26Aug

Trending Now: Abaca Rugs

If you haven’t gotten caught up with the increasing trend of abaca rugs, then today you will. Ideal for coastal design, we can see this natural-fiber rug in urban homes as well as in country homes nowadays. Abaca also called Musa, or Manila Hemp comes from an inedible banana plant that grows in the Philippines. The very versatile plant can be used for everything from plates to paper to roofing. The fibers of this plant are super durable and strong, making them thicker, but also softer than sisal, making them super cozy and elegant as well.

abaca rug, costal design, Amanda Lindroth

Many beautiful elements are in this coastal design room, but the Borobudur abaca rug makes the most substantial impact. Design by Amanda Lindroth.

12Aug

Tour This Charming Stone English Manor House With Lovely Interiors

Who wouldn’t love to have a stone house in the country with climbing roses and charming interiors? There is something incredibly charming and enduring about English country style, and this house in the Cotswolds designed by Joana Wood is entirely English but with a contemporary twist. On this more contemporary version of English country house style, we can find more solid fabrics instead of chintz, bare tables instead of draped ones and exposed furniture legs instead of skirted upholstery yet it still feels classic and livable.

24Jul

Take A Tour Of Southern Living Magazine Idea House

This year’s Southern Living Magazine Idea House was built from the ground up in the Crane Island, Florida, 14 miles from Fernandina Beach. The house is absolutely gorgeous, Interiors designed by Heather Chadduck Hillegas, Architecture by Historical Concepts’ Jim Strickland and Clay Rokicki, and construction by Riverside Custom Homes. The decoration inside is elegant and classic but entirely livable with an emphasis on All American beauty. I can move into this house and not change a thing.

It took me more than usual to upload all these images, but they are all so worthy that I wanted to make sure I wouldn’t leave one out. The house has a resemblance to the Something’s Gotta Give’s house, but with a bit more on the classic modern side, with lots of browns, dark blue, ceiling beams, classic or antique furniture throughout and printed fabrics and wallpaper. Read more about it at Southern Living Magazine.

soutern living idea home, blue and white living room

The living room with a blue and white palette.

10Jun

Sophisticated County Style: 12 Sophisticated Country Rooms

sophisticated country office design, Bunny Melon

The Antigua residence of Bunny Mellon.

Often when some hear the word country style or interior design, the first images that come to their mind are unpainted wood, rust metal furniture, and rough, textural walls and floors surfaces, however, there is also another kind of country style that is also sophisticated and refined. It’s true that I love urban and polished interiors, but I also love and enjoy being in a sophisticated country space for many different reasons, but mostly for its coziness and inviting feel.

24Jul

A 200-Year-Old Farmhouse In Mallorca Gets A Major Makeover

Ammonite fossils on top of an antique table welcome visitors in the entry way.

Imagine coming to your summer home and being greeted by an aromatic scent emanating from a line of olive, almond and cork trees that indicate the path to the house. This forever-summer home is located in Manacor in the south-east of Mallorca. It’s been entirely renovated in a way that preserves the house’s original Mallorcan spirit by Architect and Interior Designer Ramon Garcia Jurado. The clients’ request was for a ‘home where you can hang out all day in a sarong and be barefoot most of the time’. The final result is that and more, Garcia Jurado was able to interpret his clients’ wish while making the home also comfortable and sophisticated enough. The white walls and bare resin floors serve as the perfect background for the rich colored antiques throughout the house.

17Jul

A Charming Fisherman House In The Ile De Re by Christian Liaigre

A Charming Fisherman cottage in the isle de , Christian Liegre

Simplicity doesn’t mean sterile, and a fisherman house doesn’t always imply unworldly either. Quite often good design is harder to interpret in simple, authentic ways than in grand, opulent ways. As this charming fisherman house shows, good Interior Design embraces the home instead of disguising it. Christian Liaigre took inspiration from the 18th-century architecture in Île de Ré, an Island of the West Coast of France, to decorate his family country home. The rusticity found in the unspoiled island is interpreted in the design details of the house from the understated facade with its simple main door to the original white painted panels throughout inside the home. The main red doors Liaigre saw in his trip to Nantucket inspired the touches of red dotting around the house. “This is a simple home for a fisherman, and that is reflected in the decoration” Christian Liaigre

Tag: Country Decor

Trending Now: Abaca Rugs

Tour This Charming Stone English Manor House With Lovely Interiors

Take A Tour Of Southern Living Magazine Idea House

Sophisticated County Style: 12 Sophisticated Country Rooms

A 200-Year-Old Farmhouse In Mallorca Gets A Major Makeover

A Charming Fisherman House In The Ile De Re by Christian Liaigre

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