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Hi, Homeworthy, I'm Mary. Welcome to my home in Houston, Texas. Come in, let me show you around. This holiday season, get ready to unwrap the most magnificent holiday homes with Homeworthy's 25 Days of Christmas. For the month of December, we'll take you inside the most heartwarming houses decked out for the holidays in true festive fashion. From twinkling lights and elegantly trimmed trees to sparkling ornaments and cozy holiday charm. These homes capture the warmth, wonder and beauty that make this season so special. So join us as Homeworthy celebrates 25 Days of Christmas. The magic starts now. Raise your glass. Cheers. Merry Christmas. Happy holidays. You're watching Homeworthy where we believe every home has a story. Hi, my name is Mary Patton and I'm an interior designer. We're in Houston, Texas at my home located in Old Braeswood. It's a mid-century modern house that was designed by Paul Laszlo in 1956. It's a really cool small piece of history on a large lot. So I have loved design since I was three years old and thought probably from that age that I was going to grow up to be a fashion designer and I was really, really working towards that goal. So I studied art in college and then after college I went to fashion school in New York worked in fashion I had a handbag line for a while. So after I had my daughter I did a shift and started doing small interior projects for friends. I started out making pillows. Ten years later it's evolved into what it is now. So I took the art and fashion background as a foundation and then I've learned and grown from that. So I found a way to kind of really have a creative career that I really, really love and enjoy. So I'm doing what I knew I would do as a little kid. It's just kind of in a slightly different flavor now. Welcome to my entryway. This is the first space that you see when you enter through the front door. This was originally the entrance to the kitchen and when I renovated the house I made the design choice to close this wall off and do a fun punchy wallpaper accent wall. This is our first of four trees and the theme for this tree this year is animals. And then I put together all of my animal ornaments. So it's like a little wild zoo. Pulled from the ornaments kind of the consistent color through a lot of them is black. So I thought that it would be cool to do black ribbons to kind of pull that out and make it pop. And then added in some green and pink and a black and white stripe to kind of tie it all together. Okay, then if you follow me this way this is kind of our landing spot in the entryway normally. And I have this Buddha that I've had forever and he changes with the season with different accessories. So he's now in a little holiday winter wonderland. And then I tied in the same color ribbon theme that I did from the tree. My personal style is it's kind of a range. I would say that it's very feminine and also mixing in things that are unique. I love vintage one-of-a-kind pieces. I love fabric. I love color. I do think that it's very important to anchor a space with at least one antique or vintage piece. Now let me show you the living room. Follow me. Welcome to the living room. First I want to just explain how I created the living room. So this area was a wall with a small swinging door to access the kitchen from this space. And so during the construction I decided to take that wall down. This was really the only major layout change I did with the house to kind of open up this area so it's sort of one big room. And then broke this living space up into two seating areas and a dining room. So this is kind of living space number one where our main family tree is this year. Something that's also really cool about this house is that the ceiling heights are different and that in this area the ceiling is really tall so I'm able to get a really tall tree in. I've decided to use our kind of traditional family ornaments on this tree this year and then pulled a royal blue color that was kind of consistent throughout the ornaments and made a lot of bows to go with that. I made an attempt this year to sort of declutter and go slightly more minimal. So I have a few of my most treasured accessories on the piano. I've got this little music box angels that I've had for forever that I got at a vintage store like 15 years ago. These two Santas that I've had I couldn't tell you even where I got them. They're so old. I got this nativity scene last year in Santa Fe and the artist is the grandson of a very famous sculptor that came up with sort of this look a long time ago and I love it. Then so on the tree I've got a large collection of Christopher Radcliffe Santas that I've been collecting for a long time. In 2019 I think they went on sale and so my mother bought me a lot of ornaments in 2019 which is also interesting because that was like the year before the COVID pandemic and everyone's life changed. So it's a nod to the before time. Last year I had a completely pink tree with a few trickle effect ornaments from that sprinkled in but I did decide to store a lot of those this year. OK. So the furniture in this area is a mix of old and new. The velvet sofas from Rochebois and these French club chairs they're mid-century modern but they're 1950s French club chairs. This sofa I did order