Two Approaches to Home. One Eye for What Lasts.
The homes that feel most considered tend to have something in common that is hard to articulate: they look as though someone made real decisions, not just purchases. Each object is there because it belongs, not because it filled a gap. The choices may be warm and nature-driven or clean and understated, but the underlying discipline is identical.
Salina Maria of Salina Maria Home and Shannon Nelson of The ShannyKate work from different instincts. Salina brings a warmth to her spaces that comes from texture, natural materials, and organic greenery, rooms that feel like they have been tended to rather than decorated. Shannon works from a more restrained vocabulary: classic silhouettes, neutral palettes, and pieces that carry timeless weight without demanding attention.
Both have curated personal edits of CG Hunter pieces that reflect their respective approaches. These are their picks.
Salina Maria Home: Salina Maria
Salina Maria designs around the idea that a home should feel like a natural extension of who lives in it. Her spaces are warm without being busy, textural without being heavy, and seasonal without ever requiring a full reset. She is drawn to pieces with organic craft quality, things that look like they were chosen over time rather than acquired all at once, and her CG Hunter edit reflects that sensibility precisely.
"Styling my home with CG Hunter products has been such a natural extension of my personal aesthetic. Their pieces are thoughtfully designed, with a timeless quality that blends seamlessly into my spaces while still making a statement. I love how effortlessly they complement the look and feel of my home, adding warmth, texture, and an elevated sense of comfort to every room. It's a beautiful balance of form and function, and I truly enjoy creating spaces that reflect both my style and the craftsmanship behind each piece." — Salina Maria
Her full edit is under Curations > Salina Maria Home. Three pieces from that edit are worth knowing specifically.
Salina's Picks
The 9' Faux Evergreen Cedar Garland
Cedar is one of those materials that does not require interpretation. Its deep, layered greenery, its slightly irregular texture, its density when draped across a surface or wound around a banister: all of it reads as organic and considered at the same time. The 9' Faux Evergreen Cedar Garland captures that quality in a piece that holds its form and color indefinitely without any of the maintenance real cedar requires.
At 108 inches long with 420 individual branch leaves, it has the fullness of something gathered from a real tree rather than purchased from a product page. Draped across a console, a dining table, or a mantel, it brings the particular warmth that only dense, deep greenery creates in a room, and it does so in a way that reads as year-round rather than seasonal. Salina's approach to decor is precisely this: pieces that work continuously across the seasons rather than pieces that need to be replaced when the calendar changes. Available to preorder now for late summer delivery.
The 30" Faux Evergreen Cedar Wreath
The wreath is one of the most versatile objects in a well-designed home because it works in more places than most people think to put it. On a door, obviously. But also above a mantel, hung in a window, laid flat on a dining table as a centerpiece ring, or leaned against a wall in an entryway as a seasonal anchor.
The 30" Faux Evergreen Cedar Wreath brings 250 individual cedar branch leaves into a 30-inch circle that reads as genuinely full and natural rather than flattened and synthetic. Its 3.75-inch depth gives it the three-dimensional quality that makes a wreath look collected rather than purchased, and its cedar-forward palette, the same deep, textural green as the garland it pairs with, means the two pieces share a design language when used together. Available to preorder now alongside the garland for late summer delivery.
The Clear Glass and Rattan Candleholder
The third piece in Salina's edit is the one that ties the other two together. A candle in a clear glass vessel wrapped in natural rattan reads as organic and warm simultaneously, which is exactly the quality Salina's rooms carry. The Clear Glass and Rattan Candleholder is mouth-blown, which means each piece carries the subtle variation of something made by hand rather than manufactured, and the woven rattan base grounds the glass in a way that reads as natural rather than decorative.
Available in two sizes, the large at 7 inches wide and 13 inches tall and the medium at 6.25 inches wide and 8.5 inches tall, it works equally well as a single statement piece on a dining table or in a grouped composition with the cedar garland and a few additional candleholders across a mantel. Either way it introduces the candlelight warmth that Salina's aesthetic consistently returns to.
The ShannyKate: Shannon Nelson
Shannon Nelson brings a different sensibility. Where Salina's rooms feel warm and nature-forward, Shannon's feel clean and quietly authoritative. She works in classic silhouettes and neutral palettes, the kind of design vocabulary that does not depend on a particular moment or trend to feel right. Her instinct is toward pieces that are timeless rather than seasonal, understated rather than expressive, and composed rather than accumulated.
