The Charming Cottages of Palo Alto Home Tour, is celebrating the 20th anniversary. Four cottages will be open this Friday and Saturday, April 1st and 2nd. The Lookiloos have gotten a hold of an extra pair of tickets! A $70 value. I know it’s late notice but we’re giving them away in an impromptu giveaway. Each home was carefully selected for its respect of tradition and contemporary appeal. Sponsored by the Palo Alto Area Mills College Club to raise funds for womenʼs higher education through student scholarships.
You can purchase tickets either day at the ticket house 3245 Bryant Street, Palo Alto or online here.
Leave a comment here and the winner will be announced on Thursday evening.
A piece of milky white ethnic art inspired designer Thierry Buisson to
The inspiring artwork was a painted piece of carved mahogany that a
Perhaps from his Parisian roots, Thierry loves to bring the outside in
For whimsy, he had a custom topiary created to look like his Norwich
This beautiful home has been remodeled four times, but it looks like it’s always been just the way it is, situated so perfectly on a Saratoga hilltop. From the living room, you look out upon tree tops. From the dining room behind it, floor-to-ceiling windows look on the lovely — and level — back lawn. And the kitchen area opens to a charming courtyard.
What started as a simple ranch house built in 1954 has been transformed over the past 20 years by the Kenny family into a French Chateuu in the country manor style. And Linda Floyd of 
The dining room was spectacular for the tour, as Sharon Watts of Peony created an astonishing table display.
David Stonesifer of David Stonesifer Interior Design and Decoration appointed the family room, including a couple of oil paintings he created himself.
Upstairs, the daughter’s bedroom was decorated by Wahlberg Designs, The Duke & The Duchess of Morgan Hill. 
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The third house is a French Chateau built atop a Saratoga foothill. The entry hall features a pier mirror that the family brought around the Horn in the late 1800s. A “tree house” office was added during the most recent renovation and the dining room decor evokes the feeling of a french garden. The renovated kitchen is state-of-the-art.
Walk in the front door of this charming 1940 brick cottage and the front rooms are as traditional as you’d imagine: graceful dining room on the left, formal living on the right. But step through the front hallway and the back of the house opens to a modern, light-filled space.
couple wanted sleek, modern lines, but also were adamant about connecting with the rest of the traditional house. Hinderberger used wood detailing in rich stains, but gave modern details, including aluminum accents, on the stair railings and support columns.
When Nora Sandoval first stepped into this house in 1997, lockers lined the entry way, desks were scattered through the living room and baby cribs lined the library. Surely this wasn’t a house for sale, she thought. In fact, though, it was a home for some 16 teenaged unwed mothers run by the Volunteers of America. 
For years after they moved in, people would leave bags of baby clothes and diapers on their front porch. When the mailman left soap samples, he would stuff 20 through the mail slot. 
Liz Page was pregnant with their first child in 2002 when she and her husband Mark first laid eyes on this charming New England-style home. Liz grew up in Massachusetts and the traditional home with the formal entry hall and central staircase just felt right. 
great bones, it was in its original 1940 condition and needed updating. Construction began two days after her son, Douglas, was born.
Both their children, Douglas and Anna, attend St. Martin of Tours elementary school. Liz sought out 
When Brent Riedberger and Chris Johansen offered their backyard for their neighbor’s wedding in late summer, they shifted into high gear to get it ready. And as they have with much of their Dutch Colonial house, they did most of the work themselves – and with vintage materials. 
could take it off their hands. “We’ve salvaged 9,000 bricks since March.” And one by one, he recovered what had been a broad black asphalt motor court with old bricks, which made for a perfect area for dinner tables for the wedding guests. They also asked the owner of a house around the corner for the discarded pillars that had been removed from a port cochere. With them, they built a lovely pavilion at the back of the property.
“She’s a great old girl with good bones,” Brent said. 
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