KC Compton Living

It started with rearranging my bedroom

Long before I knew what an interior design style was, I was the kid constantly rearranging and redecorating my bedroom. I saved magazines, tore out pages I loved and made vision boards of what I wanted my room to look like.

Pinterest and Canva have made that a lot easier. The habit hasn’t changed much: I still start almost every project with an idea, a pile of saved inspiration photos and a Canva vision board before I convince my husband we should probably change something in the house.

From a first condo to new construction

When I bought my first condo, we remodeled pretty much all of it. That was my first chance to turn years of saved ideas into an actual home.

From there we bought our first new construction house. Later we moved to the DFW area and did it all over again, and our second new construction home is the one you’ll see most often here. Along the way we’ve taken on renovations and flips, where we get to do the bigger transformations and save the demolition for houses we don’t have to live in.

Modern European meets busy mom

Becoming a mom changed my style more than anything. I still want our home to be beautiful; I also need it to survive kids, dogs and real life. I love warm neutrals, natural wood, black and gold accents, interesting paint colors, good lighting and spaces that feel collected rather than overly decorated.

These days I’m in my less-is-more era. Part of that is style. Part of it is knowing my kids can’t break an accent wall.

What you’ll find here

This isn’t a site about having a perfectly finished house. Ours definitely isn’t. It’s about making a house your own over time, with real before and afters, the materials we used, what things cost, what we’d do differently and spaces designed for real family life.

I’m not an interior designer, and that’s kind of the point. I’m sharing how we’re figuring out our own home, including the projects that take eight days when we were sure they’d take a weekend.