Brown County Homes

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Area Code 812

Assessor ..................................................988-5466

Auditor ....................................................988-5485

Career Resource Center 988-5880

Circuit Court Judge ...............................988-7557

Clerk .......................................................988-5510

Extension Service 988-5495

Dept. of Child Services ..........................988-2239

Div. of Family Resources .......................988-0160

Health Department 988-2255

Highway Department ............................988-4545

Jail ...........................................................988-5605

License Branch 988-2404

Nashville Police Dept. ...........................988-0341

Parks & Recreation ................................988-5522

Post Office - Nashville ...........................988-2262

Post Office - Helmsburg ........................988-6302

Public Library..........................................988-2850

Prosecutor ..............................................988-5470

Recorder .................................................988-5462

School - BCHS 988-6606

School - BCJHS ......................................988-6605

School - Helmsburg ...............................988-6651

School - Intermediate 988-6607

School - Sprunica ..................................988-6625

School - Van Buren................................988-6658

Sheriff’s Department 988-6655

Soil and Water Conservation ................988-2211

Solid Waste Mgt. District ........................988-0140

Town of Nashville 988-5526

TRIAD .......................................................988-5606

Treasurer .................................................988-5458

Veterans Affairs......................................988-5600

$599,000 Private Brown County retreat. 3200 sf, 4

2.5 BA w/ updates on 4.88 acres. 317-4429732

PENdiNg

$975,000 Highly desirable 2 BR home w/ income potential on 11.2 scenic acres w/ ponds. Convenient to Nashville. 812-327-7462

PENdiNg

$795,000 Only minutes from Nashville, this impeccably maintained home has a stocked lake & apartment above the garage. 812-325-2290

$355,000 Small town living within walking distance to Nashville, yet set back from the main thoroughfares. 812-325-2290

$458,000 In beautiful southern Brown

45.8+/- acres of combination agricultural ground & sloping wooded hillside. 812-325-2290

$369,000 Spacious 4 BR/3 BA, one-owner home on a private wooded lot w/easy access to Cordry & Sweetwater lakes. 812-325-2290

$215,000 This 3 bedroom/2.5 bath house is the perfect balance of practical modernism & retro nostalgia. 812-325-2290

$179,000 Bring your builder! 18 acres in Gnaw Bone w/ approved septic. 812-345-6212

$263,000 Well-maintained 3BR 2BA brick ranch home w/full basement. Inground pool in the fenced back yard. 317-665-4763

$170,000 Buildable 6.76 wooded acres w/seasonal views of Lake Monroe. Perfect location for your dream home! 317-665-4763

$40,000 Get your little piece of heaven near Yellowwood State Forest in Brown County! 2 rolling, wooded acres. 812-327-7462

DESIGNER bED ROUNDUp

Create a bedroom inspired by the pros

By KATIE LAUGHRIDGE PHOTOS By TRIBUNE NEWS SERvICE

I’ve always been inspired by the possibilities of fabric. From one bolt and a little imagination can emerge curtains, an ottoman, pillows and a duvet. Every month, we feature bedding designs brought to life by our design team. It isn’t magic, though — some real work goes into making design dreams a reality.

From the moment our designer or bedding team member makes a fabric selection for a bedding design, a member of the fabric team steps in to measure and cut fabrics and trims. The next stop is the workroom, where the duvet and pillows are cut and stitched and detailed by one of our experienced sewists. After they’re finished, it’s back to the shop and upstairs to the bedding department, where it is steamed, fluffed and added to a bed. Additional furniture and finishings are brought in to complete the look. As with any artisan process, the results aren’t immediate. It typically takes a few months from concept to completed look, but after the big reveal, it’s always worth the wait.

With these beautiful beds complete, it felt like the perfect time to do a bedding roundup.

NEW CASTLE DREAMS

This soothing bed was dreamed up by our designer Liz, who was inspired by the New Castle fabric when creating for an out-of-state client. She realized how many different fabrics there are that pair well with it and decided she wanted to pull out some of the blues with this design. Completed in March, it felt like the perfect look to bridge the gap between winter and spring.

One of my favorite details that ties it all together is the front boxed pillow with a fun, pleated edge, which Liz also dreamed up. And with the darker side of the pillow and the decorative pleating, it’s the perfect balance of girly and polished.

