Crown Equus Ocala, Florida

Journal

Stories about houses, materials, objects, and the lives held within them.

The Crown Equus Journal follows provenance, craftsmanship, architecture, and the meaningful details that allow a home to unfold slowly.

Project Book I · California Farmhouse

A tour through a house that has been part of Jennifer’s life since she was eleven.

The chapters follow the physical path through the finished home—from the entry and laundry to the dining room, attic suite, kitchen, living room, bathrooms, and bedrooms. Before and construction photographs appear within that journey to reveal how each room changed.

Open the California Farmhouse project book

Finished California farmhouse living room

Stories & Interludes

From the Atelier · Ocala Formal Dining Room

The Sideboard — Seeing What a Piece Could Become

A worn bombe-style sideboard, its aged leather center, and the careful restoration that revealed its lasting value.

From the Atelier · Ocala Formal Dining Room

The Dining Chairs — Reimagining What I Already Owned

Chairs from the California farmhouse receive a new chapter through black velvet, gilded details and Designers Guild Ombrione.

From the Atelier · Ocala Formal Dining Room

The Chandelier — A Century Beneath the Dust

An antique fixture restored without erasing its age, beneath a ceiling medallion painted by hand.

From the Atelier · Ocala Formal Dining Room

The Regent Silk — Curtains Worthy of the Room

Regent silk, black lace sheers, and windows designed to contribute to the room's old-world story.

From the Atelier · Ocala Formal Dining Room

A Small Collection — Nineteenth-Century Equestrian Transferware

Six genuine nineteenth-century English plates, collected over years as three exact pairs in graduated purple tones.

From the Atelier · Ocala Formal Dining Room

Drawing the Architecture in Millwork

Layered black and tonal-gray lines, built-up casings, and arched openings give quiet walls architectural depth.

From the Atelier · Ocala Formal Dining Room

Creating an Old-World View — The Scenic Mural

A panoramic landscape, arched openings, and the architectural work of building an imagined European world.

California Farmhouse · Stone & Craft

The Victorian Bath: Details Worth a Second Look

A bright bathroom shaped by salvaged marble, antique lighting, deliberate tile transitions, and details made to be discovered slowly.

California Farmhouse · Color & Craft

The Dining Room: Carrying Color from One Room to the Next

How one Designers Guild fabric connected adjoining rooms and became the palette for a hand-painted ceiling medallion.

California Farmhouse · Family & Making

A Room of Her Own

A daughter trusted to shape her own room at twelve, and the family history of learning by making.

California Farmhouse · Attic Suite

Rooms Beneath the Eaves

How a former attic became a bright primary bedroom and bath by working carefully with its low ceilings.

California Farmhouse · Laundry & Circulation

Making the Old Porch Belong

An exterior route to the laundry became useful conditioned space connected by one architectural language.

California Farmhouse · Garden & Family Life

Beyond the Walls

Porches, mature trees, changing flowers, animals, and the garden that grew around the farmhouse.

California Farmhouse · Living Room

The Living Room: Building Character Instead of Buying It

Original floors uncovered, architecture built by hand, and unwanted furniture reconsidered for a 1952 farmhouse.

California Farmhouse · Provenance

When Van Gogh Entered the Pantry

An obsolete passage, two mismatched antique doors, and an unexpected room of blue blossoms.

California Farmhouse · Objects & Memory

The Dishes That Waited for a Daughter

A hand-painted collection passed between women, and the Czech cabinet remade to hold it.

Project Story · Millwork

How a Small Farmhouse Entry Became a Room of Its Own

Hand-built wall paneling, repurposed antique pantry doors, and the details that made a 1952 California farmhouse more welcoming.

Provenance & Restoration

A Piece of San Francisco History Finds a New Home

Salvaged I. Magnin marble, an antique washbasin, and why beautiful things deserve another chapter.

Objects & Restoration

What Else Could This Be?

How an unidentified brass frame from an antique flea market became a one-of-a-kind table light.