Blogging... Martha Stewart's Maine Guest House

After perusing Martha Stewart's Maine Guest House tour on her site, we were left with two lingering questions: 1. Does everything photograph beautifully with a backdrop of soft pink walls? and 2) Is wicker furniture allowed indoors?

Domino magazine (see their September issue) and Martha concur on the last point. Apparently, wicker is back--with a vengeance. After years of being relegated to porches, back patios, and the corners of garages, this category of furniture is attempting to stake a claim indoors and be taken seriously. Martha gives it an opportunity by painting all of her wicker pieces (writing desk, chairs, even a bed frame) in a soft grey-blue, but we're still suspicious. After all, that soft pink wall color could make anything look good.

See more of Martha's Maine Guest House here.

[ Photos from MarthaStewart.com ]

Comments (12)

Agreed.. even those dropped rose/peony petals look "posed"!

Yes wicker furniture is allowed! My parents have it in their living room at the shore, and it looks great.

Wicker is allowed. If it makes you happy, it's allowed.

Wicker isn't allowed in my house, but who am I to question Martha? I imagine she could find a way to make those molded plastic chairs you find at every hardware store look good.

I like wicker a lot, but it really doesn't hold up well, even indoors.

Admission to the guest home Museum is $12.00 at the door.

everything looks beautiful when Martha and her team do the photo work.
I have always liked wicker in the house---there are even many examples of wicker use in Mid-Century rooms over the years. If people are using wood tree trunks for tables and the like, why would wicker be a problem.

1. no.
2. yes.

wicker was never out (can a material ever be out?). thonet wicker. bauhaus wicker, mccobb wicker, kagan wicker, marc newsom wicker. name the decade, there is stylish wicker for inside the home.