My Spring Homestead Table

My Spring brunch table, tea with a nest? My Mom and Dad's 25th anniversary coffee pot, now an antique is one of my favorite possession.

Bead springs make perfect egg holders, no the eggs are decorative only, but I guess your could polyurethane them. Um, my next project! Piled up vintage linens and burlap jumbled  are nest like too...

Raffia and lace everywhere!

Rustic and elegant materials just belong together!

Enjoy,

Karen

My Feather Tree

Hope you enjoy my Thanksgiving white feather tree. This tree was a great investment, it works for every holiday and season. It looks great if it simply adorned or elaborately laden.

Here atop the kitchen table, a giant acorn ornament boasts most of the attention but feathers and sugared smaller acorn ornaments add a deeper color to the tree.

Sorry for my absence, had a small health matter.

A closer look beyond the tree shows the beehive oven in my Federal 1796 kitchen...

and a stack of old basket boxes cover the opening for firewood.

How have you decorated for the coming holiday, love it would share your ideas!

thanks,

Karen 

Soap Dispenser Revealed

Summer flowers always dress up my guest bathroom with just the right amount of color.

Blue hydrangeas, correopsis, beach roses and a butterfly bush's blossom happily adorn a handmade stone

countertop. Do you remember a post awhile about my inability to select a soap dispenser for my guest bathroom?

here: http://braytonhomesteadinteriors.blogspot.com/search?q=soap+dispenser

 Yes, I finally selected one, do you like it?

 I like the way the dispenser compliments the antique pitcher and bowl my mother gave me, but it is new so functions well... 

Yeah, I think the room might finally be done...

Well, not really. Decorating any room is never finished, isn't that the fun of it?

I am so thrilled to have my vintage PIANO BABY from my Brayton Cottage shop

featured in Debra's fantastic Monday Marketplace weekly post at

COMMON GROUND

Karen

Tapestries, textures and tones

A vintage statue, it's position on my kitchen fireplace mantle designates it's important place. A  serene face and colors always calm me. The tones and textures really represent my personal style...

Tan and browns, woven baskets and wood tones are found in my office as well as the kitchen...

what? Yes the dog even has complimentary tones,

plaster and...

the real thing,

Krumpet!

Karen & Krumpet

Kitchen updates in white

Painting everything white in my kitchen! Cannot seem to stop. It all started with changing my drawers to basket drawers and adding creamy white vintage dishes.

I took an old frame and first painted it white.

I had painted the bricks white too and used the seem gold glaze on the frame as I used on the bricks.

I am pleased how it is coming out. The plaque was given to me by the town, that is the year the house was built.

 Plan to put a chalkboard in the frame. 

More of the painted brick with kitchen utensils.

So much brighter and fresher.

what do you think?

Thanks for vising the Brayton Homestead!

Karen

Time...

Whites cast rich reflections, 

enhance textures and exude warmth... 

An ivory handled pocketknife in the shape of a ladies' shoe...

and a Bakelite terrier amid vintage textiles

all at the

BRAYTON COTTAGE!

Linking with:

KNICK OF TIME

MARTHA'S FAVORITES

ROSE CHINTZ COTTAGE

FADED CHARM

COMMON GROUND

THE CHARM OF HOME

sorry for any confusion, I have 2 Brayton Cottage shops

one on Etsy- Brayton Cottage 

and my own.com- Brayton Cottage 

thanks,

Karen