HOUSE TOUR A Collected Virginia Home Filled with English Cottage Charm

Hi Homeworthy, I'm Amy White. Welcome to my home here in Northern Virginia. Come on in. You're watching Homeworthy, where we believe every home has a story. Hi, I'm Amy White. I'm a curator at the Holiday House at Luckett's. Welcome to my home. I found this home online because I'm addicted to scrolling and looking at Zillow. It popped up for me and it just looked intriguing. It was an area that I really, really like. I came to see it and as soon as I saw it, I just knew it was just for me. The house had been abandoned for 10 years and when I finally got in to see it, when I walked in the door, all the walls had been dilapidated, there were holes in the ceiling, there was a colony of snakes that had taken up residency, but I wasn't daunted by any of it. I just walked in this house, I saw the bones, I saw the ceiling height, I saw the mantle that's behind me and I was just like, this is it. I love it. And it's been about 15 years now that I've been slowly pulling it back together and working on it. I love color, I love wallpaper, I love pattern, I love texture. I am an absolute addict of fabrics and patterns and so wallpaper is just a way for me to get pattern onto the wall. So I just started room by room. I started one room and then it became very addictive. Once one room was up, the next one was soon to follow and now pretty much every room in my house has wallpaper up in it and from the wallpaper, I kind of bounce off of that and that dictates kind of like the palette of the room or the mood of the room and then I have fun sourcing fabrics that will go with it, that will accentuate it, that just play well with it and it's just fun to shop around. Because of what I do, I am fortunate enough to be in contact with a lot of old textiles, old quilts, old fabrics, old everything. So I see it come and go and I'm able to bring it home, try it, do I like it, play with it a little bit because that's really how I pull the room together. I just start playing with it. I see things, I like them, I think they're going to go together, I bring it home, I mess with it, massage it like I like to say, just pull it together and I'm completely obsessed with British design, English country design. I love watching all of the wonderful old shows and I love the ones that you go through the estates and you see the wallpapers and the rooms and the way they're decorated. It just has like such a mood of collected through the times and it just resonates with me and I've always loved it and it just comes naturally to me. I'm happiest puttering around in a room, playing with fabrics, changing out cushions, trying different throws. It just makes me feel good when all the fabrics are gelling and working together and yeah, that's my happy thing. It just comes naturally to me. Well, welcome to the living room. This is probably my favorite room in the house. The mantle was really what sold me on the house. When I walked in the doors to see it, as I had mentioned, it was abandoned. It was in such bad shape, but here sat this mantle and it was just so beautiful and I loved, loved the raw pine and the shape of it, the design of it. I just, I knew, I was like, that's it. I just love this house and so I knew I was going to leave the mantle exactly as I found it and so it's my favorite save of, in the whole house. I love the William Morris wallpaper. It's one of the things that I, the first time I saw it, it just kind of jumped at me and I was like, oh, it'll be perfect and I think it was actually my first wallpaper attempt. I taught myself how to do it by watching some videos and yeah, I really, really love this, this paper with the mantle. This is a room that we spend most of our time in. Usually it's me and the dogs and my son. Another favorite find in this living room is this coffee table. I looked for years and years and years. I've been waiting to find something, an old table. I wanted it to be an old pine farm table and it took a long time. I had to be really patient. I found this farm table at Red School House Antiques. It's one of my favorite places to frequent. They bring in, the owners live in Scotland and they bring containers of beautiful, beautiful antiques over several, throughout the year. And I've been waiting a long time to find this table because I wanted something that would fit the space perfectly. And we're in here all the time. I wanted you to be able to put your feet up on it. It's got tons of scratches and dings. I love that about it because it's not, you know, nothing's precious and we can live in here and I don't have to worry about it. But it took about 12 years. I've gone through about five, six different coffee tables before I finally found this one. And so this was one of my really favorite finds. Another thing I really like about in the living room here is the collection of antique pottery that I've been, I don't know, I've been amassing it over probably the past 20 years. I just look for things that kind of play well together, that speak to me. I just love this whole, the color patterns of browns and oranges and earthy tones. And when I find a piece, I bring it in, I play with it, I rearrange it. And it just kind of hangs out there all year. It's a collection of things I love. I just love the fact that the colors in this painting just play so well with everything that's happening here. And I just felt it needed to be in the scene and there wasn't really a place to put it. Didn't really look very good up there. So I just put it front and center right on the outside of it and it works okay. This old clock is actually, it's just a clock case. It's no longer a working clock. But it's another piece that I just love the colors. I love, this my favorite detail in it is this vining and these wheat shafts and it's very old and now it just sits here like more like a work of art. It's more like a sculpture to me and it no longer functions but I still love it. One of my absolute, absolute favorite things in this room is this old screen that I found from my friend Trove Magpie, Sharon. I don't know if you can see it very well, it's so dark, but I just, it's hand-painted screen. It's a woodland scene with these deer and the forest and it