Making the House a Home - Part Two

While it arrived earlier this week, I finally took the September issue of Domino out of its shipping sleeve tonight and inhaled the article featuring the gorgeous Hampstead home of British designer Matthew Williamson. Bring on the color!

I've already shared these pics with some of you outside the blog, but because it's fairly color rich I thought this would be a good spot to let you take a look at another room of the house, the den I affectionately refer to as 'The Green Room.' The before shots here show the fireplace in real need of a face lift and a more than dated ceiling fan looking tired and weary:



and the room after I bathed the walls in Behr's Appletini Green.



Like the living room, this space came together one step at a time, with me tackling projects like refacing the fireplace as I could afford to do so. I think it, and the chandelier which came out of my Mother's dining room, are my favorite elements. I'm pretty sure she was of the mindset that chandeliers are for the dining room only so she would probably be less than thrilled about where it now resides, but I love it in this room and think it adds a delicate elegance to the pseudo modern space.



The room is adjacent to the kitchen and because we most often use that door to enter and exit the house, the green walls are usually the first focal point for me when I come home. No matter how bad a day I might have had, when I walk in that door I instantly feel a little bit better.



It's actually a fairly small space and is probably better suited to handling one or two less pieces, but for now everything has a home and it all seems to work. You know I love to say it: Go Green! ☺

[top image © Domino Magazine]