I adore this cape cod summer home recently featured in the most current issue of
Traditional Home. Keeping the 1817 house's charm, the family of six renovated it to accomodate their family with children and extended family.
The fabric choices keep the home youthful and playful, but the furnishings are traditional with wordly accessories scattered throughout.
I'm normally not a fan of windor chairs, but I love how they modernized by painting them purple. I believe it is
Benjamin Moore's Mulberry Wine. And, then to add another element of interest, they painted their accent wall a 'green apple' green.
Here, you see a better picture of the green wall off to the left. How amazing is this kitchen which completely opens up onto their porch. I also really like the ribbed glass light fixture that is centered over the island. I love the porch furniture with accents of orange and green.
You can see accents of green and orange carried through out the house. The room above is one of the original 1817 rooms. I love the
Brunschwig & Fils 'Shaw' fabric on the chimney wing chairs. And, how about the green striped desk paired with the painted floor!! Brilliant!
So sweet.
They hired a decorative painter come to dress up this powder room. It reminds me a lot of
de Gournay's cherry blossom wallpaper. Since I'll never be able to afford
de Gournay's wallpaper, this might be the next best option!!
Ahh, serenitiy. The master bedroom. The chestnut floors were stenciled with a fortuny-inspired design. And, I like the contrast of the black iron bed with the white walls.
Okay, now I am ready for the summer!! Also, I'm over at Jen and Jana's blog,
Opal Never Shouts, guest blogging on ways to freshen your home for spring.
Out to dinner with the familia...
Talon's favorite part of the entire trip. We found the Hofbrau Beer Garden. That is a liter of German beer...
Since Talon has a rather large fam to say the least...it is quite impressive that everyone was able to come. To celebrate the event we had family photos made on the beach....
Wam. Bam. Talon's hugantious family....
LOVE LOVE LOVE the dark top. I wish we could just paint the bottom of ours white and be done -- but since our house came with glazed cabinets that are off whiteish not so sure that would look to hot. Therefore, we ruled out white and decided to go with a very bright color. 
The one above is a fun solid color -- I like it but I'm pretty sure we are sold on staining the top dark. 
The one above is from Pier 1 -- I walked into the store one day and ever since then I knew I wanted to sell our glass top table we had and get one similar to the above. We are still unsure about what to do with the chairs. Here are the ones from Pier 1 that go with the table....
And here are ours....
We shall see what happens. We do know that we will be using Lucky Shamrock by Glidden for the bottom of the table... 