just looks really folksy and I just, it just spoke to me. One of the things that I like to do is play with pattern and color and textures and I've always got covers on the sofas because we live in the house and the dogs are always all over them. They're easy on, easy off and I like to change them out seasonally. Right now it's summertime so I have this really lightweight check on here and I just like to, I always love a check. A check is a, it's a no-fail go-to mix-in when you're mixing colors. I usually find myself mixing with some kind of floral, check, stripe combination. It's really a no-fail recipe for combining colors. This rug was a new find. It's kind of fun. I just, I saw it online and I love the scallop, I love the pop of green, I love this limey green color and I think it ties in nicely with the wallpaper and I just, I love the scallop. I thought it was really fun and it really wears well. It's very dog-friendly, it cleans up great and yeah. These floors are the original floors. Believe it or not, I did not have them refinished or anything. I just, after all the work on the house was done, I got out with a bucket of water and vinegar and I scrubbed them by hand and I just brought them back to this. I like the low luster, not shiny. I love the wear and tear. I like that they're uneven. I like that there are marks. To me, it shows the age of the house, the story of the house and nothing's too precious, you know. We can have accidents in here, all kinds of things, they clean up great. I just love these old oak floors. The room that we're in right now is in the center of the house and it's actually the darkest room in the house. We do have some exterior windows. I try to leave lamps on in here often. I love these ginger jar lamps here. They were just a lucky home goods find. I absolutely love them. The chandelier, I just wanted something really simple because there's so much going on with a lot of pattern and textures and a lot of actual items. I wanted a very simple, clean line chandelier to give me some light without really adding a whole lot to the room. Another favorite, very recent find that just a few weeks ago I found for this room was this pair of old tavern benches. They're French elm and they're absolutely perfect. It's like they were made for this, but they're really old. When you're furnishing your home with antiques, it takes time. You have to wait and wait and wait and look and search and just be patient. Eventually, you will find the piece that was just meant to be. When I saw these benches, they're the absolute perfect size to flank the end of the side of the sofas. They were perfectly. When I plopped them into place, it was like they were just meant to be. They were the thing that just finished off the space. To me, they were the finishing touch to the space. I had to wait years to find them, but when I found them, I just knew exactly they were right and I love them. The massive pine cupboard that I found at Luckett's store, it's narrow. It fills the space beautifully. I'm able to put all my collections in it. I found it about five years ago. It has that weathered old English pine look. I love British design. I love English country. It just fits beautifully there. Then I wanted to flank it with something. I love pops of yellow. I painted these two dressers yellow. I think they flank it nicely. The art in this room is one of my absolute favorite finds. There's a really good story behind this art. If you can see, there are these two paintings here and then there's other works from this artist throughout the house. I went to an estate sale with my friend. She called me one morning and says, hey, come on, let's go to an estate sale. I went and there was art everywhere. The entire house was full of art. We were down in the basement and we were rifling through things. I see under a table there was this artist portfolio. I thought that's intriguing. I pulled it out and looked at it. I opened it up and I just started leafing through it. There were all these beautiful pastel chalk works of art. I didn't know anything about the artists. I didn't know what they were. I just knew that each one of the images just spoke to me. I was just really moved by this art. I ended up buying the entire portfolio for like $15. I brought it home and researched it. It's actually art by Ethel Louise Paddock. It's not extremely valuable, but she's a well-known artist. She did her work mainly in the Pennsylvania and New York areas in about the 1930s. Anyway, it was a fun day. It was a fun discovery. I had it all framed and now it hangs in my dining room. I remember that fun day every time I see it. I just really like her work. There's another piece in the bathroom I'll show you later. These are new sconces, but I love fabric and I love texture and pattern. The shades I found on Cherish. I think I was on Cherish. They're old. I lucked out. I ordered them. They came. I popped them on and they fit perfectly. I just always like to add a stripe, a check, a floral to pretty much every room has a stripe, a check, and a floral in it. In the pine cabinet, I do change this out seasonally. It's one of the things that just helps me kind of just play with the house and get to rotate things out. My favorite thing in here are these plates I found in a recent trip to Provence. I went antiquing and I found those in a little antique store. I wrapped them all up and packed them in my carry-on and brought them home with me. I just love the age and the patina and the design, the pattern design, and the color, that intense green color. That's just a fun memento from my trip to France. This hen I went camping with my son on a trip to Maine. He loves running in antique stores with me. He always goes off and looks for his little things. I found this hen and she just spoke to me. She was five dollars. She's been broken, glued, put back together, but I just love that. It doesn't mind me that it's been cracked and broken. To me, that's part of its story. The fact that somebody loved it enough to mend it and put it back together and it's survived all these years and now it's here in my home. It's a fun memory of our trip to Maine. The table and chairs. The table I found at Luckett's store. It's an old oak wing table, gate