this is one super-stylish power team! tec and chelsea petaja live in nashville, tennessee where when chelsea’s not teaching visual arts to montessori school students, she frequently styles photography shoots for tec who does both commerical and wedding photography. (she recently put together a beautiful yellow and gray tablescape for oncewed.) oh and somehow she finds time to run an etsy shop! {thanks tec and chelsea!}
[We bought this house, our first home, in April of this year. It was built in 1905 and is tucked in a historic neighborhood in the city. We've spent the past half-year making it us.]
[The majority of our home is comprised of hand-me-downs, thrift finds, or items we owned separately before we were married. However, the dining room table and matching bench were one of our first purchase as a married couple (from World Market). The orange chairs are garage sale finds, and the yellow chairs are repurposed hand-me-downs from my sister. The large painting in our dining room is by Dr. Tommy Mew, a former professor of mine.]
The caned chair was saved from a “Goodwill pile” and the frames, all from Ikea, display some of our favorite pictures and mementos. The “We’re better together” wording was done by just painting it on top of a thrift store painting we already owned.
CLICK HERE for the rest of chelsea’s peek (and all the photos on one page!)
The typewriter was bought at an antique store in East Tennessee to be use at our wedding for our guests to type well wishes on… though we never got around to buying a new ribbon so that it would actually type. The bird lamp is from Urban Outfitters and the shade is from Anthropologie.
Tec and my dad worked on converting our garage into Tec’s studio all summer long. They kept the garage door intact so that it could be raised on pretty days. Tec painted the door with chalkboard paint and tacked up some inspirational tear sheets.
The photograph of the children is an image by Rob Curfman, a former professor of Tec’s.
This is the desk where I work on my hair fascinators for Oh, My Deer. Tec surprised me with the table last Christmas. It’s an antique tailor’s table that he bought from Downtown Antique Mall here in Nashville.
The painting was done by Nathaniel Mather, a local artist who is also the father of a dear friend of ours.
The cups are one of my favorite details of our house. We were married last year on June seventh… 06.07.08.
The family that lived here before us took beautiful care of this home. They left the swing for us to enjoy the front porch with.
Tec’s studio is the image on the left. We planted a moonvine that my mom gave us in front of his window and it grew like crazy. The image on the right was taken on our front porch, showing our eating nook.
