As I walked up the stairs to the hallway, my eyes were drawn to a rainbow ribbon that seemed to lead me on a journey through the house. The artist who created this work, Rachel Jackson, was a huge inspiration for me as a mural artist. I wanted to create something similar, but with a twist - instead of using traditional paint, I decided to use colors and paint to create a playful, anthropomorphized ribbon that would invite people into the space.

The ribbon continued throughout the second and third floor of my home, weaving its way through the hallway and into the bedrooms. It was almost as if it had a life of its own, with different colors and patterns dancing across the walls. I wanted to create a sense of whimsy and playfulness in this room, so I used bright colors and fun shapes to bring it all together.

As we made our way to the first bedroom, I couldn't help but feel inspired by '90s cartoons and postmodern nostalgia. The room was designed with a playful, eclectic vibe in mind, featuring bold colors and quirky designs. One of the first things that caught my eye was this shelf, painted in an electric slime green that seemed to glow in the light. It was a statement piece, for sure, but it wasn't the only fun element in this room.

To add some height and visual interest, I brought the design up onto the ceiling, using black squiggle lines to create a sense of movement and energy. The pencil shape of the line seemed to come alive as we walked into the room, and I loved how it added a touch of whimsy to the space. In the corners, I used shape illusion to create the illusion that certain elements were "popping out" of the wall - a fun nod to Nickelodeon's classic show Rugrats.

One of my favorite design elements in this room was the pyramid, which seemed to be made up of tiny squares and triangles. It was a clever use of geometry, and it added a sense of depth and visual interest to the space. And, of course, no '90s-inspired bedroom would be complete without a nod to Monsters Inc. - I designed a door that looked like Boo's door from the movie, complete with a similar design on the handle.

As we made our way into the bathroom, I was inspired by the pink tones and Jazz cup mural from Rugrats. The room had been gutted and re-done in a marble-style parquet plank flooring, which added a touch of elegance to the space. But it wasn't just the floor that caught my eye - the half wall behind the sink was painted with red shapes, but I quickly realized they were too bright and saturated for what I wanted. To fix this, I mixed some water into the paint and applied it over the shapes, creating a soft, aged look.

The result was something truly special - the shapes seemed to be part of the wall itself, rather than just painted on top of it. It reminded me of a strawberry cow, which felt like a fun and playful touch in an otherwise sophisticated space. And finally, we arrived at the last bedroom, designed as a complete contrast to the rest of the house.

In this room, I wanted to create a sense of weightlessness and airiness - something that would make you feel like you're sleeping on a cloud. So I used a combination of pastel colors and soft shapes to create a space that felt dreamy and ethereal. And as we walked in, I was struck by the feeling that someone who was sleeping here had simply been dropped into this cotton candy-colored world.

The rest of the room was designed to feel like a nostalgic nod to childhood - with vintage toys and fun patterns scattered throughout. But it wasn't just about nostalgia for its own sake - it was also about paying homage to the neighborhood and community that this house belonged to. I wanted to create a sense of pride and ownership in this space, knowing that it would be passed down through generations.

As we made our way back out into the hallway, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and possibility. Designing a home is always an iterative process - you try something, it doesn't work out, and then you try again with what you've learned. It's not about being perfect, but about creating a space that feels like it was made for you.

And as I looked around at the different rooms and spaces that I'd designed, I realized just how much my style had evolved over time. What started out as a simple desire to create a rainbow ribbon now felt like an extension of who I am as a designer. It's not something to be ashamed of - it's something to be celebrated.

Overall, designing my home has been an incredible journey - one that's taught me so much about myself and what I want from life. And as I look around at the different rooms and spaces that make up this house, I know that I've created something truly special - a place that feels like it was made for me, and that will be my home for years to come.

As we finished up the final touches on our design, I felt a sense of pride and accomplishment. I had taken a blank canvas and turned it into a space that reflected my personality and style. It wasn't always easy - there were moments when I doubted myself and wondered if I was good enough. But in the end, it was all worth it.

