Meghan and Patrick Sharp carried around a Cottage Living Magazine featuring a Serenbe home on the cover long before making the move, but the moment they drove in and saw the sign "Children & Adults at Play," they decided this was their place. Interior design is what they do, creating beautiful spaces within the neighborhood and beyond. In this episode, the Sharps talk about designing homes at Serenbe, moving to San Francisco and back again, and what you'll miss if you don't look up.
Meghan and Patrick Sharp carried around a Cottage Living Magazine featuring a Serenbe home on the cover long before making the move, but the moment they drove in and saw the sign "Children & Adults at Play," they decided this was their place. Interior design is what they do, creating beautiful spaces within the neighborhood and beyond. In this episode, the Sharps talk about designing homes at Serenbe, moving to San Francisco and back again, and what you'll miss if you don't look up.
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Monica Olsen (41s):
All right, now let's get back to Serenbe Stories. Megan and Patrick Sharp carried around a cottage living magazine, featuring a syrupy home on its cover long before making the move. But the moment they drove in and saw the sign children and adults at play, they decided this was the place for them. Interior design is what they do, creating beautiful spaces within the neighborhood and beyond. And in this episode, the sharps talk about designing homes at Serenbe, moving to San Francisco and back again, and what you'll miss if you don't look up.
Patrick Sharp (1m 14s):
Divide and conquer all the time. So if you hire Mr and Mrs. Sharp, you, you might get more and Mrs. Sharp, that kind of thing. Yeah.
Meghan Sharp (1m 23s):
W we're we're we, our strengths kind of weigh each other, you know, balance each other out what he's good at. I'm not so good at and vice versa.
Monica Olsen (1m 36s):
Welcome back to Serenbe Stories. Today we have two very special guests, a design duo who lives in the Swan Ridge neighborhood. Mr. And Mrs. Sharp, otherwise known as Megan and Patrick. Hello?
Meghan Sharp (1m 48s):
Hello.
Monica Olsen (1m 50s):
Hey, Steve,
Steve Nygren (1m 52s):
Looking forward to this conversation,
Monica Olsen (1m 55s):
I know I'm going to have to screenshot you guys cause you probably have the best background of any guests so far. No offense to the rest.
Patrick Sharp (2m 4s):
We didn't plan this as a zoom room, but it's become a zoom room and we didn't know what a zoom room was when we picked the one we picked this one. No,
Monica Olsen (2m 11s):
And as I was saying, I don't think I've ever been on zoom with you guys. So I guess that's a good Testament to our relationship.
Meghan Sharp (2m 18s):
We see you in real life.
Monica Olsen (2m 19s):
That's right. Or as the kids say IRL. We can take that out. So the very first question we ask everybody to get to the heart of their Serenbe story is how did you hear about Serenbe and how did you find us?
Patrick Sharp (2m 39s):
So we were living outside of Charlotte, North Carolina, and a cottage neighborhood, nothing like Sarah, but it was, it was truly a, a suburb, but it was a neighborhood full of cottages. And so we had bought a cottage living magazine and on the cover, what Sarah and bead and a great inside that magazine and thought it was really cool. Probably forgot about it for a little bit. Also read the New York times article and then ended up getting transferred. I had a corporate gig at the time and got transferred to Atlanta. We rented in Midtown and was looking around and a friend said, you should come check out my neighborhood.
Patrick Sharp (3m 24s):
And it was, I was on Facebook. That friend was Clint Pardue. And when he said the word would be remembered that Sarah and B was close to Atlanta. And so we made the drive down and fell in love immediately. And fun
Meghan Sharp (3m 40s):
Fact, his house was actually the ho home that was on the cover of cottage
Patrick Sharp (3m 43s):
Living. That's right. So,
Monica Olsen (3m 45s):
Oh yes. I do recall that. I'm sure we have a copy of that somewhere. So did you just carry that around your whole life and waiting to move in? We didn't really make the connection until, oh, that's the,
Meghan Sharp (3m 59s):
That's the neighborhood that's on the cover.
Patrick Sharp (4m 3s):
That's right. So it was a happenstance, but we had first heard about it through that. Yeah.
