The Newlyweds at Home

The younger Maynards invited me to help them with their home.  Come inside and visit for a minute!

Burlap drapes enhanced with .. burlap sacks..

Everyone loves these doors- rescued from Restore and edited with a little paint and sanding. 

Brooke and Joel bought their house a year ago and I helped them scramble to furnish it.  They love the result, and so do their friends.  At least it seems as such, because their friends are often there for dinner, a game on tv, or a party, or prepping for a party. 

We began with a dark green velvet couch, which we recovered in a rustic neutral weave, found some old doors at Restore, which we scraped and sanded, and recovered a couple of Brooke's chairs to place in front of the mirror/doors.  I painted an old library table of Joel's grandfathers in what has become my favorite paint color- Silver Fox by Ben Moore. It is a little gray, a little beige, a little silver, and a lot of go with everything else. 

I had pillows monogrammed for Joel and Brooke to liven up Joel's old brown leather chairs. Turns out Bella especially likes the pillows.  Consistent with the urban-on-the-cheap motif, I had draperies made from indigo burlap for the breakfast room, added actual burlap sacks for valances, and an old table from our attic, circa 1980.  It is Danish in design and blends well with their furnishings. Plus, it has a pull up leaf that expands the table to seat 10. 

The dining room, on the other side of the kitchen repeats the burlap sack motif (not shown here) with french grain sack pillows on top of a woven bench.  The Restoration Hardware table and chairs (a Christmas gift!) are topped with one of RH's light fixtures. The windows are enhanced with some $12 wood shades I found at Penneys.  The colors for the dining room were chosen based on a French reproduction poster of Joel's (one of two) and the colors of ruby, olive, and gold are echoed in the rug. 

Brooke and Joel added the blackboard paint to the office they share, and Brooke was the only one of us  patient enough to put together the hanging lamp.  Perhaps she was the only one smart enough, too. 

So, they have added Senator to the family, adorable little guy that he is, all four of them are still able to fit on the loveseat in the office. It was a lot of fun scouring the flea market for accessories to paint or restore, refinishing some family pieces and bringing together what was his and hers to make it theirs. 

Love to Joel, Brooke, Bella and Senator.  

p.s. please invite us to dinner soon.  Brooke is a fantastic cook! 

home is where you want to be everyday