Pretty Woodland Wall Treatment

Made from pine cones, vines, sticks, pods and other natural woodland bits and stuff.  Beautiful!  

This stunning wall goes way beyond loving-hands-at-home-style arts and crafts.  Using natural materials, this elegant design mimics French boiserie (lower panel) and chinoiserie (upper area).  Absolutely stunning! So get out your glue guns, folks...

This is an upstairs attic room in a country home owned by the proprietors of Boxwoods, the ultra-charming house and garden store in Atlanta.

"Transformed into a guest room, the third-floor attic space is a celebration of nature and human creativity. Randy decorated the walls by appliquéing real pine cones, acorns, hickory nuts, sweet gumballs, and honeysuckle vines onto them. The lower walls resemble ornate paneling; the upper walls’ fluid floral designs suggests the patterns from crewelwork. The room is a favorite for the children of visiting families."--Traditional Homes

Source:  Traditional Homes Camp Boxwoods Attic Guest Room

The gorgeous country house, overall is a traditional Southern home, however, there are some very nice Black Forest pieces in it, and several other rooms have elements that apply to cabin decorating, too.

A beautiful stone fireplace has been enhanced with a white painted mantle, white-painted antique mirror and a collection of creamware, old crocks and silver.

Beautifully carved black forest chairs and a pair of magnificent antler candlesticks.  The centerpiece also seems to be a carved Black Forest box of some sort. 

A wonderful rustic kitchen--perfect for any cabin.  Spectacular wide plank floor and matching wide planks on ceiling.  The charming cabinets are actually an old candy counter cut in half (by the way, this is a look you could ask your cabinet maker to mimic--and don't forget the turned feet).  The hood is fantastic!

I love the way this fireplace has been constructed with layers of elements.  From the columns, to the carved garlands, the corbels under the mantle and the diagonal bead board.  Add a coat of paint, and the whole conglomeration comes together as one beautiful unit!

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Another Pinterest Page to Love--Bavarian Designs

I keep stumbling across these charming Pinterest pages where someone has lovingly put together an utterly charming collection of mountain images.  The one I found today is called "Bavarian Design" and it's full of graphics, painted pieces, and furnishings with Bavarian patterns and motifs.  If you love old school Swiss chalet style, then this is your board.  It's a great resource for anyone out there who is creating a ski chalet and is looking for some authentic inspiration.  Love it!

Click on the photo to link to the page.

By the way, I was happy to see a number of images included from this site as well as several from our online store:  TahoeDreamInteriors.com.

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Contemporary Rustic Style in Aspen with Richard Hallberg

Contemporary European chalet style is making its way to Aspen.

This project by Richard Hallbert is everything that is contemporary chalet style.  It's clean, light and bright, with modern finishes and furnishings. Most importantly, clearly on display is that special element of oh-so-contemporary tongue-in-cheek referencing to mountain motifs and traditional craftsmanship that you see in today's modern European chalet style.

Just exactly what makes up that special element?  It's the fur pillows, the hair-on-hide upholstery, the antler, horn and bark materials, the huge rustic logs. And yet, these references to the past and the traditional are judiciously sprinkled into what is, in all ways, a very modern interior.

This is a primarily white color scheme with a few touches of black.  

Notice the very rugged rustic wood, both in the architectural elements such as the over-scale log posts and beams and in the furnishings and accessories, as well.

The wall texture gently undulates and the flooring consists of rustic wide planks in a grayed, distressed and aged finish.  All this "hand-crafted" detail is in stark contrast with extremely modern elements such as this striking entry table.

In the den, furnishings are minimal, rustic, and in natural materials and muted colors.  Distressed leather, horn, fur, wool and stone gently mix.

Again, in the kitchen ultra-modern elements contrast with the rugged and rustic.

A modern lucite coffee table is placed next to traditional antler furniture pieces.  At the foot of the modern linen covered clean-lined upholstered bed is an Adirondack style birch bark trunk.  White shag carpeting on the floors and modern artwork contribute to the overall contrast of slick, sleek and modern vs. rustic, nubby, natural and traditional.

The most modern of tubs, contemporary artwork and a modern side table contrast with the softness and fullness of the white shag area rug and a plump linen covered chaise.  Up above, a large complicated white-painted antler chandelier further contrasts with the simplicity below.

Back in the master, the red Lucite coffee table and a large red artwork add jolts of color and excitement to the overall white color-scheme.  

Source:  Veranda Magazine  If you'd like to read the story about how the house was created, see the original article.  http://www.veranda.com/decorating-ideas/a1753/aspen-colorado-house/

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Michelle Nussbaumer's Gstaad Chalet is a Crazy Mixed-up World of Color, Travel, Adventure and Fun

Say the word "cabin".  Do you think of logs, plaids and moose heads? Think again...there are really no rules.  A mountain home can be anything you want it to be.

