STONE CHIC

How Earth-Inspired Decor Brings Comfort to our Home

- AMY GRISAK

Blue onyx bowl. Photo courtesy Zsa Zsa’s

When we remodeled our kitchen several years ago, I could not decide on the pulls for the maple cupboards. All the ones at the building stores were lackluster at best, but truthfully, most were boring and completely unappealing. I wanted something worthy of the beautiful wood.

I found the answer to my question when I attended my first gem and mineral show. A booth offered pulls made from petrified wood from the Yellowstone River. That was it! Special pieces like these pulls made me realize that many people seek earth-inspired, beautiful objects to adorn their homes, many times with stories behind each one.

I was speechless and loved it so much. I thought, let’s find different treasures and present them to the rest of the world.”

“Living in a fifty-year-old log cabin that is highlighted by a large brick fireplace with built-in sandstone shelves and Saltillo tile floors, decorating with items brought in from the great outdoors is a natural inclination,” says Rachael Stevens Nation of Heart Butte, Montana, located on the Blackfeet Reservation. Her parents built the octagon-shaped cabin that fits perfectly into this landscape where the prairie emerges from the creek bottom and continues into the Rocky Mountains foothills.

A blue onyx lamp demonstrates how this type of decor brings the outdoors inside. Photo courtesy Zsa Zsa’s