House Tour: The Hunted Interior

As of lately I have a new favorite blogger home. The Hunted Interior. I’m sure you’ve seen her around town, but I have to share her home since I’ve been ogling over it for months and months and months. Her home feels alive. Looking at the photos of her home, I feel like I can feel the movement and life of this home. Kristin Jackson is the fabulous blogger/designer behind this home and has talent indeed. She uses color without feeling like you just stepped into a crayola factory. Her home feels mature, yet comfy cozy. Just the kind of place I could live. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

Be sure to check out her blog! She has some fantastic tutorials to share as well as more of this fabulous home.

Blouse to Room

I found this great blouse on ModCloth.

 I can’t get past the color combination. This season, mixing colors and patterns is all the rage and this blouse is a great example of the colors of Summer. It got me thinking (I know, STOP EVERYTHING) this would look great in a room. I put together a collection of some great rooms using these colors.

image sources: 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.

What color trends are you into this Season?

House Tour: Decor and the Dog

The thing that I love the most about Michelle’s house tour over at Decor and the Dog, is that everything has a place and everything is in its place. It’s a nice change of pace from my crazy little house with 2 toddler boys running a muck. Sit back and relax. Her home is absolutely lovely! Keep an eye out for little updates from pic to pic. You’ll love them!

                                                     Exterior

                                                   Mudroom

                                               Living Room

                                            Laundry Room

                              Kitchen/Breakfast Nook

                                                       Dining

                                               Guest Room

                                             Powder Room

                                                           Den

                                         Master Bedroom

                                               Master Bath

Isn’t it just lovely!?! And that powder room, is. to. die. for! The entire house seems so clean and crisp and relaxing. I just love it! Check out the rest of her blog to personally witness her awesomeness! 

Guest Post: Arcadian Lighting

I am so excited to be presenting this guest post today! It is my first guest post and I couldn’t have asked for a better one! Joanna @ Arcadian Lighting took the time to put together this AH-MAZING post for us. Without further ado, take it away Joanna.


Hi, I’m Joanna, a writer for Arcadian Lighting, the go-to source for light fixtures and cool lighting ideas on the web. Each day I spend hours surfing the web to find the best of the best interior designs. I then share them with readers of blogs such as The Mulberry Tree. Thanks for letting me share with you today! If you’re like me, you absolutely love vignettes. Any surface is a vignette waiting to happen. The coffee table gives an especially nice place to create a centerpiece vignette for all to enjoy. Many objects work well when creating a vignette, whether you use books, figurines or flowers, it is sure to add warmth and character to your space.

A modern coffee table becomes a feast for the eyes with books on antiques, art and design, a lovely bust and crystal for good chi.

Books, photos and figurines work nicely together to create a pretty vignette on this wood and glass coffee table.

Okay, so this is an ottoman, not a coffee table, but I just couldn’t leave it out and it does serve the same function. The crocodile embossed leather in white works as a terrific place to show off books and found objects. The beautiful pops of color and the lovely lighting fixtures also caught our attention.

An unusual and fun table made from a metal base and removable serving trays provides just the right support for a large collection of items.

This coffee table vignette is sexy, sophisticated and simple. The live flowers look lovely atop the glass table.

A natural, rustic vignette of branches, garden flowers and found bottles sits atop a wooden table. This is such a charming arrangement of objects.

Blue from the sofa is brought over to the table via blue chinoiserie and flowers. Books are turned in various directions for viewing from all sides. Once again, I can’t resist the lighting—these tall slender lamps are gorgeous.

An acrylic coffee table holds magazines, collectable books and fresh flowers. The pink theme from the room is carried through to the table. Don’t these vignettes just inspire you to de-clutter your coffee table and make it a beautiful living room centerpiece? Visit Arcadian Lighting’s blog for fresh interior design and lighting ideas every day! (Images: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)




Wow! This post is filled with some great ideas and some beautiful inspiration images! I have been so hesitant in the past to stage my coffee table because I wasn’t sure how to pull it off. I for one can’t wait to tackle my coffee table now. 
Don’t forget to stop on in at Arcadian Lighting. They have an excellent selection of well priced light fixtures from floor lamps to chandeliers and everything in between.
I hope you all enjoyed her post as much as I did! Thanks so much Joanna for the Guest Post! It was fabulous!

Throw Pillows

In Feb, the hubs and I bought new couches. I absolutely love them, but they needed something else. . . PILLOWS of course! I already had some but plain tan doesn’t fly around here anymore. I had been eying some fabric at Calico Corners and decided that it would make beautiful throw pillows for my new couches. I ordered a yard and when i got it, it seemed like so much less than a yard normally does. luckily I had some left over fabric from when I reupholstered my dining chairs and it’s the perfect color for the BACK of my new pillows. This way I ended up with 3 pillows instead of 2. GENIUS MOMENT!

