Check Out These Nashville-Made Products

One of the biggest challenges we as designers face isn’t the extreme attention to detail, the measuring and then measuring again, the thoughtful touches unique to each client, or even managing a full suite of vendors and contractors: it’s the frustrations that come along with supply chain delays. 

These days, ordering the perfect piece of high-quality furniture for a renovation often comes along with a hefty wait time – sometimes spanning six or more months for delivery. That’s why, whenever we can, we partner with local vendors who can custom-make products perfectly suited for our client's homes.

This sparked a homegrown partnership between our pillow collection, Paige’s Pillow Party, and local woodworker Kelly Maxwell of Littlebranch Farm. Read on for more info. 

Nashville-Built Chairs

Littlebranch Farm has grown to become a beloved brand country-wide, but it’s Middle Tennessee through and through. The furnituremakers are based in town and have a showroom in Nashville, but have been recognized for their work far beyond (and for good reason). Last year, they took home Best in Show at the Western Design Conference in Jackson Hole, where the partnership with Pillow Party debuted (more on that later). 

These custom dining chairs are made from hardwood right here in town, so instead of ordering from a far away vendor and waiting eons for arrival, Kelly and his team whip up the frames and get them to Paige to add her flair. 

Franklin-Finished Cushions

If there’s one thing you need to know about Paige, it’s that she’s all about the fabrics. She hand-picks every pattern for every project, so these custom dining chairs are not only retrofitted for each space, they’re also finished in a fabric perfectly suited for each redesign. This makes them all the more high-quality and durable, which is an important consideration for something in use daily. 

During the Western Design Conference, Paige launched a custom line of Pillow Party products inspired by Jackson Hole. These were on display alongside the PWID x Littlebranch Farm chairs serving as inspiration for designers and interior aficionados attending the show from all over. 

Giving Your Guests a Seat at the Table

‘Tis the season for hosting, and while we’ve shared a few tips to get your house party-ready, chairs are always a necessary consideration. Paige often hears clients comment on the importance of comfortable chairs… because when your guests are comfortable, they’re more inclined to sit down and stay a while. 

If you’re looking to spruce up your dining room, let’s connect about ways we can elevate your space using quality local products.

Meet the Team: Reflecting On a Milestone Year

The past year has been good to us. Professionally, we celebrated a decade in business, worked with clients around the region to create their dream homes, and collected a few awards and recognitions along the way. But personally, it’s also been one of tremendous growth, adventure, and perseverance. 

I’m so incredibly proud of my team for constantly bringing fresh ideas to the table and excelling in all they do. Check out their adventures from this year and how they influenced their personal design styles. 

Mattie

Mattie’s favorite travel memory from the past year was a family getaway to Tybee Island and Savannah. There, they stayed in an older beach house that was owned by a famous author, which had a funky and eclectic style Mattie loved. This influenced her overall design vibe for the year – meshing eclectic/mod style with updated, traditional twists. 

The “Feminine Flower” pillow from Paige’s Pillow Party sums up the Georgia coast perfectly. The coastal colors and floral print would fit in perfectly with the design of the home she rented. While more out-of-the-box style was a driver for 2024, Mattie is hoping to embrace traditional design in the new year. 

Brittany

Our resident jet-setter, Brittany, enjoyed a fall trip to Portugal that inspired her design aesthetic this year. Her biggest takeaway was the use of tile seemingly everywhere – lots of blues, interesting motifs, and unique applications were at the forefront, primarily at the National Palace of Sintra. 

In addition to tile, Brittany drew inspiration from the use of ceramics (specifically, swallows) that hung on walls and symbolized good fortune. She loves decorating and designing with elements that have special meaning – her favorite pieces in her own home are often curated from travel and spark a memory. When working with clients, she makes sure to prioritize choices that reflect their personal stories and essence, too. 

Brittany loves projects centered around the color blue. The “Expert ‘Blue’ Opinion” pillow nods to the colors found across Portugal, and embodies the style she’s eager to bring into 2025. 