Take Michelle Nussbaumer's Swiss chalet.  It's a true mixture of wanderlust inspiration.  Textiles from Morocco, Mexican pottery, Chinese porcelains, French and Swiss antiques.  You name it, if it's exotic and glamorous, Michelle has tossed it into this fabulous family retreat.  It's less an escape FROM the world and more an escape TO the world.

Nussbaumer is a Dallas-based designer and owner of Ceylon et Cie. Her vibrant store is packed full of exciting items collected on her travels around the world.  Nussbaumer's colorful and eclectic style can be seen in her Gstaad chalet.

Nussbaum and the cow on her back patio.

The home is a centuries old classic chalet.

Beautiful antiques including a stunning painted amoire and a French needlepoint chair are brought to life with a colorful tablecloth and pottery collection.

A colorful feast for the eyes.

A comfortable seating area with a dramatic blown up canvas in the background.  

I love the warm colors and interesting collectibles that are artfully scattered into every nook and cranny.  It gives the rooms such a welcoming, comfortable feeling.  

Hands down, my favorite utility room...ever!  

The strength of using a great fabric everywhere in a room.  Delightful!

Exotic textiles galore!

Another cozy bedroom with a crazy mixed up collection of textiles.  Somehow, it works together beautifully.

Vibrant and exciting colors.  Don't you just love the crazy Mongolian fur chair?  And right in the middle of it all, a modern table with old blue and white pottery.  

All photos by Melanie Acevedo for Veranda.

If you love ethnic fabrics, here are some of our favorites, click here.  And to view our favorite ethnically-inspired wallpapers, click here.  

A little more about Michelle Nussbaumer's new book...

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Barbara Barry Chalet Collection--Pretty Fabrics for Cabins and Rustic Mountain Lodges

I have always loved chalet style.  For years I loved traditional chalet style. The charming Swiss embroidered fabrics, the Brien Black Forest wood carvings, eidelweiss flowers, rustic Antique French and Italian furnishings.  My clients ordered so much Pierre Frey chalet fabric that I became the largest Pierre Frey account in the US.  In fact, I still love the chalet look.

Chalet Style --Old School

A room I designed for a client 15 years ago.  Lot's of Pierre Frey!

But these days, I am more enamored of a contemporary chalet style, one influenced by the clean lines of Axel Vervoordt's Belgian decorating.  Still dominated by simple rustic furnishings, old beams and wood floors, and still an emphasis on antiques, but dotted here and there with contemporary mountain pieces.  Less detail and fuss.  An altogether, lighter, cleaner look where emptier rooms are simply furnished with larger pieces, nubby fabrics in simple pale colors, everything chosen for its purpose.

A chalet room designed by Axel Vervoodt.  

And now Barbara Barry, a distinctively American designer with her own fully developed contemporary design style, has embraced European chalet design and has created a line of fabrics, trims, pillows and curtain hardware.

Somehow Barbara Barry has managed to blend the old with the new.  You still see the traditional influences, the subtle snowflake and pine sprig patterns, the trims with their leiderhosen-inspired shapes.  But everything is in softer more modern colors and fabrics.  Traditional motifs and patterns are merely suggested, not rendered in perfect detail. Rumpled linens, faux furs and coarse woolens are the textures of choice. The color palette is restricted to soft grays, sages and taupe.  It's a look for today and I am loving it.

Rustic nubby linens in soft colorations dressed up with generous quantities of leiderhosen-motif inspired trims.

A beautiful woolen.

Embroidery inspired by the past but used in a new way.

A subtly beautiful pine bough pattern.

It's all about the trimmings.

You can order the pillows made to order--and there are so many styles to choose from.

And don't forget the faux fur.  It wouldn't be contemporary chalet style without it!

Beautiful fabrics and beautiful details.  By the way, the faux antlers are part of the hardware line.

Drapery tie-backs and rod supports in faux-antler. 

 Some up-close looks at some of my favorite items from the collection...

Bavarian Button--A simple linen with hand embroidery and wooden buttons.

Interlaken Pillow

Antler Finial

Alpenrose Fabric in Silver Grey

St. Antoine Pillow

Dirndl Fur Throw

Wood Frost Wallpaper in Birch--so pretty!

The whole collection is available at TahoeDreamInteriors.com, of course. We're always happy to get you samples of the fabrics and trims you're interested in. We want you to be able to see them up close, take them into your rooms and live with them for awhile before you order.  Just let us know if you see anything in the Barbara Barry Collection that you'd like to receive in a swatch form.  There's no charge. 

Links to Barbara Barry Chalet:

For fabrics and trims:  http://www.tahoedreaminteriors.com/barbara-barry-chalet-collection/

For toss pillows: http://www.tahoedreaminteriors.com/pillows/

For fur throw: http://www.tahoedreaminteriors.com/dirndl-faux-fur-throw-from-the-barbara-barry-chalet-collection/

For curtain hardware:  http://www.tahoedreaminteriors.com/hardware/

For Wood Frost Wallpaper:  http://www.tahoedreaminteriors.com/wallpapers-1/