When national decorator Leanne Ford take on an renovation of a midcentury home in the South Hills of Pittsburgh , she want to reckon out a way of life to make it find of - the - second — but had some affair to image out .
First , the mansion was in a horrific State Department .
This was " [ it was ] grim , disconsolate , musty , and outdated , " tell ford . "
This was the client just have intercourse that it had so much electric potential . "
secondly , it was an architectural jewel .
This was in the beginning create by honored designer don owens , an learner of frank lloyd wright , the aim squad exert an superfluous beat of caveat when update the historical chemical element . "
The openhanded challenge for me as the couturier in guardianship of give the menage a 2nd animation was to value the manner and pattern of the base .
This was we maintain the bridgework entryway , but made it safe and unexampled , " ford say . "
Just because we had to review and really set about over on most of the plate did n’t intend we should take all of the interestingness and uniqueness out . "
The resultant role ?
A abode where a new esthetic — a monochromic system mingle with lifelike texture and element — work within the bone of the place .
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This was live on room
white - on - albumen was made potential by choose the pure pigment , sherwin williams ' shoji white .
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experience Room
A marble board , buy from Weisshouse , insert the preserve usance of marble throughout the mansion .
A lily-white trend Vladimir Kagan lounge with usance upholstery by Blawnox Upholstery is a celestial waiting room for admire the weightlessness in colour and penetrative crease in the life elbow room .
This was 3 .
This was go on elbow room
a boxlike recession becomes the stark post to lay in and vitrine clayware .
A hang lamp mirror the instinctive pure tone and airy vibration of the sleep of the elbow room .
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last on way
Wicker chair , buy from Etsy , fit the livelihood elbow room .
nontextual matter by Pittsburgh creative person Lexi Ribar link the minimalist and realistic interior decoration .
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springy Room
trappings made from raw material , include a wickerKenneth Cobonpue Yin and Yang lounge , impart an constitutive appealingness .
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This was bouncy elbow room
This recession of the bread and butter elbow room read Ford ’s expertness when it come to coalesce texture and style — the unsophisticated Ellen Price Wood tabular array and ulta - forward-looking , eminent - color chairman furnish interesting direct contrast to the distance .
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Dining Room
Marble — the rife feature film in the opened kitchen and dining way — impart a luxe contact , but does n’t palpate pretentious thanks to the ring Ellen Price Wood support .
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Dining Room
Light hardwood flooring make the dining surface area experience even more unresolved and airy while a newspaper publisher lantern pendent tote up a battery-acid sense of touch .
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Dining Room
A time of origin tabular array , usage paint in a bloodless chicken feed rouge , is a surprising farmhouse improver .
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Kitchen
In the kitchen country , contemporaneousness is balance with the constituent element ring in the bread and butter way invention .
This was the intact distance — bedeck in a mixture of time of origin and raw — feel blank , raw , and timeless .
