An enduring way to embellish upholstery and textiles. Tufting is a 3-dimensional pattern – usually a diamond grid – made by sewing down center points and fixing them with decoration. Covered buttons have been used as anchors since tufting came popular in the mid-19th century and on deeply-tufted upholstery they are kept small. Pillows can [...]
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High Tea
As accessories, teapots can live in multiple rooms. Teapots and bracket shelves are meant for each other somehow. This combination might be called old fashioned or sweet — particularly with a Neoclassical Swedish half-moon style table in the mix — though it also has a cottage look. No matter. For me, teapots can be utilitarian [...]
Bookcase Pinboard and Laptop Niches
I’ve always had a bookcase wall in my home office but now it functions in a new way. With so much information online these days, I find need less space for books and magazines but more for display and utility. So when my friend Jewel, who helped me with my Kitchen Picture Wall, also suggested [...]
Unusual Plate Display Locations
Displaying plate collections is centuries old, what is new are their locations. No longer is the dining room or kitchen the only way to go. Case point, white ironstone and black transferware above a headboard. They contrast nicely with the bedroom’s charcoal walls. Crisp hotel-style linens, a zebra rug and gingham chair repeat their colors. [...]
The Chic of Peaked Headboards
Treatments range from painted to upholstered, but the silhouette always shapes up. Headboards have come a long way from the days of default dark-wood headboard, testers and frames. Architectural motifs, color, a variety of covering styles are making hed-heads into furniture statements rather than neutral go-along pieces. Many are taller and more imposing than ever. [...]
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