when we were renovating the house to go exactly in this space. I decided to pull the tan color from the club chairs and the piping and kind of tie everything together. The coffee table is acrylic and glass. It's vintage and the rug is from India and it's newish. Also a thing with Christmas decor is that I move my furniture around to accommodate the tree. So my plants over there normally go on that wall. The poofs that I have under the piano are Cisco and I've had them a long time. They're really great when you have parties because people can kind of lounge and they're easy to move around. The second living space this sofa is also from Rochebois that I purchased for this project for this renovation. It's probably the nicest piece I own and my 110-pound Bernadoodle has made it for dog bed. So I can say that investing in a really nice sofa does hold up if your dog decides that that's where it's going to hang out all day every day. These chairs I've had forever and when we moved and I did this renovation I recovered them in this Schumacher velvet fabric to kind of tie in throughout the whole house kind of a pink and green color scheme. Pink and green are my favorite colors and for this project I really leaned into that. I pulled a huge inspiration for me was the blush terrazzo tile. So that kind of blush theme is running throughout the house. I do also think that blush is a really nice neutral and that you can mix it with anything and so I think red is not something you would typically think to add to a pink and green color scheme but at Christmas time it's a really fun way to bring in that traditional color and I think it works. The third space or the third area I've broken this large space up into is the dining room. So I had this Murano chandelier made when I went during the renovation process and really have used it as an anchor space for the dining room. So it kind of defines where we are and then I've mixed in some really feminine French stuff with a modern industrial table with,you know,this is kind of this entire space is kind of a weird eclectic mix of things but I love so much each individual piece and I really do believe that if selections really resonate with you that they will work together and just somehow through the magic of creativity that somehow this all makes sense Guess who I picked the red candlesticks just because red is sort of the most obvious choice for Christmas decor but again,not really used a lot in my house but like with the royal blue that you can see a lot in the ornaments Santa's have a lot of red so I thought that would be just like a fun little nod and I do love these candles you can get them on Amazon just Google red beeswax and they don't smell they don't smoke they don't drip they're great and I also feel very strongly about candle light when you're eating dinner So I got these chairs at a vintage store in Palm Beach They were in my last house my dining room and when we moved to this one I recovered it in this fun blush and tan stripe The fabric's from a vendor in England I think it's so cool The side chairs are from Design Within Reach So I really like to mix new with vintage I think you can figure out a way for it to all make sense The wood is the same tone which also ties it together but I just really responded to those chairs and thought that they would work and I think that they do So this buffet I got from a friend of mine who's a French antique dealer and I was shopping for another client for something and she had it and I just absolutely fell in love with it Not something I think that you would immediately think to put in a mid-century modern house but I also since I've lived here for three years now I'm just kind of not trying to force having everything be super modern and just filling the house with stuff that I really like We don't have a ton of storage in this house too and it's been a great all my daughter's art supplies are in here so it's double duty These lamps I got from a vendor in Round Top a few years ago and I love them so much They are stone and the light bulb You access the light bulb under When I first saw it I was like how do you change the light bulb on this But it's the inside of the lamp is hollow Which is how it's illuminated The piece of art over this buffet My husband and I found on a trip In San Miguel in Mexico At just a small art gallery And we carried it back to Texas I got these Christmas wands at Dallas Market If you have not been there There's a huge incredible Christmas warehouse Slightly overwhelming I went a few years ago And these made it back Into the rotation this year These are really cute This piece of art My husband got in Scotland On a business trip And I found this rattan bar cart At a flea market I don't know probably 10 years ago And it's moved to a lot of different places Right now it's a place to put plants on But it's easily movable During a dinner party Or when we need the space This piece of art on this wall Is by Hunt Slonim My friend Laura Rathy Is on several galleries in Houston And she represents them I got this from her a few years ago The bus on this wall Belonged to my husband's grandfather As did this piece of art from Japan He spent a lot of time there So this is just like a cool family piece From his side of the family I'm not sure who it is But he also liked the Buddha And the