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Farewell and a Lovely House in Spain

I'm starting my holidays tomorrow so I will not be posting every day as usual. Maybe once or twice a week. However, remember there are more than 500 previous posts to look at while I'm gone, so you can catch up if you've missed any.

So, before I start packing I'm giving you a second post today. A lovely house located in the Barrio de las Letras, in Madrid, Spain. Decorated by Estefanía Carrero with a mixture of styles, from modern to classic with rustic touches and full of interesting details and textures.



























Hope you enjoyed this second tour. Now, I must rush and start packing! See you soon, dears, hopefully some time next week.

All images from here.

Interior Designer Sara Lavoine

Good morning dear readers. Today we are going to visit interior designer Sara Lavoine's summer house in Gers countryside often called French Tuscany in the Southwest of France. She had this seventeenth century house restored keeping most of its original materials and then decorated it in a rustic country style but also adding some modern items.
Tour time, sweets. Have a blast!

































Photography Christine Soler and Henri del Olmo
All images from here.

Guest Post : Lona de Anna

Hello Everyone,

I'm was very flattered and honoured when Sarah asked me to guest post on her blog...and put this question to me.

What is my favourite design of Chair...and why?

This was a not so hard question to answer when I really sat down and thought about it...as being someone who embraces the old and new when it comes to furniture pieces and styles...I found it quite easy to narrow it down to just one particular style when it came to choosing my favourite design of chair.

I would most definitely have to say that my favourite design of chair would have to be the Wingback Chair.

To me this chair represents everything a chair should, style, comfort, detail, and diversity...they provided such a statement in any room...and no matter what style, colour or purpose of the room ...they fit right in..perfectly..and I would go as far as to say...they even "Make" the room.

I love that this particular design of chair has been given so many different looks over the years considering the fact that it has been a furniture staple for families since they were introduced in the 18th Century, with their original intention being to keep the person sitting in them warm and comfortable by keeping out the drafts with their oversized arms and holding in heat with their tall backs and wing-like sides or to protect the delicate skin of gentrified ladies from the heat of a roaring fireplace."

Believe it or not earlier models were actually non-upholstered but later a modern version was created including overstuffed backs and lower arms that swing outwards for comfort...and now we cant seem to get enough of recreating yet another style or version of a wingback chair.

A few examples



French Style Wingback Chair


Louis Style Wingback Chair


Retro Style Wingback Chair


Modern Style Wingback Chair


Danish Style Wingback Chair


Tufted Traditional Style Wingback Chair

My personal and all time favourite version of a Wingback Chair would have to be the Tufted Leather Style Wingback Club Chair, in a gorgeous soft brown worn leather and finished with brass pressed studs...I don't own one of these gorgeous creatures just yet...and am still on the hunt for the perfect one!


Tufted Leather Style Wingback chair



Thank you so much Sarah for having me over, it was a fun little post to work on which now has me spending far too much time on Ebay searching for my dream Wingback Chair ; )

Warmest Regards, Anna x


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Interior Designer Charles Spada

Sited at the mouth of the Connecticut River in Essex, Connecticut, and with a wide view of Long Island Sound, this house was purchased and restored in the 1980s. Back then, interior designer Charles Spada took the historic Greek Revival house down to its roots and then built upon them stately columns, moldings and trim. Window casings were outfitted with broad-shouldered frames, leaving the views exposed. So, 20 years later the house only needed a refresher, like changing fabrics and wall colours and adding a back porch. Once again Charles Spada was called and brought the house into the twenty-first century.



A checkerboard-painted floor and sisal runner mix with a rococo demilune.

Elegant simplicity reigns in the living room under a George Bruestle painting and a host of green-hued fabrics.

On the opposite end of the room, framed intaglios float on wires hanging from picture molding rods behind a grand piano. Two flame-stitch-covered chairs from the Netherlands flank an eighteenth-century Italian commode with a mirror of the same era above it.

Charles Spada designed the intricate fireplace and window moldings during his first encounter with this house.

The library in its original colour from twenty years ago.

The breakfast room sits just off the kitchen and, like the living room, forgoes window treatments.

The stone floor on the porch was added during the recent updates to the rest of the house.

The dining table extends in front of the faux-finished console to seat more than a dozen people.

During the home’s original renovation, Spada gutted the warren of upstairs rooms to create an under-the-eaves master bath.

In the guest room, twin beds wear new layers of quilts and linen-covered headboards, sheer curtains hang at the windows, and a grasscloth rug for the floor. Mmilking stools were placed at the end of each bed. A range of pinks brings a rosy glow to a guest room

Custom bedding is key to the master suite’s comfort.

Photos: Bruce Buck
All images from here.