Karen Siler-Pettit traces her love of primitives to her grandmother’s Kentucky home. “She home-cooked everything. She was very funny and made patchwork quilts. I loved going to her house,” she recalls. Years later, Karen celebrates those special memories by showcasing her grandmother’s quilts in a place of honor in her living room. “They mean the world to me because she made them,” she adds. “They are probably my biggest treasure.
The Beavercreek, Ohio, homeowner strives to replicate her grandmother’s simple style throughout the modern farmhouse she shares with her husband, Gene Pettit, son Kyle, mother Evelyn and their three dogs. The items she collects, including advertising cans and signs, crocks and other prim pieces, either
