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Thanks for visiting my new website for Natalie Roe Interior Design!  Please make yourself at home and pardon the progress...I will be working on updating my portfolio as current projects are completed.

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From drawing and painting and sewing, to avid fort building and creating my own house plans for fun, my free time as a child and elective classes as a young adult revolved around the "artistic" side of things.  My parents started me in art classes at a very young age and my passion for them took me all the way to AP Art in high school.  After majoring in Biomedical Sciences for a little over a

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to read more about this project, click HERE

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:: Screened Porch Addition :: Savannah Court Kitchen :: Sedgewick Court Master Bedroom/Bath :: Kingswood Court :: My Office

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Whether you are looking to design the floor plans of your new house, add on to your existing home, remodel your kitchen, or simply redecorate your master bedroom, I am happy to help! My years with Seay Seay and Litchfield gave me a heightened awareness of construction and architectural details that come into play whether you are creating an entirely new set of house plans or renovating an

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{please pardon my assistant :) } this project also included the addition of a two car garage and privacy brick wall read more about this project HERE

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read more about this project HERE

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i am in the process of combining my two blogs.  for now, all posts of varying content {home, interior design, family, recipes, crafts, etc} will be posted on my main blog : www.theroefam.blogspot.com i will be keeping this blog, but am going to change it up a bit to look more like a website until i get around to actually getting a real-life-big-girl website for work :) so come join me over HERE

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this past weekend we spent a relaxing yet productive weekend at "the camp". i spent days marking things off my infamous "list" and enjoying the seasonally cold weather. we even received snow {yes i just said snow} on friday night. we heard the snowy-rain during the night hours and in the morning the only evidence that snow actually fell was in the bed of stephen’s truck. {which quickly

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in honor of my sister's last day of her internship with this amazing firm, i thought i would post my favorite pics from their portfolio, as some delicious eye candy for your friday:there are so many things to say about the perfection in so many of these photos, but the beauty has left me speechless....Happy Friday!

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recently, several of my posts have been featured on the Mobile Bay Magazine website. {click HERE to see the most recent: an interview about the kitchen renovation featured in the previous post}it is such an honor to be featured, and even though it may not be an actual publication in the "hold-it-in-your-hands" sense, it counts as being pretty darn close in my simple mind :)i debated on whether

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that it is kinda hard to be an interior designer, have a website {for work}, and not have any of your work on it. hmmmmm....i think "they" are right.so, without further adieu, i give you a nearly completed recent project. {minus light fixtures and draperies}. {you can see other "progress" pictures here}the project consisted of an existing kitchen, breakfast room, and a small "playroom" and

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to read more about this project click HERE

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is to be nearly perfect i thinkas many who have come before me have said, its one of those places you visit and can easily see yourself living. southern {check}clean {check}beach {check}great restaurants {check}things to do {check}shopping {check}inspiring architecture {check - well at least its the icing on the top of my cake}you can go HERE to see other aspects of our four day charleston

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im not usually one for the contemporary flavor. i admire contemporary interiors, appreciate them, but never see the a) comfortb) livability orc) practicalityin them. {in the extreme ones}for me.however i do love looking at lovely contemporary space and, heck, i would love to design one.buuuuut i just dont ever see myself living in one.buuuuut i just saw this house featured on Design*Sponge and

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i used to. a lot. i think ive taken art lessons since i was 10, or something like that. after school once a week, as all my electives in middle school, and then as a serious concentration in AP Art in high school.then i went to college and focused on a pre-med curriculum. {?}then i started having reoccurring dreams that i was painting. and drawing. and playing with my architect's drafting

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well, nothing new to report on the homefront...chugging along on my office decor...and i have to say i am very very pleased. its allll coming together and is quickly turning into my favorite room in our house. BUT, i am not done yet...so no pics until im done. {edited to add: okay im weak, here is a peak}in the meantime, how bout some lovely pictures taken straight from my "inspiration" folder

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with all this heat going on round here, and this most recent "cold snap" {i.e. highs in the upper 80's}, i cant help but dream of {slightly} cooler days. ive always said, when asked, that the changing of seasons is my favorite. does that make me hard to please? {always ready for the current season to give way to the next?} well since you asked, no, i dont think it does. im just a dreamer and

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do you ever wake up at 5:45am to a crying baby with a dirty diaper and wish you could go back to sleep in a bed full of fabric ?...no?just me?hmmmmmmok, well a girl can dream right? there is something about fabric that makes me very very happy.home decorator fabric :: craft fabric :: upholstery fabric :: drapery fabric :: apparel fabric :: ad nauseam :: ad nauseamall that jazzi recently received

