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Cabin Chic • Rendezvous Field, Round Top TX

by Kelly | Apr 9, 2015 | Stay

On The Crush List because…

Friends don’t let friends sleep undecorated.

Cabins OW Chandelier

You may recognize the players in this story because they’re both crushes already; The Rendezvous and Old World Antieks. Whether you do or don’t, no matter, I think you’ll enjoy the tale and the photos. Here’s how it goes:

Once upon a time a few months ago, Gina put up three tiny cabins on her Rendezvous property and commenced to decorating them. But three cabins turned out to be a lot of cabins, so she got to thinking… and then invited Brian and Amy from Old World over for a friendly night of poker and strawberry shortcake. A good time was had by all, until finally Amy called ‘last hand.’ No one’s sharing the details from there, but in the end Brian and Amy were out by the pond decorating the heck out of one of Gina’s cabins with treasures from their warehouse and showroom in La Grange.

Cabins Gina Bath Light

OK. All that is probably a big fat lie. I have absolutely no idea how this wonderful creative collaboration/debt payoff came to be. Again, no matter, the spaces are beyond fabulous and I’m already jealous of the lucky shoppers who’ll nab them for the next Show. (If you want that to be you, contact Gina through her website at the top of the post).

First up are photos of the cabin decorated by Brian and Amy at Old World. I’m going to start with a tour of the interior, but be prepared for the exterior shot. If all this goodness can fit in there, just imagine what we could get into your proper house or apartment!

Cabins Tourist Room

Cabins OW Side Wall

Cabins OW Wide

Cabins OW Cherub Lamp

Cabins OW Double bunks

Cabins OW Bunks

Cabins OW Bottles

Cabins OW Window Wheel

Cabins exterior

Isn’t the outside shockingly modest? To be fair, we should remember that I was clomping around in sticky mud stealing a peek at the cabins in their unfinished state. I’m sure some darling soft and hardscaping will be coming along as a final touch. But even with the mental airbrushing of a big old horse statue and a bunny cart and an amazing concrete aviary and lots of happy roses, it’s still wild to see how much can be done inside the walls of a homely pre-fab shed.

If you can stand more amazingness, here’s one of Gina’s. So fine.

Cabins Gina Wide Peek

Cabins Gina LR

Cabins Dandelion Fluff

Cabins Gina Bunk

Cabins Gina Wide

Cabins Gina Dresser

Cabins Gina Paris

Cabins Gina Up

Cabins Gina Ext Shutters

Adele Sypestyn • Blue Hills Field

by Kelly | Apr 2, 2015 | Antiques Week, Shopping

On The Crush List because…

Your walls are waiting.

adelesypestyn.com

Adele Total

If you’ve been shopping at Blue Hills during the last few shows, and I certainly hope you have, you’ve surely seen Adele’s atelier-styled booth. It’s a dynamic space for sure, with rushing B&W horse photos shown alongside soft abstracts and colorful columns.

Adele Horses

Adele Horses on the Floor

Adele Both Kinds of Horses

Adele Dark Left Horse

Adele Out the Tent

Dd you know that the American Cutting Horse Association is just right down the road from Round Top in Brenham, TX? Cutting is one of those sports I think of as pretty obscure but turns out to be quite competitive and popular. Apparently tens of millions of dollars are won every year by folks who know how to cut for shape and stay off the back fence.

Roller pigeoning is another good example of a hidden sport. It’s the one where you compete for points based on how many times your pigeon rolls over while in flight. It makes me feel better that you’ve never heard of it either. I only know of it because our old neighbor bred bunches of rollers in an elaborate backyard aviary and traveled all over the country to participate in tumbler tournaments. (I hope you clicked on this last link because that video of those Birmingham Rollers in action with The Verve’s Bittersweet Symphony as background music is extremely soothing and would make a sweet little screen saver). Anyway, he’d let his pigeons out for morning practice sessions over a highway near our neighborhood. While they were out it wasn’t unusual for him to lose one or two to hawks, which seemed sad to me but not so much to him. All part of the sport, he’d say.

Adele Shelf