How to Mix Woods to Create a Layered Home
/Home design ideas about how to mix wood in your decorating. Examples of how to mix different types of wood furniture and home elements.
Read MoreHome design ideas about how to mix wood in your decorating. Examples of how to mix different types of wood furniture and home elements.
Read MoreIn addition to all the wonderful design content we found around the internet for you, we have some exciting developments for our business to share. In January, we are welcoming several of our small business friends into studio spaces we are devising for them along the north wall of the shop. We are super excited the stars aligned and our very best business friends were ready for space when we were ready for a closer creative community. Who is joining us?
Read MoreWe don't have many hard and fast rules when it comes to decorating your home. With a space that reflects you and your family as an end goal, we can find ways to make nearly anything work if it makes your heart sing. You want a ceramic chetah statue in your den? Do it. You want to have three patterned rugs in one room? Why not? No clothes storage in your bedroom? Sure thing.
So when we say we have one piece of advice that you shouldn't overlook, you know we mean it. Here's it is: mix old and new in your home. Just please do it. Sure, people balance this mix in different ways–some lean to the vintage side and others to the new, but it's the mix that's important. The mix, we say!
Read MoreSo many exciting things this week! We are super pumped that our guide to houseplants was published on the ever beautiful Cottage Hill today. Go check out Daly's weird plant jokes there!
Alsoooooo... our macrame plant wall is complete and resplendent. Read its process story over on House Sparrow's blog.
Read MoreWe are all about the outdoor space with coral hues and rattan in this home.
This is a REALLY beautiful kitchen, don't you think?
I'm about to paint my kitchen a bold color next week, so I'm happy to hear this is considered a positive.
Read MoreRead our blog for home tours, home styling tips, and plant care advice!
At the moment of writing this, our dear friends Sarah and Adam Heatherington's Lortondale home is up for sale! We've had it on our list to take photos for a home tour, so we ran over there as soon as we heard our time was dwindling. We are so happy to share this thoughtful home with you.
We always say our clients are stylish people, but this has never been more the case than when we worked with local blogger and house renovator Emily Netz. Emily and her husband Jeff recently renovated their 1920s Tulsa home (which you can see and read about here) and Emily designed and furnished nearly every space except for her boys' room. When it came to this room, Emily felt stuck on how to create the space she had imagined in her head and wanted an extra pair (or two) of eyes to help bring it to life. We were more than happy to help!
Well, I can't believe it. Our kitchen is actually done. Done, I say! It's been so long, I'm ashamed for you to look back to see the date of the "before" kitchen post.
Okay. It was April 30th.
So that means the kitchen's been about six months in the making. Now to be completely fair, our kitchen has been functional since mid July, but the "finishing touches" took nearly as long as the bulk of the demo/installation. But whatever. It was our first renovation and we went at it without a general contractor and it's done now, so who cares if it took six months? Who's even counting, right? (I can say that now that it's over, because I did care. I was the crazy woman counting!).
The difference between minimal and unfinished decorating
I've been lying in bed thinking about this quite a lot over the past year. My life ritual is to swing from one extreme to another, then gently wander my way into middle ground. I did this with boyfriends. I did this with work. I'm doing this with my bedroom decorating, duh. So my once packed bedroom became quite a blank canvas this past year. And it's from this place, I have been contemplating the difference between minimal design and something not quite finished.