"I love CG Hunter products because they effortlessly elevate any space, each piece is unique, timeless, and beautiful. I know I'll enjoy styling them for years to come." — Shannon Nelson, The ShannyKate
Her full edit is under Curations > The ShannyKate. Three pieces from that edit are worth knowing specifically.
Shannon's Picks
The Charlotte Outdoor Lantern
There is a specific design move that works in almost any interior, and Shannon's edit demonstrates it: a cluster of lanterns in varying heights near a fireplace or hearth, their candlelight glowing against a clean, white-painted surround. The Charlotte Outdoor Lantern is the piece that makes that move possible.
Handcrafted from aluminium and finished in matte black, these lanterns come in three sizes: the large at 8 inches wide by 35.5 inches tall, the medium at 6 inches wide by 21 inches tall, and the small at 5 inches wide by 15.5 inches tall. The size progression is meaningful. A single lantern at any height reads as an accent. Three lanterns clustered at varying heights read as a composition, and the scale difference between the large and the small, nearly 20 inches of height across the group, creates the kind of vertical layering that gives a hearth or entryway real design presence. The black finish suits Shannon's palette precisely: grounding, clean, and ageless.
The 30" Faux Green Magnolia Leaf Wreath
The magnolia leaf has a particular quality that distinguishes it from most wreath materials: it is large enough to read from across the room, glossy enough to catch light, and substantial enough to create real visual weight. The 30" Faux Green Magnolia Leaf Wreath brings 150 individual leaves into a 28-inch diameter ring that has the full, three-dimensional presence of something cut fresh, with an 8.5-inch depth that prevents it from reading flat against a wall or door.
For Shannon's aesthetic, this is the greenery piece that works year-round without requiring any seasonal justification. Above a fireplace with the lanterns below, it completes the composition from floor to wall. On a front door, it is the kind of wreath that prompts neighbors to ask where it came from. The deep, glossy green is quiet enough to work against neutral walls and bold enough to be the defining design decision in a vignette that has nothing else competing with it.
The 8.5" Warm Grey Aluminum Vase with Handle
The last piece in Shannon's edit is the one most likely to be noticed slowly rather than immediately. The 8.5" Warm Grey Aluminum Vase with Handle is handcrafted from aluminum, hand-cast and powder-coated in a warm grey finish that sits somewhere between pewter and stone. The curved handle on one side gives it a sculptural quality that distinguishes it from a standard vessel, and at 8.5 inches wide and 8.5 inches tall with a 9-inch depth, it has the kind of compact presence that works on a mantel, a console, or a side table without overwhelming the surface.
Set with a single stem or branch it becomes an arrangement. Set alone it becomes a piece of sculptural decor. For rooms built around restraint and careful editing, the difference between a piece that reads as deliberate and one that reads as placed there is often exactly this kind of handcrafted, textured vessel with enough visual personality to justify its existence on the surface even with nothing in it.
Designer Answers
Q: What Is a Style Curator at CG Hunter?
A: CG Hunter's style curators are independent designers and tastemakers who create personal edits of CG Hunter products reflecting their own aesthetic. Each curator's collection is available directly on cghunter.com and gives shoppers a design-informed starting point rather than a blank catalog.
Q: How Do I Shop the Salina Maria Home Collection at CG Hunter?
A: The Salina Maria Home collection is available under Curations > Salina Maria Home at cghunter.com/collections/picks-by-salina-maria-home and includes pieces selected to reflect her warm, textural, nature-forward approach to home styling.
Q: How Do I Shop The ShannyKate Collection at CG Hunter?
A: The ShannyKate collection, curated by Shannon Nelson of @theshannykate_style, is available under Curations > The ShannyKate at cghunter.com/collections/the-shannykate and includes pieces that reflect her polished minimalist aesthetic and preference for timeless, classic design.
Q: Are CG Hunter Curator Collections Different From the Main Shop?
A: Each curator's collection is a personal edit drawn from the CG Hunter catalog, selected by the curator based on their own design instincts rather than by the CG Hunter team. The pieces are the same products available throughout the shop, organized around a specific aesthetic point of view.
One Standard, Two Distinct Approaches
Salina's rooms are warm, textural, and seasonally alive. Shannon's are clean, classic, and quietly composed. The aesthetics are different, but the underlying demand is the same: every piece in the room needs to earn its place, and the best pieces earn it indefinitely rather than for a season.
Explore both collections at cghunter.com, visit the Designer Journal weekly, and follow along on Instagram, Pinterest, and TikTok for more from both curators and the CG Hunter team.
