Scott Mastej

Scott Mastej, owner of Watershed Trading Company, works with interior designers and local craftspeople to fill his Bryson City store.When he speaks of rustic decorating themes he refers to a single inspiration: nature.

"It's about bringing nature indoors, it's the great outdoors inside, whether it's the Great Smoky Mountains or the Rocky Mountains," Mastej said."Rustic means so many things."

Mastej likens the look to the grand lodges of the West.Through the years the style has been translated into a type of decorating he calls "accessible."

"What started as highly thematic and structured museum pieces and showpieces have become an acceptable everyday design," Mastej said.
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Lynn Holton of Atlanta worked with Mastej to furnish her family's vacation cabin.
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The Holton family liked the look so much that when they built their new house in a Suwanee, Ga., neighborhood they called on Mastej again to help with furnishings.
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Scott Mastej advises mixing outdoorsy pieces with traditional ones, such as topping an antique table with a lamp accented with amber mica.He also suggests even subtler touches, such as a simple mirror trimmed with birch and twigs.

"It's capturing the excitement for living, the zest for living, and moving it indoors," he said.