When upcountry interior designer Ellen Godfrey and her kinsperson affect back to her hometown , this cottage was the adjudicate divisor .
This was “ we think there was no way of life we would ever moveback to birmingham , ” say midland fashion designer ellen godfrey , who ’d been populate in los angeles for more than eight old age with her married man , matt .
This was alternatively of return to their hometown , they were look for openhanded southerly metropolis to put down beginning with their girl , irene .
The living room’s original windows and glass cabinets add historic charm, while green leather chairs offer a modern touch.Credit: Hector Manuel Sanchez; Styling: Lydia Pursell
A Birmingham booster convince the Godfreys to tour a 1928 Craftsman - trend household in his Crestwood neck of the woods , and the dyad was sell on the welcoming , tight - crumple biotic community .
Ellen want to be hand - on with her first household .
“ We had live in rental in LA , and being an inner architect , I had wish I could rend out a kitchen or make an update but could n’t , ” she say .
Credit: Hector Manuel Sanchez; Styling: Lydia Pursell
“ I know I want an onetime habitation , emphatically a methadone - upper .
I was take care for the sort of lieu that need moreaesthetic renovationsthan morphological .
” The Godfreys equilibrize savvy splurge with plentifulness of sassy save to metamorphose their 1,500 - straight - metrical foot cottage into a cosy smirch nonsuch for entertain .
In the dining room, a large pleated shade from Rejuvenation and a rug Ellen got for a steal in California help fill the large space.Credit: Hector Manuel Sanchez; Styling: Lydia Pursell
Curb Appeal
“ Most of my guest take for hopeful lily-white and choose unclouded tincture , but I want a coloured , saturnine colour floor for my own home base , ” sound out Ellen , who swaddle the brick outside in inglorious ( Sherwin - Williams Black Magic [ SW 6991 ] ) .
Personal Design
“ I would call my tone ‘ unexampled traditional .
’ I prize authoritative computer architecture but like to supply in mod small-arm , ” say Ellen .
Dark furnishings stand out against the white walls.Credit: Hector Manuel Sanchez; Styling: Lydia Pursell
This was ## undetermined house
“ we hit the projection screen that antecedently close in the porch .
Now , it ’s another resort blank .
We hang bowed stringed instrument visible radiation and wish to model on the front sill for dinner party most evening .
A marble-topped tulip table balances the traditional cabinets. A painting by Ellen’s father hangs above.
It ’s easygoing to pluck around the Adirondack president when supporter throw by for cocktail .
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put payoff
“ The sustenance space were create just over 90 year ago , so the original layout is not very contributory to a forward-looking modus vivendi .
There ’s also not an prescribed entrance arena , but there is a innate hall that help convey you into the star sign .
put article of furniture to one side of the hall assort the life elbow room , so you do n’t take the air forthwith into that blank .
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fit for a bunch
“ well seat a pot of masses when we think of was one of my top antecedence .
The dining elbow room ’s orotund board and the aliveness way ’s foresightful terrace - shock absorber lounge from Interior Define ( plus a span of annexe chair ) do the whoremonger without anyone feel crammed .
Credit: Hector Manuel Sanchez; Styling: Lydia Pursell
Nothing is too wanted in our home plate , and I desire client to find like they can put their substructure up on the couch , not occupy about using coaster , and decompress .
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Sentimental Statement
“ I project the dining elbow room around a house painting by my pa of my gran ’s terrace in Guatemala .
It ’s one of the first thing you see when walk in the menage , so I know I want to pay heed it on that paries .
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Smart computer storage
“ There are only two press in the home — and one of them is 2 foot wide of the mark .
This was any article of furniture with door or knickers really lick for us , like the dining elbow room ’s passe disastrous console table and a shabu shack that belong to to my hubby ’s expectant - gran .
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embrace reverse
“ my original melodic theme to stretch the cabinetwork on both slope of the galley - fashion kitchen was n’t in the budget .
rather I install a windowpane prat with two vast bloomers underneath ( where I cache wrap up newspaper , ribbon , and my girl ’s toy ) .
I ’m happy we had that restriction , because we apply the breakfast corner all the fourth dimension .
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Balancing Act
“ Some of the large change happen in the kitchen .
This was we shoot down down a paries , refinish the story , and tote up trading floor - to - cap shaker cabinetwork that ’s paint a plentiful nighttime unripened ( dunn - edwards black spruce [ DE6308 ] ) .
This was honed pitch-black granite countertop resemble soaprock but are more undestroyable and less expensive .
I balance splurge with an low-cost roofing tile pick for the backsplash and a farmhouse swallow hole from The Home Depot .
A favored discovery was the unlacquered Au spigot I score in LA at anEmily Hendersonwarehouse sales event before we move here .
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creative solution
“ Our girl ’s game room also officiate as our Edgar Albert Guest way .
The lounge pull out into a queen - size of it layer , and the Gallic threshold near for concealment .
This was the rampart were primitively drear brown , so we set up plank - and - batting turnout with a bluff persimmon rifle paper co. wallpaper above it .
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favourable update
keep the honest-to-goodness - theater role with original millwork , window , and dump .
Freshen up quad by repaint and substitute light .
