ABOVE: The entry hall and stairwell of Miguel and Loretta Trevino’s home are decorated with many of Loretta’s early painting studies. OPPOSITE: The studio was built off the back of the house, constructed entirely by her husband, Miguel. The Trevino’s dog, Zoe, relaxes on a pink indoor/outdoor rug from Tom’s Thumb Nursery in Galveston.
A JOYFUL PALETTE GALVESTON ARTIST FILLS HER HOME AND PAINTINGS WITH INSPIRING COLOR STORY & PHOTOGRAPHY BY SARAH GANDY
“No way!” thought Loretta Trevino the first time she saw the tattered
That gut feeling must have been correct because more than twenty
house on Galveston Island that would become her home and studio.
years later Trevino and her husband Miguel have made the 1892 mid-
“When we first drove up to the house it looked horrible,” remembers
island home their own, thanks in large part to Loretta’s design sense and
Trevino, a hairdresser by day and artist by night. “There was no paint,
Miguel’s construction know-how. “I come up with the ideas and put
just scrapings on the outside. But we were with a realtor so we went
him to work,” says Trevino with a smile. Through the decades the cou-
inside anyway and then something came over me—I loved it. I had to
ple has renovated the kitchen, enclosed an upper porch and added a
have the house.”
back balcony, refurbished the exterior including the aforementioned
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