Having the best time gathering treasures to furnish The Prairie.
(Changed over from The Ranch)
The village is hard at work. Lead by Jaimee and Danny!!!!!!!!!!!!. Will keep you updated as the dream unfolds. Hope to see y'all there one day.
www.theprairiebyrachelashwell.com
It's gorgeous! I'm sure you'll make it look even better!
ReplyDeleteHi Rachael -
ReplyDeleteCongrats on your latest acquisition!
It looks like a real gem, and I can see how completely shabby chic it will be.
Will the new Inn be open to the public? It is a DREAM of mine to also buy an Inn and make it over shabby chic, and this is from someone living in Jamaica -- but the hotel I run now has aspects of shabby chic in it, and our guests love that...so I know your Inn will be a HIT!
Cannot wait to see the finished product and the rates when you have them!
Best of luck and success,
J. Tribley
Love , Love it!!! I am so excited to visit the next time I'm in Roundtop.
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to see the finished product and go check it out!
ReplyDeleteRachel, I am so excited for you! I love the details you have shared with us. The ones you are keeping are gorgeous, and I know the changes you make to the property will be stunning, like everything else you do. I just blogged yesterday about how you have influenced my decorating of our home. Now I am off to see your new website for your latest endeavor. Best of luck to you!
ReplyDeleteI've been such a fan for so many years. This is an exciting new adventure. Love all the treasures you've found in the homestead and can't wait for the unveiling!
ReplyDeleteGood luck!
wow...this place is a gem & when you're finished with it, it'll be even more fabulous. I hope to see it for mayself one day!
ReplyDeleteOlá Rachel, sou projetista de móveis no sul do Brasil, arquitetura e decoração é minha verdadeira paixão! Adoro Shabby Chic, você é uma referência em todos os meus projetos, nem que seja em um detalhe, mas o shabby chic está sempre presente!! Pena que por aqui temos que criar com nossas próprias mãos nossas almofadas florais, nossa arte...pois é dificil encontrar na minha cidade itens como esses!! Sucesso e tudo de bom pra você
ReplyDeletewow, it's looking amazing already! Love it. Congratulations on realising a dream. xx
ReplyDeleteOlá Rachel, meu nome é Flávia e sou projetista de móveis no sul do Brasil, acho seu trabalho adorável, e sempre estou de olho nas novidades shabby chic...você é uma referência para mim!! Pena não encontrarmos tão facilmente no Brasil itens tão bonitos sem que se tenha que viajar e procurar bastante! Mas faço as minhas artes, minhas almofadas e minha própria decoração! Muito sucesso pra você Rachel!!
ReplyDeleteRachael, We are your neighbors, about 8 miles away, if you need some things we have a store packed full, just give us a shout out. You purchased things from us at Zapp Hall. Would love to show you Burton. Our web-site is www.willownest.net..we went to look at your place and can imagine all that you will do to make it special. Can't wait. Love Linda and Ludmil
ReplyDeleteabsolutely can't wait to see it and stay there! looks like you are realizing so many dreams for yourself now, that you maybe would not have been able to with all of the Shabby Chic stores previously opened. life gives us strange little gifts doesn't it? Best Wishes!
ReplyDeleteMore wonderful inspiration for me!
ReplyDeleteAnd ideas! Thank-you for sharing.
I am a fan from way back when you
had a half-hour cable TV show. I
taped most every one of your shows
on a VCR tape when it went into re-runs and I sent the tape to my sick
friend in Fallbrook, California and she shared it with her daughter and her daughter started
making quilts.It's amazing your influence.
Oh, i so can't wait for the unveil of "makeover" - Whatever you do will be inspiring! xoox
ReplyDeleteTracie
Some of those rooms, with the old, chippy paint, as you said are PERFECT! I can't wait to see the finished product since you never, ever disappoint!
ReplyDeleteTake care, Sue
So beautiful! Can hardly wait!
ReplyDeleteWhat a dream to have such a big canvas to create on!
ReplyDeleteHave fun!!
It looks great and will be even better once you have waived your magic shabby chic wand!! Can't wait to see the final results!