leg wing table. I wanted an oval for this space just because I knew it was long and I'd wanted something round just to kind of soften the edges because we do have to move around it. The table was the first thing I found. The headchairs are also from Luckett's store. I love a stripe and I like the intense blue color. The first thing I had was a table and then I found the headchairs. These are a recent purchase. Actually, I had the chairs for a while, but I had them recovered in this fabric by Allison Gee. She's based in England. I just like the tiny floral with the stripe. I think it complements the blue chairs and works with all the other colors gelling in the room. This is absolutely one of my favorite fabrics. As soon as I put these chairs up to the whole set, it all just kind of started to sing. This is a pottery barn chandelier. I wanted something that was here and had presence because it's a large space, but I didn't want the visual weight. To me, this is light and it came with some standard little linen shades. I love pattern and design. I found these from Alice Palmer and popped these on. I think that it just completely transformed the chandelier. Actually, there's a fun story about this pine chest. I saw it online and I knew it was massive. I could tell from the picture that it was pretty big. I went in to visit it and I saw it. When I first saw it, I said, oh my gosh, it's just too big. There's no way it's going to fit. I loved it so much, I bought it anyway. When I plunked it down here, it just fits. It does go over the molding a little bit, but when you know, you know. I put it here and it just kind of finished off the space perfectly. Welcome to my office. There's a lot of light in this room, these huge picture windows. Probably the biggest statement in the room is the wallpaper that I selected from in here. It's a colorful choice from Brunswick & Fee. Again, one of those things, as soon as I saw it, I just fell in love with it. I just installed it on this one wall, hopefully to emulate looking like bookcases, but I just love all the colors and the books and it just makes the whole room come to life. The white chest is a painted English chest and the painting above it is kind of a nod to our northern Virginia home location, the Hunt scene. This piece of art over here, I collected again on that trip from Maine. It was in an antique store and I like the play of this like orangey red. It just bounces off the wallpaper and this little collection here. We pick it up here, here, here, and your eye bounces around to it. These are all things that I've just collected through the years. I've owned some of them for a long time. Some of them are new finds. One of my favorite things in the office is this little tiny bamboo chest that I've placed here. I keep my envelopes and mailing stuff in there. This old toll tray on the wall, I put it here because I thought all the colors and the flowers just worked really well with the colors and the books and the wallpaper and it was actually the first hole I put in this wallpaper. It's very nerve-wracking when you decide you're going to hang something on wallpaper, but I held it up there. I decided it was perfect and so I just went for it and went ahead and once you break the first hole then others will follow. The drapes I had made for me by a local seamstress. I knew I wanted height for the high ceiling height in the room and I just love this block print pattern and the color green. It's just so rich and warm and it kind of frames the space outside beautifully. The green from the outside bring it into the room. The pine desk I found at Luckett's store. It was sitting outside in one of their outside pavilions and I knew it would fit this space. I knew I wanted something big. I wanted to place it in front of a window and it's the right height. It kind of blends seamlessly with the window height and it's just a great space to work at. These cane chairs I found at Luckett's store again and there what I was drawn to was this unusual color in the leather. I just love this pop of this bright lime green and you'll see that the color lime green carried throughout my house. This dog trawl chair. I had this chair. I love the chair. I had it. It was just a plain muslin. It's a very comfortable chair. I love it. I saw this dog trawl by Lee Joffa and I decided I wanted to put on this chair and I mixed it with a houndstooth. Just a little cheeky pairing there with houndstooth and the dog trawl and I just love this chair. It's actually the dog's favorite chair. They're always in it so I'm steam cleaning it a lot. Welcome to the morning room. This is a space that we spend a lot of time in in the morning because the sun rises right through the trees and when it comes in it just floods the whole space with light. It's just a great space to have my coffee, to chill, to catch up on news and behind me the built-ins. I had these bookcases built in and I decided to of course put more wallpaper behind them and a collection of things that I love and pattern and these lampshades are by Alice Palmer. I paired them with these old glass lamps that I painted this mustard yellow. This wallpaper is by Pierre Frey and I put this in here and just because I loved the texture and the pattern and the blues that are in here. I love hanging plates on walls. It's a great way to use plates as a piece of art. I have a lot of fruit. There's a fruit theme in this room so I found this old painting of strawberries and I wanted to pull the colors of the green from the curtains over to this wall and then the plate above kind of ties it all together with the blue from the wallpaper, the cherry red from the strawberries and the green platter. The fun sofa here was a flea market find actually. I think I paid 45 bucks for it at a flea market and I found this toile fabric again with the dogs on it. More dog toile. I found the dog toile at an end of the bolt sale and I bought it. There was just enough to cover it so I had it covered in this and I just think it's really fun. It's just a happy, happy space and I mixed it with this blue that kind of pulls the blue from the wallpaper and this center pillow here is a nice tie-in. I think anytime you're mixing patterns and textures have a jumping off