This is a man who once used more than 43 shades of paint in a single home, yet the result was seamless and impeccable. This is also a man who has top-secret caches of antiquities and homewares from around the globe scattered around Tulsa. No, you cannot see them. They’re for him to know and you to find out about, when they become part of a project.

When Jennifer Oliver first set foot in the house she and her husband David now call their forever home, they’d already bought it. The couple was in the process of selling their glorious home on Guilford Drive but hadn’t yet found a home to move into.

One of the most remarkable homes in Oklahoma City’s historic Lincoln Terrace neighborhood is also one of its newest. Oklahoma Supreme Court Justice Yvonne Kauger calls the style of her home, completed in 2007, “Taos Pueblo Spanish Deco.” The striking home manages to tuck itself harmoniously into the neighborhood, while also jubilantly asserting its presence with its phenomenal, super-sized stainless steel mask by renowned Oklahoma City sculptor and mask maker G. Patrick Riley.

In the tiny, historic town of Exmore on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, farm roads and driveways are laid with sparkling crushed Italian marble, and folks are as likely to work as mosaic makers as any other profession.

There may be a reason you’ve never seen Jennifer Welch and comedian Larry David in the same room. Kidding. Sort of. If they’re not actually the same person, the uncomfortably funny curmudgeon is, at the very least, her spirit animal.