Four Fabulous Fabrics for a Fresh Farmhouse

If you haven’t seen our gorgeous new farmhouse fabrics, today may be the perfect day to get cozy, snuggle in, and slowly browse through our site, discovering some of the most exciting, beautiful, and versatile styles we’ve ever designed.

We’ve always known that our homes are so much more than just “where we live”, but through these last 12 months, we’ve seen this fact take on a whole new meaning! We require our homes to be SO much more than we used to. Think home office, zoom conference room, presentation space, kids’ classroom, yoga studio, spa-like retreat, home theater, and maybe a newly-revised personal gym. Continue Reading

Aspiring to be Grateful. Thankful. Always.

Did you know that there is actually a decorating style known as Aspirational? Well, there IS, and sometimes we bring it home without even realizing it. This decorating style works wonders for anyone who is interested in creating a space that is comfortable and updated, with messages that encourage and inspire. Continue Reading

These Signs Really Speak to Us!!

We have loved these signs from the minute we laid eyes on them, and recently you’ve shown us that you do too! They are literally selling like hotcakes!! If you don’t know about these signs or haven’t noticed them here on our site, now is a great time to dig into our Wooden Signs and see how many new ones we’ve just added and what all the excitement is about! Many of those we have just added are perfect for fall, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas, while still others are not season-specific, and can be displayed year-round.

With so many to choose from, we know you’re going to find more than one to love! The signs feature an understated color palette and simple linear design, ensuring that they can be incorporated into every style of decorating. There signs range from clever and imaginative, to playful and whimsical, to profound and inspirational. The company manufacturing the signs does it in a wonderfully innovative and environmentally-friendly way that is amazing and impressive.

These signs are a real favorite. In fact, they are flying off the shelves!!

1. Made in the U.S.A.

This American-born company is something to write home about. Their home decor division, which makes products of exceptional quality, came about as a result of their awareness of the “waste” being produced from their main sawmill and lumber company. After paying close attention to the amount of wood by-products were left after the processing of the trees, they decided to find a way to create something from that wood. This company holds “themselves environmentally responsible” (their own words) regarding the production process that they use in their factories. The home decor division, that produces the signs you see here, uses the boards and wooden shims that are cut off of the logs and boards in the lumber facility.

Not only do they use by-products to create these signs, but sawdust generated in their factories, helps to power buildings in their industrial complex and small pieces of wood chipped off and discarded in the manufacturing process are used as mulch for their landscaping operation.

This innovative and forward-thinking mindset has created a company that is earth-friendly, utilizing 100% of the trees they harvest! Now that is a progressive business!

The Gather Wooden Sign brings nature and rusticity to your home with subtle beauty and grace and one word. The understated, modern lettering adds a subtle sophistication with artful style.

The Insanely Blessed Wooden Sign offers a fun and playful reminder to be forever grateful!!

2. Perfect for Every Decor

The signs are simple and charming, bringing interest and style to every interior, whether your look is rustic or contemporary, traditional or beachy, farmhouse or vintage cottage. Designed to be understated, yet visually appealing they blend into every setting and season with their neutral color palettes. Various styles of print and cursive letters are carefully selected with an eye toward design, offering an appealing dynamic, that accentuates each particular message or image. The eye is naturally drawn to the words and affirmations in various ways and each sign is enhanced by a basic, natural-toned walnut frame. They are a delightful addition to your decor, enhancing and coordinating without overwhelming.

 

This       is simply and cleverly designed, with dynamic cursive that adds a modern touch and an inspiring suggestion.

3. Built to Last

Made with exceptional quality and constructed of walnut hardwood, the signs are substantial and sturdy, ensuring that they will stand up to the everyday wear and tear of modern life. By definition, “Walnut wood is warm and rich in color and finishes well…  is a fine-grained hardwood that is dense and shock resistant.”  In layman’s terms, these signs are built to last…

We are loving all the barnyard signs, like the Brown & White Cow, that bring some of our favorite animals right into our living space, without the manure!

The Home Sweet Home Sign is so simple and sweet, adding a message that is particularly pertinent right now! This year home has come to mean so much more than it used to. We’ve been home more this year than ever before and sometimes that hasn’t been easy. One thing is for sure though! There really is No Place Like Home and this sign shows us how important it is to remember we are lucky to have a home.

4. Affirmations to Inspire

The Remember You Are Braver Sign gives us a wonderful glimpse into the wisdom that was ever-present in some of our favorite childhood storybooks. An encouraging, inspiring quote that is uplifting for children and adults! Hang this where everyone can see it everyday!

There’s a lot of talk these days about affirmations and positive thinking and how it can change the way our minds work. Many of these signs offer words of wisdom and profound messages that remind us how blessed we are, that it is healthy to grateful, to laugh a little more and that we really are doing a good job! Having these signs where we all can see them, we’ll be given gentle reminders that allow the words to resonate through our homes and our lives.

Browse through our large selection online, to see all the delightful signs that can add the perfect look or message to your interiors.