And as we stood back to admire our handiwork, I knew that this house would be more than just a place to live - it would be a reflection of who I am, and what I value most in life.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi I'm Emma and this is my handmade home in Philadelphia this house is such an extension of my personality I think of life as this incredible opportunity to like Delight in the sensory perception of what the world gives us my artistic design style is colorful saturated playful and pulls on The Nostalgia of growing up in the 9s color to me expands a space and it gives an opportunity for the people who are entering that space to have an emotional reaction to it I found this house in October of 2021 so still during covid the buyer Market was incredibly competitive we had just recently moved to Phil Adelphia I was coming here for grad school my wife is from the the Philadelphia area so it was an exciting moment for us to come home we were looking at many different neighborhoods throughout the city and then we arrived at Manan which is this little kind of northwest corner of Philadelphia which gives small town energy while still being in a big city and we found this beautiful Corner row home with Incredible detail 120-year-old Stone home it had been covered with stucco but it is made of solid rock got beautiful light it had a very quirky style from the previous owners and it was something that I loved about it that the house held personal expression so well and so I was ready to really put my personal expression onto it I knew when moving in that I did not want to kind of paint each room a different color I wanted something that felt more like an immersive art experience and so I just went for it I'd never painted before I wanted to do something that made me happy that felt really playful and that also I could paint over it if I hated it welcome to my when you enter you will find yourself immediately in the living room and it's really hard not to notice the main focal point of this room which is the Rainbow Road that wraps around the living room it was the first mural that I did and the lines were so straight and the curve was so good and I just like stood there in awe and was like oh my God I can do this cuz before then it was a gamble I'd never painted before I didn't know if I was going to be able to do it but seeing it come through fruition it reprogrammed that place in my brain that was the inner sabator of no you can't you've never done this before what are you talking about you think you can paint a whole house house and seeing it come to life I was like oh my God I can paint a whole damn house opposite the rainbow road wanted to frame this beautiful mantle and so I created this almost wavy Arch to frame it and to draw attention to this side of the room let's head on into our dining room which may be my favorite room in the house there are so many special pieces in this room this cabinet in particular we thought we were going to use it as a little TV cabinet it ended up not really working but we didn't want to get rid of it so instead I decided to paint it give it a new life of its own and now it's one of my favorite pieces the mushroom mirror is a similar type of thing in the dining room where my sister gifted me a little mushroom mirror put it on the wall and I was like you need some something I'm just going to paint another bigger Mushroom around you love it I wanted a big funky mirror with color and shape I went to Lowe's got a huge mirror for really cheap and then used the cardboard box actually to create a frame around it kind of paper machine and plastered over the top painted it and now I have a completely customized mirror this stripe do was born about a day before Thanksgiving I had my family my wife's family coming into town and staying with us and my wife looked at me and said you know that wall is looking pretty blank and that absolutely set me off where I knew I had to do something so I thought okay I'm going to paint the style of wallpaper that I would like to see in this room arriving at that moment of completion of oh my God I just did this I I love it and really becoming addicted to it this is my most recent mural a very simple shape but that adds some Dynamic Color to the wall and kind of helps to move the energy around the dining room table and it leads us right into this heat map thermostat I love this mural I think it's so silly and cheeky I had the idea when I was actually looking at at an Excel spreadsheet and there was a data heat map on the Excel spreadsheet and I thought oh my God this is a thermostat it generates heat I'm going to do a little data heat map around it and so those like silly little inside jokes with myself make me just absolutely delighted when we first moved in the kitchen was only Built out on this side but we knew that we needed more counter space I love to cook so we did quite a bit of work in here when I first moved in there were so many kitchy creative touches that were already in place that I really wanted to preserve for example there's this incredible tile in the kitchen and it was something that absolutely delighted me while I kept the tile I painted the cabinets green and I put so many plants in the kitchen and to improve the storage in this kitchen instead of doing a kitchen table on this side we put in this Butcher Block this floating countertop and then we created these beautiful shelves I wanted it to feel a little bit more French Countryside a little bit more rustic and so we went with these iron brackets let's head on upstairs I wanted to create some interest and some fun while people were walking up the stairs they look up and they have that aha like oh that's beautiful what is that doing up there and so I wanted to do something warm to make it feel like it