeous this laundry […]

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Samuel Family Fixer Before Tour

If you missed our new house news, head to this post first and you’ll be all caught up, but to summarize… we bought a big family home in Michigan and we are going to do our best to turn it into our dream house in the woods, where we can raise our littles. We are […]

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sarah sherman samuel // maya brenner office project tour

Maya Brenner Office Tour

 Last year, just after I found out we were expecting, I got a call from Maya Brenner about designing her new office space downtown LA. I have loved her jewelry for a while and the brand she has built so I was excited about the project but hesitant to add on another project before baby. […]

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House News!

There’s been a lot happening around here and I’ve got some big news to share with you guys. If you read this post you already know that we sold our A-frame in Palm Springs in hopes of finding a larger primary home for our family. With the birth of Clover we suddenly outgrew our small […]

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Anthropologie Summer Catalogue

Have you guys seen the latest Anthropolige catalogue? I was so thrilled to be a small part of it. The Anthro crew came to our desert A-frame and brought truck loads of their new outdoor furniture and decked out our garden! It was so fun getting to see and test out all of the new […]

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Guest Bedroom high/low

high/low guest bedroom

After designing several guest bedrooms recently (like my most recent one for Mandy Moore) this often undervalued space has been on my brain. It’s the space we extend to family and close friends as a place to unwind after long and often hectic travels. Going into this high/low board, I knew wanted to use natural […]

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