Steve Nygren (4m 10s):
You know, all these years. I don't remember hearing that story. Oh really? That's a good one. Yeah. Great.
Meghan Sharp (4m 17s):
The minute that we drove in from that very moment where it says chill, children and adults at play, we're like, well, this is our place for sure. And you've been playing here ever since.
Monica Olsen (4m 31s):
That's right. And so did you immediately get rid of that Midtown place and come on down or did it take you? It
Patrick Sharp (4m 38s):
Didn't take us a minute. So yeah, we were actively looking to move out of the rental and Midtown, but we had looked at several places and we both said while we were here, the first visit, oh, this, this is happening. We're moving here.
Monica Olsen (4m 53s):
And where did you guys move into? What neighborhood?
Patrick Sharp (4m 55s):
The Grange. The first little strip of townhomes in the Grange. Okay. I'm like, that was across
Meghan Sharp (5m 1s):
From beautiful trees. And now it's across from a beautiful grocery store. That's right. We love that grocery store. We do.
Monica Olsen (5m 9s):
I do remember that house when you walked in, it felt like you're walking into like a Ralph Lauren showroom. Oh, that's nice. That's great. So tell us about that experience. So no more Midtown bought the townhouse down here, decorated it. Inaccurately.
Meghan Sharp (5m 26s):
I joke that we moved here because of the girl of fur because of the trash cans, trash can placement.
Steve Nygren (5m 36s):
And for our new listeners who have not been to Sarah and B, our trash cans are all buried in the ground. And so everyone can just take their trash in a solid bag. They're recycling in a transparent, in their compost and compost bag. And you never see her be curvy.
Meghan Sharp (5m 54s):
We didn't really, we were pleasantly surprised by how loving and open and welcoming the community was. And we never experienced a neighborhood where the people were so genuine and gracious and welcoming. I mean, I think from the first day that we moved in, everyone was welcome to the neighborhood. Can I do something for you? Little kids would just come into our house and say, can I have some water?
4 (6m 23s):
And we were like water. And I think it just snack too
Patrick Sharp (6m 34s):
Early on in Sarah, but I don't know if that happens anymore, but everybody felt very comfortable with it. Yes.
Monica Olsen (6m 39s):
Yes. There was a lot of opening gwacking and doors and like, oh yeah, you know, you can just go borrow, get some ice out of my house. I'm not home, but that you could go grab it from the ice maker. And I was like, what?
Steve Nygren (6m 54s):
Yeah. It still happens. It's more neighborhood-y you're connecting groups. Yes, exactly.
Monica Olsen (6m 58s):
Yes. And so what was this? Oh nine or 2010. When was this nice?
Meghan Sharp (7m 3s):
It was 2000 late. 2009, I think so.
Monica Olsen (7m 10s):
Yeah. And this point, you guys weren't, you didn't have a design business.
Patrick Sharp (7m 16s):
No, that was our third home. And third, I guess you could say flip and we became serial flippers and that's, and that's kind of how that's kind of how the design business started.
Monica Olsen (7m 29s):
So after you sold that house that you got called back to San Francisco, right? Right.
Patrick Sharp (7m 34s):
Actually that's right. It was Megan and I first time to live in San Francisco together, but I had lived there previously, but yeah. So we, my job said, do you want to go to San Francisco? And we said, yes. And we spent three years in between our serum B stint. Wow.
Monica Olsen (7m 54s):
I can't believe it was three years in between two and a half, two and a half. But what did you do Megan? On the weekends. Oh,
Meghan Sharp (8m 2s):
So I don't know. Just look@sierrabrealestate.com. Let's see what else we're going to buy next. And serendipity,
Patrick Sharp (8m 12s):
We did. We, I mean, we did love it. It's, you know, there's so many great things to say about San Francisco, but we had a little flat in Pacific Heights. Beautiful. Weather's great. But we found ourselves sitting on our sofa, looking at the Sarah bay website, plotting our patch back here. Yeah.
Steve Nygren (8m 31s):
To stay long. I remember visiting you. Oh, that's right. Get out there a while. And I was amazed. You knew every property that was for sale. That's right. We did talk to
4 (8m 44s):
Mike. I never left.