belonged to the living room which is it is kind of coming up out of and when people see it they often tell me it reminds them of bacon which I think is really funny and I love that people have different interpretations or reactions to it dependent on who's looking at it Welcome to our closet SL office a little quirked about our very old house is that there are pretty much no closets I wanted to create something that felt almost European a little bit sultry that felt a little bit Moody for an office I also wanted to create an interest Nook and so a lot of abstraction here a lot of organic movement let's head down the hall and check out our bedroom I wanted this room to feel incredibly restful to be somewhere where you know we could go to sleep and feel kind of tucked in but we did have this Nook that the bed had to sit in and so I wanted a deep blue a very calming blue for that Nook and then I decided to bring it up onto the ceiling and create that d diagonal moment it creates this movement towards kind of diving into bed it also feels almost like a for and it's been so calming and relaxing I also love the rainbow ribbon mural that I painted throughout the second and the third floor I thought it would be incredibly playful to have people as they walked up the stairs into the hallway have something that almost LED them through the hallway into the guest bedroom or even up to the third floor as the rainbow ribbon continues I was incredibly inspired by an artist a mural artist named Rachel Jackson who does uh mural work very similar but I wanted to use colors and and paint for my ribbon mural that I'd already used in my house so that it felt like this like playful silly almost like anthropomorphized ribbon that was saying hello all of the colors dancing throughout the second and third floor inviting people in we are on the third floor of my house there are two bedrooms and one bathroom up here and I'm going to take you into the first bedroom that I ever designed I became incredibly inspired by '90s cartoons postmodern wacky Nostalgia and so the first thing that I painted was this Shelf I used this electric slime green I also knew that because the ceilings were really low I wanted to bring something up onto the ceilings and that's where this squiggle pencil came to life when I first started out I didn't know it was going to be a pencil I was just painting black squiggle lines on the ceiling as I was going I thought it would be really cool for it to be begin in a pencil shape and it for it to end with an eraser with primary colors I did these ravioli windows in this bright yellow which just created some Dimension to these again Lower set Windows because everything's a little bit lower in here I found uh myself being drawn to kind of create some height and then in the corners I was super excited to do some shape illusion so that to me was so nice Nickelodeon Nostalgia but if you get the angle right it does look like it's actually popping out of the wall and I did something very similar to that with this pyamid and then of course I had to give kind of a ND to Rugrats which is one of my favorite cartoons growing up with Chucky's hair and I really couldn't paint a '90s room without doing the iconic Jazz cup mural I actually painted another door based on one of my absolute favorite childhood movies Monsters Inc so this bathroom door is modeled off of booze door and because there are such pink tones to it this really helped to serve as inspiration for the design for the rest of the bathroom so come on in we ripped up the old lolium floors we put down parquet plank flooring with this marble style to give a look of tile without the expense of tile that's been a fun part of the home owning and design process is that learning new skills is almost built into the experience so I did this half wall in this pink and then painted a cream color on top but I knew I wanted to add more interest to the half wall and so I actually spray painted on these red shapes and at first they were really saturated a little too bright for what I wanted and so I mixed mied up some of this pink with some water and then did almost a wash over the shapes so it creates a certain aged look to it the shapes now actually feel like they're way more integrated and I really do like it it reminds me of a strawberry cow which feels really fun so now this bedroom I created after I did the '90s room and I wanted something completely different so here instead of doing individual mural I wanted the whole room to be covered in color I wanted it to feel like somebody who was sleeping here was just dropped into a cotton candy Cloud when we bought the house the porch was beautiful but it was also crumbling the banisters and the balls were in disrepair it was really important to the both of us to restore the original kind of Victorian Glory this home doesn't just belong to us it does belong to this neighborhood it's been here a lot longer than us it'll be here for a lot longer than us and so wanting to do right by the house and also by The Neighborhood that it belongs to so this banister size is not available in a Lowe's or a Home Depot we did have to find somebody in Jersey who had long enough banisters and so we painted everything we put it all together we had a dear dear friend build us this beautiful custom bench sitting out here in the summer evenings in Philadelphia is just perfection the current version of the house compared to the vision that I had in the beginning is so much better because it is infused with my process and that makes it so much more special so I feel my style evolving I feel myself editing and that's also really exciting to me it does not register as something to be ashamed of or frustrated with it registers as something that feels exciting a new opportunity for creativity thanks