Garden Fresh

May 9, 2013 by

The days are warming up, meaning its time to show your garden a little extra love. There are tons of ways you can freshen up your outdoor space, from displaying new accessories to adding edible varieties to your colorful spread of flora. Read on for a list of ideas that will reinvent your garden.

1. Bring in vintage inspiration with unique decor. One reason we love gardens so much is that they take us back to simpler times. Whether we’re surrounded by beds of roses or sculptured hedges, the beauty and complexity of it all captivates us better than the latest episode of Downton Abbey (Ok, so maybe that’s not true–they’ve got some pretty spectacular gardens as well). You can enhance the old-fashioned appeal of a garden with a few strategically placed accessories. A set of weathered garden tools hung on the wall lends a reclaimed look, especially if they’re re-purposed as flower pot displays. And a giant antique clock hung on an outdoor wall makes for something completely different–it’s a fun look that we can’t help but love.

Rustic Garden Tools

Old Town Clock

2. Make a place for the birds. Nothing captures the whimsy of nature quite like the delicate flitting of the local winged set. And for that reason, we love bird houses. Especially rustic birdhouses. Wood and metal selections look particularly lovely in the garden space, and lend old-fashioned appeal to the outdoors.

Old-Fashioned Bird Houses

Rustic Birdhouses

3. Bring the garden in. Especially if you have a small outdoor space, herb planters are a wonderful way to bring a touch of freshness indoors. Herbs are perfect for spring, since they do well in warm locations, in addition to adding bursting flavor to spring dishes. Most herbs prefer sun, so place a planter near a sunny window or on the deck or patio. It’s also important to water herbs as soon as the soil is dry a couple of inches below the surface. A planter with a vintage-inspired, industrial design keeps in step with rustic home schemes, whether placed indoors or out.

Industrial Planter

As your garden starts to flourish with color, think about adding some special decor that heightens the rustic inspiration of your outdoor space. Antique accents blend seamlessly with the outdoors, and you won’t have to worry about them rusting and weathering, since that only adds to their charm. What’s your favorite way to accessorize your garden?

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Farmhouse Fauna and Barn Door Decor

May 6, 2013 by

Sometimes simple touches can be just the thing to up the charm in any home. With summer fast approaching, our favorite way to bring in a hint of something new is with farmhouse-inspired accents–not only do they look great in rustic, country-style homes, but they also work to add natural inspiration to modern spaces. As beautiful indoors as they are outside in the sun-drenched garden, these accents will have you living the laid-back, idyllic life of the pastoral countryside in no time. Keep an eye out for the launch of our new website in the next few weeks, where all of the following products will be available!

Farm Animal Accents: Friendly farm creatures have tons of personality, and give your space a homespun, country-vibe. Grain sack accent pillows are an easy way to incorporate these spirited friends into your home scheme. Pair with neutral, sun-washed colors for a wholly rustic look.

rooster pillow

Barn Doors: Inside the house, farmhouse-style doors are a wonderful way to save space and bring a touch of country to your space. With plenty of old-fashioned, casual appeal, doors like these make any room cheerier. Bright reds and blues maintain a farmhouse-inspired feel, and are perfect for the kids’ room. Tone things down a bit with white or neutral barn doors that section off an office area.

Red barn door

Outdoor Accents: Farmhouse style translates well to the outdoors, too–a barn door-inspired planter box or hanging wall bust work beautifully in sunny summer gardens.

barn door planter

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With warm summer months right around the corner, we’re loving country-inspired accents and farm animal personality. Casual with just a touch of old-fashioned appeal, farmhouse touches bring us back to simpler times. Relax and enjoy the understated beauty of green pastures, simple wooden fences, and, of course, the friendly farmhouse fauna. Now pull on a pair of worn leather cowboy boots and ride your trusty steed into the sunset!

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Find Your Inner Fabricista!

April 18, 2013 by

Find your inner fabricista! Spending time with fabric is a great way to learn what you like, don’t like, and absolutely love!

Great color combinations can brighten up a space reflecting your personality and mood.

Pick your favorite colors. Chances are, if you don’t like the color yellow, you aren’t going to LOVE that yellow chair you just got designed. If anything, you are probably going to be on pins and needles until that chair finds its way out of your presence. If you are still having a difficult time picking your favorite colors, find your favorite pillow or accent piece in the space you are updating. You can either highlight a favorite color from those items, or compliment their character by choosing a color suited to their theme.

Summer Time Fabrics

Here are some great color combinations that we absolutely love!

