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I am very excited to be featured in the June issue of HGTV Magazine, on sale now!
The magazine includes a monthly feature entitled “Wow! What Color is That?”
The room featured is a guest bedroom I designed using Benjamin Moore’s Greyhound paint.
Pick up an issue while it is still available!
First off, a “casegood” is a furniture product made of a hard material, such as wood or metal. We generally talk of ‘upholstery’ (furniture of fabric) or ‘casegoods’ (furniture of hard surface materials) and manufacturers typically specialize in one or the other, or produce these in different factories.
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One concept sweeping the interior design industry is the “upholstered casegood”. This type of product could be something like a wood chest with drawers which are covered in material and often nailheads, to cover the seams. I just ordered an upholstered chest to use as a nightstand in a downtown loft project- I can’t wait to see how it turns out!
Here is an upholstered chest- shown in different fabrics and different painted wood trims. You can completely tailor this piece to match the style of your home!
We saw quite a few upholstered casegood pieces at the Vanguard Furniture showroom and Amanda was thoughtful enough to pull together some examples of these products, as well as others, to show you how creative one can be with upholstered wood products!
Here are some the examples Amanda found and her thoughts on the topic:
We have all seen upholstered headboards and beds, but now the industry is taking it a step further! They are adding texture in every way possible. With the ability to add fabrics to our dressers, desks, and tables, etc., we are able to add a different texture and softness to every space.
Vanguard Furniture, a favorite upholstery line of Heather Scott Home & Design, has become very innovative with upholstered case goods and taken it to the next level. They have decided to let you customize your own upholstered piece! You can choose the nail head design you would like, the finish, and the nail head color. Here are some examples of what they offer.
After choosing the pattern, fabric, and nail head trim, you get your own customized piece of furniture! Below are a few examples of the finished product. 
Hello red crocodile vinyl!
Games anyone?
Feeling a little jazzy? How about this Greek key patterned console, or Missoni inspired buffet?
It is amazing how creative and original you can be! If you want to create a piece that you won’t see anywhere else in town, we would love to help! Stop in and let us help you design your own ‘upholstered casegood’!
What is more enticing than walking into a home that smells fabulous?
We just replenished our stock of Nouvelle candles that are blended, poured, and packaged by hand in southern Louisiana.
The large 24 oz. French urn is available for $39 and has 120-125 hours of burn time.
The grapefruit blackberry scent can be described as ripe luscious ruby red grapefruit blended with the tartness of blackberry and currant. Scott claims it smells like blueberry muffins. Needless to say, it is one of his favorites!
A popular scent for men is the mahogany & tobacco. It has the essence of rich mahogany wood intermingled with smoky tobacco.
The signature 8oz. glass candle is available for $25 and has a 60 hour burn time.
We have a variety of scents in this size including a customer favorite, paperwhite & honey. This scent can be described as narcissus blooms blended with soft notes of honey and vanilla.
We also have the petite 6.5 oz. French urns that are $14 and have 30-35 hours of burn time. The scent of linen will keep your home smelling fresh and clean!
There is no doubt that you will find a scent that is perfect for your home, so stop by and check out our variety of scents and sizes! We currently have in stock fresh linen, paperwhite & honey, mahogany & tobacco, crepe myrtle, Tuscan currant, grapefruit & blackberry, and English lavender.
I was recently hired by a young and growing family to decorate the family room of the home they had recently purchased. The family was ready to move their existing furniture up to the ‘media room’ and install an elegant but comfortable family room.
Luckily for me, the room already had nice bones and we had a clean slate. The only ‘structural’ changes were the removal of the low hanging chandelier and replacing the existing built in bookcases with more practical cabinet doors and shelves. The room also got a fresh coat of paint.
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This room is so pretty. Very calm, collected and put together. And, all the pieces are very good quality. This was a mom who believed in purchasing quality pieces that would last. So, how did we manage that?
The ivory colored sectional is covered in a crypton fabric. If you haven’t heard about it, check it out. You simply wipe it off with a washcloth and water to remove spots.
The side chairs were covered in teflon at the factory. The ottoman is leather. The silk drapes and oushak rug have both been stain protected to resist any spots or stains from dirty hands. Now, mom did lay down the ‘food and drink stay in the kitchen’ rule, but as you can see in the photo below, the breakfast bar is directly behind the console table so that isn’t too much of a sacrifice.