entryway has different accessories Different times of the year So I love the holidays And tend to go a little bit overboard We started out When my husband and I got married With one big tree And then over the years It's evolved into multiple rooms I have a tree in my entryway That's animal themed this year One in our living room One in our TV room And then I do a tree For my 11-year-old daughter each year I come up with a different theme And color scheme To kind of mix up What I already have invested in And then I add to it each year This year we went really crazy With lots of ribbon Which you'll see shortly I guess we have a lot of different collections That we mix and match And change where they go And it's just fun to kind of Be creative and be inventive each year OK, so the original access point From the living space to the kitchen Was right here So as I told you earlier This wall came down in the renovation And I used just the space As kind of a blank canvas Of how I wanted to lay this out I really, really like to cook And so a big goal or dream of mine Was to have four ovens Which I do and I'm very excited And grateful about So another huge source of inspiration For the kitchen for me Was this pink marble It's called Rosa Statuario And I bought all of it I had found it at the stone vendor I work with And thought I want to use this for a project And then once I found this house And started working on this Knew that this was going to be Incredible in the kitchen So it pulls the same colors Again from the terrazzo Which was my initial source of inspiration For the color palette for this project And decided to use all of it As much as I could The only reason why I didn't wrap The vent hood in it Is because we ran out So carried it up the walls I kept all of the existing windows in the house That was a little bit of a design challenge Of how to work around that And to have the space Feel balanced and symmetrical Even though it's really not This house is a lot of color And so to be able to layer so many colors I made the design choice of doing White walls and white cabinets Throughout most of the house So I have two Shisus and a Bernadoodle And so it's also kind of where do they go And again with limited space My problem solving was This space right here was the laundry room And I added Dutch doors And that's where my little dogs go When we're not home Or at night So that's their little room And then if we're having a party Or if I'm being recorded To talk about my house I can close it off And it looks super clean Then this is the bar space So the access point to the kitchen Originally was where that wall is Where I've got the bulletin board now And so this is like a fun Kind of closed off bar space For when we have parties But I also after we got the second larger dog Added another Dutch door here So if she needs to go somewhere That's where she goes And she can't get out I have this made for my husband Like five years ago as a present It's moved a couple houses with us But you know I think neon signs are a fun gift And also a way to kind of personalize things Like they can lean cheesy But you know I think it's just a fun Other light source And you can get creative One other thing I wanted to talk about Is that I hate can lighting I hate overhead lighting In a perfect world You only have lamps and chandeliers on dimmers So in this house I took out 99% of the can lights Which makes me really happy There's a few in the kitchen But at night time just having You know these lamps turned on The neon sign turned on It creates like a really cool mood OK and now welcome to our TV room When I purchased the house This was actually an indoor outdoor Patio sunroom And where the fireplace was Was actually a charcoal grill So during the renovation We removed that Transformed it to a fireplace And then really closed off the space To be a fully indoor room This was the kind of a Swinging door exit to our living room And since I closed The back door off in the kitchen This is now our functioning back door So this room has a really cool mix Of the high and low ceiling So you still get kind of the breeziness From the main space But then it also feels more intimate And cozier I This is probably where we spend 80% of our time The sectional I have Is It was from my last house It's Gus Modern And during the renovation And kind of my pink and green explosion I reupholstered it in a Schumacher high performance velvet Which is You know Done really well So that's definitely a hot tip Is if you have furniture that you like But You don't want to get new stuff Reupholstering is really fun These two slipper chairs I found in Palm Beach as well They have the original upholstery on them And I love them so much To accommodate The things that I need in the house With our fairly limited square footage I decided to put a desk in here So when I work from home This is sort of my office But I think this room has Really beautiful natural light And I really enjoy spending time in here The Christmas tree In this room Sort of Kind of came about by accident I couldn't remember And my daughter has a pink tree In her room every year But I got them switched But it's fine So We got a very very Juvenile Joyful Blush Blocked tree And I decided to put All of my ornaments That are Like Food themed Or food adjacent On this tree this year