piece and then mix your scale. This is a large scale in the pink and then the small scale in the blue and then always look for a tie-in piece. This is my tie-in piece that pulls all the colors together and it really was once I found these pillows the whole thing just kind of came together. This is a fun ottoman. It's a new ottoman but I wanted to change it up. The whole thing is chenille but I covered the top cushion in more fabric from Allison Gee. I think I've also used this in other areas of my home but I just love the mix of the stripe and the floral. It's very English. It's very English country which is near and dear to my heart and I think it's just such a sweet, sweet fabric and it pairs so well with the twall and the other things in the room but this this fabric is a favorite of mine for sure. This ottoman in front of the ottoman, ottoman ottoman, was a gift from a friend and I love the lines. I love the empire curl. I love the colors in the needle point and it just kind of is another another pattern. It pulls in all the colors that are happening here and it was a gift from a friend so that was it's a nice thing to have in the morning. This is Charlie's favorite chair. It's a good thing that it was a very inexpensive flea market find. It was a lucky find. It's old and I love stripes. I love the the blue pin stripes. I think they're a lot of fun. They play well with it with a pinky red twall but it was to find this in a matching ottoman for a really great price with a down cushion and it truly is Charlie's favorite chair. You can find him here pretty much any time of day. Welcome to the foyer. This is what you first walk into in my home and it's kind of what I first saw when I walked in the house and was finding it for the first time and it's really kind of what sold me on it. I walked in and I saw the ceiling height and I could see the bones and I could see the French doors and the floors and I just felt just the scale of this room. It's like a warm hug. It's a proper greeting and I've always wanted a home with a foyer and this had it and I just I just love this space. It's a great place to receive. This wallpaper was one of the first wallpapers choices that I made for the house and it's William Morris marigold in the chocolate colorway and I do have to say I really really love living with it. It's very soft and serene and calming and it's a perfect pattern neutral pattern for my colorful artwork. When I first put it up I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to hang artwork on it. I was how's it going to look but I actually love it. I think it's just this soft quiet pattern background and it's a perfect place just to display all of my colorful artwork and I love color. This bench this little petite pine bench I found at Luckett's. I actually used it in one of my holiday houses and it didn't sell so I was like well I'm taking that home and it fits perfectly here. I can keep all the dog leashes and blankets and all that kind of gear in there come and go and it was a little difficult to find such a petite bench to fit this small space but it works perfectly here. If I could find more of these rugs I would. I found this on Etsy. I was scrolling and I knew I wanted something vintage. I really wanted to check so I just I think I put in my search vintage Turkish runner check and this came up and the measurements worked. I bought it and I brought it home here and it really just completed the look of the the chocolate and cream and the chocolate and cream and it looks like an old quilt to me and I just love that that it's on the floor and it um I just love what it does for the space. I have baskets everywhere. I love baskets it's a great way to bring texture to a space uh when you know there's a lot of color happening uh there's something about the natural woven material that kind of grounds the room and makes everything just calm down a little bit so there's baskets and wicker in pretty much every every one of my rooms. The lighting in here I um I found it's old. I found it at the Luckett Spring Market years and years ago. They're from an old schoolhouse and there are actually five of them. There are three in here and then two more petite ones that are in either of the halls but it was a really really lucky find um because I wanted lighting that looked um I wanted it to be consistent with this space. I wanted to have the same lighting but I wanted it old so to have um to find three antique fixtures that all in a row was was a really lucky find. The art I placed above this um English pine chest I it's from an artist um her name is Azra and she's she's based in England and I her art just really speaks to me and I love the the colors and the vibrancy and the stripes and so I picked out four pieces from her that were um floral still lifes that also incorporated stripes and I've put them all together in one space on this wall and I just really like the pop of color uh over the soft neutral patterned background of the William Morris wallpaper. This lampshade is something that I made on a course that I took on um patterned lampshades and this is just a very inexpensive little candlestick light that I painted the same color as the front door so my one of my favorite colors it's called um Italian Basil by Sherwin Williams and just for another little pop of color. This clock I found in bad bad shape it still is in bad bad shape but to me it was just so sculpture it looks like an old Swedish clock um it wasn't always white when I found it it was brown and the veneer as you can see was just cracking and popping and just wasn't it was in really bad shape and but I could see the lines of it and you were distracted by the uh bad condition of the veneer so I saw it white and I painted it white and uh let the um natural distressing come through and you can see like where the the white paint has reacted with the veneer and to me it just looks old it looks like it's been painted white for forever and um it just highlighted the sculptural aspect of it and I just love it even though it doesn't work. Let's go check out the kitchen but when I found the house there was no kitchen it had been completely ripped out uh years and years ago this was just an empty shell of a room actually there was a