Magnolia wreaths on the front door are only the beginning.
Catherine Olasky, half of the design duo Olasky & Sinsteden, brings a bit of jolly old England to her family's Texas home — and to their Southern holiday traditions.
Interview by Kathleen Renda | Produced by Frances Bailey
Magnolia wreaths from Weston Farms add holiday spirit to the front doors, which are painted in Benjamin Moore's Texas Leather.
Oberto Gili's Mixed Flowers is teamed in the entry with a Bunny Williams Home console.
Olasky bought the living room's Crate & Barrel sleeper sofa when she worked in Manhattan. After Christmas, ornaments are stored in the camphorwood chest.
Olasky's three-year-old daughter, Louisa, helps trim the Fraser fir.
A vintage sofa in a stripe and pair of pillows in Wisteria, both by Chelsea Textiles, harmonize with pillows in a Schumacher floral. The salon-style grouping of antique and modern art includes a landscape purchased at the Round Top Antiques Fair in Texas. The walls are in Benjamin Moore's Antique White.
The dining room curtains are in Nympheus linen by Thomas O'Brien for Lee Jofa — "one of my all-time-favorite prints," Olasky says. South African Wonki Ware pottery is displayed in one of two hutches original to the home.
Pillows in a lively Clarence House pattern and a Design Within Reach tabletop mobile lighten the library's mood.
At nine feet tall, a four-poster bed from Hollywood at Home anchors the master bedroom. The 1920s glider, covered in a Chelsea Textiles fabric, belonged to Olasky's grandmother.
Her daughter's bedroom walls are in a Waterhouse Wallhangings print; the doors and trim are painted in Benjamin Moore's Black Bean Soup and Caldwell Green.
An Oeuf toddler bed is topped with a comforter in a Schumacher fabric.
Antique sleigh beds in the guest room are upholstered in a Colefax and Fowler fabric. The walls are painted Benjamin Moore's Antique Jade.
Read more about Catherine Olasky's inspiration for this home here.
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This story originally appeared in the December/January 2017 issue of House Beautiful.
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