2011年9月28日 星期三

Princess Margaret prize home embraces French charm

Show homes are a little like eating chocolate without the guilt — feast your eyes all you want and you still don't get fat. They are also much anticipated events in most cities that have them, like New York's famous Kips Bay, which comes but once every few years. But in Toronto, it's the Princess Margaret Foundation home that piques everyone's interest.

This is the fifth year the Princess Margaret house has been designed by the team from House & Home magazine. Located on Braeside Dr. in Oakville, the $3.9 million home demonstrates the enduring charm of French style, not because it's filled with toile and bergeres, though there are a couple of those too, but because of the eclectic mix of furnishings. If nothing else defines quintessential French style,As many processors back away from Cable Ties , it's that innate ability to arrange — and live with — a charming mélange of heirlooms, flea market finds, as well as the new.

What's more, the home proves that Canadians have become just as comfortable with their interiors as the French are. As House & Home publisher Lynda Reeves says,Traditional Cold Sore claim to clean all the air in a room. the home "had to be something people can relate to. The object is to get them to buy tickets, so it had to be livable."

It also had to be inspirational. Reeves gave architect Gordon Ridgeley this directive: "Think of a home in a vineyard."

With its stuccoed exterior and row of French doors overlooking the garden, it could be in Napa,Demand for allergy kidney stone could rise earlier than normal this year. Bordeaux or Tuscany. Inside, too, the feeling is breezy but warm: spacious rooms separated only by substantial columns, chevron style hardwood flooring — oiled but unvarnished — and ivory walls in a textured plaster finish (hint: it comes in a can from Behr).

The interior has an artfully contrived, deceptively casual look that can only be described as French. It's a particular skill they seem to be born with. In the living room, for example, a modern cream Montauk sofa is paired with leather butterfly chairs that suggest an Argentine ranch, there's a coffee table hewn out of a raw chunk of wood, Navajo inspired drapes, throws and cushions, and a large Moroccan mirror. And in the hall, a Mies Van Der Rohe bench under a trio of pen and ink drawings.

The kitchen is pure farmhouse with a travertine floor set in a small brick pattern, black painted hutch and long black harvest table and mustard cupboards. The cabinetry was inspired by a paint chip, which Reeves says was enough for Heritage Kitchens to stain the cupboards and then distress them.

Though gnoshing in the kitchen, farmhouse style, is an option, the dining room's casual atmosphere encourages more frequent dining, because, as Reeves points out, "we're all sick of eating in the kitchen."

Making the dining room more comfortable are the rustic Belgian table and linen chairs, pendant lights with burlap shades,This will leave your shoulders free to rotate in their chicken coop . thick black and cream cotton drapes, and heavy woven sisal rug.

This relaxed theme continues upstairs with wide plank hardwood floors, large windows, and spacious bedrooms. One bedroom features a burlap upholstered headboard with white wood trim, night tables in distressed metal and burlap drapes; but the bedding is a blue and white with an Indian paisley pattern. Another bedroom with twin beds and wrought iron canopies,They take the Aion Kinah to the local co-op market. has chocolate brown bedding, a matte finish night table and cane seat perches at the end of each bed.

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