ReplyDeleteIt's coming along and already showing not only your touch but your dreams fulfilled. Hope to stay some day when the B&B sign is hanging - meanwhile will enjoy following along as you bring the property back with love and your 'shabby chic' magic.
ReplyDeleteHi Rachal so excited for you...it will be the talk of the town & country... my dream one day will be to come visit...sit on the porch with a cup of tea. Cheers! zozooLaura
ReplyDeleteWow, everything looks so great already! Can't wait to see it after you put all of your finishing touches and trimmings on! So quaint and cozy!
ReplyDeleteHi Rachel
ReplyDeleteIts a long way to come from England but we are going to do it!!!!
Cant wait to see it finished and up and running
Thanks you for posting all your ideas!
Lots of love and shabby chic dreams....
Amanda and Belle x
Thanks for taking the time to post and share all this. So nice to be part of it, and I do hope we can stay there one day - we are in NZ!! LOVE your style, Rachel - you have single handedly brought a most beautiful fashion of home design into the world! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the sneak peek! Love it!
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to see the gorgeous finished photos !
ReplyDeleteHey, Rachel - Your dream come true in Texas will be amazing. I hope to get to Roundtop and stop by your B&B. Those sacred painted blue wall has your name all over it! Thx for sharing! ~Cordelia
ReplyDeleteRachel,
ReplyDeleteThis looks like heaven... I can see a trip to Texas on the agenda...
sx
I'll make my dream of visiting come true someday! Thanks for all the tips we can take home.
ReplyDeleteBisous,
Sandy @ My Shabby Streamside Studio
http://myshabbystreamsidestudio.blogspot.com/
♥
One of my dreams was to to to Round Top/Warrenton, which I did over a year ago. Absolutely LOVED it. Now, I would love to go back there and stay chez toi. What could be better than being at the flea markets all day, and then staying at your ranch?!! Well, that will be my plan for someday...
ReplyDeleteI've told my husband that we HAVE to go visit your bed and breakfast someday. I can't wait!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for sharing this sneak peek. If I ever get out of the cold and snow I'd love to come take a closer look.
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful 'find' your newest project is! I love that you are always inspired on to the next project. Just thinking the other day about how so many of us women are like little girls playing 'house' decorating and fluffing our little nests... It's so fulfilling. Thank you for your lovely influences.
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deborah {thewhitechair}
So, I have now a new dream ! come to see the prairie in Texas during Roundtop ! some blue wooden walls are real treasures, so perfectly unperfect ! I can imagine that it's very exiting for you to make this Inn a real Shabby Chic one ! Have a great time Rachel !
ReplyDeletehooray, your writings on theater and writing much missed!
ReplyDeletehooray, your writings on theater and writing much missed!
ReplyDeletehooray, your writings on theater and writing much missed!
ReplyDeletehooray, your writings on theater and writing much missed!
ReplyDeletehooray, your writings on theater and writing much missed!
ReplyDeleteThank you, that was extremely valuable.
ReplyDeletehooray, your writings on theater and writing much missed!
ReplyDeleteThe cottage looks great and wonderful!
ReplyDeleterachael,
ReplyDeletefrom one rachael to another, just lovely! i cannot wait to see the finished pictures of the prairie....isn't it so fun to have a project? and a project with such great bones to boot! love that you are keeping a lot of the original details. i really like that blue wallpaper you were on the fence about, i say keep it! maybe paint the trim white or cream to brighten it up though.
i hope the treasure hunting gods are with you as you search for more pretties!
good luck , and thanks for such an inspirational blog!! you rock!
~rachael
Say it isn't so. Will there be events here? Have I found a wedding/reception spot? Now all I need is a fiance.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the sneak peek at your grand new dream and adventure... amazing old Homestead and I can't wait to see how you transform it into the vision you have for it.
ReplyDeleteHappy Valentine's Day... Dawn... The Bohemian
This is such a great resource that you are providing and you give it away for free. I love seeing websites that understand the value of providing a quality resource for free.
ReplyDeleteAs an Austinite I was sooo excited to hear about this. I can't wait to come stay. Happy Valentine's Day Rachel, and thanks for bringing so much loveliness to the world for so many years!
