Because fall is finally here and we're starting to wrap up, bundle up because it's getting colder outside, we thought we'd weather with a tweed and texture post. We tend to also wrap up our homes for winter. We put away our brightly colored spring and summer clothes and wrap ourselves and our interiors in warmth. We put out blankets and deep, dark colors emerge as the Continue Reading
Batting 100 with Bryan Batt!
Byran Batt is Batting 100!A successful acting career on Broadway. A character in the award-winning show Mad Men. A Big Easy home furnishing boutique named Hazelnut. A touching memoir, She Ain't Heavy, She's My Mother, and now, a second book, Big, Easy Style: Creating Rooms You Love To Live In; the title playing off of the nick name for New Orleans. Seems Continue Reading
Getting on the Map
Have you seen our new design? It's getting on the map!Here's the introduction -- a world map that you can customize, remove and reuse and for your ceiling!! We are getting on the map, both literally and figuratively. We were included in Nate Berkus Show's profile on John Loecke's and Jason Oliver Nixon's interior design with their Indian Print printed as a custom Continue Reading
Where there’s a will, there’s a weave.
Where there's a will, there's a weave. That's what Tara Chapas of Chapas Textiles believes. Her New York firm produces handwoven fabrics for decorators. Tara has been in business for more than a decade. Interviewed by Elle Decor, she said she learned her craft at her Greek great-grandmother's knee. "We had an unspoken bond over making fabric," Chapas says. Designs Continue Reading
Next + What’s New in Traditional Home
The Traditional Home October issue just came out. How exciting to see our coverings paired visually for the first time in print with our design partner and friend Mary Douglas Drydale! I won't bore you with a lot of text to read, for you can see here that the pictures say a thousand words. What good timing as we had just done a photo shoot during the last couple of Continue Reading
