Make Your Space Feel Like You | A Collected Way to Live With What You Love
Some homes are beautiful, but the ones that stay with you usually feel personal. They feel like the people who live there. That’s what I keep coming back to with this work. It’s not just about having a painting of a lake house on the wall—it’s about choosing something that reflects what actually makes you happy, what describes you, and what you want your space to feel like when you walk into it.
This piece was inspired by homes on Lake Tahoe, and I kept coming back to those layered blues and aquas, with small flashes of purple and yellow that show up in the water, rocks, and light when you’re really paying attention. I love bringing those colors forward for people who want their interiors to feel a little more alive and a little more like themselves. Not in a performative way, and not in a way that looks styled for someone else—just present, grounded, and true to your own taste.
A big part of what I do is match the painting style to the personality. Some people are drawn to something soft and airy. Others want something more expressive, with a little more presence. Some want their actual house, boat, and shoreline reflected back to them in a way that feels both real and elevated. Your favorite colors matter. Your favorite season matters. The version of the lake that lives in your memory matters. All of that can be brought into a piece in a way that fits naturally into your home.
If you’re ready to buy a piece for your space, there are three ways to do it, depending on how you want it to live in the room. The Signature Watercolor Print is a giclée of my original work, framed simply with a mat. It’s refined, easy to place, and still carries that sense of light, water, and atmosphere in a clean, finished way.
The hand-painted watercolor is where it becomes more personal. This is a real painting of your place—your house, your boat, your stretch of shoreline—created by hand, with softness and movement that feel natural in a well-designed home. It’s original, but still light in presence.
And then there are the oil paintings. Larger by nature, slower to build, and more layered in depth. These pieces hold weight in a space. They don’t just sit on the wall—they anchor the room. If you want something that fully carries the color, memory, and feeling of your place on the water, this is the most elevated version.
This is really about personalization. What makes you happy. What describes you. The colors you’re drawn to, the season you come alive in, and bringing that into your space in a way that feels natural—not staged, not forced, just part of how you live.
If you have a place on the water that means something to you, buy the piece that brings it home. Choose the version that fits your space, your taste, and your life, and let’s create something that feels like it was always meant to be there.
Start yours here.
—Rachel
