Posts by Renee DiSanto
Feeling Thankful
It feels like the holiday hustle and bustle starts earlier each year, doesn’t it? Ornaments in checkout lanes in August. Full-fledged holiday mayhem at the big box stores by early-October. It makes us more grateful than ever to have this one day, every year, to pause for a moment and really reflect on all that…
Read MoreHoliday Gifts: The Host
We’ll be featuring gift guides over the next few weeks for all the special people in your lives. First up, and just in time for Thanksgiving gatherings, The Host.
Read MoreTrimming the Tree
Whether you’re Team Real or Team Faux, putting up a tree is often the signal to family, friends (to yourself, even!)…it’s time. It’s the holiday season…cue Mariah. For those of you who opt for real trees, you may be cutting that beauty down soon, or at the very least, making a stop at your favorite…
Read MoreHoliday Decorating
It’s only about a week until Thanksgiving, and that means it’s time to get our holiday decorating plans together. It feels like kismet that this topic was on the blog schedule for today, because here in the Midwest…it’s snowing. Kind of a lot. Is there anything better than snow to put you in the mood…
Read MoreDesigner Q&A
This new feature is such fun. As with last month, we picked out a few of your questions from IG stories to answer here on the blog, and we’ll add some to Instagram as well — stay tuned for more “Ask the Designer” next month! Sure! Ceiling heights and scale of the light will come…
Read MoreThe Thanksgiving Table
At Park & Oak, our goal in designing homes is to create a warm and inviting atmosphere, where the details tell a story. And, there is perhaps no better holiday to embody this ethos than Thanksgiving. Christmas and other winter holidays are typically full of hustle and bustle, parties, presents, tree-decorating, outings, Santa…often we are too…
Read MorePark & Oak at Seven
The years are really flying by now. Owning a business feels in many ways like raising kids. Those early years…oh boy. A million small problems. Learning on the fly. No one sleeps. You eventually start to feel like you have a handle on things, but of course, that’s temporary. Growing comes with new challenges. Bigger…
Read MoreCollected Curates: Pillows
Our team is not messing around when it comes to sourcing pillows. Tiffany, our purchasing lead, makes a yearly summer sojourn to coastal New England. Is she just relaxing in the summer breeze while she is there? Nope. Last summer, she stumbled across one of our new favorite partners for pillows, a small company producing…
Read MoreVintage Art
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” Pablo Picasso Art is such an important element in helping a house become a home. At Park & Oak, we appreciate art in all its forms, but there is one type of wall art in particular that we turn to over and over: vintage…
Read MoreFall Porch
We love cruising our neighborhoods and seeing all the fall porch scenes coming together. The retailers may be busy reminding us that Christmas is coming, but we are going to take a minute to revel in autumn first. It can be tempting to make the leap straight from summer to holiday, but then you’re missing…
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