Rachael Bell Interior Design

Some old things made new, and some new things improved✨ We dressed up these family wingback chairs in a funky, fun new print and gave the Ballard counterstools some extra pizazz. They had me doing a happy little jig all afternoon. Just a taste of what’s to come in this home!

Two very non fashionable things in my home bringing me unreasonable amounts of joy lately:
1. Abe was gifted this silly little cowboy made of seashells by his Gracey, whose wacky and whimsical gift giving is so perfectly suited for a three year old. He makes me giddy every time I pass him by, saddled there amongst a rock that Abe found to be important and a collection of other precious miscellany. I hope my children always collect random things that make them happy.
2. I’ve been wanting to get rid of this cheap Target cabinet since I bought it. It was the only thing that fit in our teeny living room at a much smaller house and now it’s filling an otherwise empty corner. When Christmas decor came down, it sat bare for a few days because Winnie is at the age of snatching anything on a surface she can reach. I just positioned a favorite flea market lamp with a wonky shade that needs replacing on top of some old decorating books that would probably advise against this entire setup. I keep glancing at this little corner and noticing how the lamp light frames the cabinet below and illuminates the Woman at the Well by Chris Cook above and this fragmentation of light just makes me happy in the simplest of ways.

Both serve as a reminder that perfection probably isn’t the aim and not to take it all too seriously. Happy Monday, folks!

🍂 Something about adding a bit of rich brown tones to a room makes me feel like I’m on the receiving end of a hug. Something I could definitely use this week as I’ve returned from vacation to the internet being down all day yesterday and Canva crashing as I work on a 60+ page presentation today 🙃 Is it too late to go back to the days of writing “paper tickets”?

This is your reminder that will be on the tour on October 25th! Tickets are nearly sold out, so don’t miss your chance to see this + 5 other gorgeous homes on tour. All proceeds benefit Greene County Habitat for Humanity, so you’ll be doing a good thing while you’re at it 💚

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In my brief moment of stillness at 6 AM this morning, I was reading a Substack about observing beauty and it said something to the effect of - if you’re being chased by a cougar across the rim of the Grand Canyon, you probably won’t notice its beauty. After a weekend of Urgent Care visits, cooking dinner with both kids yelling, stopping Winnie from climbing the bookshelves for the 10th time, talking Abe down from a meltdown over his yogurt being opened the wrong way, etc, etc, I feel like I’ve invited the cougar into my house. And soon I’ll load it in the car and take it to work with me 😅 I think the point of the article was that some things can be stop-you-in-your-tracks awe invoking beautiful, but beauty can also be found in most things if you’re intentional about how you observe or perceive it. While raising small children (and running a small business) sometimes feels like you’re being chased by a predator, so much of it shows me the magnificent beauty by the hands of our very creative creator. I just hope I’m not too busy to miss the Grand Canyon in it, ya know? How are you intentional about perceiving beauty in your day to day?

Anywho, here’s a dining room we gussied up at