A Gorgeous White Interior

I have a treat for you.  Here is a beautiful Italian home the house is Liberty period on three levels., with even a little roof terrace.  It is my client and friend Laura who has done it up in this calm simple perfect way.  She has created so many tiny little scenes that are so simple, to me there is a touch of art.

What is interesting about this story is that she is giving it all up to move to Zanzibar Tanzania, start a new life, opening a store in a vacation spot for tourists.  She has never lived anywhere but Foligno, Italy.  Her children are all grown up, the crisis is hitting Italy, big time and she has the guts and joy to start a new chapter in her life.

That said, man does she have style.  You should see how she dresses.  I personally could not live in a house without tons of color, but I must say that to be in this environment is to feel a visual and an internal peace.

For this project I restored all the doors in the house 9 of them plus the front interior doors, plus the arch in the living room.  I scraped them down to the wood and then put a glaze over them.  They may look white but really the color had a hint of gray- lavender in it.  I also painted some mirror, small furniture all white, of course.

A few secrets:  I painted the banister with a metallic silver gray it was black before, this really improved the whole look of the house. I also painted all the hardware to the windows  and doors the same metallic silver and it made the windows look cleaned up and modern. The carpet on the stairs was a low-end solution, almost felt like, the curtains are from Ikea and only cost 4 euros a set, they let all the light in and Laura sure saved a lot of money there.  The bathrooms had gross brown terrible motif from the 60's Laura just put solid white contact paper over it.  Not easy to do, but great idea.

Isn't this house an inspiration?  Do you like it?  I know all you out there with children are thinking - if only.  We all arrive at different phases of our lives.  This is the beauty of life to embrace each phase.

Natalie

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