Monica Olsen (8m 47s):
Well, and you guys had been eyeing one in particular for a while. If I recall the story, since we
Meghan Sharp (8m 53s):
Moved here, lived here the first time we would drive by this house and think how kind of great and unique it was. And it just so happened that one of those Saturdays, that we were sipping coffee in California, it happened to come up on Patrick's feed. Like, oh, this is for sale. This house that we have loved for years is for
Patrick Sharp (9m 15s):
Sale. Is this really a three story, white, modern house nestled in all these cottages. So it really stood out and we had kind of had a modern aesthetic and we were always interested in it. So that was really the catalyst. Seeing that house come back on the market, we're like, let's make this happen. Right? Yeah. So
Meghan Sharp (9m 36s):
Then we would just spend our Saturdays looking at how many ways we can fix and change and renovate
Patrick Sharp (9m 41s):
It and try to find a job. Cause we were going to leave. We left our jobs in California.
Monica Olsen (9m 48s):
And so this was what now what now what fast forward, what year was this? We 13, 14, 15.
Patrick Sharp (9m 58s):
Let's say 14. I'm really bad with years together.
Monica Olsen (10m 3s):
And you came back, but you stayed with the same company, right? Well actually
Patrick Sharp (10m 6s):
We, Megan left her job because she got a gig while she was out there. I left my job too with no with no prospects. We're, we're so conservative, but we did. And because we wanted to be back so bad and truly within the same corporate umbrella, I did get another gig here. Not before, but not before. Yeah. We, we, we moved here with no jobs.
Monica Olsen (10m 35s):
Love that. That's fantastic. Well, and this house is stunning, but that wasn't your final house in Serenbe. This one is not either. No, no, no, no. But let's talk about, so you did this one up. Absolutely stunning. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. We'll put pictures on the show notes and always so gracious. Always having people over, you had a fabulous little pool, the most beautiful, like time's there, but you guys were like decided to downsize. Yeah. Yeah.
Meghan Sharp (11m 8s):
I mean, we thought we, we may need this house to grow a family, maybe to accommodate more sharps. And that just wasn't in our future that wasn't in the cards for us. So we decided, Hey, this is probably too much house is if it's just going to be the two of us and we're kind of making it kind of made sense for us to have less, we had less than San Francisco and we really enjoyed just having it as much as we needed, you know, just enough for that. You know, what, what the two of us.
Patrick Sharp (11m 43s):
Yeah. And we did love that house, but we we've never stayed anywhere more than two years. And so we probably stayed there longer than that, but it was never the plan to be there, but there was a conscious decision to downsize. But we actually said, when we were thinking about what we're going to do for a living, we said, we'll just get that house. We'll renovate it. We will get it published. Maybe the cover of a magazine, it'll launch our design company. And that's exactly what happened. And I thought he was nuts.
Monica Olsen (12m 18s):
It's exactly what happened. You were on Atlanta home, right magazine. You were also in a bunch of other magazines with that house and that kind of kicked it off. And how did the design firm launch, like what was sort of the impetus I knew you guys had always sort of noodled it, but what was sort of the beginning of when Mr. And Mrs. Sharp were born? The company
Steve Nygren (12m 40s):
Are our, when we sold our San Francisco place,
Meghan Sharp (12m 44s):
Our real estate agent kept coming back to us saying that her other agents wanted to know who the designer was and we renovated that place and doubled our money. And then we realized this is not just our, our family and friends asking us to transform their homes. This is actual strangers who don't know us that are thinking we might have something. So that's when we decided, okay, well, we'll move back to Sarah. And we renovate this house and see how it goes. Maybe start a business. And we met our first client. It was at a birthday party at the farmhouse.
Meghan Sharp (13m 25s):
And we were just talking about renovating houses and doing what we do. And they saw a, an Instagram picture of our dog sleeping as he does. And they said, I want my house to feel like that. Can you do that for me? And that was our first client. Yeah. Perfect. It was really kind of just impromptu, like, yeah, we can do that for you.