Paige

The Western Design Conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, was Paige’s favorite adventure this year. It’s no wonder the art, textiles, and natural colors served as inspiration for her 2024 design style – that was the goal of the trip! Paige was most inspired by watching the sunrise at Teton National Park, watching the rays bounce off the trees and lake as the day broke. Back in town, Paige also drew influence from the modern architecture, clean lines, and natural materials incorporated into the buildings. There were many mixtures of wood, metal, and glass, that creates dimension and intrigue everywhere you turn. 

She incorporated this dimension into this year’s design projects, pushing traditional style to the next level by adding intriguing elements. Thinking about “Western design” might spark a certain stereotypical style, but it goes beyond leathers and hides, often incorporating touches of nature, luxurious textures, and modern lines. 

Paige debuted her Pillow Party collection during the conference, but the “Sunrise Landscape” print most reflected her experience in Jackson Hole. These pillows are both beautiful and durable, which plays into one of Paige’s passions she’ll bring with her into the new year: creating durable, functional spaces using high-quality and long-lasting items.

We’re excitedly looking ahead to all the good things and beautiful designs to come in 2025. Get on our list today!

Check Out These Renovated Dining Rooms

It’s time to set the Thanksgiving table! This time of year is all about gathering with loved ones and giving thanks, and while gratitude can be shared in any setting – a park, a playground, a couch – we’ve helped a few of our clients have spruced-up dining rooms that are ready to host the masses this holiday. 

A dining room renovation can be accomplished in a variety of ways, from total gut jobs to simple swaps that can drastically change the space. 

Check out how we amped up these two dining rooms to get them turkey-ready. 

A Simple Spruce 

While we’re always down to roll up our sleeves and grab the sledgehammer when taking on a new design project, we’re also always happy to help our clients make subtle swaps that drastically elevate their homes. That’s just what we did in a recent dining room refresh that had great “bones,” but needed modernized to match the rest of the home. 

We wanted to create a bright yet private space, so we added new drapery with sheers to accomplish the goal. Then, we turned our attention toward the chairs. We could’ve just recovered them in a fabric that would’ve matched the look we were going for, but we pride ourselves on really getting to know our clients and anticipating their needs. 

This particular family had a lovely long-haired cat that had claimed the dining room as its throne. So, we knew we needed a durable fabric that could be easily cleaned before company came over. Whether or not you a have a furry feline friend, velvet is always a great choice for dining room chairs because eating a meal can be messy, and the fabric is easy to clean. 

In addition to some thoughtful fabric swaps, we repainted the room and added a grasscloth accent wall that added a lot of intrigue – depending on where you’re standing in the room, it reflects a different, complementary color. 

A Dramatic Makeover

Sometimes, as they say, you have to go big or go home. Well, we went big at home with this dining room renovation bathed in purple. Our clients wanted a monochromatic look, so we thoughtfully added various shades and textures with purple hues throughout the design. We even took their existing buffet and refinished it with a purple high-gloss paint, using it as the central focal point for the room. 

When pursuing a monochromatic look, it’s important to break up the color with interesting textures and accents to please the eye. Here, we used gold and mercury glass accents, a wool rug, cotton organic patterned curtains, and rich velvet chairs. The result was stunning, creating the perfect moody space to host a gathering for the holidays. 

If you’re looking for an easy designer-influenced refresh before hosting this holiday, check out our harvest-inspired Paige’s Pillow Party pillow! 

And, if you’re dreaming of creating your own hosting haven, now is the time to get on our books for next year. Click here!

This Kitchen Renovation Takes Gold

It’s finally fall – a season with a plethora of cozy colors tied to its name. The leaves treat us to vibrant shades of red and yellow on their way out for winter, orange pumpkins and bales of hay decorate front porches, and football team colors flood the streets every weekend. We adore the look and feel of fall, and we’re celebrating one of the season’s most dazzling shades this month: GOLD!

There are many options when it comes to incorporating gold into home decor, and we’re unpacking them all while telling you about our recent kitchen renovation splashed with gold details. 