so much for touring my place see you soon like this video And subscribe to HGTV handmade for more home tour videos like this you did great cool super funhi I'm Emma and this is my handmade home in Philadelphia this house is such an extension of my personality I think of life as this incredible opportunity to like Delight in the sensory perception of what the world gives us my artistic design style is colorful saturated playful and pulls on The Nostalgia of growing up in the 9s color to me expands a space and it gives an opportunity for the people who are entering that space to have an emotional reaction to it I found this house in October of 2021 so still during covid the buyer Market was incredibly competitive we had just recently moved to Phil Adelphia I was coming here for grad school my wife is from the the Philadelphia area so it was an exciting moment for us to come home we were looking at many different neighborhoods throughout the city and then we arrived at Manan which is this little kind of northwest corner of Philadelphia which gives small town energy while still being in a big city and we found this beautiful Corner row home with Incredible detail 120-year-old Stone home it had been covered with stucco but it is made of solid rock got beautiful light it had a very quirky style from the previous owners and it was something that I loved about it that the house held personal expression so well and so I was ready to really put my personal expression onto it I knew when moving in that I did not want to kind of paint each room a different color I wanted something that felt more like an immersive art experience and so I just went for it I'd never painted before I wanted to do something that made me happy that felt really playful and that also I could paint over it if I hated it welcome to my when you enter you will find yourself immediately in the living room and it's really hard not to notice the main focal point of this room which is the Rainbow Road that wraps around the living room it was the first mural that I did and the lines were so straight and the curve was so good and I just like stood there in awe and was like oh my God I can do this cuz before then it was a gamble I'd never painted before I didn't know if I was going to be able to do it but seeing it come through fruition it reprogrammed that place in my brain that was the inner sabator of no you can't you've never done this before what are you talking about you think you can paint a whole house house and seeing it come to life I was like oh my God I can paint a whole damn house opposite the rainbow road wanted to frame this beautiful mantle and so I created this almost wavy Arch to frame it and to draw attention to this side of the room let's head on into our dining room which may be my favorite room in the house there are so many special pieces in this room this cabinet in particular we thought we were going to use it as a little TV cabinet it ended up not really working but we didn't want to get rid of it so instead I decided to paint it give it a new life of its own and now it's one of my favorite pieces the mushroom mirror is a similar type of thing in the dining room where my sister gifted me a little mushroom mirror put it on the wall and I was like you need some something I'm just going to paint another bigger Mushroom around you love it I wanted a big funky mirror with color and shape I went to Lowe's got a huge mirror for really cheap and then used the cardboard box actually to create a frame around it kind of paper machine and plastered over the top painted it and now I have a completely customized mirror this stripe do was born about a day before Thanksgiving I had my family my wife's family coming into town and staying with us and my wife looked at me and said you know that wall is looking pretty blank and that absolutely set me off where I knew I had to do something so I thought okay I'm going to paint the style of wallpaper that I would like to see in this room arriving at that moment of completion of oh my God I just did this I I love it and really becoming addicted to it this is my most recent mural a very simple shape but that adds some Dynamic Color to the wall and kind of helps to move the energy around the dining room table and it leads us right into this heat map thermostat I love this mural I think it's so silly and cheeky I had the idea when I was actually looking at at an Excel spreadsheet and there was a data heat map on the Excel spreadsheet and I thought oh my God this is a thermostat it generates heat I'm going to do a little data heat map around it and so those like silly little inside jokes with myself make me just absolutely delighted when we first moved in the kitchen was only Built out on this side but we knew that we needed more counter space I love to cook so we did quite a bit of work in here when I first moved in there were so many kitchy creative touches that were already in place that I really wanted to preserve for example there's this incredible tile in the kitchen and it was something that absolutely delighted me while I kept the tile I painted the cabinets green and I put so many plants in the kitchen and to improve the storage in this kitchen instead of doing a kitchen table on this side we put in this Butcher Block this floating countertop and then we created these beautiful shelves I wanted it to feel a little bit more French Countryside a little bit more rustic and so we went with these iron brackets let's head on upstairs I wanted to create some interest and some fun while people were walking up the stairs they look up and they have that aha like oh that's beautiful what is that doing up there and so I wanted to do something warm to make it feel like it belonged to the living room which is it is kind of coming up out of and when