Patrick Sharp (13m 49s):
Yeah. And, and then we started getting involved with the builders. So the guy who renovate helped us renovate our home, started building homes in serum B and ask us to pick out finishes. So that's a large part of our business now is helping the builders in Sierra and B finished the homes.
Monica Olsen (14m 5s):
And the house that you're in is one that you was started out as a project, but 10 23 construction, Andrew. And I don't know if at that beginning point you were thinking of moving into with them, but you, you chose all the finishes. That's right.
Meghan Sharp (14m 20s):
Yeah, no. We had actually put a, we had a contract in for a house in motto that we designed, oh, that's fancy. And we ended up that ended up falling through and I was just working one day walking through the, this house, just checking on it. And I had always kind of loved it from the beginning when I saw the plans initially, but just was thinking about it from a work perspective. And then, because there was this little inkling of, I need to somewhere to live. It struck me a different way that day. And so I send a picture of these beautiful brick arches that are actually part of the outside, the outside porch area.
Meghan Sharp (15m 3s):
And I set a picture and a text to the real estate team. And I said, I think we're going to live here.
4 (15m 9s):
And their response
Meghan Sharp (15m 10s):
Was like, yes, like, of course, why, why didn't we think of that? Because
Steve Nygren (15m 15s):
There were different ideas that were floating around what we can do. I was
Monica Olsen (15m 19s):
Going to say that, that beautiful little one in motto that you gave up is a beloved house and gets a lot of love on our Instagram page. But I was going to say those arches. I'm not sure if they totally show up in the photo you sent me, but one day we, I don't quite know why I just, as a throw, I was like, Patrick, send me a photo of your fireplace, your outdoor fireplace, it's called day. And I need a, something for Instagram and you sent me a shot and it is our number one, beloved Instagram posts, like funny animals, not nature, which typically are the top ones, but sort of this. And it's beautiful. But again, something that you just shot and sent me is the number one Instagram.
Monica Olsen (16m 0s):
And, and do you attribute a lot of your business to your Instagram page?
Patrick Sharp (16m 5s):
It definitely has afforded us opportunities. Absolutely. Even just getting the attention of the house that was published, all of that, all of that attention initially happened on Instagram. So yeah, we, we are definitely grateful for the platform.
Monica Olsen (16m 23s):
Not that this is an ad for it. So since then you've been doing stuff for builders. You've been doing stuff for private clients. Some of those clients have been in Sarah and be, and, and truth be told I'm one of them. We had you do our house in Midtown when we were up there for a couple of years, which is another modern. But where do you guys see yourselves going in? Like the coming years? Like what, what sort of, what's on your dream board, Patrick, now that everything's come true on the other one or Megan, do you want to tell us? I
Meghan Sharp (16m 55s):
Am so excited because I, I just, we're very, we're open. We could see yourself staying in Grange, but maybe up on a hill somewhere left. I don't know. Maybe we'll find ourselves back in somewhere in someday, but I, I, all I know is that we love a project. And even though it's fun to help other people, it's also helped fund to help ourselves. And I think that there is a new project in our future, but probably we're thinking four years, right. Patrick, maybe
Patrick Sharp (17m 29s):
Five, if we can hold it and see before that. But I feel that you were,
Steve Nygren (17m 33s):
I take you on a walk. Do you want to go on a walk? Let's go on a walk. I got some exciting things to share with you.
Monica Olsen (17m 42s):
Are you thinking Lupo loop, Steve?
Steve Nygren (17m 44s):
I'm thinking a special one or two lots in loop.
Monica Olsen (17m 52s):
I like it. I like it. Perfect. And, and the current house, I think it hasn't come out yet that I've seen it unless I missed it. If you're in Ru magazine, that's right.
Patrick Sharp (18m 3s):
It's more this first time. It's going to be more of a designer profile, I think. But it does have like three nice shots of the house in it too. But yeah, we're thrilled to, to do that, to be asked to do that.
Monica Olsen (18m 17s):
I know. And then you're also going to be your neighbor on the other side of you, the Felicis, their house is going to be in a magazine too, that you basically not only chose the finishes, but you did. I think you chose all the interior. Yeah. And the furnishings
Steve Nygren (18m 31s):
That's right. That'll be in Danny sales naturally. Jamie say it. Yeah.
