Effortless Summer Style: Farmhouse Decor Tips for a Light and Breezy Home

When summer arrives, it brings a natural invitation to lighten things up—in your space, your mindset, and your home life. And while traditional farmhouse style has long leaned on whites and neutrals, today’s version welcomes more color, personality, and warmth. The key to a beautifully styled summer home is balance: a space that feels fresh and open, but still full of character.

Here are our favorite ways to refresh your home with summer farmhouse decor that’s light, breezy, and far from bland.

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Mason Jars – Forever Farmhouse Style

Both a timeless accessory and a Piper Classics favorite, the traditional glass Mason Jar is not only affordable and functional — it just so happens to also be the perfect accent to tie together almost any style of rustic vintage farmhouse decor.

The race to create this new method of food storage actually began in 1795, with a request by none other than Napoleon Bonaparte. But it wasn’t until 1858, when the Philadelphia tinsmith John Landis Mason invented and patented his namesake glass jar, that canning jars as we know and recognize them today entered the commercial landscape. Continue Reading

4 Ways to Create an Indoor Garden

The temperatures say that SUMMER IS HERE, and although we know that summer “officially” begins on June 21, we always feel like the “unofficial” kick-off to the firecracker-campfire-S’more-making-backyard-barbeque-beach-week-hiking-biking-day-tripping-camping-baseball-school’s-out-for-summer season is actually Memorial Day!! And that has already come and gone!!

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Floral Arrangement Ideas for Spring and Summer

5 Floral Arrangement Ideas for Spring and Summer

Incorporating floral arrangements into your home during the spring and summertime is a no-brainer. They brighten up your space and can add pops of color to otherwise neutral areas. However, we understand that not everyone has a green thumb or the time to keep up with the maintenance of the season’s beautiful flowers. That’s where we come in!

We’ve compiled five floral arrangement ideas to spark inspiration and help you bring unique creativity into your home. The best thing about our arrangements is that they are artificial, which means they’ll look bright, gorgeous, and alive all season long. And don’t worry! It’s nearly impossible to tell these are artificial flowers because of all the time and detail put into creating them.

Although this list is not exhaustive of all the breathtaking floral arrangements we offer, we believe these new items will be as hot as the upcoming season.

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Easy No-Risk Neutrals

Do you ever feel overwhelmed by the riot of color all around us during this time of year? Trees and flowers are bursting onto the scene in brilliant shades of red, pink, white, orange, yellow, blue and purple with a million different shades of green, all vying for attention and creating a visual feast for the eyes. In truth, it can also create a bit of overwhelm that can prevent us from knowing which way to turn when choosing our indoor decor. Continue Reading

Find 10 Items Under $10

Recently, I decided to give myself a decorating challenge… I set out to find 10 items under $10.00, right here at Piper Classics. I was looking for seasonal, springtime products that would freshen up my home. You see, I work here at the warehouse and sometimes find myself roaming through the aisles, feasting my eyes on all the latest and greatest products on the very tall shelves. Sometimes, I’ll spot something that I love but forgot we still had here in the warehouse… and then, I rush off to place a new order! Continue Reading

Spring Forward! 15 Creative Ways to Incorporate Seasonal Home Decor

We were featured in a recent article on Redfin! Check it out below. 

Special thanks to Alison Brently for including us.

The days are slowly but surely getting longer and the sun is beginning to shine. After a long winter, spring is just almost here. So it’s time to stow away the last remainders of your winter decor and celebrate the arrival of a new season. Think lush flowers, pops of bright color, or a new crochet project that brings spring into your home.

We’ve consulted the experts for their best ideas to make incorporating seasonal home decor this spring a breeze. Whether you’re living amongst the cherry blossoms in Seattle, WA or enjoying the beachy breeze in Miami, FL, you don’t want to miss these 15 creative ways to bring spring into your home.

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Four Fabulous Fabrics for a Fresh Farmhouse

If you haven’t seen our gorgeous new farmhouse fabrics, today may be the perfect day to get cozy, snuggle in, and slowly browse through our site, discovering some of the most exciting, beautiful, and versatile styles we’ve ever designed.

We’ve always known that our homes are so much more than just “where we live”, but through these last 12 months, we’ve seen this fact take on a whole new meaning! We require our homes to be SO much more than we used to. Think home office, zoom conference room, presentation space, kids’ classroom, yoga studio, spa-like retreat, home theater, and maybe a newly-revised personal gym. Continue Reading

UPDATE – When Cabin Fever Strikes!!

By the time February rolls around, that cozy feeling we get when we snuggle up by the fire for a long winter’s night is wearing thin!! The long, ice-cold evenings and short, dismal days of this season are losing their appeal. Daylight is in short supply, the outside world is a slushy wasteland, and we’re inside feeling cooped up, irritable, lethargic and depressed.

Welcome to the world of cabin fever.

Cabin fever may not be a psychiatric diagnosis, but it is a real thing, clinical psychologist Joel Klapow told TIME magazine in 2014.

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Spring: It’s our Thing!!

Spring!! It’s Kind of Our Thing

After being hit with two big winter storms within the first seven days of March, we are really anxious to say goodbye to this winter. Spring cannot arrive quickly enough for many of us and even though you wouldn’t know it to look outside, the beautiful season of rebirth is less than two weeks away. When spring arrives in all its splendor and glory, many of us want to restore a fresh and breezy energy to our homes, as well. The rebirth going on outside inspires us to breathe new life into our decor, following the cues of the newly arrived, long-awaited season. Here are a few ideas to help you create that dynamic, refreshed style for your country farmhouse this Spring.

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