wall dividing these these two rooms and it was just kind of a very strange space so I removed the wall and um integrated the two rooms to get the space and then because I was working on on a budget and putting the whole house needed to get put together I just slapped in a really quick kitchen just to get me going and I actually ended up living with that kitchen for um almost 14 years and just this spring I was able to finally pay some attention or get to the kitchen and finally do the kitchen the way I always wanted to do it. Well my vision for the kitchen was uh came from my recent trip to the Cotswolds and they had cupboards in their kitchen that looked like furniture and I wanted this kitchen to look like an like an English country kitchen and so I found a carpenter that put in these cabinets for me I took out the the uppers that I had put in here and we just focused on the lowers and this tile is one of my absolute favorite things in the kitchen this um was made by a lady in England and she actually handed some of these tiles for me um if you'll look closely here is Stewie and here is uh Charlie and Oliver playing and to me it's just like a really personal touch that we're now the um we're not a part of this house's story I just love Delft tiles is very English country kitchen. I wanted to open the kitchen up I didn't want it heavy so I just wanted to use some some light open shelving and I'm able to display some of the things that I've collected through the years but I just wanted it to feel I wanted you to be able to to accentuate the ceiling height I wanted a place for art I wanted a place for these the beautiful things that I collect and I just wanted it spared down I didn't want um cabinets everywhere up on the uppers. I put in a farmhouse sink and I found these unlacquered brass fixtures on Etsy actually and I uh I made the Roman shades with more fabric from Alice and Gee and I like the pop of color the little subtle soft pattern that it brings it ties in all of the colors from my pottery and the artwork and this was a recent find I absolutely adore this I found this at Luckett store from Ekster on the porch it's an old porcelain sink drain and so I was able to do away with the unsightly uh sink drain that um was here and put this in and I absolutely love it I stack my dishes here they drain and it just really contributes to the the old world feeling that I wanted this kitchen to have okay I found the island over a year ago a year and a half ago I found this at the Luckett's fall market and I knew it was really the jumping off point for the kitchen because I knew I was going to be redoing the kitchen and I knew that I wanted this to be the island so I bought it and it's been in storage for a year and a half waiting to um have its place here and I love the color it's kind of like this duck egg green it's just like this like tweener color it's not green it's not gray it's just this soft and the wear and tear that um the distressing of the paint old patina I had to have uh pattern shades in the kitchen and these are from Alice Palmer company I adore them I love the um I love a good stripe and the green I like to carry the theme of green a lot of green in my house the green carries from room to room to room to room and these are very similar to the front door color but I just love a pattern shade and these these shades from Alice Palmer they just they're kind of like the rock star of the kitchen they just when I put them up it was just everything came together I love an old checkerboard floor and it goes all the way back to my grandmother's farmhouse she had an old linoleum red and white checkered floor and I can remember playing on it um as as a little girl and um I knew I wanted to do a checker pattern floor in here and this floor is actually old school vinyl composite um it's kind of like that you see in industrial spaces and what I love about it it's extremely inexpensive it's crazy durable I've got three big dogs running in and out you really can't hurt this floor but it just has the look of it's just a timeless old look so I went with a soft chocolate and cream color to kind of um just be like a nice soft checkerboard backdrop for what else was going on all the other things going on in the kitchen so when I was working with a carpenter on or the design team actually on designing the the cabinets I knew I wanted them to look like a piece of furniture like an old English cupboard and one of the things I love about old cupboards and old English chests are they have a galley and we decided to come up with um this little extra feature right here which was kind of like a last minute add-on but I really like what it does for the kitchen it um it's just a nice detail that makes it feel more bespoke and more like a handcrafted kitchen the appliances I I chose because I wanted I wanted a standalone fridge I just love the way this one looks uh it looks old it looks vintage it just works really well um this is from Big Chill Appliances and it just fits perfectly in the vibe that's happening in the kitchen here the one cupboard that I do have on the wall in the kitchen is this old oak cupboard it is an antique and I just like the the warmth and the texture and the age that it brings to the kitchen so this is an old piece that I sourced and I found it it did have a bottom I used the bottom in another room in my house it's actually holding the television in the living room but the top I took off and we hung it here and now I do have a little bit of blind door storage to hide things that aren't so pretty to display and um I just really like the mix of the dark and the light it looks very um kind of just gathered farmhouse kitchen furniture that we had through the years that we decided to use and have function little eat-in space that I have in the kitchen is this uh little pine table that I um found on Marketplace for 45 bucks and I I married these chairs that I found at a local antique store interiors out in Berryville I um get out there as often as I can they always have really great finds and I walked in the front room of their shop one one afternoon and I saw these chairs around the table and again it's that lime green that I love and it's actual original paint on it and I didn't have