A Texas Home With a Touch of Fun in Every Room

After 13 years of bouncing around the country for job transfers, Carissa and Todd Fox finally settled their family of four into a 4,300-square-foot modern prairie-style home in Cypress, TX, and got to work decorating for real. “In our other houses I was always thinking about resale value, but here I can spread my creative wings because we plan to stay a while,” says Carissa.

She and Todd designed the interior with a no-frills base of engineered acacia wood floors, a mostly white kitchen and neutral walls so Carissa could jazz up the place with quirky pieces. Taking after her free-spirited grandmother, who was an artist, Carissa has decorated and redecorated the house over the past five years as her creative outlet. “I don’t want our home to look like a carnival, though with my girls, it sometimes feels like one,” she says. “I just want something to make us smile wherever we look.”