Rustic Paris

Neutral colors can easily find their place in any style of space!  If you already have a specific theme throughout  your house, refreshing your furniture by updating the upholstery is a great and simple way to go.

Lovely Summertime Room

Bright color combinations are also perfect for introducing a vibrant piece into your collection.  You can add something extra to a kid’s space or brighten up your den for the summer!

Greens and Browns

Warm fabrics that evoke serenity leave you with a touch of natural appeal. A combination of moss and sea foam can take you to a relaxing place without even leaving the comfort of your living room!

Summer Time Blues

Cool colors are great for complimenting neutral spaces.  Colors such as ivory, grey, white, and navy can easily mesh well together when creating the room of your dreams. If you’re that beachy kind of person, a color combination like this will work for you.

Everyone has a little fabricista inside them, and it doesn’t take much to be one either! Once you’ve chosen your favorite  colors, theme, and pieces to decorate, you will be surprised at how quickly everything falls right into place. Fabricista will become your middle name!

 

 

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Lime and Cilantro Vinaigrette

April 10, 2013 by

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This versatile and tangy vinaigrette can be used for tasty garden greens or salads.  This recipe makes 1 1/1 cups.

Ingredients: 

  • 1/4 cup lime juice
  • 2 tablespoons white vinegar
  • 1/2 bunch chopped cilantro
  • 1 tablespoon brown sugar
  • 1 clove minced garlic
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 3/4 teaspoon brown mustard
  • 3/4 cup olive oil

Directions

Blend the lime juice, vinegar, and cilantro together in a blender until smooth. Add the brown sugar, garlic, and salt; blend again until smooth. Spoon the mustard into the mixture. Turn the blender on and slowly pour the olive oil into the dressing mixture in a thin stream; blend until thoroughly combined.

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Enter the High Camp Home Facebook Giveaway (2013)

April 5, 2013 by

Welcome to High Camp Home’s giveaway! Shed light on your love of rustic design for a chance to win two Wood Garden Lanterns and a Simply Organic Cookbook! Like, sign up & share this post to enter our giveaway for a value of $110. Enter by Wed, 4/30 at 11:59pm. One randomly selected winner will be announced on 5/1. Good luck!

Enter High Camp Home’s Giveaway: http://on.fb.me/YAyiu9

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The Decorative Pillow Defined

March 28, 2013 by

The time is here once again! Open the doors, stretch from your arms to your toes and breathe in the refreshing spring air. It’s spring–which is code for cleaning…and DECORATING! The trick, when spring cleaning, is to avoid getting too carried away. It may feel rejuvenating to buy a completely new living room set and/or tear holes in your walls for room expansion, but it will cost you a ton of time and energy (and probably an exorbitant amount of money).

This is why the pillow was invented! You can dress up your couch like it’s going out of style, you can give your chair the boost of confidence it needs, you can brighten your room with a pop of color, or you can add texture to a symmetrical space. The accent pillow is a spectacular way to save money, but it’s also a great way to share your personality.

Orange Flower Pillow

One of the easiest ways to freshen up your comfortable, cozy couch is to alternate your accent pillows with the seasons and holidays. Bring out your bright, flower-inspired pillows for the spring and summer.

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Add texture, compliment or accent your wall color, or tone down that one loud, colorful piece of furniture with a neutral shag pillow. With those layers of texture, you might even discover that the shag pillow becomes a decoration of it’s own.

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Another approach for room redecoration is to find decorative pillows that speak volumes to your personality. Do you have a passion for traveling? Are you inspired by gardening or farming? The throw pillow can speak just as loudly as your favorite wall decor or table accent.

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Pillows–accent pillows, decorative pillows, throw pillows. It’s a win win situation every direction you look. Finding a pillow that inspires you can easily keep your fingers away from the sledge hammer and your pocket appeased. Happy pillow hunting!

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DIY Rustic Bouquet

March 20, 2013 by

Catching the first glimpse of spring can cause anyone heart palpitations – especially when you come across big open fields filled with wild flowers and blue skies. The warm, beautiful scenery can easily become a household member by creating your very own DIY rustic bouquet.

Yellow Feild Blue Sky

Step 1: find a beautiful field you can’t take your eyes off of.

Yellow Flower Field

Step 2:  Gather flowers and other naturally nature-made items to add variety to your bouquet.  Remember, you can add or take away things that you love/don’t love, so grab extra foliage.  Think texture. Think color. The variety will capture the beholders eye.

Gathering flowers

 Step 3: To display your rustic, wild flowers, cut the stems and place them in an old mason jar.   It will feel like you never left the colorful scenery behind.