to do anything to them this is exactly how I found them and I dropped them in here and it was they were just perfect it was like they were meant to be here I love them this lighting fixture was a recent find on a trip to Cape Charles I literally found it like six months ago at a little um antique store it was in the back in a cardboard box and I could just see the the top of the chain peeking out and I saw the green color which caught my eye and I dug around and pulled the paper off of it and I found this this old lighting fixture that I um I loved the course the color and the etched glass and the pattern and it was just very cottagey and I thought it'd be perfect here over the table so I snagged it it was like 65 bucks it was a really good find I buy things that speak to me it sounds weird but when I'm out looking around I love I love antiquing I love thrifting I go to both of the markets that my shop puts on I'm a big part of that and I get exposed to a lot of great stuff there but when I'm looking around it really things really speak to me they literally jump out at me and that's how I collect I buy things that I love or that resonate with me and I bring them home and put them near something that also resonates with me and it all just kind of works together the number one thing I would say that is to just trust your gut and buy what you love when you love something and you bring it into your home and you find a space for it it brings you joy every day and every time you see it it just it's what makes your house yours and it just what makes your house warm and I would just buy what you love and don't overthink it leading into the bedrooms on both sides of the house there's a little narrow hall and I wanted to balance them and paper them both in the same paper and I use this Anna French Julianne in my favorite green and it's a really nice space for me to do a gallery wall with a lot of a lot of my personal family photos and it's just a look at intimate space leading into the bedrooms with a lot of our life photos mixed in with some found art kind of just make it interesting and have some other pops of color so it's not just photographs I like mixing art needlepoint was my first attempt at needlepoint there mixing florals and paintings with family art and it's just a little intimate gallery wall and that leads into the guest bedroom okay so this room uh is uh my guest bedroom I just recently redid this room in when I well actually the whole reason I decided to redo this room was because of a wallpaper that I found this wallpaper is is vintage I found it on Etsy it's probably from the 80s it's French and but it reminds me and I'm an 80s girl it reminds me of the vintage Waverly vintage Ralph Lauren it's kind of got that vibe and as soon as I saw it I just I just fell head over heels for it so I bought enough to do the whole room did the whole room and then everything else followed from there so I started with the wallpaper the the next fabric decision in here was the um fabric on this headboard and I wanted something that had a little bit of pattern to it but was kind of quiet against the flow the loud floral and I chose this uh this green that has kind of like this like natural little flecky polka dot happening in it and that's kind of a nice break in the pattern and then I take it down and reintroduce some more patterns here with some checked pillows another floral this this floral this fabric actually was on an ottoman um in a in a cottage in a recent trip that I took to the Cotswolds and I fell in love with it and researched the maker of it and ordered it it's that's how I found Allison Gee which now has tons of fabrics throughout my house but and this is a vintage pillow that I found in an antique store the quilt is from Pottery Barn teen it's again so I kind of have like the pattern the quiet a little bit more pattern quiet and this vintage I like the pop of the mustard yellow this vintage homespun piece I found at a local hand antique store the same one where I found the kitchen chairs hip and humble but I love the quiet pattern that this has the floral was a find at the Luckett's uh fall market and I didn't really know what I was going to do with it I just saw it and it spoke to me and I brought it home and then I had already started on this room I hadn't furnished it yet but I had started the paper and I walked in and thought I'd just play with it in here and I held it up to the paper and I was like oh it was just meant to be so um that I knew was going to take pride of place over whatever bed I decided to put there and the plates were a fun find I was actually working on wallpapering this room and I I took a phone call from my uh from a friend of mine Dylan she was out um shopping and sourcing some things and she said look at these cute plates that I just found and she sent me the photo of them and I was like um I think they're kind of perfect for the room that I'm working in so she set them aside for me and that's how that whole kind of collection came together these are just baluster lamps that I got off of Amazon they were kind of like a creamy white color I painted them again that same color the the green of the front door Italian basil um the shades are a pattern shade I wanted to bring a um another again another pattern and I like the the light blue I think it picks up with what's happening in the wallpaper and the scale on this pattern is smaller and tighter and the wavy line um just plays really well with the wallpaper so I paired I love blue and green I love the combo blue and green together you can't go wrong with blue and green this is a little bench this is um I got it at Red School House it probably came over from England or Scotland I paired it with a pillow that was a vintage find a vintage ticking it's a it's rare to find ticking with the pinks and the chocolates you see a lot of blue and white ticking but what struck me about this was the uh the coffee color and paired with the two tones of pinks which pulls out all the other colors from the room I love pattern everywhere but for me I can't have pattern on the floor so every time I've tried it I love Persian rugs but every time I lay one down I've got so much pattern happening up to the eye when it when it when