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my house is possessed with paint demons. as in, tried and true lovely paint colors look distorted and wild in my house.take my office/bennett's playroom, which is located in a large long room {that the previous owners used as a formal living room and that we hope to one day use as a dining room} at the very front of my house. as in the first thing you see when you open the front door.the

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one of my great friends just started her own business and just got her website up and running.  she specializes in personalized stationary, notecards, calling cards, etc.  all her illustrations are originally hand drawn and/or painted.  she has an amazing talent and it is evident in these beautiful pieces!take a look, and go ahead and buy some! :)Julianne David Papers

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well its been over a month since my last post, and my last post really didnt amount to much anyway.things have been busy, but busily calm which has been nice.  {does that even make sense?}several things to catch up on:::THIS renovation is nearing completion.  i am thrilled with the results.  here are a few pics for your viewing pleasure::i saw these pillows on elements of style today from this

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everyone could use some free benjamin moore paint, right?go getchourself a fun color and get painting!click HERE

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and my husband says i should donate at least the hat to goodwill.  it is a little large, and a little frumpy, but it is my first [hat] so i shall keep it and wear it around the house, much to husband's chagrin.here is my next project: free hat pattern from Soule Mama, which should look like this when done: {photo courtesy of Soule Mama}

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im not the hugest of red fans, but in honor of the month of love (and i love me some love), the second installment of colorme:: will be honoring this color of love :: red.  i think the pics below make good use of this month's color{L to R: red teapot; ancient languages rug from www.anthropologie.com; red wallflower fabric from amy butler's lotus line; Chinoiserie Bed from www.anthropologie.com;

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or whatever is causing all these wonderful magazines to go out of print!it is getting slightly depressing.first Cottage LivingVogue LivingCountry Homeand now DOMINO!! WHAAAAT(?!?!) am i going to do?all my good reads and some seriously GREAT inspiration - GONE.  and i just renewed my subscription to several of these, so there goes my mula as well.  so very sad :(

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I was reading the wonderful and inspiring blog Cote de Texas recently, and came across a discussion that highly interested me. It was something having to do with my field that I really knew nothing about. I felt incredibly uneducated and spent hours reading the post and the hundreds of comments made concerning the post. I was about half way through reading the comments when I started to feel

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well, i found the perfect bookshelves for my office, for *only* $89.99.  I go to check out online, and lo and behold the shipping is $275.80.  SERIOUSLYi think, ikea, you need to work on this tiny aspect of your business....

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i was reading this blog today, and the author did a post on this artist.now, i am very picky when it comes to the exact type of abstract art i like. these, though, i LOVE and am dreaming of them in my office. a girl can dream, right?

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i love photography. ill take a picture of anything and everything, to a fault. doesnt hurt that i have a lovely subject to study up on.every once in awhile, a photograph stops me in my tracks. and leaves me....changed.enter this picture, found in my grandmother's photo boxes after she passed away in october of 2007.stellamy granny

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i am on a grey kick recently. clothes, paint, furniture, cabinets, textiles, everything. i think grey is cozy. chilly, yes, if used wrong. but cosy if used right. so what better color than this to start this collection of posts.{above, starting at top left and going L to R then down, (got that?!): Tutt a Posto cottage master bedroom in Seaside, FL; hardwood floors from www.lvwoodfloors.com;

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my desk that is. after two months of back ordered-ness, it has been shipped, my card has been charged, it is official, my desk is days away.now i just need to decide on a paint color.for the room.not the desk. {just a little picture to inspire}how bout next time y'all come over, we close our eyes and imagine that we are sitting on this patio, during an italian summer, with the sweet smell of

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Yet another fresh start to a new year. And affordable - Kudos West Elm! 1. Faceted Glass Pendant{great for a powder room}2. Favorite Bath Mat{cause sometimes simple is best}3. Medallion Window Panel{Lovely}4. Parsons Desk{i am about two hairs away from ordering this to use as my sewing desk}5. Slipper Chair{nice - and nice}6. Souk Pillow Cover{just neat} 7. Tree Top Art Inset{just made me smile

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{Christmas may be over, but isn't this divine? it still makes me smile. picture from HERE} {looks like a great place to write thank you letters. picture from Shabby Chic} {everything. from Peacock Pavers} {i'm currently having a love affair with tufted settees. picture by James Merrell} {yes. yes. yes, and yes. picture from Absolutely Beautiful Things}

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I was wondering what my first post would consist of, or what it would take for me to actually make one. Well, I opened up the most recent Ballard Designs Catalog and this is what resulted. My first post !There were so many new pieces and I couldn't find all of them online, but here are a few of my favorites: 1. Ikat Medallion Fabric {Ballard has a wonderful program where you can pick out a piece

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