Here’s the fabric that I found. I love the colors and the pattern is so feminine, yet masculine all at the same time.  

Pillow Before

Here’s how my little project ended. I love how they look and I think they add just the touch when I look from

Under My Mulberry Tree.

Pink Rooms?

I have recently seen a few PINK rooms and at first I couldn’t decide; Pink? or No Pink? I think I have decided that YES! I like PINK in a room. Will I ever have one? Prob not. haha! I love the Hubs, but he is a total “manly man” and pink would never fly. He’s more of a, hang my deer heads on tan walls with wildlife art,  kinda guy. But hey, a girl can dream right? While I was looking at different pink rooms, I found that most of them were very feminine. Seems like a DUH right? I also saw some not so feminine rooms that were way too overwhelming to be calm and relaxing so I chose not to post those. So here are some of my PINK rooms.

This lovely lady of a room can be found Here

This first room is obviously geared towards a little girl. That bed would be amazing in general, but can you imagine being the little girl that gets to come home to that!?! It is a tad too pink for me, but wonderful nonetheless.

Wanna Stay here? Me too! You can see it Here

From here on out, the rest of the rooms just happen to be designed by Sarah Richardson from HGTV‘s Sarah’s House and Design Inc. (The fact that she has 2 shows on HGTV, says enough for me.) I immediately swooned ever her work. ALL of it is completely my style. I think a great designer can do that to rooms. (Make it a style that can work for different styles) The room pictured here is a room in a Park Hyatt Hotel. I don’t know about you, but I would be elated to stay in a room this pretty!

Bigger fan of Coral than Pink? Check out this pic Here

This particular Living room didn’t go with PINK so much as CORAL and RED and ORANGE. However, you still get the whisper of pink looking at it. I think this is a good compromise to what could be considered a “girly” room that is mainly pink.

Here

If this room doesn’t scream FEMININE, I don’t know what does. This room is probably the most formal of all of the ones shown in this post, although it still looks like it could be lived in. It’s not so stuffy that you feel like you can’t touch anything, but it does make you want to sit up straight and mind your manners. Beautiful either way.

Here

This Living Room is BY FAR my favorite of them all! When I look at this room, I can just imagine the gasp of refreshing awe as you walk in. Refreshing awe? I know right!?! It’s just what I imagine when I think about walking in here. Like a ginormous breath of fresh air. The pink in this room isn’t overwhelming. There are a few little soft touches of different tones of pink. I think the otherwise neutral pallet allows the pink to POP, but keeps it from being too harsh. So if you are wanting to try a pop of pink in your room, keep it simple. Allow the room to function without the pink, so that if you change your mind you don’t have to renovate the entire room.

So that’s PINK from my view, 

UNDER MY MULBERRY TREE

The Living Room

When I think of decorating a house, I think of projects in the order that you would see them in the house. So, I thought it would only be natural to start my home inspirations with the living room.

I’ve been on a soft hues kick recently and it seems to fit right in with what you can find in stores right now. (Don’t know what came first-my airiness or the stores) Anywho. . . I found myself flipping through magazines recently and came upon these loverly living rooms.

I immediately fell in love with the coloring of this room. The aqua colored walls allow the neutral off-whites act as a color in this room. By using natural blonde wood, it allows your eyes to flow through the room, rather than stopping at heavy pieces of dark wood. It’s just beautiful.

This Living Room took a different approach to the first. Most everything in this room is white, with sporadic pops of color. By adding darker pieces, like the coffee table, it adds a comfort that the other living room doesn’t have. Both rooms I’m sure are very comfortable, but this room is more relaxed and “chill.” It feels more lived in.

This last Living Room inspiration is kind of a mix between the 2 with a crazy girly spin. I love the pops of Coral, but there is no way on the planet that my Hubby would ever allow a room this feminine into his house.

Here’s what I would do. . . These 2 beautiful chairs, covered in the floral print shown in the background. Plopped Sitting perfectly placed between them, would be an oh so lovely round table like the one shown here.

All Photos Courtesy of BallardDesigns and PotteryBarn

Across from the 2 lovely chairs would be a neutral victorian style couch. Between the Couch and chairs, I really want a smaller, painted  coffee table with rustic lines to offset the formality of the couch and chairs. A lamp that can be adjusted would be ideal. The area would be finished off with a simple accent table. Although I totally LoVe all of these things that I’ve shown, I don’t have 10k for one room. So We’ll just have to wait and see what I actually come up with. Until then. . . This is my view from 
Under My Mulberry Tree.