Monica Olsen (18m 36s):
I love that. So one of the exciting things that you did is we've been thrilled cause you've been in two of our show houses over the past year with Atlanta homes and lifestyles magazine. But out of that, you launched a new business last fall. Can you tell us a little bit about that? Sure.
Steve Nygren (18m 58s):
So it's called sharp furniture company. My great grandfather started an actual furniture store in Leeds, Alabama, which is where I'm from in 1905. And it ran continuously through 1976. And then Megan and I have dreams of opening a shop. And we just saw this as a good opportunity to start the digital platform. We got a little bit oppressed with the Atlanta homes and lifestyles. And so yeah, we opened an online sharp furniture code and one day we, we picture a physical store on Selborne somewhere.
Monica Olsen (19m 39s):
Wonderful. I know that's going to happen. Let
Steve Nygren (19m 41s):
Us help you again, carry your dreams to the next level. Okay.
Monica Olsen (19m 45s):
And do you, do you have a location for that too? Steve? Absolutely.
Steve Nygren (19m 49s):
We'll go take a walk on that. Oh great.
Meghan Sharp (19m 51s):
Steve. I'm so glad you have our future all planned out for us. I love it. What did you try to help people?
Monica Olsen (19m 60s):
What is your signature item?
Patrick Sharp (20m 5s):
That's a good question. We have a lot of things that we've curated from, from some of our favorite sources. I would say that the Wicker furniture right now is probably the most popular, but we do want to take some of the things that we actually create with some of the vendors, like from eight ATAC and even some of our own creations before we opened that store. But yeah, there's a nice curated collection on, on online. Right. And
Monica Olsen (20m 36s):
We'll put that on in the show notes so everybody can go look, but, but I was actually very taken with the, the bedding. Can you tell us, I mean, I know that it sounds simple, but like the, the concept of the bedding and how these linen sheets work. I know very exciting to me.
Patrick Sharp (20m 58s):
I love the idea too. So it's a Lennon sheet set and a Glennon coverlet and the top sheet and the coverlet are custom so that there, there is no tucking. So imagine just corners built in and you just pull it up. There's no, there's no like bending over and tucking on your top sheet or no hospital corners. Those are gone. It's all done for you. And I love that and it's beautiful too. And it was truly
Meghan Sharp (21m 26s):
Just born out of the laziness of us who wants to spend time making a beautiful bed. Like let's just make it be, let's just build it in. Beautiful.
Monica Olsen (21m 37s):
Exactly. And I love that. I love just like it's finished.
Meghan Sharp (21m 40s):
That's right with no hassle. We did launch our bedding at the show house. Yeah,
Monica Olsen (21m 46s):
It was on that beautiful master or queen bedroom or a king was a king bed. It was, I cannot interview you without talking about our friend, Sebastian, who has his own Instagram page as well. One sharp puppy. I think it is. Tell us about Sebastian.
Meghan Sharp (22m 10s):
He was too play with his favorite friend huckleberry and also birdie Clementine.
Patrick Sharp (22m 18s):
It was a large puppy contingency and dog contingency and Seren B. So it's, it's a good place. He is a black standard poodle. He's four years old, Sebastian sharp and yeah, he's our favorite. And he's going to come stay with Monica soon. He is I'm
Monica Olsen (22m 40s):
Dog sitting, starting tomorrow for a couple of days while you guys have your anniversary. That's right.
Meghan Sharp (22m 44s):
14, very short years.
Monica Olsen (22m 47s):
All right. Happy anniversary. W your anniversary will have passed when this is this airs, this this'll air at the end of may, but that's pretty exciting. So tell us anything else like about projects that are happening, like any exciting ones that are coming up that we need to look out for, obviously we'll follow on your Instagram page. What projects are you doing?
Meghan Sharp (23m 9s):
Things new and exciting. I think you just watch the Instagram to see what comes up next.
