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BLISSFUL BUNNIES Hope into spring with rabbit-themed decor

WARM WELCOME New Orleans DIY couple, TikTok’s self-declared gay uncles, release new book this month

KEY NOTES Home accents for festival season

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ALL THAT JAZZ Local homes honor the sounds of the city

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Hop into spring with rabbit-themed decor

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Napkin ring |

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Rabbit with crown |

$95 from Relish (600 Metairie Road, Suite B, Metairie, 504-3093336; relishneworleans.com).

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Nora Fleming topper |

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Bunny on wicker egg |

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Hand-crafted baskets |

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Blissful BUNNIES Damask platter |

Cynthia Kolls Easter bunny ornament |

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Bunny with Boa dish |

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Floppy eared rabbit |

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“No hunting” sculpture |

$325 from The Shop at The Collection (520 Royal St., 504-598-7147; shophnoc.com).

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Flocked bunnies |

$100 each from Judy at the Rink.

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Embroidered towels |

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Blissful BUNNIES Peter Rabbit tea towels |

Set of two for $28 from Pottery Barn.

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Pom-pom bunny sherpa lumbar support pillow |

$55.50 from Pottery Barn (3301 Veterans Blvd., Metairie, 504-219-0168; potterybarn.com).

Tall bunny door hanger |

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$49.99 from NOLA Gifts & Decor (5101 W. Esplanade Ave., Suite 17, Metairie, 504-407-3532; nolagiftsanddecor.com).

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Ciolino and Armato give tips for hosting gatherings in their upcoming book “Housewarming.”

PHOTO BY AUGUSTA SAGNELLI

WELCOME New Orleans DIY couple, TikTok’s self-declared gay uncles, release new book this month

By KAYLEE POCHE

Scrolling through TikTok

Armato and Ciolino putting the finishing touches on a mural.

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during the early months of the pandemic, many users found an unlikely source of comfort amid the chaos: faux FaceTime calls from Beau Ciolino and Matt Amato.

“Hey sweetie, it’s your gay uncles,” they’d say in their videos, before showing you how to make a floating herb garden, giving advice on what plants you probably won’t kill or sharing cocktail recipes to try.

Turns out your gay uncles weren’t so far away after all. Both Ciolino and Armato are from New Orleans, and they met and started dating as Loyola University students. And over the last two years, they’ve been majorly renovating a late 1800s shotgun home in Algiers Point. “New Orleans has always been a part of our story and continues to be so,” Ciolino says.

In their new book “Housewarming,” which comes out April 19, they tell their story and share what they’ve learned about home design, DIY projects and entertaining over the years.

Though they’ve amassed more than half a million TikTok followers during the pandemic, Ciolino and Amato have been creating content professionally for years. Navigating what life would look like post-graduation, they started their blog “Probably This” in 2014 and began posting about food and entertaining.

With Ciolino’s background in baking and cooking and Amato’s experience in the service industry, it was a natural fit.

“The restaurant that I worked at the most was Sylvain in the French Quarter and they took such pride in their decor,” Armato says. “They would quiz us on the different art pieces in the restaurant, and I loved all of that.”

“I was like, ‘What can I do that involves entertaining and decor and all of this stuff, but I don’t have to have customers?” he adds, “and this blog turned into that.”

In 2016, they started getting paid work through their blog and quit their jobs to create content and freelance full time. The following year they ditched the pink shotgun they’d been living in, sold their belongings and hit the road in a 1969 camper they’d renovated, traveling west to Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, California, Utah and Colorado for about three months. Then, they spent two years in Covington before moving back to New Orleans.

It was a lot of moving around, and when they count them up, Ciolino and Amato have lived in eight different homes over the last nine years.

“We had to find ways through our skills and design and DIY projects to make those spaces feel like home,” Ciolino says. “That’s really what spurred ‘Housewarming’ to become a book in the first place.”

In 2020, they bought their first home together. The Algiers Point house was bigger than they wanted and needed a lot of work — including the demolition of a structurally unsound shed — but ultimately, the brick fireplaces, high ceilings and

original wood flooring for the price were just too good to pass up.

