Labor Day Deals on Home Decor

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Hello, September! You always sneak up on me, though I’m so happy you’re here, with your cozy nights, sweater weather, rusty leaves and warm soups. Hot drinks and comfort food will soon become the norm again, while the sun-filled, carefree summer days will slowly fade into memory. 

While the days are still hot and the mosquitos as bothersome as ever, Labor Day weekend is a last hurrah to summer and a great shopping opportunity for those of us who seek the best deals on our favorite home decor items. It’s a great time to shop for new bedding, add to our collection of cozy throw blankets, restock our stacks of inspiring design books, or just have fun hunting for the best deals on our most coveted items. 

Here’s a list of what I’m looking for this weekend, in the hope that our lists collide and you see something you like, need or want 🙂 

BEDDING

Schweitzer Linen – Up to 45% Off Everything

… including the Regent’s Peak set:

the Petite Pois

Artsy Hearts

The Company Store – 30% off Everything

including….

My favorite sheet set (only 3 left!)

Legends Hotel Luxury Cotton Percale Sheet Set

Lands’ End – 50% Off Sitewide + Up to 75% Off Summer Clearance

Farm to Home Organic Cotton Softy Down Feather Pillows (Set of 2)

The only rug I’ve ever been happy with, both quality and price-wise. It’s perfect for layering with smaller area rugs such as kilims and dhuries, and comes in many different shapes and sizes to choose from. It’s also the color of dirt, which makes it ideal for high-traffic homes 🙂 The only thing I haven’t been able to clean off of these is an oil stain (if you have any tips for doing that, please share).

Herringbone Seagrass Rug

BOOKS

Martha Stewart’s Gardening Handbook

“If you want to be happy for a year, get married. If you want to be happy for a decade, get a dog. And if you want to be happy for the rest of your life, make a garden.”  – Martha Stewart, Martha Netflix Documentary

The first fully comprehensive gardening guide from the legendary Martha Stewart in more than 30 years, with everything you need to know to curate a beautiful, thriving garden. Master the art of gardening with Martha Stewart’s Gardening Handbook: an in-depth guide that will teach you the knowledge and skills to cultivate a flourishing garden. From understanding soil composition to learning about different types of plants and gardening methods, you’ll discover the secrets to creating a stunning outdoor oasis.

Tom Scheerer’s new book – Still Decorating

An interior designer walks into a room and at a glance knows exactly what needs to be done to transform it from ho-hum to sublime. That is Tom Scheerer’s secret power, and it is seen on every page of Still Decorating. Featured in this—his third—book are 20 of his latest projects, located Up North (Maine, the Hamptons, Greenwich, Connecticut, and New York City), Out West (Dallas; Big Sky, Montana; Aspen, Colorado; and Jackson Hole, Wyoming), and Down South (primarily Palm Beach). No matter the locale, the same aesthetic prevails: comfort and ease derived from perfect proportions and fresh, unpretentious beauty. It all seems utterly effortless, belying the fierce intelligence and impeccable eye behind every decorating decision. Illustrated with Francesco Lagnese’s stunning photographs, Tom Scheerer: Still Decorating is a testament to the enduring mastery of America’s premier interior designer.

Nicola Harding – Homing Instinct

Harding takes the principles of English interior design—a decorating style beloved throughout the world for its embrace of color, whimsy, and true comfort—and deploys them with a universal appeal in her debut book, which features a selection of her most celebrated projects.

Harding is known for her quintessentially British, reassuringly familiar interiors that mix traditional charm with rich atmosphere. A sense of meaning comes from deftly weaving together expertly sourced antiques and luxurious fabrics, married with craftsmanship that has a particular significance—for example, a supplier who works in a village near where a client grew up, or antiques from local dealers. 

With a calming, nature-inspired palette, Harding’s residential projects embrace English country-house coziness and radiate a warmth that makes each place feel personal and well lived in, while her hospitality commissions are bold and spirited, often inspired by literary or historic characters. This first book delves into Harding’s design philosophy, which, at its heart, prioritizes human experience above all else.

Charleston – A Bloomsbury House & Garden, by Quentin Bell

Set in the heart of the Sussex Downs, Charleston Farmhouse is the most important remaining example of Bloomsbury decorative style, created by the painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. Quentin Bell, the younger son of Clive and Vanessa Bell, and his daughter Virginia Nicholson, tell the story of this unique house, linking it with some of the leading cultural figures who were invited there, including Vanessa’s sister Virginia Woolf, the writer Lytton Strachey, the economist Maynard Keynes and the art critic Roger Fry. The house and garden are portrayed through Alen MacWeeney’s atmostpheric photographs; pictures from Vanessa Bell’s family album convey the flavour of the household in its heyday.

The Bible of British Taste: Stories of Home, People and Place, by Ruth Guilding

Based on the hugely popular blog, magazine, and Instagram account of the same name, The Bible of British Taste explores the meaning of traditional British style. Rejecting the pristine and predictable in favour of the lived-in and characterful, this is an aesthetic created from art, antiques, the reused, found and hand-made and the layers of history laid down by generations of home makers.  

As author Ruth Guilding puts it: ‘My personal mantra for the descriptions of people and their houses in this book roughly seems to be that old stuff is good, and perfection is boring.’

Taking her contexts from William Morris, the Bloomsbury set and today’s leading artistic makers and innovators, Guilding explores the meaning of ‘home’ and our everlasting preoccupation with domestic taste, self-presentation and decorating styles,       

With hundreds of images of remarkable gardens and interiors, domestic icons and folk art narratives, and featuring renowned tastemakers– from Sir Roy Strong and Jasper Conran to Luke Edward Hall, Bridget Elworthy of the Land Gardeners and Ben Pentreath – The Bible of British Taste shines a new light on the quirky charms of unconventional British style.

With unrivalled access to some of Britain’s most extraordinary homes, this is the definitive guide to the nation’s most distinctive interiors – a book that belongs on every design lover’s shelf. 

My Life in Colors by Martin Brudznizki

Martin Brudnizki’s maximalist style and ability to transform high-profile venues into iconic spaces have earned him a prestigious reputation internationally. This debut book explores how the celebrated designer uses the language of color to create glamorous interiors that are both opulent and deeply resonant, where every shade tells a singular story.

For Brudnizki, color is an essential ingredient for storytelling and conjuring atmosphere. Color is a force that brings his spaces to life, defining them, and enhancing the experience within them; it is a character in itself and Brudnizki uses it to blur the lines between eras and styles, to marry heritage with modern luxury.

Sims Hilditch – Beautiful British Interiors

Sims Hilditch creates interiors that epitomize the English country house look of today. The firm embraces—in this, its second, book—the best of old and new British design, traditional materials, and a pared-back aesthetic to create stylishly comfortable rooms for twenty-first-century living.

Spanning the extraordinary breadth of the studio’s most recent work—projects in townhouses, historic country manors, and seaside villas—the interiors in this book reflect the design philosophy of founder Emma Sims-Hilditch: Every house needs to work on a functional level before one even considers the decoration. Spaces, from sumptuous entrance halls and sitting rooms to hardworking kitchens and boot rooms, are organized for efficiency and practicality before the design team introduces an abundance of floral and damask textiles, striking colors, both refined and comfortable furnishings, and decorative trims.

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