Which one???  I have been searching high and low for the perfect rug for our newly tiled floors in the family room and when I say HIGH, I mean I found some really expensive rugs out there that I would just LOVE to have the budget for. I really wanted a super soft shaggy rug, [...]

Well, now that you’ve seen my living room, I thought I would show you my work in progress dining room.   This is a room that I really haven’t spent a lot of time or effort on mainly because we’ve been concentrating on the rooms we use more often, such as the kitchen, family room and [...]

Happy Friday to you! I’m super excited that, aside from grouting the newly laid tile in our closet and under the wash-a-ma-dryer (as my son used to call it),  our floors are finished!  This has been an ongoing project, like ALL of my projects tend to be. I’ve been busy digging up inspiration photos via [...]

Big changes are upon us… After months of careful consideration and advice seeking from many many trusted sources, I made the decision to close Modus Operandi Designs.  This comes with a great deal of deliberation since I started this in 2001 and had tremendous success with it while we were in California but upon moving [...]

Well, well well…here we are.   Welcome to Casa Stephens!   This is the first official blog post for this new site and I’m super excited about what’s in store.  As you can tell from the tabs above, I’m going to be sharing with you some of my passions, specifically interior design, cooking and gardening!   My husband [...]