Something Just for You

Looking to refresh your home this spring? Today’s Transitions visited two local home decor businesses with “Southern” in their name to see what they had to offer. Custom-made pieces, natural elements, and cozy accents greeted us at each stop, providing plenty of southern inspiration.

Natural Elements

Southern Vintage owner John Allgeier says, “You can’t have too much wood and stone. People want to feel like their home is in Colorado, like it’s in the mountains. They want it cozy.”

Anything reclaimed and custom-made can provide a conversation piece and wow factor. The flooring shown here is reclaimed and resawn oak flooring with a beautiful, natural patina. The live edge table is custom made, and clients can choose their own live edge slab and custom base on site.

This natural stone fireplace boasts a floating, reclaimed beam for a mantel. The bar in the background shows live edge floating shelves with a live edge countertop, a reclaimed beam creating the right edge of the bar, with a bark left edge. Reclaimed and resawn oak floors, an Ash stump end table, and a handmade, hand-stitched leather couch complete the room.

Southern Vintage can custom make almost anything for inside the home. They have their own line of leather and cloth, carpet, area rugs and stair runners, ceramic tile, luxury vinyl tile, granite, quartz, as well as custom cabinetry.

Furniture Built for You

Six years ago, while Tyler Shaheen was living with a host family during his church residency, he borrowed a few basic tools to make two nightstands out of free wood. From those humble beginnings Tyler has taken his love and passion for woodworking and created The Southern Craftsman, a business where he designs and builds furniture out of his shop in New Albany, Indiana. What Tyler sees trending is a shift into more midcentury and Danish-style furniture, both styles that he enjoys designing and building for clients.

This table is a perfect example of the recent shift to midcentury design. This furniture trend is Tyler Shaheen’s favorite to create and build. Chairs in this photo were purchased separately.

This credenza was commissioned from a client who gave Tyler full artistic freedom in designing this beautiful furniture piece, which is situated in the client's dining room.

Tyler is asked frequently if he builds chairs. He does, but they can be very costly. Using his Eriksen chair as a model, Tyler created the Eriksen plywood chair. This chair can be purchased through his Etsy shop in three different formats: 1) purchase and download a file and build the chair from scratch, 2) purchase the templates for the chair and build from scratch, 3) purchase the kit and assemble the chair in your home. Directions are provided and also a video on how to put it all together.

Story and Photos by Melissa Donald

Today's Transitions | Spring 2023