Our Magazine Feature: Behind The Scenes

This is our mudroom as it was shown in Cottages and Gardens magazine last month.  Of all the rooms that were primped and styled for the shoot, this one is the most dramatically different from how it really looks every day.  Shelter mags give us a voyeuristic glimpse inside other's homes,  but it's also part fantasy.  Just like models in a fashion spread are professionally dressed, made up, styled, and photo shopped...the same holds true for decor mags.  We willingly suspend reality when we read magazines. The day of the shoot, Lauren Muse of Muse Interiors, was here with two assistants, Ryan and Heather.  There was the photographer, John Bessler, with one assistant.  The stylist, Karin Lidbeck-Brent.  And, then of course there was me, taking photos of the whole ordeal.  

A staging area, this is our bar room, not part of the photo spread.

Getting the perfect shot, the equipment alone blew my mind!

No detail is too small...placing bubble wrap behind a pillow to prop it up.

This is our mudroom as it normally looks everyday, as shot by me.  

{after I put everyone's stuff away and cleaned it a bit!}