Sometimes when you live in Southern California, a look or feel for your home evolves that doesn’t have a name, can’t be found in the chapters of traditional design books and can’t be shopped in the marketplace.
Like a casual gathering of localness, perhaps the look is Californian — a mix of naturally found objects, plant material unique to our climate, earthy elements in the kinds of pottery and driftwood collected outside and brought in.
Re-purposed Elmwood table with vintage Danish candle sticks. Cedar and Eucalyptus greens, milk glass spheres – all available at Molly Wood Garden Design.
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Molly Wood channels California in her Christmas décor in a way that can be described as fresh. It’s not borrowing from the East Coast, the Old World or even another era.
Wood’s coastal California Christmas is now, all her own, and ours, too, if we just look outside.
Still there are the family heirlooms – the mid-century modern candlesticks painted red, the ornaments that have been in the family for ages.
“Even though I like to try new things, my kids want to see things come out that they’ve seen before. That’s how they get excited because they know Christmas is coming,” said Wood, mother of three and proprietor of Molly Wood Garden Design in Costa Mesa.
Wood is evolving from a landscape designer to boutique owner and brand. What would you call clam shells filled with succulents, modern outdoor furniture mixed with topiary, sea grass and weathered wood? “Molly Wood” we’re thinking and that’s what her design business and boutique are named.
Wood’s Christmas Day celebration is as relaxed as her decor. “We like to throw picnic blankets on the lawn, play games, read, take naps,” she said.
Wood puts twinkling lights on the plants outside, but only during the holidays. “If you do it year round, you don’t see the sparkle anymore,” she said.
As a lady who works with plants, Wood buys plantable trees each year. Star pines start out in the house during the holidays, and move to pots outdoor as part of her year-round landscape.
Eucalyptus comes inside, boxwood is fashioned into wreathes, sea shells and bleached wood find places in her home as part of the holiday celebrations.
Typical of the sunny, open-to the breezeway life that Wood goes about every day in her world.
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