Nightwood on Shine

Things I am eagerly awaiting right now: Cheap home accessories, a new hotel and custom furniture

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Of course, there is apple-picking and fall fashion and reading smarter books and going to afternoon movies without feeling like you're wasting precious hours of sunlight—I am looking forward to all of these things, for sure. But fall is shaping up to be a good time for interiors, too, so I wanted to share a few things in the world of home and design that have me on the edge of my seat right now:

John Derian's line of bargain-priced decoupage housewares for Target, coming in September. (Here's hoping it looks as classy as his expensive stuff, because the last time I bought something of his—as an anniversary gift for friends—it nearly bankrupted me.)

Real Homes, Real Inspiration: Nightwood edition

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In case you missed it the first time, Nightwood is an awesome new furniture and design company based in Brooklyn that works with salvaged wood, fabric scraps, and other rough-but-pretty materials. The founders of the company, Myriah Scruggs and Nadia Yaron, also have a pretty sweet house, of which they've graciously let us have a photo tour (and for which they've given commentary). Prepare to swoon.

New Obsession: Nightwood furniture

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It is perhaps merely a coping device developed over the course of many years of barely scraping by, but I have always found that a thing of beauty made from materials that no one else wants is far more interesting than a thing of beauty that was produced with an infinite budget and no restrictions. It’s the old, “I’d have a perfect body, too, if I could afford a personal trainer and a live-in chef,” mentality: A home creatively pulled together on a shoestring has always impressed me more than one that is professionally decorated, and an improvisation that turns a castoff into a prized piece of furniture is pretty much the cat's meow in my book. Maybe that explains why I am now officially head over heels for Brooklyn-based home décor company Nightwood.