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The room also has a long wall opposite the windows. Here we placed a lovely mirrored console table, with 2 custom ottomans (for extra seating), a pair of lamps, and an abstract piece of art. Check out the embroidered fabric on the cube ottomans below.
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I hope you like this peaceful family room. Don’t be afraid to design for what you want your home to look like, not what it ‘needs’ to be like. There are so many great stain repellent fabrics and stain protectors on the market now. Don’t rule out what you want before you’ve thoroughly researched your options to protect your investment. You will be happier with your home in the long run and after all, if it makes you happy, the family will be happy!
I just got back from a few, fun days at Round Top market. It is such a good place to see what is ‘hot’ and what is selling in home decor.
If you aren’t already aware, Louis Phillipe mirrors are very popular at the moment. We have this one for sale at the store now:
If I had taken a photo of all the sold Louis Phillipe mirrors I saw, there would be at least 30 pictures inserted here. And I don’t think I saw one under $1,000. Did I mention Round Top really isn’t about bargain hunting?
Instead of focusing on what was sold, I thought it might be interesting to focus on some neat details and key ideas you can take and implement yourself.
1) Pillow details.
I like a plain, knife edge pillow, but if you are using a ‘plain’ fabric, how about incorporating a nice accent such as you see on these pillows?
2) Custom Lamps/Lighting
There were so many vendors who had created their own lamps, using vases (as shown here) or found objects (such as corbels, iron elements or baskets). I always find sourcing the shades to be an added hassle, but you can really create something unique by turning something you already own into a light fixture.
3) Upholstery Accents
Adding a little personalized detail to your next re-upholstery project can really make your piece unique. How about this darling seat cushion?
4) Customizing your Casegoods with chalk paint
I am a sucker for chalk paint. I bought quite a few colors last time I went to Round Top and used it on a couple of items for the Southern Living Showcase House. I like Annie Sloan’s chalk paint.
Color samples showing clear or dark wax overlay.
6) Out of the box artwork
There were a ton of alternative artwork displays at Round Top. I really liked these reprints of old children’s posters displayed as a grid.
There was so much to see at the show. Lots of great people watching. A lot of unique things to make you laugh and ask yourself ‘Who would ever put that in their house’. Those were usually the first pieces sold.
It really is a great environment to refocus, be inspired and see how someone else can take something ‘everyday’ and transform it into something very special. Hopefully you will have the chance to check out Round Top for yourself, and find inspiration too. Next fair is in the fall!
Scott reminded me that I hadn’t yet shared any photos of our new design studio. Is it fair to start with a reminder of where we began about 9 months ago?
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While most people would run from this building as their new business home, we knew the location was perfect. And, luckily, being in the business we are in, we knew it could be fabulous!
We actually kept the entire shell of the building and just added new wall dividers and insulation between the rooms. We decided to use about 1,200 square feet of the 3,200 for the “design studio”. It doesn’t sound like much, but it works really well for us.
Being in the design business, I am especially sensitive to working and living in a functional, well designed room. Living and working in a space you feel inspired by is so important to help you do your best work, at home and the office! I don’t think this statement applies only to people in the design world, but to all individuals.
Our new office has a great lobby for our clients and vendors to feel welcome. We used my favorite horizontal planking to add some architectural character. The ceilings are very high so I added a dramatic lantern. I told you awhile ago I never would have predicted using purple in my office, but I fell in love with the rug and pillow fabric around the same time and couldn’t wait to use them.
We have a conference room which is great for client meetings. I like the vintage style chandelier. The walls are white and the ceiling is a pale blue. You may notice overall that the space is very white. We work with so many different color palettes for clients, it is very helpful to have a clean, white environment to avoid clashing with any color schemes.
I am so excited to finally have a bright and airy office for myself! I just love the art on the back wall. I also hung some of the ads from the brand campaign I did when I worked at Jaguar Cars. The ads are very glamorous and put me in the right mood to design “gorgeous” spaces.
We have a tiny little office for paper related management tasks.
Our bathroom is painted a pale green and is very lovely. I wish I had taken a closer up photo of the marble slab, the backsplash detail turned out really nicely. My biggest design challenge was designing the bathroom to meet the city requirements. One thing I did want to do was make the whole office feel homey and comfortable. Not your typical office space.
