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handsome, well-built, solid, and perfectly suited for all manner of places and occasions, this table (from a recent shelby county flea market) reminds me of a particular dear brother-in-law. a favorite combination - benjamin moore’s ballet white (#oc.9) edged with pratt & lambert’s lambswool (#11.30) - a little tinted glaze, and bob’s your uncle.
before*, after, and details:
it measures 34″ wide by 24″ deep by 30″ high, and is on [...]
not to worry…mrs. jones is not breaking her promise to you…this is not becoming an elvis fan site!…just had to say thank you to helen morris for another kind mention about our new app on her wonderful blog, and to share with you her chips’ very cool stencil of the king:
you do remember helen’s skirt, don’t you?
(photos [...]
mrs. jones is thrilled to bits to have one of her pieces on its way to the richmond symphony orchestra league’s design house, opening september 13th. lovely kent hughes (of fairfax designs) had a beautiful table custom-crafted for a particular designer’s assigned area. working from her sketch and with the soft oyster-white and raspberry red she specified…(for now, the rest of [...]
after several recent (and enormously frustrating) calendar upheavals at the whims of others, it is bliss to just have some quiet studio time for a cleansing breath, and a nice little pile of “befores” to tackle. please check back for the “afters”, and some other wonderful reveals coming very soon.
thank you for the opportunity to vent.
for those of you who can’t get to market central, mrs. jones’s ship-able pieces will now be available on etsy. drop in and shop when you get a sec. more inventory is on its way.
as you know, mrs. jones loves babies. so it is especially nice to begin the school year with new babies to prepare for, since the young joneses are all – heart-breakingly! - entering grades in middle and high school.
here is a functional piece for baby ruthie’s room…some primitive shelves rescued by her grandmother, sweetened up for books and toys. [...]
a little something new, just for fun…pots treated to the same high-gloss finish that is a favorite on furniture these days. a little drama for your orchid, perhaps?
at market central now, in black or espresso/bittersweet chocolate/obsidian brown…$12.
it’s finally here: launch day. king me, the rock ‘n’ roll royalty tour travel app is now available in the itunes store.
back in april, my uber-talented & precious friend sally walker davies called in a request. help her with a few photos and a little research for a travel guide? absolutely! as the days unfolded, the project became more detailed, fascinating, challenging and fun than we’d imagined…in the [...]
mrs. jones has just spent another hot sunday afternoon lazing in her cool, darkened room, turning virtual pages…this time, the very impressive debut issue of pure green living magazine. celine rogers is officially my new green goddess…click and enjoy!
her blog is excellent, too!
…she is somewhere between camp riva-lake and camp bear track just about now.
back soon with fun things to show you. see you right after the laundry is done.
while my lovely client’s daughter is away at camp, a transformation is taking place…the lucky girl will return home to a redecorated and rejuvenated room. a few years ago, her handy dad built this bookshelf. for the new scheme, it required just a little paint and glaze. here it is before and after:
(the base color is pratt & [...]
…please forward all mail and comments to kiawah island, boardwalk #27, sixth umbrella on the right. thank you.
it’s a big compliment when meg tells me that a particular project looks like something that buddy might have made. (have i mentioned that we love cake boss?) my lovely client wanted a whole new look for this mirror…a high-gloss rendition of benjamin moore’s white dove. so here is the before, and the delicious-fancy-icing-looking after:
it is. just too hot to go to the mailbox for a magazine check. and if there are any sitting out there, it is too hot to exert myself by turning the pages. instead, i have taken to my cool, darkened room, clicking to enjoy the recent issues of lonny (especially good this time) and southern flourish.
among all the inspiriation [...]
as my meg says, it is truly tragical: my camera hit the ground, and has been deemed beyond repair. thankfully, a new one is on its way, but in the meantime, please excuse the purse-cam photos.
if you are interested in salvaging a high-mileage but well-loved old minolta maxxum 5d for parts - model year 2005 – please get in touch, and i will [...]
knowing full well that “transitional space” is architect-ese for a hallway, mrs. jones still could not resist the opportunity to join the amazing ann parker’s team for one of this year’s vesta showhomes. working with ann on the home designed by carson looney with builder jere duffy and the rest of their group was high-energy fun, and being there [...]
