While I don’t feel ready just yet to sip hot cider by the fire, these glimpses of warm, cozy, autumn splendor from Shoppe Amber Interiors even entice this summer girl. Admire a cozy California cool vibe and organic luxe beautifully characteristic of warm modern style? These moments may light your fire. Best of all, furniture and design elements curated by Amber Interiors are within reach. (About as close to having Amber Lewis drop by to decorate!) Score ideas for pieces you can layer in your own cozy fall spaces.
Photos and Design: Shoppe Amber Interiors
Cozy California Cool Vibe & Fall Interior Inspiration
If you have yet to discover her Shoppe, oh la la. They carry a unique selection of quality-driven, curated furniture, decor, lighting, and homewares for every element of the home.
Amber Lewis is an interior designer and author. Do you own her amazing book Made for Living?
She wrote another I’m dying to own!
This talented creative is the founder of Amber Interior Design and the retail brand Shoppe Amber Interiors.
This designer is known for her signature laid-back aesthetic which favors light filled rooms, colorful fabric, natural elements, earthy textures and patina-ed metal. It’s what feels like a cozy California cool vibe to me. See her in her own renovated home here:
Cozy California Cool Vibe Meets Modern Earthy Style
Even though there are plenty of other creatives in the modern rustic space, Amber is a lifelong Californian who understands California cool.
There’s something magic about the light, lifestyle, and relaxed vibes happening on the West Coast that will provide an education!
But that doesn’t mean we can’t capture a bit of it whether we live on the opposite coast or far from a coast…ahem.
Besides the obvious beauty of such unfussy, understated yet elevated cozy California vibes, there’s something else I admire about her work.
Across Design Styles, These Curated Looks Blend
You don’t have to feel hemmed in by design rules or pressured to fill your online shopping carts with specific wares to get the look.
I live in a Georgian style home that frankly was anything but laid back when we bought it!
Fancy staircase, formal moldings, glossy finishes, and dark everything felt unapproachable and even unwelcoming.
It took months to give the home an identity, and even then, you might think cozy California cool would never work with the architecture.
But in a number of rooms, it does…in albeit subtle, understated ways. Because it’s the spirit and underlying sensibilities of laid back luxe and earthy warmth that can guide you in decisions.
Whether it is selecting paint colors, the right sofa, or accessories, a relaxed approach can truly infuse your home with a mix that feels tranquil and effortless rather than contrived and busy. Our living room doesn’t scream any particular design style, but it has a mix of modern and rustic:
Restful Relaxed Design Elements from Amber Lewis
You’ll notice from the collection of fall cozy interiors here that moment after moment feels like the eye can rest or absorb beauty.
The vignettes and patterns feel comforting and inviting as opposed to showoffy and hands-off.
You’ll also note they veer toward being handsome and classic more than pretty or feminine.
Clean lines, geometric interest, and an earthiness contribute to the sense of grounded beauty yet hinting at romance.
Color is a critical component to striking such a lovely balance.
You’re going to love more Amber Lewis magic you can find HERE.
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Peace to you right where you are.
-michele
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This is especially helpful to me in making choices for our soon to be new residence as I enjoy checks, plaids, stripes and plan to work w/a red and green kitchen color scheme. Thank you. We Floridians don’t actually do California Cool but our version of natural Coastal references it. I’m very drawn to English interiors, always have been before it was the cool thing😉. We built an English Tudor house in the early 80s. Now the styles have caught up again to my furnishings and textiles. As much as I try to tastefully do my own thing I find I’m still concerned that it doesn’t look dated and granny. Actually being a granny in her 70s w/things we love from the last 5 decades we kinda have to work it so it’s “cool and current” HA. But we Boomers were and are the Original Cool Kids! 😎 😘 JK. Great helpful post.
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I agree – definitely the original cool kids. English Tudors are so charming – and the warmth and coziness of a mix of patterns and brown furniture and rooms without soaring ceilings or massive square footage. You can definitely call that cool with a capital C. And let it be granny if it still feels fresh to you…I have two kids who love living with granny style in their homes. I wonder if it is from making so many rich, lovely memories at their grandparents? Excited for you to be scheming and dreaming again. What is always fun is how our same old stuff feels fresh and different in new environments. (except when it doesn’t because the scale or style isn’t working with the new…boo)
Thank you for introducing us to this designer and adding the links to her books and instagram.
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Thanks for reading, friend. Has me feelin all the cozy feels on this overcast day in Illinois. 🙂