party in Mountain Brook

Hey it’s Doug. We had a party last Friday night at our Mountain Brook shop.  We were excited to have two artists we represent at the event, which featured their artwork–Mountain Brook native Mila Hirsch who produces really beautiful botanical prints and New Orleans based Mallory Page, whose amazing mixed media pieces we’ve carried in both of our shops for the past couple of years.  Flower magazine co-sponsored the event with us and between us, Flower and the artists, we invited a lot of people!  And we had quite the crowd…Shindigs Catering parked their food truck out in front of the shop and by the end of it, Mountain Brook Village was happening!

Do you ever have a party and forget to take pictures during the event?  We’ve been known to do that before, and this was no exception.  Not to worry though, our friends from About Town were there snapping pics of our guests (we’ll share think link when the photos are up on their site) and Hannon went around after the party and took some photos of the shop.

It was so great to have Mila and Mallory and so many of our friends at the shop…we need to have parties more often!  We still have lots of great pieces from both artists available, so if you see anything you like here give us a call at (205) 414-6026 and we can send you more info.

Southern Living Idea House shaping up

Hey everyone, it’s Doug.  The Farmhouse Renovation Idea House we are designing for Southern Living is really starting to come together.  The house installs mid-May so there’s not much time left!  As the contractors finish up construction on the home, everyone at Tracery has been working to pull together the home’s interiors.

Hannon and I visited Senoia to check in on construction a couple of weeks ago and took these pictures.  I hadn’t been to the house since December (Paige and Anna Kay have been a few times in between) so I was really surprised at how different the house looks!  It’s coming together so fast.  Isn’t that big deep porch great?…and so Southern!  The house is still primed for paint in these pictures, by now it should have received its coat of white paint.  I can’t wait to go back and see that in a few weeks.

Our entire team is working on the Idea House…a project this big that’s coming together this quickly requires a team effort for sure!  From Mountain Brook, Hannon and I have been coordinating a lot of the interior architectural details like plumbing fixtures, door hardware and custom paint finishes.

In Rosemary Beach, Paige, Anna Kay, Bess and Kristina have been coordinating the furniture orders with all of the various sponsors involved with the project; and have been working with our seamstresses and workrooms to get all of the custom drapery for the house fabricated.  A few weeks ago, Paige and I presented our design schemes for the house to the editors of Southern Living, to keep everyone in the loop regarding our vision for the home.  Here are a few of the different schemes we have pulled together for different parts of the house:

 

The interiors of the home will have a sophisticated palette of neutrals and greys mixed with some stripes and plaids and a few doses of unexpected color.  The home will definitely have a farmhouse feel to it, but in a very updated kind of way.

 

Now that we’ve ordered all of the major furniture pieces and “new” items for the home, we are all busy scouring vintage shops and antique stores across the South for perfect pieces to complete the home and add some history and character to the interiors.

Hannon and I picked up this collage of vintage school pictures the other day at an antique store in Birmingham.  It will be a fun addition to one of the upstairs bedrooms when we install the home.  We are also excited that to be working with some really great Southern artists such as Mallory Page, Emily Ozier and Courtney Garrett–all will be supplying original artwork for the home that’s really going to be the perfect complement to everything else we’re doing.

We are so excited about this house and can’t wait to show you more soon!  Stay tuned, and in the meantime check out Southern Living’s Idea House page to get more details on the project and to find out how you can see the house for yourself this summer.