"I just do anything really," she says. "If I see a picture in Barnes & Noble or in a Crate and Barrel magazine, I'll just paint it and use any medium I have."

Her bedroom was inspired by a set of towels. All it took was a green and beige stripe.

"I thought, that'll look good on my walls," Ferguson says. "I find inspiration in the weirdest places."

However, Ferguson can pinpoint what is not her style, a category under which her kitchen falls. It's next up in her renovation plan.

"With the pink flowers and black, I like to call this country-goth," Ferguson says of the wallpaper. "The kitchen just throws everything off. You get to it and you're like, what the hell happened in here?"

She plans on mellowing it out with some slate blue tile.

Though she didn't always know about home renovation, Ferguson says you can't help but learn a few things if you own a house. But where did she learn?

"I buy books from Home Depot," she says.

Case in point, the rock-kissed yard. Ferguson did it over the course of a year and a half, with the help of friends and a Home Depot book of course.

"Twenty tons of stone were delivered to the house," she says. "It was too much work," she concedes.

She won't be doing it again, but you live and learn.