Published: October 01. 2009 2:00AM

By Kim Hassold
EDITOR IN CHIEF

One drive by Lisa and Jeff Tice’s home in the fall is enough to keep you coming back year after year just to see the fabulous display of pumpkins sure to be there every October. According to Lisa, an accomplished artist, the tradition started with her father and after his death, has been faithfully continued, each time with a lot of sweet memories and a creative touch.

“My father would travel around and collect the most beautiful pumpkins and then he and I would work together to arrange them. Every year I look forward to this time of remembering how special it was to spend that time together.”

The 85-year-old home where the Tices live fulfilled every item on the wish list Lisa had in mind when the family began looking for a home—“a view on an old southern street in an old fashioned neighborhood.”

Add in the “fairly large rooms” and “a lot of light for a studio” and this home started to look like the perfect one for the Tices and their two children, Colin and Sarah. Of course Lisa says it was one other thing that put the final piece in the puzzle.

“We were here looking at the house and I couldn’t find Sarah and Jeff. When I looked outside and saw that they had climbed up in a tree in the front yard to enjoy the view, I knew we were staying.”

A love for color and pattern is apparent everywhere in the home of this creative family, along with the thing they hold most dear: a place for family and friends to feel right at home.

No matter what time of year.