Tudor Holiday, Part III

We’ve previously shared photos from the exterior and main living areas of a prominent Tudor Revival home located in Mountain Brook, Alabama, which we designed the interiors for and recently decorated for the holidays.  We’ll conclude a peek around this beautiful home today with a few photos from the Guest Cottage.

 Connected on the ground floor via a porte cochere, we dressed the front door of the Cottage with fresh garland.  We like to double the thickness of garland to achieve the full effect shown here…single widths tend to look a little skimpy.  Just like around the front door, we added giant pine cones for a natural flair.

Inside the Cottage, which includes a large Living Area styled after an old English-style Great Hall, is a towering Christmas tree that displays over 30 years of family ornaments–many of which were handmade by the homeowners’ now grown children.

 

 

Along the loft railing which overlooks the double height Great Hall area, we strung more garland and pine cones.

 

Atop the antique French limestone fireplace, an arrangement of mercury votives are mixed with fresh magnolia and unique beaded glass trees, which we found at Henhouse Antiques in Mountain Brook’s English Village.

 

You’ve seen all there is to see of this home’s Holiday decor, but there’s plenty more left to show you.  Tomorrow we’ll share some photos from another Mountain Brook home, this one beautifully decked out in charcoal, white and hot pink!  Bess and Anna Kay are at Lake Martin decorating a home we recently finished today, and Doug is scheduled to decorate the exterior of a wonderful Spanish Revival villa in Birmingham’s Redmont neighborhood tomorrow.  Plus, we still need to show you the inside of Paige’s house and Doug’s house, all dressed up for the season…stay tuned, there’s a lot more to come!

30A Songwriter’s Festival

We’re going to take a brief break from Christmas decorating today to tell you about an event next month everyone at Tracery is very excited about.  January 15 – 17, the first annual 30A Songwriters Festival will be held all along Scenic Highway 30A–our home at the Beaches of South Walton County, Florida.  Featuring nationally recognized artists like the Indigo Girls, Jeffrey Steele, Shawn Mullins, Rodney Crowell, Sam Bush and Chely Wright; the event is going to a very fun weekend!  The festival kicks off Friday afternoon with a reception party for all artists and attendees at the world famous BUD & ALLEY’S Restaurant on the beach in Seaside. From there plan on three days of non-stop, intimate concerts including solo performances and multi artist “in the round” singing and storytelling sessions.  Your ticket/wrist band will allow you to travel up and down the Beaches of South Walton and freely access all shows in beautiful venues in Alys Beach, Rosemary Beach, Seaside, Miramar Beach, WaterColor and Grayton Beach.

Tracery principal Paige Schnell is one of the founders and organizers of the event and we’re all chipping in to help make this event a success.  We’d love for you to join us–January 15 – 17 is Martin Luther King weekend, so it’s a great time to head to SoWal and listen to some great music in an incredible setting.

Visit the 30A Songwriters Festival website [here] to get more details and to buy your tickets…they are going FAST and there’s a very limited number available due to the intimate size of the venues so we suggest you buy tickets NOW, not later.

We can’t wait to see y’all there!