“Mocha Mousse is the perfect match for the 2025 color of the year. Its richness tells the story of where color is taking back the center stage in home design where we will see warmth and depth, creating spaces that feel inviting and sophisticated.”
We were named an expert in the Pantones color of the year reveal!
After a highly anticipated waiting period, Pantone has revealed its 2025 Color of the Year as Mocha Mousse. This warm, earthy tone is poised to take center stage in design and decor. But what makes Mocha Mousse so special, and how can you incorporate it into your home? Whether you’re searching for a home in Nashville, looking to revamp a rental home in New Orleans, or finding a Raleigh, NC apartment to make your own, this guide to incorporating Pantone’s 2025 Color of the Year, Mocha Mousse, has everything you need. With expert insights and tips, you’ll learn how to create an inviting atmosphere that blends timeless elegance with versatile design.
Does anyone recall the TV show Flip This ownHouse? A&E aired this series for a few seasons back in the mid-2000s. My favorite season was the one that followed a real estate company in South Carolina as they discovered and revamped dilapidated houses for profit. In my young 20’s, I aspired to work for Richard after completing my interior design degree – that’s why it intrigued me. However, my husband Roger and I, newlyweds at the time, had limited money and no means to start flipping houses.
To satisfy my passion for house flipping, we worked on our own home. We bought a very small house and gradually renovated it, starting with flooring removal, painting, and utilizing the limited funds we had. This led to a kitchen renovation, and when we learned we were expecting our first daughter, we decided to finish the basement. I vividly remember being pregnant on a ladder, assisting Roger in hanging drywall. We did all the taping and texturing and painting ourselves in a rush before our baby arrived. We poured our effort and emotions into the entire house.
This small home served its purpose for us, and as our family expanded, so did our home. Before welcoming our son, We added an addition and extended the kitchen and dining area, added a master suite. Making a total of 3 bedrooms vs 2.
We quickly learned By investing our own sweat equity, we accrued a substantial amount of equity in the house, guiding us to to sell and pursue a building a new home, marking the beginning of a design-build-flip business that we never seen coming for our future.
I’ve gathered all my favorite wall art to share with you!! Each piece is versatile and can adapt to most design schemes!
I love incorporating wall art along with some textiles and personal photos. It’s a great way to personalize your space. These are priced so well that you can afford to swap out when the season changes.
I LOVE Summer. I call myself Summer Sarah because I thrive the most in summer. I love the busyness of it, I love the longer days, the tan skin, the warmth of the sun, traveling, there is just a freedom of summer that I love.
Now that Fall is entering I am starting to love the slow down. The routine. The sounds of the crickets. The cooler mornings. The warm colors. New new wardrobe.
As Summer is slipping away, and Fall is stumbling upon us, it really makes me realize what I love about the new seasons. How Each season gives us a new chance to reset
Think about new goals.
Think about how we want to feel.
Think How we want to look.
Think about what we want to do.
Each season we can choose to enter a new era. I say era because of Taylor Swift. I was able to go to her concert this summer with my daughter and her friends. What a great experience! Even at 42, I loved every single moment of it. I love how Taylor’s Era Tour showed us how you grow and evolve. How you don’t have stay in one era, And each new season gives us the chance to do that.
So.
What are you waiting for?
How do you want to feel this fall?
How do you want to look?
What do you want to do!
What are your new goals.!?
The best thing about life. Is YOU get to choose. YOU get to choose how YOU feel, look, what YOU do and what YOUR goals are!
G O A L S
You can always start with how you want to feel when you walk into your home. Is it seeing warmer colors? Then Add some new throw pillows and fall stems. Is it the smell? Purchase a fall candle!
I love doing a fall refresh in our home! Little things can make a big difference.
How do you want to look? How I dress each day reflects on how I feel. I work from home, but I normally choose an outfit that I can go to a meeting in if need to. This way I am also motivated all day. Each season gives us a chance to enter in a new era!!
You can make a fall bucket list! Make sure you get all your favorite fall things on there! And something new!
I am going to interrupt our normal home building posts for something personal. 💫
Two events in my adult life that have made a huge impact on me.
The passing of my dear friend Geoffrey, in 2013, she was 31 just shy of 32. She was a true Joy. And often very sarcastic which made her really funny. She was the honest best friend we all need in our lives.
I got the news of her passing one morning in a hotel. We were in Bismarck looking at a new house. Thinking of moving there. My last text to her was, “we just walked through our new home! “ I knew she would be just as excited as I was. Because that’s the friend she was. I never got a reply. But I know she pushed me to make the decision to make an offer on that house and redirect the path of our lives. I never even imagined how good our life would be in Bismarck.
10 years later, march 2023, I get a phone call while working in my new home office,
“Sarah. I have some bad news to share, Mark Trogstad passed away”.
Mark is my cousin. He was only in his 40s. He has twins, Macies age (17), he and his wife Jenny were high school sweethearts, best friends. That hit me like a ton of bricks. I felt like I could be living that exact same scenario.
We went to his funeral and got to experience the love of their family. The bond of their family. The strength of their family. It really touched me. I remember looking around feeling their love and support for one another. My heart aches for Jenny, Marks wife. And his two kids. I know they are being held up by so much Love and strength. I believe Mark now gets to watch over them. And orchestrate great things for them and his whole family.💫
That experience really changed me again. This proved to me,
Life can be short or long.
We don’t know.
I want to feel and share happiness every single day. I want to feel and share love. Every single day.
I am a dreamer. And I have a lot of dreams and plans for what we can do with our business, the places we can travel to, and the memories we can make as a family. I want to experience it all.
So what am I waiting for?
I want us to be a powerful example to our kids, who are now young adults. I want to show them that you can do anything. And anything is possible. It does take work. And believing in yourself. It takes mistakes, and imperfections, But once you can break down your own walls. That is a powerful thing.
