I’ve had my busi­ness for about a month now and I’ve been mak­ing a lit­tle progress. I moved fur­ni­ture into Post & Gray a few weeks ago and just put a few things at Inte­ri­ors Mar­ket­place yes­ter­day (see below).

French buf­fet, boudoir mir­ror, iron lamps, tufted ottoman, french coun­try desk, wing chair, bam­boo book­shelf, cane bench, botan­i­cal prints, gar­den stool, iron chandelier

I’m just wait­ing for my France ship­ment to arrive so I can fill my space a lit­tle bet­ter. Def­i­nitely in need of some accessories!

In the mean­time I am dec­o­rat­ing my office and recep­tion area at my ware­house. I decided to do some­thing out­side of my usual style, which is the Bel­gian linens, Swedish fur­ni­ture, and neu­tral col­ors seen below.

Mrs. Howards

In France the indus­trial look was all over the place, and I really loved it. Since my space is a ware­house with large win­dows and exposed brick, I decided to go with this style.

I really wanted to do a neu­tral look, but with a “pop” of color. My asso­ciate, Will, and I were brain­storm­ing colors.

I really liked this neu­tral linen with a pop of green.

Veranda

How­ever, we decided I needed some­thing bolder. We instantly thought of Her­mes Orange. I’m not usu­ally a bright per­son– no reds, yel­lows, and usu­ally not oranges! How­ever, we thought it might be interesting.

Her­mes

I had seen these great orange leather stools by Suzanne Kastler for Hick­ory Chair, so I ordered 2 for the recep­tion area. I also ordered 3 Hick­ory chair bar­rel back occo­sional chairs in the same color as the walls. Thomas O’Brien designed this tufted chair for Hick­ory Chair that I am using it as my desk chair.

Hick­ory Chair

I bought these indus­trial book­cases in Atlanta and thought they would be per­fect for my office. I pur­chased Pina Zin­gara linen binders in a char­coal color– very sim­i­lar to the walls. I also went crazy with orange acces­sories from Kates Paperie. I even put a few Her­mes boxes on the shelves (Thanks for giv­ing them up mom!)

I bought 50 of these linen binders to orga­nize my design inspi­ra­tions. I will have one binder for each cat­e­gory– acces­sories, art, bam­boo, bath­rooms, book­shelves, color, fab­rics, kitchens, mir­rors, etc!

I am using vin­tage indus­trial gears as book­ends. The one above is from Restora­tion Hard­ware and looks sim­i­lar to a few I bought at a flea mar­ket in Atlanta.

For the recep­tion area I am using this reclaimed wood cof­fee table and the occa­sional wing chairs I ordered from Hick­ory Chair. Yes­ter­day I hung these pic­ture ledges and painted them the color of the walls. I framed some 1800’s archi­tec­tural and inte­rior prints from France and placed them on the ledges.

Hope­fully I will have my ship­ments soon and fin­ish fur­nish­ing my office so I can actu­ally sit down and get some work done!