Bringing Autumn Indoors
As the light changes and the days grow shorter, warmer color, natural materials, and familiar patterns bring a new feeling to the rooms we live in.
There is a point at the end of summer when the light begins to change.
The afternoons are still warm, but evenings come a little earlier. We begin reaching for warmer materials, deeper color, and the rooms that make us want to stay awhile.
Bringing autumn into a home does not have to mean changing everything. A few small shifts are often enough.
Tortoise in Tulip
Tortoise is organic and irregular. Its markings settle easily beside linen, warm wood, and quieter upholstery.
100% Belgian linen, printed in small batches in the USA.
Warmer color
Autumn naturally draws me toward colors with a little more depth. Olive, tobacco, faded blue, warm brown, rust, and natural linen all seem to settle into a room this time of year.
It can be as simple as changing a pillow, adding an upholstered piece, or bringing pattern to a window.
Jetty is a woven with a quiet ribbed structure. In Punch it reads warm and a little faded, which is exactly what a room wants this time of year.
Jetty in Punch
Jetty is drawn from Charleston's marshlands and marinas — an aerial view of docks reaching across the water.
Small-batch, woven in the USA and well suited to upholstery, cushions and pillows.
Small-scale pattern
Checks, small florals, woven geometrics, and organic motifs feel especially at home as the season changes.
They bring warmth without asking the entire room to change.
Nectar in Raisin
Nectar brings the warmth of a woven textile and a small repeating motif that feels familiar and easy to live with. In Raisin, the browns and soft greys sit quietly against white linen.
Nectar in Raisin
Nectar takes its structure from the honeycomb — a geometric floral motif with a classic, heirloom quality.
Small-batch, woven in the USA and suited to upholstery, cushions, pillows and Roman shades.
Daffodil is a small stamped floral with an easy, repeating rhythm. In Copper it sits warmly beside marble, pale wood, and natural linen.
Daffodil in Copper
Daffodil is a small-scale floral motif printed on 100% Belgian linen in small batches in the USA.
Suited to cushions, pillows, and upholstery.
Mix pattern with quieter materials
Pattern works best when it has something simple beside it.
Natural linen. Warm wood. Woven upholstery. A heavier throw.
I especially like printed linen mixed with woven fabrics in fall. One brings pattern; the other gives the room a little more weight.
Hemlock is the quiet one — a needle-fine stripe on Belgian linen that gives pattern something to lean against.
Hemlock in Frost
Hemlock is drawn from the tall Carolina pines, a vertical stripe that follows their branching, needle-fine silhouette.
100% Belgian linen, printed in small batches in the USA.
A nod to the landscape
Some of my favorite patterns begin with what is happening outside the window.
Grasses, branches, leaves, natural markings, and garden forms bring the landscape indoors without feeling literal.
Eden is the tangle of branches and garden growth just past the window. In Autumn it turns the whole print warm.
Eden in Autumn
Eden gathers leaf and vine into an easy garden rhythm that brings the landscape indoors.
100% Belgian linen, printed in small batches in the USA.
Let the house shift slowly
You do not need to redecorate for autumn.
Add a deeper color. Bring out a favorite throw. Change a pillow. Introduce a pattern you have been saving.
Small changes can be enough to make a room feel ready for the season.
As the light changes outside, the house begins to change with it.
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