people see it they often tell me it reminds them of bacon which I think is really funny and I love that people have different interpretations or reactions to it dependent on who's looking at it Welcome to our closet SL office a little quirked about our very old house is that there are pretty much no closets I wanted to create something that felt almost European a little bit sultry that felt a little bit Moody for an office I also wanted to create an interest Nook and so a lot of abstraction here a lot of organic movement let's head down the hall and check out our bedroom I wanted this room to feel incredibly restful to be somewhere where you know we could go to sleep and feel kind of tucked in but we did have this Nook that the bed had to sit in and so I wanted a deep blue a very calming blue for that Nook and then I decided to bring it up onto the ceiling and create that d diagonal moment it creates this movement towards kind of diving into bed it also feels almost like a for and it's been so calming and relaxing I also love the rainbow ribbon mural that I painted throughout the second and the third floor I thought it would be incredibly playful to have people as they walked up the stairs into the hallway have something that almost LED them through the hallway into the guest bedroom or even up to the third floor as the rainbow ribbon continues I was incredibly inspired by an artist a mural artist named Rachel Jackson who does uh mural work very similar but I wanted to use colors and and paint for my ribbon mural that I'd already used in my house so that it felt like this like playful silly almost like anthropomorphized ribbon that was saying hello all of the colors dancing throughout the second and third floor inviting people in we are on the third floor of my house there are two bedrooms and one bathroom up here and I'm going to take you into the first bedroom that I ever designed I became incredibly inspired by '90s cartoons postmodern wacky Nostalgia and so the first thing that I painted was this Shelf I used this electric slime green I also knew that because the ceilings were really low I wanted to bring something up onto the ceilings and that's where this squiggle pencil came to life when I first started out I didn't know it was going to be a pencil I was just painting black squiggle lines on the ceiling as I was going I thought it would be really cool for it to be begin in a pencil shape and it for it to end with an eraser with primary colors I did these ravioli windows in this bright yellow which just created some Dimension to these again Lower set Windows because everything's a little bit lower in here I found uh myself being drawn to kind of create some height and then in the corners I was super excited to do some shape illusion so that to me was so nice Nickelodeon Nostalgia but if you get the angle right it does look like it's actually popping out of the wall and I did something very similar to that with this pyamid and then of course I had to give kind of a ND to Rugrats which is one of my favorite cartoons growing up with Chucky's hair and I really couldn't paint a '90s room without doing the iconic Jazz cup mural I actually painted another door based on one of my absolute favorite childhood movies Monsters Inc so this bathroom door is modeled off of booze door and because there are such pink tones to it this really helped to serve as inspiration for the design for the rest of the bathroom so come on in we ripped up the old lolium floors we put down parquet plank flooring with this marble style to give a look of tile without the expense of tile that's been a fun part of the home owning and design process is that learning new skills is almost built into the experience so I did this half wall in this pink and then painted a cream color on top but I knew I wanted to add more interest to the half wall and so I actually spray painted on these red shapes and at first they were really saturated a little too bright for what I wanted and so I mixed mied up some of this pink with some water and then did almost a wash over the shapes so it creates a certain aged look to it the shapes now actually feel like they're way more integrated and I really do like it it reminds me of a strawberry cow which feels really fun so now this bedroom I created after I did the '90s room and I wanted something completely different so here instead of doing individual mural I wanted the whole room to be covered in color I wanted it to feel like somebody who was sleeping here was just dropped into a cotton candy Cloud when we bought the house the porch was beautiful but it was also crumbling the banisters and the balls were in disrepair it was really important to the both of us to restore the original kind of Victorian Glory this home doesn't just belong to us it does belong to this neighborhood it's been here a lot longer than us it'll be here for a lot longer than us and so wanting to do right by the house and also by The Neighborhood that it belongs to so this banister size is not available in a Lowe's or a Home Depot we did have to find somebody in Jersey who had long enough banisters and so we painted everything we put it all together we had a dear dear friend build us this beautiful custom bench sitting out here in the summer evenings in Philadelphia is just perfection the current version of the house compared to the vision that I had in the beginning is so much better because it is infused with my process and that makes it so much more special so I feel my style evolving I feel myself editing and that's also really exciting to me it does not register as something to be ashamed of or frustrated with it registers as something that feels exciting a new opportunity for creativity thanks so much for touring my place see you soon like this video And subscribe to HGTV