Carl and Colene Joiner’s Kemah home features a screened-in pavilion area, which is where they spend most of their time. It connects the couple to nature without the mosquitoes. Photo by Stuart Villanueva
Whether choosing a spouse or building a house, Kemah Mayor Carl Joiner and his wife, Colene, seem to specialize in making visionary decisions that yield long-term benefits. [Read more…]
Old-world recipes, handwritten in German on yellowed paper, coexist peacefully with Texas furnishings and décor in the Santa Fe home of Petra Faisst and Jeff Hinton. [Read more…]
Kim Wisener, right, and her granddaughter Payton Gehrke, 8, whip up a batch of Payton’s mini chocolate pies. Photo by Jennifer Reynolds
With both a globally recognized theme and vibrant color scheme designed to “pop,” Kim and Doug Wisener’s Galveston Island kitchen also packs a functional punch into every inch of its compact floor plan. [Read more…]
Beginning with her early childhood in Cuba, Mercedes Perez has always loved the sea. Today, her ocean view is southward from the Texas coast as she looks out from an upper balcony of her elegant beachfront home — past the colorful, well-manicured flower beds, past the Greek-style statuary and beyond the stately black iron fencing that separates her carefully tended back lawn from the sandy dunes of Galveston Island. [Read more…]
A table made from repurposed wood highlights Anne Reiswerg’s Galveston kitchen and dining room. Photo by Stuart Villanueva
There’s no ignoring the sword-swallowing woman whose image dominates Anne Reiswerg’s color-drenched dining room and kitchen. Nor can you miss the vibrant butterfly garden that boldly announces its presence just outside the adjacent glass patio door. [Read more…]
Aline Wardle’s kitchen is a French-inspired room with traditional designs and colors of the Provincial style. Photo by Jennifer Reynolds
On both sides of the Atlantic, a spirit of freedom marks the month of July. [Read more…]
An aluminum chandelier original to the home hangs over a set of longhorns that sit atop a long walnut table in the dining room of David Bowers’ 1899 Queen Anne home in the Silk Stocking District in Galveston. Photo by Jennifer Reynolds
An 1899 Queen Anne home that helps pay its own energy bills might seem an impossible dream, but for owner David Bowers, it’s a dream come true. [Read more…]
Despite downsizing,Ted and Brandi Harkins, with their son Sailor, have incorporated a sense of luxury in the kitchen of their Galveston home. Photo by Stuart Villanueva
Some may call it downsizing, but Galveston residents Brandi and Ted Harkins call their move from a large mainland house to a small island bungalow “right-sizing.” [Read more…]
The free-standing island in Kathye and Tom Epley’s kitchen is topped with a slab of veined granite that took six workers to get into the house. Photo by Jennifer Reynolds
Looking for what they hoped would be a quieter way of life, Tom and Kathye Epley moved from the Galveston area to Huntsville. [Read more…]
After owning three larger houses in Galveston, Dolph and Teri Tillotson felt the need to downsize and had a house built in the Evia neighborhood to accommodate their extensive art collection and their much-adored beagle mix, Buddy. Photo by Stuart Villanueva
A copper milk can at the entrance to the home Teri Schaper Tillotson helped design evokes the dairy farm her forebears operated on Galveston Island. But Tillotson has reached even further back in history to create the look and design of her home in Evia, a West End island neighborhood. [Read more…]