And Pulled Kind of a Color that was sort of Throughout all of them Was sort of a dark Warm Mauve So I did Warm brown Velvet bows And some mauve bows Kind of Tie in my bow theme From the rest of the house In here This rug Is a vintage Sari silk It is held up Pretty well With all of my animals I get it cleaned Probably every three months The Serenin table I've had for a long time It was A Dining table In my apartment A long time ago And it's lived Lots of different lives It's been a nightstand In one of my houses But I love it And I'll always have it This Lamp I've got a pair of these lamps That aren't Twins But they're cousins And they were made By a friend of mine Liz Marsh Who's an incredible Lighting designer Part of my plant Collection is in here It's been moved around To accommodate The Christmas tree as well This Cactus I've had for Probably Five years And kept it alive And A hot tip On keeping A cactus alive Is to never water it So I've stopped watering it And it is Thriving So I also really like Vintage flamingos Which I guess Is sort of on brand Having a pink Mid-century house So This Friend I've had for a while And then The lion Came from My husband's Grandfather As well And I think it's just Funny That One of my goals When We did the renovation Was to have a Functioning fireplace This one does work But I still haven't Gotten around to Figuring out how But Living in Houston, Texas It's really hot All the time So There's Maybe one day a year That we need it But It's on my to-do list This desk Is from Align USM Which I really like You'll see it In my bedroom too That I've used it as Nightstands in there Again we're Pairing like A hyper modern Hyper clean line With Some other stuff That kind of doesn't seem Like it would make sense But I think All in It does So again In my goal To not have any Overhead lighting But still needing Some light That is a Vintage mid-century Pendant light That I got at a Antique store In Florida And It's sort of Pretending to be a lamp So A challenge When designing With sectionals Is where to put End tables And And finding like The right plug Of where it can go Hanging A chandelier Or a pendant light Kind of in a Random spot Like that Can work As far as You know Creating Some soft Lamp lighting But if you Don't have a plug Or floor space To do it It's a good idea So In my quest For More storage I found This piece It's a vintage Rattan bamboo Mid-century It gives A little bit Of the Golden Girls Vibe But It's okay We like them And Has A very Edited collection Of tchotchkes I own That's been It's a challenge For me As Kind of a maximalist To constantly Be editing And taking things away And I You know Change stuff All the time So I've got a pretty Big storage unit Where I Trade stuff Or You know I also think With clients Layering Really unique Vintage pieces Is so important It's very hard To style a house With all new stuff And so I've got a large Collection of things That I can tell the clients Or you know That I've collected Over the years So This is our current Situation on this shelf But it does change A lot Can talk about The design challenge Of getting a fireplace Over a charcoal grill And When you're limited With Kind of What you can do With an older house So There's a lot of Problem solving I would also Describe this house Technology wise As a Dumb house Which I prefer I enjoy the Ritual every night Of turning on all the lamps So I mean It's very Very low tech Over here The plug on the ceiling Is not My first choice But I've gotten over it Because It's Yeah But I think I'm very Pro Preservation And restoration And so When you Buy an older house Like this There's just You know Some problems That you have to solve And Is it always The most streamlined And clean No But It's okay Okay So Before we take you Into her room I decided This year To create A Garland To the entrance Of her room And You know The saying That void drives value That When I was a child I have two Very left brain Wonderful parents But they're not Particularly creative And As a kid I Worked on my room And thought about it so much And so This is kind of Really more for me Than her I You know I think she's so Used to me Overdoing stuff That it's just Kind of second nature And like I don't know If she even cares But So This is kind of Created for my Eight-year-old self And I also Really love Just the The part of Like Putting it up Like Using your hands And being creative And thinking about colors And All of these pieces Were left over From last year So I'm gonna give Violet A Really fun Christmas entrance Before we go Into her room Okay so My Favorite color is pink And I think Hers is too Because it has to be I Whenever We've moved in the past Like I've always let her pick What color Room she wanted And so she was Happy with this selection And Kind of my overall Design Vibe in here Is like a pink Tone on tone Which Is also Very much Related to her tree So this This tree This year Has Some of the leftover Blush ornaments From last year And then You know I think It's really fun for kids For them to be able to Keep And hang up Every year The ornaments They've made at school Or things that They've been given So this is kind of like Another Family tree But things that are Important and meaningful To her She She was Really pumped About decorating it And then Got tired after like Five