A California Home Decked Out in Happy Hues

You could say I had fallen out of love with my house,” says Teresa Kelleher of the 3,600-square-foot Palo Alto, CA, home that she and her husband, Brian, bought back in 2002. It wasn’t the structure itself Teresa was weary of — it was the way she had decorated it 15 years ago. “My style back then was heavy, bulky furniture and lots of deep reds, greens and golds,” she recalls. After living with that look for more than a decade, Teresa decided she had gotten tired of the dark, dramatic decor. “The house doesn’t get a lot of natural light, and the color scheme was just depressing,” she says. Moving was out of the question, so in 2012, she gave the home an energy boost with help from designers Tiffany Mansfield and Lisa O’Neil. While the kitchen and her daughters’ bathroom got top-to-bottom renos, most of the house was transformed with just paint and bright fabrics. “I’m absolutely back in love,” Teresa says. “It’s light and cheery, and it really reflects who we are as a family.”