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Fresh Floral Ideas for Valentine’s Day

Unique Floral Inspired Gifts For Your Significant Other

With Valentine's Day around the corner, I thought it would be fun to round up my favorite and unique floral inspired gifts. Everyone loves receiving flowers, but sometimes it is nice to have a different spin on the traditional bouquet. This list will have your sweetie glad you put some extra thought into their gift. Fresh Bouquet. One of my top picks that ships fresh flowers is Farm Girl Flowers. They use all U.S. grown flowers that are picked fresh at the time of order. Their bouquets support local farmers and businesses. I received an arrangement last week and loved how these beautiful blooms were super fresh and arrived in the cutest reusable burlap sack. It was fun to take an artisan bouquet and arrange them myself in a vase. I love that you…

Three (Big) Reasons to Invest in A Mattress

How A Better Mattress Can Affect Your Health & Productivity

When Casey and I were selecting the furnishings for our master bedroom, we made it a point to focus our attention on picking out the right mattress. In the past, it has always been an afterthought. Much more planning went into selecting decorative pieces, but a mattress really has a big impact on your daily life. Did you know that it can affect your health, too? Getting enough sleep is key to starting off your day right and setting you up for good things to come. Luckily, a good friend referred us to Coastal Bedding Outlet based in Bluffton, South Carolina where we decided to invest in the right mattress for the both of us. Just in the past three weeks I have experienced HUGE benefits and I wanted to share them with you! Increased Productivity. This…

A Rustic Candelabra Style Light Fixture

Find the Right Light Fixture for Your Room with Birch Lane

When I'm designing a space, one of the areas I mostly focus on is lighting. It's an important piece of the design -- and often overlooked. So as we were renovating our home I spent a good bit of time searching online for the perfect light fixtures that would make a statement. Birch Lane is on my go-to list when I'm shopping online and they had just the right light fixture for my husband's study. Particularly, I wanted to create a dark and cozy room to be used as his retreat. If you follow me on Instagram, then you know that I LOVE the color white. However our goal was to create a room that was different than the rest of our home. We opted for dark grey walls with lots of trim and even painted the ceiling beams the same color as the…

Savannah-Inspired Artwork

Savannah Based Artist Uses Painting to Inspire Others

Last fall, we had the opportunity to visit the Hostess City with The Southern C and Visit Savannah! During our girls' getaway we met with Savannah-based artist Jessica O'Neill one morning over coffee at Mirabelle Cafe. Since our trip, I couldn't wait to share Jessica's story and designs with you! Now that we're in our new home, I had a chance to hang her beautiful painting and capture it for the blog! Her path to becoming an artist is quite inspiring and I hope that you learn to appreciate her work as much as I do. Her career as an artist started a new chapter for her. After being diagnosed with an auto-immune disorder, she embraced her love of art as a way of helping her heal. At first, she was shy about sharing her artwork. Luckily, she had great friends encouraging her…

Doorman Designs Pecky Cypress Table

A Southern Maker Uses Furniture to Tell a Story

As you know, I just moved into my new home about three weeks ago! We're still finishing up some of the renovations such as tile and trim work. Because we're also in the middle of decorating, I'm not quite ready to share a home tour just yet but you'll see small snippets in the weeks to come, starting with my home office! Somehow I managed to get the best room in the house for my studio because it has two walls fully lined with windows! So when I was trying to think of how to furnish the space I knew that I wanted to bring in some texture and find pieces that are functional for myself and my team. I spent a lot of time on Pinterest and pulled inspiration from The Cloister at Sea Island. I kept coming…