Salvaged Style: Four Tips for Creating Unique Cabins with Reclaimed Treasures
With summer drawing to a close, many people with cabins start to decompress from outdoor activities and projects and instead focus on the interior. The cooler months present a perfect opportunity for all us design lovers to put into motion one of the many design ideas we have swirling around in our head. In this post, I am going to outline four tips for how you can use reclaimed pieces to create a more unique and “soulfully storied” cabin aesthetic.
Four Principles for Buying Vintage Furniture and Home Decor
There can be an endless number of questions running through your head when shopping for antique or vintage furniture and home decor:
Do I love it?
Is it worth it?
How’s the quality?
Do I need it?
Etc, Etc, Etc……..
In this post I discuss how no matter where you’re antiquing there are four principles you should follow when buying vintage furniture and home decor pieces.
How buying vintage can help save the planet
We’ve all heard about fast fashion, but what about fast furniture? What do you know about it? Well, in short, it’s equally as bad as fast fashion. This post explores what fast furniture is, why it’s bad and how embracing vintage furniture and decor is one way to help minimize the negative environmental impacts of fast furniture.
Beauty is a choice
A core value of mine is beauty. I want to live a life where I show appreciation for beauty and contribute to a more beautiful world. In this post, I walk you through an ordinary day that turned into one filled with beauty; not because I stumbled across it, but instead chose to see beauty in each moment of that day.
Pamela
Image Credit: David Yarrow (Pamela)
We all need that piece in our home that speaks to our soul. The one we walk by each day and are reminded of something near and dear to our heart. In this post, I share the story of why a Pamela Anderson photograph is one of the soulfully storied pieces in my home.