Taste is often spoken about as something instinctive, but more often it is a skill accumulated from a lifetime of references, obsessions and objects that slowly settle into a point of view. For fashion creator Reese Blutstein (aka @double3xposure), that sensibility has evolved into two distinct yet intertwined aesthetic worlds: fashion and design – worlds shared with her identical twin sister and fellow fashion creator Molly Blutstein (aka @accidentalinfluencer). Speaking together in Reese’s Atlanta home, a handsome 1930s brick abode nestled beneath the canopy of a sprawling fig tree and animated by the gentle bustle of chickens in the yard, the sisters reflect on their aesthetic instincts, how style migrates from the body to the home, and make the case for the slow accumulation of beloved pieces.
MB: How would you describe your relationship with fashion and interiors? Do they naturally overlap?
RB: I would say yes. I feel like interiors are so similar to fashion in the way that they are both about what you want to say to the world – or at least, to the people that come over to your house. I definitely lean into more pattern in my house than I do in my clothes – even though I also love patterned clothes. I feel like I’m not as scared to add pattern to my house. There are certain patterns I would never wear, but that I love as a curtain or a bedspread. You know?
MB: Yeah, and I’m often a little overstimulated by an element of my outfit, because I’ve established a certain shape or style that’s actually not that comfortable to wear but, in my house, I wouldn’t compromise if my couch was an itchy fabric, or my bed felt weird. We obviously both have such distinct but still connected aesthetics, where do you think our tastes align most and where do they completely differ?
RB: I was thinking about this! We like the same things – we often buy the same exact pieces – but we style them differently. You style things a little bit more femininely, but we always gravitate toward the same things. Sometimes I try to channel you when I’m shopping – like, “Hmm... maybe Molly would like this?”
MB: I think in your interiors, there’s more of a.... sporty, 50s influence. It’s a specific thing.
RB: Yours is more sweet – not girly, but something like that. There’s a sweetness to your interior style that I don’t have. And I think I can’t achieve the look I want in an interior as well as I can in an outfit. I often have a vision, and it never fully comes to fruition. But with an outfit I can always figure that out.
MB: Well, what was the feeling you wanted this home to have at the beginning?
RB: I wanted my house to feel comfortable – like we were talking about. And I wanted it to feel classic and a little bit traditional. I didn’t want it to feel trendy at all because my previous house, when I was younger, was quite trendy. And pretty quickly thereafter I was sick of everything in the house, and I'd spent a lot of money and was like, “Ugh, I don’t want any of this”.
MB: I feel like that’s kind of attached to youth in a way...
RB: Totally, yeah. You’re just trying it all out. But for this house I wanted to go along with the style of the house, which was built in the 1930s. I didn’t want it to feel modern – that’s just not my style either. I leaned into more classic patterns – like stripes and toile. A stripe never goes out of style. I wanted to like it for a long time.
MB: There’s a maturity to it, and a classic-ness to it now.
RB: It still, to me, needs more colour. It’s not exactly how I want it to be, but I also think it never will be.
MB: I feel like – and obviously this is a question for you, but I'm going to answer it too – because this is a home that you’re now raising your son in, that’s an influence you didn’t have in your last place. There’s a rootedness to it that you wanted, and a comfort that you wanted to establish for both you and him.
RB: Yeah, and I needed to be realistic. I couldn’t just have a giant book stack because it could fall.
MB: So, did you approach decorating intuitively, or were you very considered about every detail?
RB: I think both. I try to consider every detail, but I can’t explain why I’m drawn to certain things, but I just am, and I don’t question it.
MB: Of course, there are external influences, always, because it’s impossible to not have those. Especially if you’re on the internet. But I think we are both more intuitive than we are planned out. But also, I hyperventilate when I see good, tiny details in a space.
RB: Me too! It’s the most satisfying thing ever.
MB: Which room in your house do you think feels the most like you?