minutes So I Pretty much Did it all She also went to The dollar store And got That red garland Decorator room Which I really Leaned into As part of this like Red bow vibe For her So You know again This is a Small ranch style house That was built in 1956 And The closet Situation is not great But I've just kind of Leaned into it And we edit And we just Don't have a ton of stuff But With an 11 year old Can be a challenge Because kids like To collect things And so I'm constantly Really pushing her To clean out her room So Again what I said earlier That I Kind of Leaned I wanted for this room To be sort of a Monochrome Pink Which As you can see I did with Layered with the draperies And With the stuff Of her bed I also feel like All girls Probably want A pink sparkly Canopy bed Again she may be Indifferent to it But I really like it Um Then to kind of Balance out The rest of sort of The Grandma Basket-y vibe Throughout Mixed with Modern for the rest Of the house I chose these like Pretty contemporary Um Sweet side table From Anthropology For her And then found These lamps On Chair-ish And then found These cool Wicker lampshades So The lighting in here Is incredibly soft Which can also maybe be Not ideal For an 11 year old But She's understanding Learning the importance Of soft lighting Okay So as I talked about earlier Being very very limited With storage In a 1956 Ranch house Like This is our closet So We're very edited And Leaning into A minimal Maximal Lifestyle Um The bed Is from Pottery barn teen And I Ended up getting her Double bed Because this room Is not huge But I think it's great And for kids I would kind of If your House isn't huge But you Want to get kids Like a You know a bed That they can grow into That a full size Is good I've had this Shay's lounge For forever She's been recovered Many times And this is Kind of again Pulling back This hyper Feminine French stuff That I like Mixing it in With Contemporary stuff But also like This room is Very feminine So I'm not Pretending that we're doing Any kind of Huge masculine Feminine balance In here But You know I think It's just like a Soft Casual You know room For her to enjoy I also think That it's important For kids rooms To not make it Too nice That you want them To be able to like Relax and enjoy Their stuff And not Freak out If something Spills Just You know for them To be able Just to kind of Not be worried In their own Especially in their own space So Violet went to the Dollar store And bought this Red Tencil and Decorated her bed With that And so I kind of Took that as My main Inspiration place For what am I going to Add to her room this year Which is where I kind of came up With the concept Of doing red bows And again We're pulling Little bits of red Throughout the design All over the house Going back to the Red candlesticks In the dining room You know Pulling With When you're Balancing color It's kind of Good to think about The entire project As sort of Your palette And if you can Sprinkle things back That are in another room It kind of creates It helps Create Kind of an overall Feeling of balance Throughout the project So I start Working on this In early November And I do it On the weekends For a couple hours Each day So it's a very Kind of slow Meditative process That It's the kind of thing Like when it stops Being fun I stop So just really Being thoughtful And taking my time It's just a Like a really Quiet, peaceful Creative outlet That I get to have Once a year That I Really, really enjoy So the first thing I do is get All the different trees Assembled And fluffed And then Kind of work In stages at each one So I'll open up All the ornaments From the year before And kind of Put them into Piles or segments About what tree Is going to go What ornaments Are going to go With what tree this year A couple years ago I had I went through An aquarium phase We had two fish tanks And I had an aquarium tree In the front Which All the fish ornaments Have been put up for now I'm sure they'll come back So yeah It's just kind of Sorting through What I have And where they're going to go Okay Last but not least I'm going to take you To the primary bedroom Follow me Okay On our way to My primary bedroom I wanted to stop And show you the powder bath Real quick So I really Think that A powder bath Is a place In your house That you can make Like a little Expressive jewel box That it doesn't Really need to make sense With everything else You're doing And you can really Lean in And have fun with it So To kind of Balance out The Gucci wallpaper I did in the entryway I looked and thought What other wallpaper Did they make That I could use In the powder bath So they have this Hilarious tiger So I wouldn't want to Look at it all day Every day But You know For a short Short time For a short time It's really fun And You know Pulled from The stone In the kitchen The grays and blacks I also think A powder bath Can be very moody And It's not overwhelming Because like It's just a little Part of your house So A huge goal Of mine too In this house Was to save the floors Because of that I kept the original Vanity That was here And just painted it And then replaced The top With Black marble I also Just to kind of Be different Because you can In a powder bath Did Rose gold Plumbing hardware And Towel ring And stuff So It's just a fun Fun mix Of Other