How to Create a Home that feels Deeply Personal.
We create homes that feel like you. One way to make your home feel deeply personal is to incorporate the pieces that you have collected over the years, through travel or that you connect with. They're the objects with stories.
The artwork you carried home in your suitcase because you couldn't stop thinking about it. The ceramic vessel made by an artist whose work spoke to you. The sculpture you found in an antique shop that made absolutely no sense and yet somehow felt like it belonged with you.
These are the pieces that transform a beautiful home into one that feels deeply personal.
Art Should Say Something About You
I tell my clients all the time that a home shouldn't look like a furniture showroom. It should look like your life. One of the biggest mistakes I see is filling every wall with art that simply "matches the room." While there's nothing wrong with beautiful decorative artwork, the spaces that stay with me are the ones where every few pieces have a story attached to them.
Those stories create layer, curiosity and warmth.
When someone walks into your home, I want them to know who you are without you saying a word.
The Pieces I Treasure Most
Last year while traveling through Paris, I stumbled into a small print shop where traditional printing methods are still celebrated. I found a print that had been created on a printing press that is over 400 years old.
For centuries, that same press has been creating works of art, passing through generations of craftsmen before eventually producing a piece that now hangs in my home in Arizona.
Centuries old print shop in Paris.
Print drying racks.
The print installed in it’s new home.
More recently, I added something I've dreamed about owning for years, a Salvador Dalí lithograph.
I've been fascinated by Dalí since high school. There was something about the surrealism, symbolism, and imagination in his work that captivated me long before I ever became an interior designer. Owning one of his lithographs feels less like purchasing artwork and more like completing a chapter that started decades ago.
Salvador Dali (After) - Le Picador
Tips for a Layered, Personal Home: Collect Slowly
One of the best pieces of advice I can give anyone is this:
Don't rush to fill your walls.
Leave space.
Live in your home.
Travel.
Visit galleries.
Meet local artists.
Explore antique stores.
Buy the piece that won't leave your mind, even if you don't know exactly where it will go yet.
A collected home is never created in one shopping trip, it's built over years, and that's what gives it character.
What's Next for Ravenhouse
This love for meaningful objects has quietly been growing behind the scenes for quite some time.
Over the past few years, I've found myself constantly collecting artwork, ceramics, sculptures, and handmade pieces. Eventually, I realized I wanted to share those discoveries.
That's why I'm incredibly excited to begin building RHID Collected: Clay + Paper. It will be a curated collection of art prints, ceramics, and handcrafted objects from artists and makers whose work tells a story. Pieces will be a collection of originals, limited editions, and collaborations with artists.
The goal is to help people build homes that feel collected instead of decorated.
Stay Tuned.
