decorating ideas from the new Pottery Barn catalogue

We stopped receiving the PB catalogue for a while - I don't know why.
Perhaps they stopped mailing them every month?
Nah.
Anyway, I didn't miss it but I was kind of pleased to see it when it arrived again the other day.
The Pottery Barn catalogue, for those of you who live where it is not distributed (the Far East? Siberia?) is more like a home decor magazine than a sales brochure. Room after room of lovely furnishings, styled to the hilt, are photographed in layouts that could easily appear in most shelter magazines and the big glossy splashes tend to make one desirous of things one might never have considered before. I, however, am proud of the fact that I have learned to be inspired by it rather than covetous.

Here's what I noticed in this issue...



Branches in vases are very nice, especially if the leaves are turning. PB sells artificial branches but I clip them from my yard. I had forgotten about doing this until I saw this photo - I need to put some on our mantle.



I think you need a pretty high ceiling to get this look right. Our house is small and has 7 1/2 foot ceilings to keep the scale of the rooms correct so I can't try it.



This is a great cabinet - which we do not need. What I noticed was the jars on the shelf. I love jars with photos in them - AND I HAVE JARS to put photos in. Noted.



I'm kicking myself over this one. I saw several of these tall glass tubes/vases in the trash on the street the other day and couldn't imagine dragging them on the train. I should have grabbed a couple and brought them upstairs. A missed opportunity. It's a good thing K likes his sake warm.



These don't thrill me so much - too much like dioramas I think.



Mercury glass used to be hard to find, now it's widely available. I was wondering what that text thing is.



THEY stole this idea from ME. We have stones in our fireplace ALL THE TIME.



I am bored with that reindeer candelabra - and I would NEVER hang dishes from a Christmas tree...



...and you won't hear about me dressing our bed for the holidays either, even if there is a bird pillow.



This photo has been all over the internet, and not because of the desk. Several design sites have noted the chair photos, and I like them too. People wrote about making their own version of this using this and I realized, when I saw this picture last week, that I could use this to make a picture for the big wall in my office. Maybe.
Now to find the photo...