February 24th, 2010
With warmer weather upon us and spring [thankfully] around the corner, we’re stepping outside the house and into the backyard. What better way to celebrate and test your creative side than to try your hand at these faux-bois planters or leaf embossed tables? The options to showcase your style here are endless…so cheers to ingenuity with these DIY garden projects.
With a simple mold you can custom create your own planter with a stone-like finish. [We love this faux-bois pattern...it reminds us of the Stark wallpaper from our Wood Wallcoverings post.]
Any leaf can be used in the embossed table top, so customize to suit your fancy. [Our suggestion: a classic fern frond is sure to impress.]
See the full article here with instructions and even more ideas from Martha Stewart’s Living.
If you try these at home, do share! We’d love to see pics. Post them to our facebook page or shoot us an email at info@parkersimsinteriors.com.
[photo credits: martha stewart online]
January 12th, 2010
To start the New Year, we thought we’d share the top 5 most viewed Designer Dishes. Now, the PSI team picked our top 5 favorites and interestingly enough, we were only one off from our viewers picks below. Challenge: see if you can guess which one while reading…
#5: May’s The Timeless Value of Luxury [maybe it had something to do with our meeting Celerie Kemble and Trina Turk]
#4: December’s Top 10 Favorites from Coastal Living’s Idea House
#3: April’s Fashion to Furnishings [in partnership with CHARLIE mag's resident stylist for our picks from Charleston Fashion Week]
#2: July’s Woody Wallcoverings [and we still love this birch wallcovering]
And…the most visited Dish and blog post of 2009 with 990 views
#1: March’s Simple Spring Spruce ups [ideas to easily update your walls]
Did you guess correctly? We were surprised by #5 May’s Timeless Value of Luxury. Our top 5 favorites were the other 4 above and November’s Market Recap.
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January 8th, 2010
The numbers are in, and we wanted to share the top 5 posts of 2009. With a cumulative 3,000 page views, here’s the countdown:
#5: Woody Wallcoverings
#4: Color of the Year In Chicago Interior [2009's hard to forget color of the year, mimosa]
#3: Cheers to the Golden Girls [one of our favorites]
#2: Happy Earth Day
#1: Simple Spring Spruce Ups [quick tips for updating your walls]
Thanks for reading in 2009! We had over 15,000 visits and look forward to sharing more design inspiration and posts in the New Year.
July 2nd, 2009
The birch wallcoverings in this interior from Kemble Interiors in Palm Beach are amazing. They lend such character to the room, and you know how we always enjoy incorporating natural elements in interiors…such a timeless characteristic within a space.
That being said, here are some other woody wallcoverings we’ve found that caught our eyes.
Cork Wallcovering in natural from InnovationsUSA’s Specialty Innvironments collection. [More colors available.]
Inspired by the modern lines of the Art Deco era, Phillip Jeffries’ Deco Wood collection [shown above in Rockefeller Tan] incorporates strips of wood and hemp on fine paper backing for a textured look.
This handpainted woodgrain on paper from Stark is a striking and eco-friendly wallpaper option. With the color options available, you can opt for the traditional chocolate-hued woodgrains to more bold versions of pinks, lavenders or blues.
These Tambour Bamboo panels are made of smoothly sanded splits of bamboo on canvas backing.
Arbor Series’ Teak Wood Wallcovering is also a handsome paper.
Petra from the Onyx Wallcovering Collection for Osborne & Little comes in either horizontal or vertical bands with 5 colorway options. Our two favorites are above.
For more information on any of the wallcoverings shown, please call the studio 843.278.8707 or send us an email info@parkersimsinteriors.com .