handmade for more home tour videos like this you did great cool super funhi I'm Emma and this is my handmade home in Philadelphia this house is such an extension of my personality I think of life as this incredible opportunity to like Delight in the sensory perception of what the world gives us my artistic design style is colorful saturated playful and pulls on The Nostalgia of growing up in the 9s color to me expands a space and it gives an opportunity for the people who are entering that space to have an emotional reaction to it I found this house in October of 2021 so still during covid the buyer Market was incredibly competitive we had just recently moved to Phil Adelphia I was coming here for grad school my wife is from the the Philadelphia area so it was an exciting moment for us to come home we were looking at many different neighborhoods throughout the city and then we arrived at Manan which is this little kind of northwest corner of Philadelphia which gives small town energy while still being in a big city and we found this beautiful Corner row home with Incredible detail 120-year-old Stone home it had been covered with stucco but it is made of solid rock got beautiful light it had a very quirky style from the previous owners and it was something that I loved about it that the house held personal expression so well and so I was ready to really put my personal expression onto it I knew when moving in that I did not want to kind of paint each room a different color I wanted something that felt more like an immersive art experience and so I just went for it I'd never painted before I wanted to do something that made me happy that felt really playful and that also I could paint over it if I hated it welcome to my when you enter you will find yourself immediately in the living room and it's really hard not to notice the main focal point of this room which is the Rainbow Road that wraps around the living room it was the first mural that I did and the lines were so straight and the curve was so good and I just like stood there in awe and was like oh my God I can do this cuz before then it was a gamble I'd never painted before I didn't know if I was going to be able to do it but seeing it come through fruition it reprogrammed that place in my brain that was the inner sabator of no you can't you've never done this before what are you talking about you think you can paint a whole house house and seeing it come to life I was like oh my God I can paint a whole damn house opposite the rainbow road wanted to frame this beautiful mantle and so I created this almost wavy Arch to frame it and to draw attention to this side of the room let's head on into our dining room which may be my favorite room in the house there are so many special pieces in this room this cabinet in particular we thought we were going to use it as a little TV cabinet it ended up not really working but we didn't want to get rid of it so instead I decided to paint it give it a new life of its own and now it's one of my favorite pieces the mushroom mirror is a similar type of thing in the dining room where my sister gifted me a little mushroom mirror put it on the wall and I was like you need some something I'm just going to paint another bigger Mushroom around you love it I wanted a big funky mirror with color and shape I went to Lowe's got a huge mirror for really cheap and then used the cardboard box actually to create a frame around it kind of paper machine and plastered over the top painted it and now I have a completely customized mirror this stripe do was born about a day before Thanksgiving I had my family my wife's family coming into town and staying with us and my wife looked at me and said you know that wall is looking pretty blank and that absolutely set me off where I knew I had to do something so I thought okay I'm going to paint the style of wallpaper that I would like to see in this room arriving at that moment of completion of oh my God I just did this I I love it and really becoming addicted to it this is my most recent mural a very simple shape but that adds some Dynamic Color to the wall and kind of helps to move the energy around the dining room table and it leads us right into this heat map thermostat I love this mural I think it's so silly and cheeky I had the idea when I was actually looking at at an Excel spreadsheet and there was a data heat map on the Excel spreadsheet and I thought oh my God this is a thermostat it generates heat I'm going to do a little data heat map around it and so those like silly little inside jokes with myself make me just absolutely delighted when we first moved in the kitchen was only Built out on this side but we knew that we needed more counter space I love to cook so we did quite a bit of work in here when I first moved in there were so many kitchy creative touches that were already in place that I really wanted to preserve for example there's this incredible tile in the kitchen and it was something that absolutely delighted me while I kept the tile I painted the cabinets green and I put so many plants in the kitchen and to improve the storage in this kitchen instead of doing a kitchen table on this side we put in this Butcher Block this floating countertop and then we created these beautiful shelves I wanted it to feel a little bit more French Countryside a little bit more rustic and so we went with these iron brackets let's head on upstairs I wanted to create some interest and some fun while people were walking up the stairs they look up and they have that aha like oh that's beautiful what is that doing up there and so I wanted to do something warm to make it feel like it belonged to the living room which is it is kind of coming up out of and when people see it they often tell me it reminds them of bacon which I think is really