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Just love these pictures of a home featured in Marie Claire Maison this month.
House to a stylist with Designer’s Guild, this interior mixes style with comfort; modern living with vintage furniture; simple with feminine and an altogether british touch of h.o.m.e!
This sort of ‘casually thrown together’ look appears so effortless, but when you look closely there is some very clever and precise styling going on here.
An overall white backdrop, simple mis-matched furniture, white painted floors (chippy!), and a clever dose of duck egg/turquoise blue and soft pink just dropped in here and there, like a painter letting drips of his favourite colour fall strategically over a canvas.
It is a young family that lives here and for once you can look at the pictures and say ‘yes!’, I can see that working.
comfortable, modern and friendly,
a style to aspire to ….
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all photos thanks to marie claire maison
17 comments
the soft touches of periwinkle are wonderful!
Beautiful, Sharon. It's true, that kind of style looks effortless, but takes a skilled eye to pull together – and patience, too. Collecting just the right vintage pieces with just the right patina takes time. I think I would feel instantly at home here! XO
oh my…I too really like that casual but modern look lately…am trying to achieve that here – but it's harder than I thought!
hope you have been well Sharon 🙂
xo + blessings,
Anne Marie
Beautiful, Sharon. I love the touches of purple and the bedroom is gorgeous…well, really I adore every room! 🙂
That hallway in the last picture is amazing!
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How very charming – the whole place has a deceptively accidental grace, and it looks weathered by happy living.
A style to aspire to indeed, especially love the bedroom, nice mix of white, colour and a splash of dark wood – a combo that could easily be a disaster but it all blends so perfectly here. I like Mise's description of it as 'deceptively accidental grace' 🙂
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I've been looking at the Marie Claire photos, too. I'm part French married to a part Scandinavian so we are all about this.
Sheree
This style is the perfect mix of rustic, sweet, feminine, Nordic and bohemian! I love all the white with soft pops of color here and there! Thank you for sharing this lovely home with us, Sharon!
xoxo laurie
I like a lot of it, Sharon. The bathroom is heaven, and I have a kitchen dream involving open shelving and lower cabinets with no doors, only small curtains as illustrated. I have a vintage bungalow, the renovation money came to a screeching halt by the time we got to the kitchen (AKA the U.S.A's Great Recession of the latter 2000s), so what I do look forward to is eventually a kitchen re-do/upgrade of my dream, with a respectful nod to the home's era of course. I can only figure that my home was designed for a 6-ft-tall woman, which I am not, because every cupboard above sink height can only be reached by me via a stepladder. It's incredibly inconvenient. I just want what's practical and simple. (Alas, it's the same for every other closet, shelf and cupboard in the home…I have to have a ladder in every room, and also for built-in bookcases. This is when floor-to-ceiling storage, maximizing space in the not-so-big-house is, well, for the birds; house unfriendly! Don't get me started on high ceilings and the impossibility of trying to clean a hanging fan or light fixture…)
I think I could live in this house!
Is it a house in France? I especially like the bedroom with its mismatched furniture and different colours and with the chest of drawers as a bedside table. I could never understand how anyone can have a tiny table next to their bed. I have way too much stuff for a tiny table.
YOU are a sweetheart……and I have few suggestions!
There are these wonderful aluminum stepladders (they come in 4 heights , I think! that fold up into 4 inches wide.. I would keep one in every room where there are high shelves! They can hide behind the door or somewhere…..they open in a second…..and up you go! High ceilings are an enormous bonus for storage of things not used every day!
We have these beautiful (brag!?!) cabinets in our bathroom that are way tall! (9ft?)
Some people asked us (very politely and nicely…..and I was immensely flattered) to "copy" things in our house when they were building theirs!
They made their bathroom cabinets much shorter so they could "reach everything!"
Yikes! They look absolutely HIDEOUS!!! an enormous OOPS!! (I hope they do not read this)
The entire proportion was ruined….."short and fat" is what that looks like…as opposed to "tall and thin"!
you can see our bathroom corner cabinets at http://www.mccormickinteriors.com if you want…..
Aesthetics are not "for the birds"!
We just need to adapt to the more beautiful way to do things!
Just my opinion!
Oh! I forgot to say that there are wonderful telescoping lambswool mops that go up past 20 feet for dusting high ceilings! Fans, fixtures, cobwebs and all of it!
You have an embarrassment of riches with such high ceilings! You are the "envy of many"!
I suggest looking at what you have in a different way! Celebrate!
Having lived one year in an ugly rented house with low ceilings 7and a half ft ceilings; and bad proportions; I am afraid I would have died by now if I had had to stay.
Just something to think about! Sometimes treasures are right in front of us…….and we don't see them!!
ps library ladders are very cool! They slide along a rod……..I have one for the way up to the loft in my guest house! They can reach up to 25 feet! Fabulous! They are great for libraries with tall bookcases!
And they are beautiful!!!
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