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Vaughan Design & Development recently took on the interior design for a spacious six-bedroom family home in Harpenden in Hertfordshire, England. As a new build, the goal was to add warmth, character and functionality to accommodate the clients’ busy lives with young children. Advocates of colour and playful design, Vaughan also needed practical features like a first-floor laundry, boot room, large playroom and luxurious adult spaces. The studio blended natural materials with layered details, traditional fittings and vibrant elements creating a bright, joyful home tailored to the family’s needs.

An outstanding 93-hectare estate in the Bresse region of Burgundy, between Lyon, Dijon and Geneva. A full-width entrance hall floored with cabochon tiles is adorned with frescoes painted by the owners, depicting equestrian and hunting life on the estate. There is a wainscoted billiards room featuring stunning painted jute canvases with scenes from Cervantes’ novel Don Quixote. A small drawing room with herringbone parquet flooring, opening onto an ornamental greenhouse, is entirely covered in wood panelling and has coffered ceilings and a carved stone fireplace. A small dining room, with cabochon floor tiles, is also entirely panelled. There is a vast reception room with interesting decorative Art Nouveau elements. The centrepiece of the room is an impressive stone fireplace with curved lines and floral motifs. On the first floor are 6 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms, and on the second floor are 5 bedrooms, a bathroom and linen room. The outbuildings include a indoor riding arena, a shelter for horse-drawn carriages and cars and a stable with seven stalls, a caretaker’s house, a gardener’s house, a chapel, a rural farm with dwelling and two farm outbuildings. This property is absolutely incredible. And all of this for €2,500,000. For sale via Patrice Besse.

It’s like I say week in week out. If you have to drag yourself into work on the weekend it helps if it’s somewhere stylish. Boutique and Gallery by Studiopepe in collaboration with Coutume Studio.

Photography by Silvia Rivoltella.

This 1886 farmhouse is so full of charm and such pretty colours. Embracing its history and giving it all the vintage vibes. By Studio Day Design.

Here, a historic house was intact but sleepy. It had been cared for but also complacent in it historicity. A new owner was excited by the potential of a spikey juxtaposition between old and new. Small changes in layout to a warren of rooms yielded a large open space the entire width of the house. Within this new space and throughout the house a radical decision was made to create glowing monochromatic surfaces in the palest pink. To this was added furniture and art that spanned history. From early American, to Provençal, to Scandinavian, to mid century, to 70s futurist, from auction houses, to fancy antique stores, to junk shops. The style is worldly but with an overarching coziness and sense of humor. Serenity and joy are interwoven. Outside, the brook rushes, the snow falls, the leaves open and the bears roam. Inside, the pink palace embraces all.
I dream about having several houses. And something just like this is one of them, filled with all things vintage and a wildly eclectic blend. And now I’m thinking it would need pale pink walls. Pink Palace in Norfolk, CT designed by Berman Horn Studio. Photos: Greta Rybus.