Flower of Rustic

Lastly, you must find the perfect place for your flowers!  Place them outside on your patio table, set them on your kitchen window sill, or place them on an end table to accent your favorite piece of decor.

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Rustic Remote Office

March 15, 2013 by

Last week, High Camp Home opened a big, beautiful door to its very first rustic, remote office in Petaluma, California. And, just to make sure we would all feel at home, we did a little bit of interior design. We just couldn’t help ourselves…

While the new HCH was in the midst of transformation, a couple of behind-the-scene pictures were taken.

Office Before 3

Like any design job, you need to make a mess before the job gets done.

Office Before 1

Just like our sister in Tahoe, we wanted to make sure we kept to our rustic roots while adding a modern flair. Here are some of our pictures after the we finished the install:

Light with Numbers

Take a peak and see what we have behind our cabinet!

Red Cabinet

No office is complete without rustic desks, industrial lamps and decorative numbers!

Desk Angle

And the moment you’ve been waiting for…

Office View

Despite popular belief, when designing your new office, there is no need to make it feel uncomfortable or boring! Designing is fun! For us, it was a great opportunity to show our rustic roots while incorporating modern elements. We have enjoyed this mini-design opportunity, and we are excited to see where this new venture take us!

Stay tuned for the final unveiling! We have wall decor and decorative accents on the way.

 

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Organize like a Designer

January 28, 2013 by

There is a place for everything, and you can put everything in its place. Organization tends to become a burden for most, especially when you don’t have that special something to help make that dreaded space your favorite place. Here are a few tips to help you get started:
StagHorn Bowl

Add a decorative bowl to your table or counter. You can add some decorative fruits and veggies to provide texture. You can also employ such a decorative accent for your keys or those small, extra knick-knacks that get in your way.  You will be pleasantly surprised and refreshed when a surplus of elbow room never goes away!

Carters Cubbys
Take that extra step out of your mornings by placing those easily forgotten items in the cubbies by the door. This can also be an easy solution for a child’s messy bedroom.

Red Totes

Repurpose your decorative totes to carry your needed items for the day, and/or store the totes you aren’t using in an open space or corner needing that extra somethin’ somethin’.

Storage Shelving
Have you run out of cabinet space? Is your office a disorganized jumble? Don’t worry! You can easily create an airy space and reorganize those cluttered shelves.  One of the easiest ways to do that is simply by adding open shelving. You can do almost anything: display your hats; organize those larger dishes; make a home for your favorite magazines.

Organization doesn’t need to be scary!  Adding a tote, decorative accent, wall hanging or shelf can really create decorative charm while redefining a space. There’s no doubt about it: you will feel like a designer!

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Lighting Style for your Home

January 15, 2013 by

We’ve all been guilty of walking into a beautifully decorated house, only to find ourselves staring at a hanging eye sore  or a perfectly horrible table lamp. You really want to tell your friends how hideous their fixture(s) are but your voice looses its gusto and you divert your attention elsewhere.

Simple lighting changes don’t have to be difficult, however.   Great lighting can truly define a space.  You can coordinate with room color, shape and/or texture. Take our Branchelier, for example:

Yes, it is a chandelier made of twigs!

Yes, it is a chandelier made of twigs!

Alone, this is an impressive piece filled-to-the-branches with texture.  In a space, this Branchelier remains impressive still. Its personality speaks for itself.

Give a space much needed charm with added lighting

Give a space much needed charm with added lighting

Implanting the Brachelier in a house will take beautiful, rustic charm to the next level.

Highlighting any space can easily accent colors in the room.

Highlighting any space can easily accent colors in the room.

Simple lines in a space can be spruced up with some added texture, while extending its presence into the next welcoming room.

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Lighting shouldn’t take away from a space, but add to it.

If anything, your lighting NOW becomes a conversation piece.  How could it not?  It’s a chandelier made of BRANCHES!  It gets me excited just thinking about it!

Add rustication (rustic sophistication) to your entry way.

Add rustication (rustic sophistication) to your entry way.

Ultimately, your lighting should not take away from your home: it should add to it.

Make a rustic, modern space with a pop of color!

Make a rustic, modern space with a pop of color!

If you have a larger, open area you might consider a light with more texture (similar to the Branchelier).  If you have a textured space, you might consider something more simple in shape.  If  your house has white walls with simply colored furniture, you might consider a lighting fixture with a pop of color. This red Brachelier can achieve such a desired look while making a modern space more rustic or a rustic space more modern (whichever you prefer).

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