We have an L shaped work station area that can seat up to 4 people. Still need to do a little decorating in here and a few other places.
The best part about this new space is our huge library which is stacked high with fabric books, samples, countertop materials, etc. It is so great to have everything you need right at the tip of your fingers!
We also have this nifty wall which was done with magnetic paint. We can put swatches up as we are working on projects to have them in one, easily accessible location.
I was very pleased to be able to use two art pieces my brother created in my library. Unfortunately, you can’t see them very well in this photo, but they are very cool.
If you weren’t able to make it to our grand opening to see this space for yourself, I hope you enjoyed the ‘photo tour’.
Overall, the space is night and day to what we started with, which just goes to show what you can create from any starting point. If we turned an auto shop into this, imagine what we can do with your home! If you would like to learn more, email us at: info@heatherscotthome.com
This has become a very familiar story to me here in Austin. It goes like this:
“I bought this house about 7 years ago and it is just so ‘gold’…. gold wall paint, carpet, tile. I just want something that is bright, fresh and not so dark.”
So it goes with this client who desperately wanted new carpet, wall paint and furniture.
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Isn’t it lovely? We did a soft neutral wall paint, that reads maybe gray, maybe dark white, maybe taupe, all depending on the light. This gives her more flexibility in the long run (i.e. not the ‘I painted my house when gray was in’ time frame). She had a wonderful wool look carpet installed so the new ‘envelope’ was very classy and fresh.
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The family room is open to the casual eating area (which you can see in the back left of the 2 photos above). This area also needed an update. The client wanted to seat more people, so we did fit a slightly larger table, and a bench is on its way to go in front of the dining table.
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What a difference a new light fixture (versus the ‘builder grade’ fixture) and custom window treatments make! We installed some fabulous woven wood blinds to hide the neighbor’s home, but still let in light. We also had custom drapes made to a larger width so the scale matched the size of the wall and window.
We had custom blue lumbar pillows made for the head chairs to bring the blue from the family room into the kitchen.
Looking back into the family room, the home owner also had an issue with the TV niche, so we had a custom piece designed to offer hidden storage and fit the dimensions of the existing space.
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You can also see the hallway to the front door in this area, so we updated that with more functional storage and bright, blue glass lamps.
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What a fresh space! I love the juxtaposition of the white and beige fabrics with the black wood and the accents of blue.
If you would like help updating your home, we would love to assist you with our ‘full room’ and ‘full home’ design services. Feel free to email us here for more information:
I love the resources that are now available to us all online. From Pinterest to House of Fifty, I can usually find lovely eye-candy to look at and be inspired by.
I was recently introduced to Manner & Lane: A Southern Lifestyle Guide for Women. Manner & Lane is a bi-weekly enewsletter and website. I was born and raised in Memphis and attended university in Nashville, so I am a Southern girl at heart. I was very honored when Manner & Lane contacted me with this photo from my portfolio and asked me to provide some tips on creating an inviting guest bedroom.
The article is entitled “Home Away From Home” and can be read online here:
http://www.mannerandlane.com/2013/02/23/home-away-from-home/
I just had company this past weekend and the article helped focus me on the importance of making your guests feel welcomed and appreciated. It was a good reminder about ‘manners’ and the importance of placing others above yourself. I know I often get busy and forget about taking time to appreciate the individuals in my life.
I hope you will take a moment to pop over to Manner & Lane to read this and other articles. I found it very inspiring to be reminded about the importance of hospitality and enriching your life through the people and places you love.
In case you missed it, Linda Grimm, Silverton Custom Homes, and I had a great time on “Good Day Austin” this week, talking about the showhome. Time to see the home is running out!
If you haven’t gotten there yet, Sunday is the last day the home is open to tour. In case you’ve forgotten, Denise McGaha and I will be giving presentations on design starting on Saturday the 23rd at 11am. Hope to see you there!
I wanted to make sure everyone got the chance to walk through before sharing some of the photos. These photos are from a variety of sources (including myself). I am sure you can tell the ‘professional’ pictures versus mine.
So, let’s start at the beginning!
The entryway has a central pair of seeded glass doors. A pair of windows and benches flank the entry.
One of my favorite looks is horizontal planking, so I couldn’t resist requesting its use throughout the great room of the home.
This is a lake front home with beautiful views. Most of the homeowners in this area own homes as second residences, so that idea inspired many of the selections.