ReplyDeleteThe house is fabulous...I wish I had your courage and paint the furniture and floors...I just cant do it!!!
ReplyDeleteI am looking forward to the transformations...
Sylvia
Please, Please bring back the lavender jewel bedding at Target!!!
ReplyDeleteSo exciting! It is a wonderful project and your talented and creative insight will turn it into something magical!!
ReplyDelete~michelle~
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful....
ReplyDeleteRachel,
ReplyDeleteI love seeing you at work (or play!)which you do the BEST!!! I love seeing everything evolve! Especially how you handle the "not so right" issues. They are my favorite!
xoxox
Your #1 fan in San Diego,
Susan D.
I'm booking my stay in Sept.!
I am so excited about your new prairie adventure!! Would love to visit~ Blessings, Rachel Noelle
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www.shabbyfrenchforme.blogspot.com
Hi Rachel,
ReplyDeleteYou are such an amazing person, so prolific!
I thought you might be interested to know about the amazing and beautiful natural fairy houses that I make to possibly use in your shops or at the bed and breakfast! People are so awestruck by them; they would be perfect for you businesses! You can see them at:
www.sunflowerhouse.etsy.com
Hope you'll visit my shop and see them; I really think you will be astonished by how unusual they are!
Thank you for always being so inspirational and innovative!
Debbie
Amazing!
ReplyDeleteHugs,
Olivia
It's a beautiful place and the inside will, I am sure, look equally beautiful. :) Liz
ReplyDeleteRachael – I am so in love and inspired by the way you create an atmosphere of a home or room that is so simple but elegant. I just looked at your blog for the first time –though I have looked at the decorating pictures a thousand times and when I read it made me just love your work even more. I am a kindred spirit to you in the sense that my everyday attire is boots and jeans although living in Texas sometimes it is cut off jeans and bare foot. Your work brings the outdoors in and is a reflection of simple but warm and welcoming in spirit, I am so trying to accomplish that for my home. I love simply shabby chic line at Target and it is great for a tight budget. I would like to say if you ever have a desire to do a room makeover or home make over I would love to extend an offer hah, I am sure you get that all the time. Just so you know I live in the oldest town of Texas (Nacogdoches) and we are known for great antique shops. On a more serious note I really enjoy getting inspired by your pictures and think that this bed and breakfast is such a neat thing, I am so happy for you. You have a gift and you are so good at what you do.
ReplyDeleteBrittany Graham
Thank you Rachel for your interview! You are always so inspiring!
ReplyDeleteJaimme was a huge help, warm hugs to you both!!!!!!
You may find your interview here- http://vintagerosecollection.blogspot.com/
Love & friendship, Jo-Anne Coletti
What a dream! I can't wait to see the finished product. I'm sure it will be absolute perfection!
ReplyDeleteThank you for always inspiring - and for so many years!
Just discovered your blog, Really exciting venture.
ReplyDeleteLove it, if only it was in the UK!
Becca
We met at the last Round Top show when you were at the Junk Gypsy's tent signing books... you were sweet and gracious, and you spoke with my husband about flying.... he's a pilot, and you asked him a few things.
ReplyDeleteI am so excited about your new Prairie endeavor. Hope to see you out and about at the Spring show.
Most Sincerely,
Christi
This is a dream; this little Prairie of yours. I am in {LOVE} with that original, chippy, ol' aqua paint on those walls. Have fun decorating and I'm looking forward to yet another vision of yours unfold.
ReplyDeleteBlessings,
Jami
Just love it, Rachel. I can't wait to see more. I have also been a fan for many years. Love watching what you do. I had a Bed & Breakfast in a 100 year old farmhouse on the San Juan Island of Friday Harbor for a short time. It was a wonderful fun way of life. It was there, at that time, that I discovered you.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with your newest venture!
Cathleen alyce
I love your pictures! Check out my 'shabby chic' inspired guest room at: http://particularlypracticallypretty.blogspot.com/2011/03/mellow-yellow.html
ReplyDeleteYour web site is undoubtedly undoubtedly one of the best . On the whole impression of the site is simply beautiful .
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hola rachael me gusta tu estilo de combinar los colores pasteles..bellisimo.
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