About Rachel
Meet Rachel – homeschooling mother of four and lover of all things home – the face behind Maison de Pax
If you’d like to work with Rachel, click here!
My name is Rachel. I love coffee, painting, designing, restoring, family, Jesus, food, laughter, and beauty… not necessarily in that order.
I have always been a jack (or jane?) of all trades… I love to build, design, remake, tweak, create, photograph, and paint. I love antiques and brand new goodies. I love industrial and natural. I love casual and elegant. I love juxtaposition of many forms… I guess that’s the former literature teacher in me.
In addition to running Maison de Pax, I also teach the art of photographing interiors. I offer an online course in addition to speaking a conferences and classes to other bloggers, interiors designers, and small business owners.
All this creative business is fueled (and supported!) by my family. I have a precious crew: Mr. Pax, myself, two handsome boys, and two gorgeous little girls, but the story for this blog begins in 2009 when my husband and I, both native Texans, uprooted and replanted ourselves in Paris.
I first became a “stay-at-home” wife while there. Our first child was born there.
It was out of that renovation that Maison de Pax was born.
After three years (and LOTS of work), we sold our beautiful historic colonial in the city for a 1990’s home in the Austin area. It’s still a work in progress, of course, but you can see how it’s going here.
Our most recent adventure involves a little property out in the Texas hill country. It came complete with a rusty old bicycle strapped to the split rail fence, a giant workshop full of vintage paint-by-numbers, and a smelly old chicken coop. As you can imagine, we’ve been chipping away at that project, as well. You can catch up on all the things at the ranch here.
And, of course, new adventures still await…
I’d love for you to follow along. And if you’re interested in working with Maison de Pax, find out more here.
Have any questions? I would love to hear from you! Email me at hello@maisondepax{dot}com