Brittany Jepsen

Brittany Jepsen is a crafter, designer, artist, stylist and blogger of The House That Lars Built, a design lifestyle blog focusing on the whimsical and makeable. She has amassed a community of creatives who seek to create an artful life. She grew up teething on the seaweed of Southern California though she preferred reading and creating in the great indoors. Her mom’s favorite quote was “a creative mess is better than tidy idleness” and so her childhood was spent creating art work, music, and yes, lots of messes. On track to becoming a museum curator she was haunted by those creative messes and enrolled in permanent “creative mess status” otherwise known as a master’s in interior design. She graduated in 2010 after spending summers working with professional creative messers including Jonathan Adler and Celerie Kemble in NYC. There she helped designed products renowned companies and helped create beautiful interiors for fancy schmancy penthouses. She spent part of her graduate studies in Copenhagen studying textile design and writing a column for design*sponge. Since moving back to America, the blog took on a life of its own and soon it became a full-time job. It has since become a popular destination for crafters, artists, and people looking to create a full, artful life. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Vogue.co.uk, CNN, The Today Show, and various publications. She has licensed dinnerware collections with Twig NY, party lines with Modify Ink and she has styled two other books: Knitting Without Fingers by Anne Weil and Playful by Merrilee Liddiard. Fleurs Coloring Book is her first coloring book with additional volumes on the docket. Follow along at www.TheHouseThatLarsBuilt.com or @HouseLarsBuilt on Instagram