tomorrow and saturday (june 18th & 19th) is the much-anticipated sidewalk sale at market central, beginning at 9am. come ready to shop! and if you prefer your bargain-hunting in air-conditioned comfort, come inside for more. since it’s the big sale weekend, go ahead and take 20% off all me & mrs. jones’s furniture. (vignette e-20, smack-dab in the middle of [...]
after launching our children for another great day at camp tatonka, mmes. blackstone, faber & jones snuck away for a most inspiring & hospitable visit at silo studios in thompson’s station, tennessee. little wonder that shawn south-aswad’s fans show up early to get in line at her amazing home/studio for monthly “studio thursdays”…it’s a happening! even if you don’t take home a piece [...]
a lovely client considering a major kitchen overhaul for her gorgeous 1920’s-era home asked for two different looks using the same paint color. so, here are two options for her…layered, distressed and glazed, or painted & waxed (with old knobs out of the dish, just to test-drive.) thoughts?
here is a cute table found at the recent shelby county flea market…sweet & sturdy, but with a damaged top. before:
and after.
(if this scheme looks familiar, it’s because this recent dresser project was such a favorite, i wanted to use those colors again. apologies for the early summer re-run.)
24″ diameter on top, 26.25” tall. it will be at market central on [...]
the young joneses are still wrapping up final exams & those many many school-year-end events, but for once, i’m ahead of schedule on something…we officially have our favorite roll-down-the-windows-and-turn-it-up song for the summer. so the pressure is off there.
bonus: in the happy, fun video, the band perry is (wait for it….) painting! yes they are, glamorously graffiti-style, and having [...]
a lovely mother-of-the-groom honored mrs. jones with a request to add some little details to the decor at the rehearsal dinner. held at the hughes pavillion in the gardens at the dixon gallery, one of the prettiest spots in town, the setting was the inspiration for the garden-y materials we used: burlap, grapevine, terra-cotta. the rain moved [...]
with it being may and all, you know there has to be a graduation in here somewhere, too. last week, my fine feathered friends and i threw a little celebratory luncheon for harriet (our first graduating hen-ette). since she is a sushi fan, and a new graduate naturally wants to know what her future might hold, the [...]
my lovely client had a lot invested in these very pretty, solid curtain rods (and rings and finials and brackets):
but when you live in one of the prettiest homes in midtown memphis, circa 1910, with fantastically high ceilings….well, new & shiny curtain poles just won’t do.
so, after prepping & priming, layers of two different white paints (cameo & [...]
not really…but i hope you will forgive my lack of photographable progress of late. truly, there are lots of fun & interesting things in the works, and as things wrap up and are ready to share, you know you’ll get all the details.
in the meantime, you can go over to my dear friend bill oates’s latest project, the wild dream book, and have a peek. [...]
just like in all the best romantic comedies, my lovely client didn’t see that the truly perfect dresser was right under her roof the whole time, until she happened by mrs. jones’s opening at market central last month. seeing the transformations possible with a little paint, she requested a do-over for this wonderful, curvy old piece that had been [...]
in an exciting detour from regularly scheduled life, sally walker davies has tapped mrs. jones to snap the photos for her two upcoming memphis/elvis projects (all the details coming soon). it was a blast (and great privilege) to spend yesterday with the super-charming, professional and accommodating alicia dean, media assistant for elvis presley enterprises at graceland, who v.i.p.’d me through the mansion, grounds, shops, cars and planes, and [...]
an invitation to a day at alabama chanin…how could i not go? two of my most intrepid, trusting & lovely friends were game enough to adventure with me to florence for the weekend on this particular whim. after a visit to billy reid’s fabulous headquarters & shop (where darling kimberly hughston & cricket made us right at home)…
…we spent the afternoon at natalie [...]
this brilliant tidbit from the lips of interior designer dan marty in may’s house beautiful (”the big advice issue”):
“don’t be afraid to paint a vintage piece. every piece of furniture can’t be brown.”
can i get an amen?
(photo of mr. marty’s showroom from nashville examiner.)
a wonderful old chest-on-chest-style dresser had been languishing in a lovely client’s attic, but will now have a spot in her son’s room, where the color scheme is a lively and happy blue, orange & red. there is a knockout-fabulous old blue-painted piece next to his bed, and when she came to town to bring the dresser and [...]