funny and I love that people have different interpretations or reactions to it dependent on who's looking at it Welcome to our closet SL office a little quirked about our very old house is that there are pretty much no closets I wanted to create something that felt almost European a little bit sultry that felt a little bit Moody for an office I also wanted to create an interest Nook and so a lot of abstraction here a lot of organic movement let's head down the hall and check out our bedroom I wanted this room to feel incredibly restful to be somewhere where you know we could go to sleep and feel kind of tucked in but we did have this Nook that the bed had to sit in and so I wanted a deep blue a very calming blue for that Nook and then I decided to bring it up onto the ceiling and create that d diagonal moment it creates this movement towards kind of diving into bed it also feels almost like a for and it's been so calming and relaxing I also love the rainbow ribbon mural that I painted throughout the second and the third floor I thought it would be incredibly playful to have people as they walked up the stairs into the hallway have something that almost LED them through the hallway into the guest bedroom or even up to the third floor as the rainbow ribbon continues I was incredibly inspired by an artist a mural artist named Rachel Jackson who does uh mural work very similar but I wanted to use colors and and paint for my ribbon mural that I'd already used in my house so that it felt like this like playful silly almost like anthropomorphized ribbon that was saying hello all of the colors dancing throughout the second and third floor inviting people in we are on the third floor of my house there are two bedrooms and one bathroom up here and I'm going to take you into the first bedroom that I ever designed I became incredibly inspired by '90s cartoons postmodern wacky Nostalgia and so the first thing that I painted was this Shelf I used this electric slime green I also knew that because the ceilings were really low I wanted to bring something up onto the ceilings and that's where this squiggle pencil came to life when I first started out I didn't know it was going to be a pencil I was just painting black squiggle lines on the ceiling as I was going I thought it would be really cool for it to be begin in a pencil shape and it for it to end with an eraser with primary colors I did these ravioli windows in this bright yellow which just created some Dimension to these again Lower set Windows because everything's a little bit lower in here I found uh myself being drawn to kind of create some height and then in the corners I was super excited to do some shape illusion so that to me was so nice Nickelodeon Nostalgia but if you get the angle right it does look like it's actually popping out of the wall and I did something very similar to that with this pyamid and then of course I had to give kind of a ND to Rugrats which is one of my favorite cartoons growing up with Chucky's hair and I really couldn't paint a '90s room without doing the iconic Jazz cup mural I actually painted another door based on one of my absolute favorite childhood movies Monsters Inc so this bathroom door is modeled off of booze door and because there are such pink tones to it this really helped to serve as inspiration for the design for the rest of the bathroom so come on in we ripped up the old lolium floors we put down parquet plank flooring with this marble style to give a look of tile without the expense of tile that's been a fun part of the home owning and design process is that learning new skills is almost built into the experience so I did this half wall in this pink and then painted a cream color on top but I knew I wanted to add more interest to the half wall and so I actually spray painted on these red shapes and at first they were really saturated a little too bright for what I wanted and so I mixed mied up some of this pink with some water and then did almost a wash over the shapes so it creates a certain aged look to it the shapes now actually feel like they're way more integrated and I really do like it it reminds me of a strawberry cow which feels really fun so now this bedroom I created after I did the '90s room and I wanted something completely different so here instead of doing individual mural I wanted the whole room to be covered in color I wanted it to feel like somebody who was sleeping here was just dropped into a cotton candy Cloud when we bought the house the porch was beautiful but it was also crumbling the banisters and the balls were in disrepair it was really important to the both of us to restore the original kind of Victorian Glory this home doesn't just belong to us it does belong to this neighborhood it's been here a lot longer than us it'll be here for a lot longer than us and so wanting to do right by the house and also by The Neighborhood that it belongs to so this banister size is not available in a Lowe's or a Home Depot we did have to find somebody in Jersey who had long enough banisters and so we painted everything we put it all together we had a dear dear friend build us this beautiful custom bench sitting out here in the summer evenings in Philadelphia is just perfection the current version of the house compared to the vision that I had in the beginning is so much better because it is infused with my process and that makes it so much more special so I feel my style evolving I feel myself editing and that's also really exciting to me it does not register as something to be ashamed of or frustrated with it registers as something that feels exciting a new opportunity for creativity thanks so much for touring my place see you soon like this video And subscribe to HGTV handmade for more home tour videos like this you did great cool super fun\n"