The great room has the ‘dining’ area in the middle, and also a little tabletop and chairs for a morning coffee by the view.
The kitchen is bright and fresh, with white cabinets and calacutta marble counters.
There is a not a ton of storage space in the ‘main kitchen’, but I think that is just awesome. Why clutter your everyday space with rarely used turkey roasters and extra pots and pans when you can store them in your…
Prep kitchen… with custom island built by The Gilded Stag
or your walk in pantry…
The downstairs also includes the master bedroom and two guest bedrooms. We staged one of the guest bedrooms as a study with amazing blue grasscloth wallpaper from Phillip Jefferies:
Silverton Custom Homes, the builder (in conjunction with Henley Homes) was incredible to work with. They were open to ideas and made each and every bathroom ‘custom’ with unique tile work, cabinetry, lighting and counters. Every space is special!
The master bedroom is in the back of the downstairs and also has beautiful, lake views.
The color palette throughout the home is essentially water colors (sand, greens and blues) with varying intensity throughout (such as the bright blue study).
For the master I decided on a peaceful retreat in creams with accents of brown. The only color is in the oil painting, which fits into the color scheme of the home overall. It is very elegant, but at the same time, comfortable and approachable. Not stuffy or too precious.
The bath is a true luxury, from the stand alone tub, the jetted shower and marble and antiqued glass cabinets and doors.
One of the guest bedrooms is also downstairs, at the opposite end of the home. It is a large size, big enough for two chairs and an ottoman.
This bedroom has a bright and cheery bath with beveled, cream crackle subway tile and turquoise and purple accents.
When you go up to the second level of the home, there is a landing flanked by two bedroom suites. The landing features a coastal living sectional covered in the new “Crypton” fabric. Let me tell you, this stuff works! Unfortunately there was a little incident with the sofa and ottoman getting carried up to the top floor. First, both were covered with dirty hand prints and, second, the sofa back got streaked with a black line from the iron railing.
The hand prints literally dusted right off with a damp cloth. The black line (black paint?) took three tries. The last one I actually followed the directions and used Tide and a toothbrush and that took off the black line.
To the left is a room that is geared more toward a young girl. I used lime green and bright blue.
All of the home’s permanent elements (tile, counters) are ‘neutral’ for longevity and the greatest appeal. However, we customized with colorful artwork and mirrors which could be easily replaced if the future buyer would like to do that.
The ‘boys’ bedroom features a spectacular custom trundle bed also from The Gilded Stag. This room is also blue and green, but more of a peacock color scheme. You might recognize fabrics from Celerie Kemble, Martyn Lawrence Bullard and Kelly Wearstler.
This bathroom has a tub with an arch ceiling above. We used decorative tilework on the ceiling which helped to highlight the architectural feature.
Oh, and in case you didn’t see the view, yet:
The exterior looks out at the lake and has a fire pit and infinity pool. We had the outdoor throw pillows custom made by Austin’s own Square Feathers.
It is a lovely home throughout, I hope you think so, too! Oh, and by the way, the house is for sale, furnishings included. This could be your dream lake home. Don’t forget to get out there before Sunday the 24th!
The feedback from the showhouse has been awesome! So much so, that Southern Living just named Silverton Custom Homes & Henley Homes (the builders) as “Southern Living Custom Builder of the Year”! What an honor! It has been such a blessing for Scott and I to work with such a wonderful, family organization.
Anita at Red Chair Market came out to our Grand Opening & Showcase House Party and wrote a nice blog post about the event. Check it out by clicking on her logo:
Time is running out quickly if you plan to get out to the house. It will be on tour through the 24th. Just a reminder, Denise McGaha and I will be giving two design seminars at the house on Saturday, February 23rd beginning at 11am.
Also, tune into “Good Day Austin” this Wednesday (the 20th) on Fox to hear Linda Grimm and I take you on a picture tour of the home and talk about some of the key points. It will be my first foray back on TV since Four Houses this summer and I have to say I am looking forward to it! I don’t know exactly what time we will be on air, but sometime after 9:00am. I hope you can tune in.
2013 has started with a bang! Our new location, winning Best Home Accents store, and now, partnering with the best custom home builder in the country, per Southern Living! God works in great ways. More news and photos about the showhouse to come, so stay tuned for future posts.
