WEST ELM • PALM SPRINGS COLLECTION

We are blessed to have a wonderful job that allows us to be together and travel the world doing the thing that we love. We explore and take photos at amazing paces around our local city, we meet new people and do our job through our home state and even travel near and far over our sweet country, America, as well as throughout the world.

The particular thing about West Elm contacting us for a featured shoot was the location being our favorite place of all--our home.

We became first time homebuyers only a year ago and really wanted to make our home environment a place we loved. We work primarily from home and it's of high important to us to love the space we are in, a space that reflects our minimalistic taste and clean-edge style while still allowing creative expression. We are also avid travelers and with spending more than one or two months out of the year in other countries we not only have a sweet appreciation for where we call home but also find that simple-living is the key to our home-happiness. We love to travel with Airbnb accommodations that allow us to experience the places we're in from the standpoint of the locals, which also makes our desert home feel bloated with extra space after returning from small apartments in big cities, simple cabins in the highland wilderness, and edgy chalets along mountain ridge lines. Although sometimes our home feels huge and other times small, we knew we wanted to style it in a way that reflects us and our values for quality over quantity. 

We have also shot in many stunning locations locally and love the mid-century vibes that Palm Springs unremittingly offers and wanted to echo those straight-lined, uncomplicated tones in our own home styling. 

This is our first time ever purchasing furniture, like real-adult-furniture, so we wanted to make sure we chose pieces that are timeless and edgy. We fell in love with the west elm mid-century collection and couldn't stop ordering more and more pieces to accentuate our space. We started with just one piece, the mirrored acorn stand in the hallway, upon the news of closing our house. It was a parade of orders following to create the space we wanted which ties the overall style of the home together. We have never been the type to purchase sets of furniture because we don't love the matchy-matchy look you get when walking into any general furniture store, but love that the mid-century collection is coordinated in clean-lines and brass hardware so it not only functions as a staple look thought our home, but also pairs stunningly with our other home-styling choices. Each piece can be style and used to function differently so even though we chose duplicates of some of our favorite pieces, our home doesn't look repetitive. The 80" console acts as our dining room buffet to display our favorite glass chess board and act as a visual ancho for our hanging English ivy in geometric brass planters and the same piece also serves as a streamlined workspace with storage and print inventory in our home office.

The four main staple elements of our home are living greenery, clean whites, brassy metals (accented with chrome), and natural wood tones. These elements are intentionally gathered in every livable space of our home and paired with natural flowing light and scattered prints from around the world. Our home boasts scenes from many corners of the globe captured along our adventures together as well as from places still un-reached by us which we still hope to land ourselves in someday. I am intentional to display places I have not yet been to keep my inspirations for going places moving forward, while still celebrating the places we have been to in the past. We also feature our travel prints on our website, monocleproject.com, for sale after many house guests and viewers have requested purchasing prints to display in their own homes.

Jasmin also loves sharing the processes and realizations of dreams big and small on her personal blog, an evolving place where the things she love most can have outlet into inspiration and community.

If you'd like to take a peek at the West Elm feature, gander on over at their blog, here.