Former Houston Reporter Has Fun with Design

Former KTRK Reporter Keli Rabon Davis left TV news to spend more time with her family (of course, right?), but she is also spending more time with her home. 

Rabon Davis left KTRK in 2015, but she is getting ready for the spotlight once again. The spotlight won't be on her this time but her home. 

Rabon Davis house will be part of the annual Modern Architecture & Design Society tour on Sept. 23 in Houston.

She and her husband have had a lot of fun getting their contemporary home ready for strangers to walk through.

The home includes a sculpture of an alligator coming out of a manhole cover underneath the stairs.  

"We like things that are fun and funky and unexpected," she said. "As soon as we saw it, we thought this is the perfect place for the gator."

The Houston Chronicle writes that just inside the front door, a wall of windows provides a view of the courtyard, and an indoor-outdoor room has big sliding panels that open up, making a bigger space for entertaining.

It's a 4,645-square-foot home on an 8,100-square-foot lot, and Garcia's planning made the most of the space. The center courtyard has a seating area on artificial grass, a spacious hot tub and a 40-foot lap pool against a fence lined with a growing espalier.

The home's interiors are a bold mix of high and low, bright and neutral, soft and hard. And there's no missing its touches of whimsy in prominent places in the home.

It's all meant to be welcoming and fun.

"I want people, even those who don't know me well, to feel it when they walk in," Rabon Davis said. "We don't take ourselves too seriously - just serious enough to know we like nice things. But boy do we want to have fun, and we want everyone coming to our home to have fun, too."

It sure beats crashing on a package for the 5PM newscast. 

More pictures and more on the story at the Houston Chronicle. 

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