The home is a departure from the interior style of their past places. Leaning into the historic aspect of the house, they describe it as “modern Victorian” and “grandma chic.” Instead of the clean lines or colorful arch murals they’ve featured in other homes, they’ve opted for a pink plaster shower, a clawfoot tub practically in their bedroom, an office with floor-to-ceiling navy bookcases, and a den with green and pink floral wallpaper and a gallery wall.

Their guest bathroom has white hexagonal tile flooring with a black floral pattern, a mahogany cabinet with a ton of character and another clawfoot tub, obviously. “It’s giving asylum,” they say in a video showing off the renovation. “It’s giving haunted-bathroom-child drama.”

“We’re doing very ornate stuff, even bordering on gaudy,” Amato says. “That kind of stuff really makes sense for this home.”

Amato and Ciolino say New Orleans has influenced their design tastes, and that local readers will be able to see that throughout the book in the styles and colors that pop up. They also love to shop for vintage pieces in the city at places like Magazine Antique Mall, Heirloom Furnishings and Consign

Ciolino and Amato painted a circle mural as a backdrop in this bedroom.

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Armato and Ciolino call this room they put together “The Pink Room.”

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“We’ve always found a real advantage in being somewhere that inspires us and also has a really unique point of view,” Ciolino says. “We’ve been really fortunate to have New Orleans and Louisiana as a whole give us a really unique lens through which to look at the world and to look at design and to look at architecture and food and entertaining and community, which are all really big pillars of what we do and explore in our brand day to day.”

That, along with their family ties, is why even though Amato and Ciolino have talked about living in other places — and their careers could take them there — they don’t think they’ll ever leave the city for good.

“I think that we’ll always keep one foot in New Orleans,” Amato says.

You can find Ciolino and Amato on social media @probablythis or through their website probablythis.com.

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Key NOTES Home accentts for festival seaason

Fats Domino door hanger |

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“Saint Allen” by Cheryl Anne Grace |

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Kitchen towel | $15 from Little Miss Muffin.

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“Trombone Shorty Getting Funky in Havana” by Erica Goldring |

$200 from Where Y’Art Works.

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Cynthia Kolls horn collage |

“Find me at the Fest” door hanger |

$64 from Little Miss Muffin.

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$375 from Judy at the Rink (2727 Prytania St., 504-891-7018; judyattherink.com).

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Festival shirt door hanger |

$48 from Home Malone (629 N. Carrollton Ave., 504-324-8352; 4610 Magazine St., 504-766-6148; homemalonenola.com).

“Music New Orleans”

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$20 from Judy at the Rink.

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Porch Fest ceramic art | $98 from Home Malone.

Jazz diorama |

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$26 from Alice & Amelia (4432 Magazine St., 504-502-6206; shopaliceandamelia.com).

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“Cool Jazz” by James Macaluso |

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Trinket tray |

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“Paradise City” by Mario Goossens and Karel Van Mileghem | $45 from Judy at the Rink.

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All that Jazz door hanger |

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Louisiana Gumbo CD | $15 from Alice & Amelia.

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“A Life in Jazz” by Danny Barker |

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Band art by Lorraine Gendron | $150 from Judy at the Rink.

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Rebirth Brass Band shower curtain | $68 from The Shop at The Collection.

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Crawfish door hanger |

$48 from Judy at the Rink.

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Music Street nightlight |

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LOCAL HOMES HONOR THE SOUNDS OF THE CITY |

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This month marks what we’ve all been waiting for: a triumphant return

to the Fair Grounds to celebrate, eat, dance and mingle for the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.

It’s been a long three years without an in-person Jazz Fest, but in the meantime New Orleanians kept the spirit alive, whether it was through “festing in place” in 2020 and 2021, thanks to WWOZ 90.7 FM, or by showcasing the vibrant posters of past festivals in their homes. As anyone who lives here will confirm, it’s not just two weekends a year – festing can be incorporated into everything we do, including home decor.

ABOVE: Since 1982, Joe Lorio of Algiers Point has been collecting Jazz Fest posters and hanging them up in a room in his home.

PHOTO BY SUSAN POAG / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE

LEFT: The stairway to the third floor of the home of David and Lauren Toups is decorated with Jazz Fest posters.

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BELOW: Joe Lorio’s home, from another angle.

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L L A THAT A hallway in the home of Fleurty Girl founder Lauren Thom features art depicting several Jazz Fest legends.

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