RB: I think my kitchen, because we recently re-did it. We really considered everything – we wanted it to stand the test of time but also feel really beautiful. Obviously, there were limitations because of the space that we’re in, but I loved that we got to decide how things were laid out, the colours, the finishes. It feels very us: bright, airy and still cosy and warm. We got to bring in that Primitive style with the table, too.
MB: The kitchen feels very you. But then, when I envision you in your house, I imagine you on your couch.
RB: Yeah, that was my second option. My living room is very me. There are still things I would change about – it’s still not quite what I want it to be.
MB: It’s not fully realised yet. What are some objects in the house you could never part with?
RB: A few of the curtains in my house I made out of old, vintage tablecloths or napkins. I have one in my kitchen and one in my living room. I just love those. They feel very me and like something I would want to bring anywhere I go. I also have a lot of vases that I have collected over the years that I would never want to get rid of. I also collect vintage napkins. I love them so much – it makes sense for me to have napkins as curtains in my home. Even old tablecloths, when they’re perfectly pressed and ironed. The embroidery on it, I just love it all.
MB: Did you have any references that shaped what you wanted your home to feel like?
RB: A lot of the time I’ll look at 90s Ralph Lauren interiors. Nancy Meyers films too. I enjoy her layering in a room, like when you have a table with fabric over it, and tonnes of picture frames on top of that, with a lamp and then another table and a little chair. There’s so much going on, but it’s so thought out. Old J-Crew shoots too. It’s classic and a little bit Southern too.
MB: And when we go to Paris or to Milan, there’s always certain things that we love and want to bring into our space.
RB: Yeah, I’ve never been to the English countryside, but I’m so inspired by it. And that is my perfect interior – an old English cottage. Something cosy and not at all trendy, with beautiful wooden built-ins and lots of patterned fabrics. Where there’s so much on top of a mantle, but all of it works.
MB: A little bit of calculated chaos?
RB: That’s something I’m trying to channel more is a little bit more chaos. Not being so curated. But my mind is a little bit curated because of social media.
MB: I do think those things take time.
RB: Oh, it takes years! You have to actually collect the things you love, you can’t just buy them all at once.
MB: I think it gives you this false idea, seeing other peoples’ houses. You can’t rush that. Give me a decade.
RB: Most of those English cottages I love have been in a family for 50 years or more. And all of this stuff comes from family heirlooms. They didn’t just go to the store and buy things to make it all come together in one month.
MB: What does a perfect morning at home look like to you?
RB: Probably very similar to yours, in a way. Waking up, lying in bed for a minute, having a coffee, probably going on Pinterest. Going for a walk.
MB: A grounded, slow, morning. What about something unexpected in your space that people might not notice right away?
RB: Maybe that we have chickens in our backyard?
MB: I think something that was unexpected for you when you first moved in was that window – the double casement window that opens from the middle.
RB: Oh my god, the best! I didn’t even know that it was there when we bought the house.
MB: That’s why, when I imagine you in your house, you’re on your couch with the double casement window open, you’re drinking coffee, and you’re staring out at your giant fig tree.
RB: That’s an ideal morning.
MB: Are there materials, textures or colours you find yourself constantly drawn to lately?
RB: Stripes! I can’t get away from stripes.
MB: And small-scale florals. Plaids.
RB: I do love a plaid... or an old, crisp, cotton quilt. I’m also really into deep, deep red. And I’m kind of into wicker.
MB: Yes, woven, iron or lacquered, high-gloss pieces. Things that are a little more ornate. What about the last thing you bought and loved?
RB: I recently bought this POSSE dress. It’s a buttery yellow with this pretty scarf that hangs in the front and flows in the back. And I love it, it’s so pretty. What about you?
MB: The first thing I thought of was my hutch. It’s like a dark pine and it feels kind of folky and primitive.
RB: You also got those cute little Chloé jelly shoes!
MB: Oh yeah, those are fun. And really nostalgic. I feel like Cinderella in them.
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