Patrick Sharp (23m 16s):
We have a lot of, we have a lot going on. So the, the, the working with three different builders in Sarah and B picking up finishes two very large custom homes that are coming up and finishing up a finishing up, furnishing a home in Moto right now, and all of which we hope to photograph. So
Meghan Sharp (23m 40s):
Neighborhood in north Georgia. Wonderful. Yeah,
Monica Olsen (23m 45s):
No, definitely. Let's photograph them all. And let's, or at least the Serenbe one, sorry, north Georgia. But the
Meghan Sharp (23m 51s):
Fun is that we never know who's going to reach out to what's next to ask for help. And so sometimes we'll get an email out of nowhere, you know, from seaside, Florida or San Francisco, and Hey, can you help me with this or whatever? And we, we just, it's really fun and exciting to be able to just open our inbox something.
Monica Olsen (24m 22s):
Well, and that reminds me, is that you've done some work with your previous real estate agent in San Francisco, where she's had you virtual stage houses that are transformative.
Steve Nygren (24m 36s):
Yeah. It's been a fun little project, truly some very large homes that came up on her list in San Francisco. And she's just like, I know these houses can be so much more so remotely from our, from the, from our zoom room here is zero. We were able to do digital, I'll get digital renderings done. And we renovated the kitchen living room. You're
Monica Olsen (25m 2s):
Remarkable. I was sort of, sort of stunned by that for, for a really great
Steve Nygren (25m 6s):
To help her and her clients see the potential of a home that's been around since the 18 hundreds. How can we get this? How do we update this and make it relevant for today's buyers?
Monica Olsen (25m 17s):
Right. One question. I, I don't know if we've ever talked about it personally, but like, what is it like to work as a couple together? Yeah, what's it like
Patrick Sharp (25m 29s):
Most of us, most of the time we feel very fortunate, so we can, we can disagree on like certain decisions, but we've kind of gotten to a rhythm of leading leaning into each other's strengths and personalities. We divide and conquer all the time. So if you hire Mr and Mrs. Sharp, you, you might get more Mrs. Sharp, that kind of thing.
Meghan Sharp (25m 57s):
Well, we're, we, our strengths kind of weigh each other, you know, balance each other out what he's good at. I'm not so good at and vice versa or, yeah. So we, we, it's really nice to have a friend to bounce ideas off of and to help elevate any sort of concept. So we might start, you know, at one level, and then we may challenge each other to take it to the next level or, or how do we make it even better or is there something that we're missing? So that second eye is really, really nice to have, and it does really help the client too, because they have the benefit of seeing of, of that
Patrick Sharp (26m 43s):
Or that challenge to make it even better. So yeah, that part is that part is good, but I had another thought about work. Oh. And it also is not too good for work-life balance because if your business partner is with you 24 seven, then you probably work all the time,
Monica Olsen (27m 3s):
But you can write your whole life life off in the middle of tax season. This is what I'm thinking of. You've had a ton of probably clients in Serenbe. And I think that you guys finished a beautiful project at Steve's daughter's house or really Steve's house. Cause you guys all live together now, how what's it like Steve living in a Mr. And Mrs. Sharp home now
Steve Nygren (27m 27s):
It's great in it. It's fun to see the transformation to, you know, it 15, I guess 16 years ago, we initially did the townhouse and then garni and Matt moved in with, with the grandsons. And of course they wanted to bring their own look and they brought Megan and Patrick Kidd. And it, it was fun to, to live down in a space that's, you know, transformed. So the walls, the plaster walls stayed the same, but the whole atmosphere totally changed. It's great. Well, mostly
Meghan Sharp (27m 57s):
Because you have amazing young children running around with their fire fighter trucks,
Steve Nygren (28m 7s):
And I'm sure you, you, you never guessed that those wonderful footstools that people could pull up are the kids' favorite things they tip and they roll and they feel so big that they can just manipulate those around the room. So it's, it's, it's fun to see how it adapts to young kids and still everything's put in order. And it's such a chic setting. Oh, I'm so glad to hear. Well, there's more to come oh for children or I wouldn't say more furniture,
Patrick Sharp (28m 36s):
More furniture I heard we're going upstairs soon. So,
Monica Olsen (28m 42s):
Oh, that's exciting. You've been invited upstairs.
4 (28m 45s):
Very, very intrigued.