it falls on the floor I it just doesn't doesn't sit well with me I can't I can't do it so for me a seagrass floor a seagrass rug is is just a very quiet soft moment with all the pattern floating up above to this chaise lounge here I um found it at Luckett's and is one of those things as soon as I saw it I saw it I saw the price I was like ah I have to have it I just love it it's really comfortable I actually sit in it a lot it's a really sweet space to see I sit here and we can look out at the garden Charlie also loves it he's in it all the time but it's it's old the fabric is original and it's just this really durable fabric it wears well and I like the fresh green and the subtle pattern and how it plays with the wallpaper the drapes well I wanted to bring a check in the room because I love a good check and so I ordered these custom um and it's the periwinkle blue that pulls out a color in the wallpaper and I knew this this room gets a lot of sun um and I wanted the shades for the the pattern and the texture but I didn't want to have to open and close the shades every day so I wanted to pair it with a bamboo blind it um I think it's a nice it's a nice pair to have curtains and a blind it's just something more interesting for the um for the room and these go up and down so easily you know they just so every morning every evening they just go up they're just they function really well and they bring a whole nother texture it kind of grounds all the color everywhere that bounce that blue the pattern that rattany feel around it kind of calms everything down a bit it's a place for the eye to rest that makes sense this lamp is is really old and um I found it an antique store I don't know how old it is but I loved the pattern and the color and actually when I found it it's it's kind of it's it's damaged it's got a hole in the back but it didn't it didn't deter me I still loved it still works and I just turned the um the mark to the wall you'll never know it's there and I found this shade at home goods it's a fun find and I put it with it and I just think that they together they um they work really well together welcome to my bedroom of course are you guys getting tired of wallpaper yet there's more wallpaper shocker uh the wallpaper I chose for here was this William Morris um strawberry thief in the chocolate colorway I when I was deciding on this wallpaper I think I probably bought every single color colorway it comes in and bought by the sample and held them up and thought about it for weeks and weeks and weeks I taped them all up there and every single time my eye just kept going back to the chocolate and resting on the chocolate I was just like it's just so soothing and serene so um that's the one I went with I did the head wall in the paper I didn't want to do the whole room in the paper because I also fell in love with this um rosy brown color um that I wanted the rest of the room to be in and so I chose this wall color it's called foxy brown by Benjamin Moore also it's a great name you got to go with the paint that has the name that that you'll love so for the bed um the first thing that I fell in love with was this um the striped duvet by Lebeco and the quilt is from Garnet Hill I like the um the colors the the rosy color pulls out the wallpaper and I just like mixing I like the scale the small scale floral with the stripe the pillowcases are just the softest softest black print they're just kind of like a whisper of pattern and I love that and I like layering I like all kinds of layers so um so we've got the the soft whisper of a of a black print with a stripe broken up with a stripe and then this is the other side what I love about this quilt is that it's double-sided and the other side is just this fun pop of mustard that really isn't anywhere in this room but I love what it does for everything it kind of just breaks it all up and it's just a nice nice little pop this chest is another one of my um I have a lot of English pine chests throughout the house I it's my go-to um piece of furniture I just can't get enough English pine chests um so that's my actual dresser and this um pattern I used to collect pattern wallpaper boxes I've been collecting them for about 30 years sold most of them but this one was I got back into it because recently I found this one at the Luckett Spring Market and I couldn't resist it because to me it just just resonated so well with all of the colors and the patterns in here and this is where I keep my jewelry and my rings and things like that and um just the I love this portrait um of this this nude of this lady it's just so quiet and relaxing and to me it's just a intimate piece of artwork to have in an intimate space like a bedroom and the artwork above it is by that same artist Azra that did the artwork in the foyer more florals and stripes you'll see that theme uh occurring throughout my house because I just I like stripes and flowers the sofa in this railroad stripe um is I just like it it's quiet it's soft it's a great space to just curl up and relax and be quiet in um the fabric I love it because it reminds me of um Oshkosh Bogosh overalls it's just really uh just relaxed in the soft blue and the subtle stripe it's just a pattern a texture it's there but it's not very loud um oh and my favorite thing in the whole bedroom get choked up talking about it is this little Ottoman here this was a gift from a dear friend who knows me very very well um and this Ottoman is a needle point dog that just um it's just the sweetest thing ever and um just the fact that she knows me so well and she saw something and she knew immediately oh my god Amy's gonna love this and I do I love it it's just absolutely beautiful it's got all the colors it's got the pink the brown the dog the raspberry color and it's a dog so I mean it's got everything and I absolutely adore it in this little secretary I just have all my nail polishes and things like that and I can sit here and work on my nails it's a quiet space not that I do them that often but when I do I've got the perfect spot to sit and do it come check out the bath this bathroom when I bought the house was actually two bathrooms this is a house is odd house we're not really sure what its purpose was but I think it was