Check out the behind-the-scenes and the big reveal below.

The Design Process

The job of an interior designer is to envision new ways to use old spaces. In this build, we reconfigured an unused closet into a sprawling wine bar to match our client’s entertaining dreams. This required us to trim walls to create an appropriate trim, add lighting and electrical, and retrofit the space with custom shelving that would perfectly hold their wine collection. Plus, as always, we incorporated additional hidden storage to maximize the space for our clients and paid careful attention to design continuity so it flowed with the rest of the renovation.

Thoughtful Entertaining Spaces

Why have an in-home wine wall if you aren’t planning to show it off?! Our clients had dreams of hosting gatherings in their home, so we kept entertainment in mind when planning the renovation. 

If you’ve hosted events, you likely know the frustration of having hoards of guests mingling in your workspace (the kitchen) while you’re putting the finishing touches on the evening. By creating a separate wine wall with seating and a wet bar, the goal was to naturally provide guests an area to mingle while keeping the kitchen clear. That way, the guests have access to all the drink refills their heart desires without disrupting the primary fridge. 

Gold Detailing

It’s our color of the month this October, so of course we’re spotlighting all the gorgeous gold details in this renovation. While we love snapping photos of our projects, the metallic gold accents in the backsplash of the wet bar is difficult to capture – so you’ll have to take our word for how beautifully this subtle detail shines through the whole project. 

Gold paired beautifully with the mid-century modern styling of the kitchen – the striking green walls, the dark wood trim. Adding gold hardware was the perfect way to bring the project together and make it a touch more modern. We used gold for the unique cabinet pulls, doorknobs, and light fixtures where possible. 

Whether you’re a fan of mid-century modern style, entertaining with ease, or shiny gold accents, we’d love to help you tackle your next project. Contact us today!

Bourbon and Books: Inside a Dining Room Made Dapper

When you purchase a home, it’s often listed with specific room types: a few beds, a few full and half baths, and standard additions like living, dining, and bonus rooms. But, there are no rules that state those rooms must remain in their intended function. If there’s one thing we push above all else, it’s that your home design should be functional for your specific family.

If you don’t use the dining room for its intended function, change it! That’s exactly what we did in a Middle Tennessee redesign–we transformed our client’s builder-grade dining room into a cool, swanky in-home bar and vinyl listening lounge. The family transitioned to a work-from-home setting following the pandemic, and were eager to create a relaxing oasis in their home to unwind after a long work day. 

Check out our bourbon-meets-bookstore renovation! 

The Process

This redesign included a bit of construction. We kept the existing tray ceiling intact, but knocked out a doorway and butler’s pantry to create a larger space for a built-in bar. With the reconfiguration complete, we then looked toward custom built-ins retrofitted perfectly to meet our client’s needs. 

Working with an experienced designer can help anticipate needs you may not consider when working with a contractor or going the DIY route. Things like perfectly placed electrical outlets to hide wires, custom cabinetry from Century Living with the appropriate depth and weight to hold a collection or prized bourbon, and hidden storage to maximize every nook and cranny. 

In this build, we did all that and more, which created a cohesive space perfect for unwinding after a long day.

The Result

With all our plans in place, we launched into our build-out. Our custom shelving included bench-style seating, and a custom shelf extender built specifically for our client’s record player. We accentuated the dark wood cabinetry with a beautiful blue paint on the walls and ceiling, added gold accents, and green accent chairs from Universal Furniture to round out the space. The room came together perfectly with a custom window treatment and a custom rug from Stark. We sourced fabrics from Romo and Cool Springs Upholstery. 

The rear wall included a custom-built bar with an antique mirror and quartz countertop. It included a display shelf for bourbon bottles and hidden shelving for additional storage. 

With all of our hand-selected upgrades in place, we didn’t want the prior materials to go to waste. We donated anything we could salvage to the YWCA, and Paige even hung the curtains in a YWCA home in Nashville. 

Do you have a room in your home that often sits empty? Let us help you brainstorm ways to make it a functional (and fun!) space. Contact us today.