things That I've done The pendant lights Are also from Dutton Brown Which is the vendor I use for Cabinet pulls In the kitchen I've used those A few places In the house So Again just kind of Tying in Sort of the overall feel In A small Fun space OK Now we're going to continue I'm going to show you my room So going back To kind of my Original Color palette For the house The initial design Was doing pink and green Throughout And so I do The color of this room Is Farrow & Ball Vertitaire And I think It's one of the best Soft greens That you can use I've used it in Many projects After this It's just It's a very Soothing color It Almost Even though It is green It's so soft But it almost Leans neutral I think You know Lighting is so Important Especially in your Bedroom So It's Lighting It's pretty dark In this room But I love it Again to Accommodate with Our really Limited storage I have a dresser Which Typically you don't Really see In Primary bedrooms The Bedding Is a mix Of biscuit And anti-selkie Which are both Really great lines Again to Kind of balance Going back To the TV room Where I have The USM Desk I have Balanced that Using USM Nightstand So again A hyper Kind of Streamline Modern Product Mixed with Some really soft Kind of Other weird The two Lights on the Nightstand Are from Visual comfort And then the two Lamps on the Dresser are Vintage That have been Turned into lamps So again A balance of Old and new Again I do feel Really strongly About plants Especially in your Bedroom That they Improve the air Quality And just visually They're so pretty To look at So I Found this I was shopping For a client At one of my Plant vendors And he had In this Huge money tree And I just thought I've got to have that In my room So it's pretty cool To wake up in the morning And look at a tree The This rug In here is a Vintage Ushak Mixed with The swivel chairs From Roche Bois So these were Another part of that order From the initial Renovation I got a few pieces From them And again To kind of balance out Throughout the house Things to keep it All consistent And cohesive The One Overhead light In here Is a Milano Flush mount That I got from The same vendor That did the Dining room chandelier So again Like a Very Kind of Hyper feminine Soft Lighting Mixed with Some contemporary Pieces So I feel that Plants are so important And You should have them In every room Especially in your bedroom It improves The air quality And just kind of The overall Energy of the space I Found this Super large Money tree At one of my Plant vendors I was not Shopping for a tree For myself But Found it and thought OK that needs to come And then The mantle OK so this Mantle has I've had it For forever It's old She's lived A bunch of Different places I do like The concept of Using a vintage Mantle Like a console table So I mean This is definitely An opportunity Where you can have nothing Or low table Under the TV But You know I think It's a fun Conversation piece And OK so next I'll talk about The window treatments That I've decided To do in this space The ceilings Are not particularly Tall So I was So I decided to do A ceiling mount track Which Create You know makes The room feel As tall as it can I I think it's Good at night time If you can To have the option Of having blackout So I did a double track With Of this Schumacher fabric Lined in blackout That I can close At night time And then during the day I think it's You know It's nice to have Some light filtering Unlined Dress So these are These are a white Linen blend That's unlined That I kind of Keep closed Or you know open If it's pretty But it creates A really lovely Light filtering Effect And then you can also have Full privacy With blackout Using Two tracks The three pieces of art In here So that this Watercolor study By an artist Named Evelyn Boren It's actually A combination of Watercolor and charcoal I think it's Really lovely And pulls again All of the colors Like the dark green And eggplant From the chairs Are in there The small painting Over the dresser Is by this artist Who I'm obsessed with Her name is Mandy Racine And she does They're like French Rococo Marie Antoinette Ish Paintings So I mean If you look Really closely It's Feels like Very abstract But if you Kind of zoom out You can tell That it's Figurative The name of the painting Is Dancing in the Pavilion I think it's so cute And then I found this Scarf It's a vintage Gucci scarf With mushrooms on it And To kind of You know I didn't want a wallpaper in here I think It's important for Bedrooms to feel Very soothing And calm But I thought This was like A really fun Nod To what I've done In the rest of the house So had it framed With You know Pulling Kind of the pink From the background Kind of a mauve Pink mat And then A light Natural wood frame To kind of Tie in with The rest of the things I'm doing in this room So when it comes to home The holidays are A really special time To spend at home You know part of Spending all this time Doing these decorations Is a reason to Be home together To enjoy them And I try to have A couple of parties To get my friends to come over And It's just a great Excuse to get together And to really To try to Mindfully slow down And Spend time In your home Thanks for watching Be sure to go to Homeworthy.com For exclusive 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