some kind of a farmhouse or tenant house or boarding house because there are a lot of bedrooms and a lot of bathrooms basically just about every bedroom had a bathroom off of it so this space that you're standing in right now was divided into it was a bathroom for that bedroom and then a bathroom for what's now my bedroom and I knocked the wall out in between the two to have space to have a nice big luxurious bathroom the wallpaper in here is fox in the snow by lake august I have a thing for foxes I love foxes and this I think pairs really well coming off of the bedroom the two-tone of just the chocolate and the cream it's quiet I mean it's loud but it's quiet if that makes sense and it works really well with the the strawberry thief chocolate wallpaper and I pulled a lot of raspberries and pinks in here to kind of blend with the bedroom this turkish rug was an etsy find it's vintage had all the right colors that I loved in it this vintage french chair I thought was really fun I liked it I liked this rose colored suede that was on it I thought it just pulled the colors in that I was looking for and it's a great seat for the towels and this is another piece of art that's hanging above the bathtub there from Ethel Louise Paddock that I found in that that docket at the estate sale in the portfolio the artist portfolio so that's another one her her floral of peonies and peonies are one of my favorite flowers so decided to hang that one there these doors were added they were found I should say because when I created this bathroom this opening was new so I needed to find some new doors for it and I found these at a local antique sale chartreuse I found them years and years ago and they're double doors and I this was clear glass but I textured it to for a little bit of privacy but I I just like the old world look of them and I think they bring a lot of texture to the bathroom okay so this is my other guest room the paper I chose in here was denim flower by Max Humphrey and again it was another paper another paper that I saw as soon as I saw it I was I was struck and I put this up and then I I just love the two-tone quality of the paper and the texture and once it was all up I just kind of felt like this room just kind of need to be simple and pure and stay true to the paper so I kind of just went with a whole soft quiet blue and white color scheme in here and this is an old pine bed that it's actually an actual old rope bed that I found at the Luckett's spring market this pine cupboard houses all of my linens and towels and sweaters and it's just a piece I just love the patina on it I love English pine furniture and the hardware the batwing the patina brass batwing hardware it's just a nice accent but it fit this little wall perfectly and it's just really cozy right here and I stacked some old vintage trunks on the top for just a little texture and pattern and the fun dog statue there because there's just fun nods to dogs throughout my house this bench is actually really unusual I found it from Foundry Antiques she has a location in Frederick and right down the street from where I live what I liked about it was the original ticking mattress that was still with it that's unusual to still find the mattress and the narrow size it fit this wall perfectly and I thought what a great space for guests to plop their luggage on or to sit down and tie your shoes and I just think it works great worked great with the blue and white scheme and the wallpaper and it works great here it's a great napping bench too the dogs nap on it all the time the last space we'll talk about is this kind of funny little room that's in the back of my house it's kind of a fun space really it's my fun space it's kind of a catch-all room I have a little sink set back here I put this little kitchenette in it's just a great place for me to arrange flowers art supplies crafty kind of stuff so this is a little space where I'd work on that the wallpaper in here is by Maine and Market Designs it's called Gardens Bounty which is really appropriate because the views of this room are the garden and my zinnias that I love and there's zinnias in the paper it's just such a sunny happy paper that as soon as I saw it I just knew it was for this space and I was going to turn this into just a fun space to be the green trim is again my favorite color it's that Italian basil it's the color of the front door and since the wallpaper is so fun I wanted to go fun and have go fun with the trim and do a pop of color and I carry that same color throughout the house I think that consistency is is interesting and fun to do in a home so this is Italian basil by by Sherwin Williams painted all the trim that green yellow fridge works this is great this is an old Kelvinator this refrigerator is older than me it's from the 1950s and she's still ticking I stock it with you know extra drinks extra fun seltzers sodas it's just totally kind of like a fun hangout space there's also a bar my little bar set up back here this sideboard was something I found at Luckett's Fall Market and it's an old English sideboard with a galley and I turned it into a bar this is just a a corner on the opposite side of that room it's just a table that I can sit I can craft at it's an extra space to be if I'm wrapping presents or I want the mess out of the way I can come back here I can hang out this is kind of like a project craft fun room catch-all room this is not a clock it was a clock it's an old clock case that I think someone has turned into a bookcase or a shelving unit and I um I love the painted flowers and the quirkiness of it and I just thought it looked nice there between the two windows very cottagey home means comfort and joy this is my happy place at the end of the day I come here and I am surrounded by my dogs pieces that I've collected through the years each one of them has a story I remember who I was with when I found it what I felt like what the day was like it's just home is is comfort thanks so much Homeworthy thanks for coming and take a look at my house today I've got some more wallpaper to go start hanging at the holiday house at Luckett I'll see you later thanks for watching be sure to go to homeworthy.com for exclusive content shopping guides and so much more