Dream Bedroom 101

When warm nights and even warmer days finally arrive, (here’s hoping that it’s soon) we can’t wait to update and refresh our home decor! We love the idea of giving our bedroom an easy overhaul for the warmer months. It can be easy and doesn’t have to break the bank. If you are like us, we only get around to decorating the bedroom last. Even though it’s the most important room in the house, it isn’t usually treated that way. We are more inclined to concern ourselves with decorating the rooms that our guests see. Continue Reading

How To Fluff an Artificial Floral Wreath

Updated on 8/16/2023

How to Fluff an Artificial Floral Wreath in 5 Simple Steps
  • Lay the wreath on a flat surface
  • Begin working on one section by gently separating and shaping the leaves, twigs, flowers, and other elements
  • Pull greens or twigs to either side of the wreath to add fullness
  • Gently pull or bend flowers toward the front of the wreath
  • Continue this process all around the wreath, blending everything so it looks evenly filled
  • Continue reading for a more in-depth version of the process.

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    5 Tips and Tricks for Decorating Small Spaces – Farmhouse Style

    When I moved to Washington, D.C. a while back, I realized I was in need of a Cozy Small Space Farmhouse Makeover.  I learned quite a lot while on this adventure of moving to DC and decorating our small apartment home. I found imaginative ways to make good use of limited space and resourceful techniques to cozy up a less than warm apartment, creating a wonderful home that had true, updated farmhouse style! Try these first 5 ideas to add farmhouse style to your own small space.

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    UPDATE – When Cabin Fever Strikes!!

    By the time February rolls around, that cozy feeling we get when we snuggle up by the fire for a long winter’s night is wearing thin!! The long, ice-cold evenings and short, dismal days of this season are losing their appeal. Daylight is in short supply, the outside world is a slushy wasteland, and we’re inside feeling cooped up, irritable, lethargic and depressed.

    Welcome to the world of cabin fever.

    Cabin fever may not be a psychiatric diagnosis, but it is a real thing, clinical psychologist Joel Klapow told TIME magazine in 2014.

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    10 Comfort Tips for a Cold Winter’s Night

     

    For years now, people have been talking about the concept of “hygge” that is very central to the people in Denmark.

    As the country’s official tourism website explains, the term hygge — pronounced “hue-ga” — roughly translates to “coziness,” but there’s so more to it than that: “Hygge means creating a warm atmosphere that promotes happiness and security; enjoying the good things in life with good people. The warm glow of candlelight is hygge. Friends and family – that’s hygge too.”

    We think the Danes have the right idea. This can be a bleak time of year. The sun goes down while most of us are still at work, and the world outside can seem like a white and grey desert for weeks at a time. Continue Reading

    Spring: It’s our Thing!!

    Spring!! It’s Kind of Our Thing

    After being hit with two big winter storms within the first seven days of March, we are really anxious to say goodbye to this winter. Spring cannot arrive quickly enough for many of us and even though you wouldn’t know it to look outside, the beautiful season of rebirth is less than two weeks away. When spring arrives in all its splendor and glory, many of us want to restore a fresh and breezy energy to our homes, as well. The rebirth going on outside inspires us to breathe new life into our decor, following the cues of the newly arrived, long-awaited season. Here are a few ideas to help you create that dynamic, refreshed style for your country farmhouse this Spring.

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    Big City Apartment, Cozy Small Farmhouse Style Makeover

    April 7th, 2017 Farmhouse Decor

    Every new year brings change, but certainly some years bring more significant adjustments than others.  This year our youngest daughter moved out, leaving us with an empty nest and our other daughter is expecting her first child. Both exciting changes in their lives as well as ours!

    Not to be outdone in the excitement department, my husband accepted a new position…in a different state…Washington DC! I know…Washington DC is not a state at all actually, but the point is it’s over three hours away!

    So, on top of all the other changes this year, we found ourselves needing to set up a city apartment in order for the hubby to have a place to live during the workweek. And since I plan to go with him and work from DC on a fairly regular basis…well, it goes without saying that our apartment MUST be cute and nicely decorated!! But wow! These city apartments are small! We don’t live in a big fancy house, but after the first day of touring apartments I was reminded to be thankful for the space we have.

    Listen, we’re from Bucks County, Pennsylvania – the upper, more rural part of the county…nothing Urban about it…barely Sub-Urban…very Small-Town-USA actually. So this is rather huge for us. We’re used to gardening, sitting on the front porch, listening to birds, crickets and cicadas, shoveling snow, raking leaves, mowing the grass…We are NOT used to sirens in the middle of the night, riding an elevator to get to the front door, walking to the grocery store, city lights, endless sounds of construction projects, Uber, a tiny patio 11 stories up, or an apartment that’s a quarter of the size of our modest home in Pennsylvania! This is going to take some getting used to…

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    Using Fall FOLIAGE to Inspire Your Country Decor

    November 10th, 2015 Fall Decor, Seasonal Decor

    In many parts of the country, it’s the most colorful time of the year. Just go for a hike or take a drive through the country and you’ll see the proof.

    Why not use that color to inspire your home décor, making things as lively indoors as they are outdoors? If you’re not quite sure how to do that, here are a few tips, pulled from Midwestern Living and Better Homes and Gardens, on using the shades of this season to inspire your country decor. Continue Reading

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