What's your favorite season? Ours is autumn. Crisp, sunny days, spectacular foliage, pumpkin everything!
It's still August, we know, but with all the stores trotting out their fall goods, who can blame us for wanting to get a head start? It began with an Instagram #mantel challenge. Speaking of Instagram, we'd love you to follow us there.
We're very fond of our mantel and were at risk for committing the sin of "overgramming" it, so we needed to change things up for the challenge. First we did a little home-shopping and then we hit Michael's for some faux-liage to arrange in our milk glass urns. We got those urns at a wonderful consignment shop in Raleigh called Inspirations. If you're in the area, check it out!
Anyway...here's a photo of our summer mantel
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| Quince Cottage Summer Mantel © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
And here's one of our late summer-early fall mantel
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| Quince Cottage Fall Mantel © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
A couple of close ups...
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| Fall Mantel Detail Left © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
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| Fall Mantel Detail Right © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
And then the mantel thing led to a pillow thing. Yes, Rhiann doesn't like sewing, but she was fairly pleased with the way her summer porch pillows turned out, and this encouraged her to tackle living room pillows.
Fall says earthy natural colors, nubby textures, homey coziness. With that in mind, we hit WalMart (ticking fabric at about $7 a yard), Mill Outlet Village Fabric in Raleigh (Jacobean floral and wheaty linen, both on clearance for under $7 a yard), and TJMaxx where we found the black and cream striped dishtowels we used for the smaller pillows ($3.99 for two towels).
Here's a closeup of all the fabrics.
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| Swatches © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
Something learned during the summer pillow-palooza is that by doing front and back in different fabrics, you can get a lot of different looks using the same collection of pillows.
With four different fabrics, we got four different combinations.
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| Quince Cottage Fall Pillows Combo 1 © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
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| Quince Cottage Fall Pillows Combo 2 © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
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| Quince Cottage Fall Pillows Combo 3 © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
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| Quince Cottage Fall Pillows Combo 4 © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
Quince Cottage Style mixes old and new, rustic and opulent.
Our goal is to make our new subdivision house look inviting and beautiful,
and as though it wasn't born yesterday.
Our goal is to make our new subdivision house look inviting and beautiful,
and as though it wasn't born yesterday.
Daisy and Buster are ready for some cooler weather, and so are we!
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| Buster © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
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| Daisy © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
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