Looking to create a similar look at home? Sometimes a bed you see on display might be almost what you’re looking for, but maybe the pillows aren’t exactly right. My advice here is to be like Liz. When there wasn’t the right proportion of pillow for her design, she decided to try something totally new. Don’t be afraid to mix it up and choose a different option to complete your look.

CHINOISERIE MASTERPIECE

This bedscape by our designer Anne is a beautiful blend of masculine and feminine. Anne’s original fabric inspiration for the design was the chinoise toile of the front pillows, and the bed was built around them. By repeating the tape trim on the duvet and lumbar pillow, Anne brought some continuity between the pillows and the bedding design and successfully tied in the aquamarine colors found in the lovely inspiration fabric.

A flaxen duvet with turquoise tape trim is a fantastic option for a minimalist or someone who wants to create a foundation for playing up interesting pillows. It’s the perfect example of fine details done well to create a polished and refined look.

A FIELD OF WILDFLOWERS

This bright, beautiful bed was brought to life by our bedding team, its darling floral fabric just sings spring. We love our blue and white, and the addition of greens and yellows makes for a fresh interpretation of the pairing for the warmer months ahead.

Delightful yellows and sweet blues accented with spring greens pop off clean white backgrounds in all these featured textiles. Butter yellow buffalo check pillows bring out the yellow found in the wildflower fabric of the duvet. The front lumbar pillow is a crisp white with a Greek key design, bringing a more tailored feel to the otherwise organic fabric selection.

BRIGHT BOTANICALS

This bedding design is all about the big and bold details. This bright botanical print featuring peonies and hydrangeas is the obvious inspiration, used in not only the pillows, but as the foundation for the cane-detailed bed itself. This fabric has so many color options to pull from when selecting accompanying details, finding pairings is a spring breeze. We felt inspired by the navy tones throughout and found a few preppy fabrics with minimal pattern to allow the botanical to really shine. For this finished look, we combined custom bedding components with a green-trimmed, ready-made duvet.

Playing with patterns and pillows always gets me inspired. With every bedding feature, I want to recreate my bed at home all over again!

ADD SOME ARTISTIC FLAIR wallpaper making a comeback

By KAITLyN KEEGAN, HARTFORD COURANT | PHOTO By TRIBUNE NEWS SERvICE

Over the years, wallpaper has been all the rage. Step into a house renovated from the 1950s to early 1990s, there is probably a lot of wallpaper. Current generations remember the sticky, smelly glue that soaked into your sheetrock and ruined anything it touched. As we turned into the mid-to-late ‘90s, wallpaper began to fall out of favor.

Homeowners began ripping it down, dealing with the price tag-like paper that left glue everywhere. They steamed, they scraped, they wet the walls with wallpaper stripper — anything that would help peel the stubborn paper and glue off.

Nowadays, wallpaper is back and better than ever.

The new wallpaper does not apply the same way as it used to. There are two methods in which wallpaper can be

applied. Either paste the wall or peel and stick. It used to be that the installer had to soak the paper to activate the adhesive.

Peel and stick is the most commonly used; it is like using a sticker. Paste is used for more heavy, high-quality wallpapers with a non-woven backing. You apply the glue to the wall and then hang the dry paper. You can then adjust the paper and smooth it out as needed before it dries.

The best part? Peel and stick wallpaper can often be reused.

Wallpaper that has a non-woven backing can be peel off dry and leave behind some spots of glue that can be washed off with soapy water. The important thing about modern wallpaper is proper preparation of the walls prior to application. Make sure paint is dry and the walls are clean before you apply it.

Beside the changes in application, wallpaper is now accepted and encouraged in the interior design world.

“Wallpaper is a great way to add drama to a space,” Kellie Burke of Kellie Burke Interiors said. “It adds that artistic flare that a piece of art would bring to a space.”

Whether an accent wall or a whole room, wallpaper is a way to add individuality into a space. Individuality and bold colors are both trending for 2023.

“We are also loving the reinvented granny florals that were such a trend in the ’80s,” Burke said. “Layering of the same pattern on drapery, upholstery and walls is magic and warms up a space.”

When looking at your space and considering what to do, or while questioning a choice, Burke said to go for it.

“Dare to be bold,” she said.