Cheyenne Weaver’s Gilded Simplicity

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Austin

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Name:Cheyenne Weaver
Location:Austin, Texas
Size:960 square feet
Years lived in:5 months

Join us today for dinner and a house tour with Cheyenne Weaver and The Girls Guild. Cheyenne has only been living in the quaint 2-1 for a few months, but she’s already managed to put her artistic touch on the overall aesthetic. I toured the home while she and her boyfriend prepare a kick-off dinner forThe Girls Guild— a collaborative arts club for girls, by girls, in Austin.

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Cheyenne grew up being surrounded by artists: her mother is a weaver, and her father a jeweler and woodsmith. He built the terrariums seen in the living and office areas, even carving the detailed visage of the cranes on the sides. It should then come as no surprise that her next venture involves building a community for girl artists in the area to build, educate, learn, collaborate, and share the passion of their crafts.

Cheyenne and her boyfriend hosted a dinner to kickoff this initiative, which they’ve called The Girls Guild. With a large guest count of 32, they served up a menu featuring grilled peach salad, vegetable lasagna, and homemade berries-with-cream popsicles. People dined on a pair of 10-foot long banquet style tables under a canopy of amber-lit lights strung from the trees. New friends were made, lots of laughter was shared, and ideas and inspiration were exchanged throughout the night. Like her home, the event was suffused with a communal feeling of collection and a unique sense of individuality.

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其他公寓apy Survey:

My Style:I don’t think these styles are necessarily reflected in my home, but I love Depression era austerity, French country homes, and simple Shaker furniture. At the same time I love color, modern lines, and I have lots and lots of furniture I found on bulk trash day, so it’s really all over the place.

Inspiration:My inspiration has been the many farms I’ve worked on in Northern California, Colorado, the Puget Sound, and the Virgin Islands. These places have all really informed my ethics around use and reuse of everything, as well as the elegance and quiet of simplicity. My heart feels grounded around these environments. For visual thinkers it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by your environment. I think there’s a quiet that happens with reused furniture; you’re making the most of what you have and you can focus your energy on making that piece better. It’s creative rather than consumptive. That’s important to me.

Favorite Element:In my home? Hummm, that’s tough. The reason I bought this house was the windows. I love feeling like I’m outside, and many of them have the old glass that ripples when you move. We can’t open them up yet because they’re so old, which is truly sad but we have big plans to refurbish them one at a time.

Biggest Challenge:Ha, well when we bought the house in December we decided to try and install a dishwasher in the kitchen. It turned out to mean re-doing the entire plumbing in the kitchen. It was really fun learning how to solder copper piping, but we had to tear apart the siding to get at the plumbing, and it’s still a mess out there.

What Friends Say:Friends always comment on the light. I feel like I’m camping all the time. We’re so lucky. My stepmother helped us buy the house, we’re eternally grateful to her!

Biggest Embarrassment:We have this opening in the siding outside above my office where I can hear a rat coming and going from our attic. It sounds like that scene in a Western when the cowboy steps into a saloon and the double doors flap open and everyone stops and stares to see if all hell’s gonna break loose. It’s like that every day, and I’m sure it looks like a busted up saloon up there. Tiny broken bottles everywhere. We may need to look into that.

Proudest DIY:我建立我们的餐桌使用旧谷仓or, which I’m pretty proud of. I also found a nightstand on the curb a few months back that I picked up and re-furbished. I sanded and painted it and then cast a top for it in concrete. It feels good to do something creative with something someone else didn’t see the potential in. I wish I had held out to do that with all of my furniture.

Biggest Indulgence:Our Elfa closet was really absurdly expensive. We would have loved to build it ourselves, but I was going to grad school and my woodshop was full of boxes, so we splurged. I don’t regret it because it’s sooo functional, but I hate driving to North Austin to drop a ton on money on stuff to organize other stuff. It always leaves me feeling a little hollow.

Best Advice:Wait on buying furniture until you find something that’s amazing. Our bed is still sitting on the floor because we’re planning on building a bed. We’re in our thirties and our mattress is still on the floor. But who cares? I’d rather not buy a mediocre bed in the meantime. My other advice would be to deconstruct a chair and put it back together. It’s a challenge. You may end up yelling at your boyfriend and crying, but it will teach you a lot about furniture fabrication and free you up to think more creatively about reconstruction.

Dream Sources:Oh I’d love to meet Mark and Sally Bailey. Their books are inspired. I also wish I had the time to do an antiques tour of Texas. BBQ and small-town antiques would be my dream vacation. Actually, maybe that’s exactly what I’ll do in June. I just have to convince Scott.

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Resources of Note:

PAINT & COLORS

LIVING ROOM

DINING ROOM

KITCHEN

BEDROOM

Myself (Cheyenne Weaver)

Folk Fibers

OFFICE

OUTSIDE

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Thanks, Cheyenne and Scott!

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