Steve Nygren (28m 50s):
W w well, now that the boys, you know, suddenly Stevie and Robbie are gonna, I think be roommates, play rooms and all sorts of things emerging, changing up there on the third floor.
Monica Olsen (29m 1s):
Yeah. I like it.
Steve Nygren (29m 4s):
Well, one thing, you know, you have been here long enough now back and forth and you see, certainly seen the transformation. So for those visiting, for the first or second time, what's something that they could seek out that isn't obvious when you were walking the streets or going from restaurants to shop.
Patrick Sharp (29m 27s):
Interesting. Well, if they just stayed, if they stayed a couple of days, they'd probably get invited to something that's of emo around here.
Steve Nygren (29m 40s):
It's not unusual be invited at somebody's porch cocktails or coffee. That's
Patrick Sharp (29m 45s):
True. Right. I would say, you know, there's just some certain magical spots in the, in the, on the trails, in the woods that they would happen upon. That would be surprising.
Meghan Sharp (29m 57s):
Yeah. I would say, don't forget to look up because if you don't, you'll miss the, the sky, the stars are literally the stars are magical, the trees and how the trees talk to the sky with the blue and the green, one of my favorite things. And also just those streetlights and sell more. You don't always, I don't think they're obvious because they kind of mesh in with the landscape and with nature. But you really, to me, it's one of my favorite things about Sarah and beat that somebody thought enough to care about what the streetscape
Patrick Sharp (30m 38s):
Well, and that they're actual sculptures and, and it's
Meghan Sharp (30m 42s):
Artwork versus just anybody could just put a light, you know, utilitarian streetlight up. And that's what you would expect in a typical neighborhood, but, and people wouldn't consider that something to look at necessarily. So I think look up would be my suggestion and
Patrick Sharp (31m 1s):
Be open to the people like you said, like, like if you are open to talking to people at the, at the Daisy or one of the restaurants, or just walking on the street, you, you will meet some wonderful people. We've often said, and Megan touched on it earlier that we moved here for the aesthetics. That's just kind of who we are. We thought it was beautiful. We wanted to be a part of it, but quickly I think what, what we fell in love with, and then what brought us back from San Francisco are the people, it just attracts the S like-minded interesting open people. And one thought that comes to mind is, you know, when you're in your twenties and you're like, everybody you meet is your new best friend, but the older you get, you kind of get more guarded and it, you don't really, you don't really let everybody in, you know, maybe in your thirties and forties, well, we're pushing past that
4 (31m 58s):
Now. And, and
Patrick Sharp (32m 0s):
Sarah and B, it's still easy to make a new best friend pretty quickly. Like everybody that everybody that you encounter is someone interesting and easy to talk to. So I would say to those people visiting to, to be open to conversation with, with some of the local schools,
Monica Olsen (32m 21s):
The locals, I like it. And there's so many cool new people moving in. That's been the fun thing, even, even though with this COVID and the pandemic, I'm kind of have missed a little bit of that this past year, but now that everybody's getting vaccinated, I feel like everybody's coming out and I'm to meet all these really cool people that have, you know, discovered Serenbe over the past.
Steve Nygren (32m 45s):
That's right. And that idea of it opening all back up. We, the first few years was just w we'd never been so social and our entire lives as we are in Serenbe. So not only the events that are planned by you, all which with all the festivals and everything like that, but just the nightly potlucks and things like that, that emerged. We just never knew that it would be that social. So the pandemic tends to load some of that down. So this spring is, seems like the most beautiful spring ever. It feels like everything's opening up tenfold. Like it's like very exciting.
Monica Olsen (33m 26s):
Yeah. It's awesome. Well, thanks guys. This has been so fun. I got to, I mean, I knew a lot about you, but I got to learn a little bit more. I'm going to look up Megan. I'm going to look up at the night sky. So thanks for your time. Thank you. It's been
Steve Nygren (33m 43s):
Nice chatting as always. And I learned something new that I had not heard before. I know the cottage living. Sorry.
Patrick Sharp (33m 49s):
It was nice talking to you, state them. We're going to count on that. Walk for our new home
4 (33m 54s):
Set a time. Let us know. Bye. Alrighty.
Monica Olsen (34m 2s):
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