With the look of not-so-real wood
By Christa TerryI love to blog hop, moving from one to another by following random blogroll links. It’s fun, it helps me to better understand the roll of my own links section, and I invariably find myself reading something awesome. It may take a few jumps to find those best-of-the-blog-world type sites, but the time I spend sitting at my desk nearly always proves worth it!
To illustrate, it was just yesterday that I happened upon It’s (K)not Wood, a blog celebrating all things “faux bois.” Written by Emilyn Eto and Jonathan Lo, this blog highlights the best in wood that isn’t actually wood.
The latest post introduced me to this faux wood wedge shelving from West Elm.
Neat, yeah? And not what I was expecting at all. If I were to create a blog about fake wood, it would probably be filled with lots of posts dissing the nasty faux wood paneling The Beard and I encountered in so many of the houses we looked at when shopping for somewhere to live. Ugh. You can paint over it in the short term without it looking too bad, but you’ll always know it’s there.
Luckily, faux bois is typically a lot nicer than that. Here are some of my (clickable) favorite things, all done up in white:
A wood pile from KleinReid, $450.
A mirror from West Elm, $249.
And pretty votives from Gump’s San Francisco.
February 20th, 2008 at 12:29 am
Love the soft touch of that feather in your first picture. The pattern on it is neat! I’ve laid down Pergo flooring with my husband; it’s not nearly as beautiful as these woods are, but it cleans up easy, and it’s practically indestructible.
February 20th, 2008 at 9:58 am
I love me some Pergo, buttercup! It looks surprisingly good…
February 20th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Those votives are really pretty. I don’t know about the fake woodpile. When one actually heats their home with real wood, and has a great big honkin’ woodpile in back of the house, a faux-wood, white woodpile in the living room would seem a bit …odd.
February 20th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Woodpile overkill, perhaps?
February 21st, 2008 at 7:20 pm
I love those votives; seriously, everything from Gump’s is exquisite. The woodpile is a bit meta, but amusing.
Then there is Deborah Butterfield, a sculptor who creates elegant horses out of driftwood, then casts them in bronze and finishes them to look like wood.
February 22nd, 2008 at 8:09 am
Those horses are amazing!