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Warm Brown

With all of the pretty limewashes & grayed finishes we're seeing everywhere, I find myself appreciating beautiful warm aged wood all the more.  With the internet/ blogs/ high-speed pace of trends these days, it's easy to get "sick" of trends.  It's kind of sad to me because (at least in my world) before I was so over-exposed to everything, I appreciated things longer.  It feels as if trends are just taking hold of us so strongly and then as soon as they become mass-market (i.e. Restoration Hardware) we start to dislike them even faster.  As I'm sure we've all heard before, if you go with what you personally love and with what's appropriate in your home, your design choices will withstand the test of time.  (Although, just like a wardobe, lots of homes need tweaking to stay fresh.)  So, I think that there are lots of homes & decor where the introduction of gorgeous weathered woods & gray finishes is perfection, but there are also lots of houses that just look contrived when these finishes are placed en masse inside.

Almost everything's a trend when you get right down to it...  so they can't be avoided.  Just be sure your decisions are based upon you & your home and forget about what's "fashionable" in homes right now.  (this doesn't mean that there are no out-of-date treatments- because there definitely are- but just be aware of why you're doing what you're doing...  i.e. Do you love it because you're seeing it everywhere or do you love it because it hits your gut?)

Anyway, I thought I'd share some of my favorite inspiration images with you of rooms that feature warm woods...  (And some include warm leathers because that bit of layered warm richness feels the same to me.)  I love just about everything in the image below...  Black & white mixed with warm woods is a recurring trend in many of my favorite spaces.  The pair of antique dressers is what makes this space for me.  (Okay, and the old saturated oil painting in the back room.)
 

{Image via Sarah's Fab Day}

I'm crazy over Donna Brown's work, who I read about on Cote de Texas.  Her rich patinated spaces just look so warm & elegant.

{Donna Brown's home, via Cote de Texas}

The warm yellowy brown "odd" chair in this room proveds the warm visual relief from all of the cool tones in the room.  (The little leatherbound on the table does too!)

{Nate Berkus & Associates} 

In the image below there are warm & cooler woods.  I love relaxed, rustic raw-feelling combination:

{image via Cote de Texas}  ooooooh how i LOVE this

This old, perfectly aged farm table warms up the roo and makes it feel like a home:

{Southern Accents}

You know how much I love this room:

{Nina Griscom's home featured in Elle Decor}

I love the schock of warm orange wood on the bed here...  Lots of people are "over" this wood tone but I think this space just goes to show how wood tones & finished can be fresh & up to date as log as they're done well. 

{eeeek, I can't remember where I got this}

Ok, ans this looks like a torn leather (?) chair but I love the flash of depth & warmth it provides in this ad:

{I think this is a Ralph Lauren ad?}

Mmm mmm mm.. love the grisaille wall but check out the barley twist consonsole...

{House Beautiful}

In the room below the trunk & antlers are what keeps it from feeling too sterile to me...  They add that little layer of warmth the room needs.  so crazy fun & fresh...

{Nuevo Estillo via My Notting Hill}

Again, the wam woods in this room by Vicente Wolf are the necessary yin the the cool blue yang:

{Vicente Wolf}

And, since Novemeber is here (can you believe it?) check out this beautiful Thanksgiving table setting by Eddie Ross for Lonny Magazine.  Eddie does warm woods so well in his NY farmhouse: 

Any thoughts? 

If you'd like help creating a home you absolutely love, contact me about our design services.

ps- How was your Halloween??!  We had so much fun & I'm so glad we did our party.

{One quick pic before the party...  I forgot to really take pics- eek.}

Greetings! From My Expressions

Please welcome our latest sponsor to the blog, My Expression!  You've got to check out their amazing collection of Christmas invitations, but first let me introduce some of their other party invitations.

They have a great variety of birthday invitations for girls, boys, and adults!

The Fall/Thanksgiving collection has some beautiful and modern designs that could inspire your entire party decor!

Of course there are so many choices in the Christmas collection for girly gatherings, cocktails, and dinner parties...

But my absolute obsession is the stylish and chic line designed by Doc Milo.  These definately make me want to put on the Ritz and celebrate!  Visit My Expressions to see all the other options for your invitation needs.  Do you have a favorite?

Enter To Win

Tanya of Save the Date for Cupcakes is having a blog birthday party and you're invited!  You can enter to win over $300 in prizes - I'm providing a custom inspiration board too!  Run over for official rules and enter now, becouse it ends at midnight Monday night.

Happy Halloween!

No time to carve a pumpkin?  You don't have to when there are trims, ribbon, scrapbook embelishments, and paint available!

Projects from BHG, and No Fuss Fabulous.

It's on

Here's my ghettofabulous Buffy the Vampire Slayer costume:

{Yes, the "H" and the stripes are duct tape}

I had the boys home with me today and the stars aligned (i.e. they took their naps at the same time) and I got to work on sewing my costume.  The "pants"/ bodysuit is actually a shirt turned upside down...  The arms are now the legs and I sewed up the hole for your head.  The yellow "skirt" is also a $3 Michael's t-shirt and I stretched out the head hole for the waist and cut it off.  I use the leftovers to make another t-shirt long-sleeved.  It's ridiculous and the best part of the costume is the pair of scrunchy socks I'm wearing.   

{Argg just realized I need a scrunchy for my hair!}

happy Halloween!!!  And to learn the Thriller dance go here.

(SO worth it.)

Spells And Potions Soiree

I've got one more Halloween soiree to share.  This comes from Luna and Chloe Weddings and offers some great ideas you could pull together quickly. 

I love the "spells & potions" booklets that are an easy DIY, as well as the spiders inside the moss-filled mini cages.  The centerpiece is an array of small bottles filled with different 'specimen' sitting on a bed of spanish moss - easy peasy!  To see even more, visit their blog.