Our Home Tour 2017

Our Home Tour 
I recently updated the photos to show how our home looks now.
My rooms are always being redecorated for one season or occasion,
or simply because I am rearranging my furniture!  
Can you relate? 
I hope you enjoy the tour of our home~
From the courtyard and garden shed, to our small front yard,
take a walk around and come on in!

 French Courtyard

Garden tool shed 

Rose arbor and wire bench

White picket fence for the dogs

Our new addition,  little Piper, an English Cream Golden Retriever

Living room image via Romantic Country Magazine Spring 2017

A piano, painted white, is played by our son.

French chair in living room in my favorite toile!

Antique and rare, our blue opaline chandelier drops and goblets.

We use these goblets on Easter to celebrate.

Dining room, french romantic style. 

Purple transferware is my obsession,
as is antique lighting.

 One of many sets of curtains for the dining room, these in pink linen

Our two year old boy, Colby

Purple transferware on the hutch, decked out for Christmas with greens

 French settee I purchased from Designer Matthew Mead, 
which led to our friendship and many adventures

It sits underneath cabinet doors removed from an old built in.

Hallway in the kitchen with an old green bench.

Our cottage kitchen, accents of green

Green and purple do so well together

Piper in the tv room, underneath a landscape mural I painted

A sisal runner in grey for our busy household 

 Our master bed with pretty Belgian spread,
aquamarine is the order of the day.

My favorite antique~this painted table

A restful escape at the end of long days.

Master bathroom countertop has touches of aquamarine as well.

The painted cabinets are a pale Duck Egg blue with gold hardware

His and hers, sinks and chandeliers!

Thanks for visiting! 

Photographs by Matthew Mead and Amy Chalmers. Please do not use without permission.

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Romantic Living Room Update

Recently I had the pleasure of updating

 a living room for a client.

 She loves the glamorous, romantic, french style.

This before  picture was taken after the painters 
had finished, so the cornices were still down.
What a difference adding to her window treatment made.
The existing cornice boards were already upholstered to match

 the chair and sofa in the living room. I added long silk panels with fringe.

Her walls were originally linen white, now a beautiful pinky beige.

Take a look at the finished room:

I specified a paint change to BM Bradstreet Beige

 and the ceiling in BM Sunset Pink.

There was a lot of pattern with the Aubusson style floral carpet 

and the floral pattern was everywhere you looked.
I wanted to soften that overload of pattern.

 I toned it down with solid silk panels in a melon pink

 with lush fringe in a beige and pink combination.

 I applied a pink and beige brush fringe

 to the top of the lambrequins (cornices with sides).

Each panel was held back by a burnished gold medallion.

Her furniture is in a whitewash oak which

 comes across as a peachy pink. 

The room has layers of beigey pinks

 that are quite elegant and romantic.

A favorite painting won at an auction in Paris 

now holds center stage over the mantel.

 It used to be on a side wall.

 I replaced a contemporary oversized painting

 that was too bold for the room.

A tole candelabra in aged green

 is the centerpiece on her marble coffee table.

The color of the silk drapes is repeated in the coffee table.

Small changes in paint colors and beefing up top treatments

 can give any room the face lift it needs to stay current!

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