Cozy Rooms and Fall Color: Friday Finds #104
Brrrr! Woke up to a cold snap today and I’m not at all ready for it. Today is a good day to stay inside and cozy up with a good book or magazine. Baking is a great option, too. But for now, let’s enjoy a few treasures that I found this week to share with you.
You don’t want to miss the Pinewood Grove cabin. Scroll through the slideshow of this beautiful cabin decorated with pops of color here and there.
Erin of the Home Town television show shares how to determine your home’s style as opposed to lumping it into a popular category like “farmhouse” or “country.” I found it really insightful.
Not all home tours have to be large to be impressive. Check out this sweet fall apartment makeover. The bedroom is my favorite!
Now here’s an article I can relate to. See 13 vintage kitchen features that should have never gone out of style. I completely agree – and had one of the Hoosier cabinets that appears on the list.
Want to know when the leaves will be at their peak color in your area? Or maybe you’d like to plan a fall weekend trip. Use the Smoky Mountains’ fall foliage prediction map to find out when autumn colors will be at their peak in any location of the country.
Do you ever think of taking up a new hobby? I would love to do needle felting. I don’t know if I have the patience for it, but this needle felting for beginners article will help anyone get started making adorable woodland creatures in time to decorate the Christmas tree.
And now for today’s featured recipe – toasted s’mores chocolate chip cookies! Since it’s cold and windy outside, today might be a good day to bake a batch of these yummy morsels!
Enjoy your weekend and the beginning of fall’s glorious color display!
Where can I buy that home sweet home mug?
I love those felted critters and wondered how they were made. I subscribed but like you Jennifer, I’m not sure I have the patience..maybe on a snowy day spent inside?
Erin’s from Home Town does give insight to the word Farmhouse used so often. Our home falls somewhere in between as the builders wouldn’t allow us to do what we’d like in this area but it has a much more farmhouse feel to it than some big box houses that are painting their homes jarring white shades and placing wood beams outside…that to me is very contemporary style but not farmhouse per se. I do wish many painters or builders would talk to their clients about the best shade of white to use on the exterior of a house…then again..it’s your money and it’s your home..do what you love!
I agree with the post about what should have been kept in our homes. Mine was built in 1944 but it didn’t look like that and I have idea of what it should be like. I made it into a cottage style home. That cookie recipe looks delicious.
Thank you, thank you for the Fall Foliage Prediction Map! I have bookmarked the site for help in planning a Fall trip.
I had to laugh about the farmhouse sink. I was born in 1950, so keep that in mind. When I was 4, my parents bought a small farm, and the house came with a real farmhouse sink. However, it also came with a pump, not a nice faucet. My mother had to pump the water from the well, by hand to get enough water to do dishes, etc. And the original house had no bathtub/sinks. Can you imagine?
We had a big tin tub that my mom moved to the kitchen, filled with pumped water that she heated on the stove (my father did put a new electric stove in the kitchen when we moved in, thank goodness) a couple of times a week so we could bathe. In the summer though, we pretty much used the pond to wash up.
A relative had a Hoosier cabinet and I wish I had one now, along with the multi-compartmented stove- did they have electric ones?
Thanks for all your great articles and ideas.