I don’t remember which magazine it was in, but I can still vividly recall the spread.  It was an article about antique quilts from Provence, featuring a woman who had been collecting them for decades.  She had stacks neatly folded in an old armoire and used throughout her home.  I read and reread that article and pored over the pictures several times.  I probably still have the magazine somewhere in the basement, in a bin of favorites I just couldn’t bring myself to recycle. I loved the patterns, the muted colors, the simple quilted designs.  They were lovely. It was a similar magazine article that introduced me to ironstone over 25 years ago, but I didn’t have the same luck building a collection of Provence quilts.  I don’t recall ever seeing one “in the wild” to even weigh purchasing it. Photo via Textile Trunk on Instagram   Well, someone at

The master bedroom was the first room we worked on when we moved into this house.  Literally, on day one, mom and I were pulling off wallpaper.  We were going to have hardwood floors installed, and I wanted to get the walls stripped and painted before that happened, so that we could have a clean slate.  I didn’t want to look at to-dos while I was trying to get to sleep.  We worked hard and got the wallpaper and glue removed in a couple of days, followed by primer and paint.  I’ve done a few other things in this room since, like make curtains and paint the trim, but this room has never really been finished.  It’s been done enough while I worked on other projects that felt like a higher priority.  A clean slate can wait a while. The benefit of waiting is that it gives me time to

When I was shopping for a kingsized bed frame a few years ago, one of the features on the wish list was a high, padded headboard so it would be comfortable to sit up in bed and read.  This bed definitely checked that box!  The one downside to having a taller headboard, especially one that is curved, is it can be a challenge to figure out what to hang over it.  A rectangular piece of art or even a grouping of rectangle or square art and photos also looked slightly off.  After leaving the space blank for a while in our last house, I hung a fabric bed crown to frame above the headboard.  You can read about that HERE.  In this house, I wanted to do something different I ended up finding inspiration from the collection of antique transferware plates and European antlers I hung in our living room.