April 2022 Favorite Homes Roundup
Welcome to my first home tour roundup post! I, like so many of you, love pinterest with a passion, and I have a bunch of sites on my RSS feed that I just go through and pin pin pin. But so many I can’t use for my own home and I just need to share the beauty with as many people as possible. It’s also so cool seeing the evolution of my personal style. I’m loving the colorful modern traditional looks that have come out from the Millenial Granny look, and I never thought I’d say that. Take a look below to see my favorites I’ve pinned this month. And be sure to comment below with your favorite home tour you found this month because you can never have too many pins.
I pinned this from the Emily Henderson article, and just viewed the original post on the Design Files while writing this and oh man I almost missed out. Such a great mix of comfort and funky. Bright but cozy. Definitely worth a looksie. I mainly want that orange couch with the orange & yellow pillows.
This bathroom made me realize how much I actually used versions of pink & green in my home. Not the stereotypical Beverly Hills Hotel Pink & Green (though I love that for it’s own retro aesthetic), but in the form of olive & blush, nude, rusty pinkish orange. It’s in almost every room and I love it. And once I realized that, it’s so easy to add in design & details that coordinate with the rest of the home without being matchy. Also take a look at that tour for the other bathroom - the vanity & mirror in that curved nook is just amazing.
I saved this living room in a post about Chartreuse - I’m not huge on the color though I did pin a bunch of photos from that post so maybe I need to re-evaluate. How can you not love those colors and the BEAUTIFUL tiles on that fireplace - that’s something you can for any fireplace. You don’t have to have a Wexler-designed home for that feature. When I went to the home tour I of course pinned everything else, but that DISCO BALL IN THE INTERIOR ATRIUM is just drool-worthy. Of course an interior atrium is a mid-century dream, but then adding a DISCO BALL?1?!? Just a piece de resistance. Maybe if I just talk about light refraction my husband will let me install a disco ball in our next home.
Tires screech and a hard left to a traditional French farmhouse. This living room/sitting room is just beautiful with it’s colors and textures. Of course I love the brown/terra cotta colored walls that imitate the line of the wood paneling in the office/library. The beautiful drapes, textured couch and fluffy blanket - even though it’s all very neutral and it’s a flat-weave rug it’s warm & cozy. (FYI take note dog-owners when you can only do flat-weave rugs because your dog also only chews bone on the most difficult to clean surfaces). I just love that warm brown and the vintage chair.
Whiplash back to some groovy 50s/60s/70s design. I’m dying over this entire home tour. The plants, the velvet half-circle headboard, the nightstands, THAT WALLPAPER. This woman is the master of groovy eclectic. The living room has a floral couch + velvet barrel chairs. The dining room has a stained glass carousel overhead light and a pink lily lamp (drool). It’s all patterned wallpaper, velvet, and burlwood galore and you need to see it. I’ll be saving this bedroom pic for our next bedroom, maybe I can make that headboard myself…
I absolutely love this color. Did you ever think you’d like a brown stone countertop after the brown beige boom of the 00s? But this paint color is a beautiful intersection of red/pink/brown and that color with bronze colored metal and brass faucets just works so well. So warm but traditional. It’s bright but still natural & earthy.
When I saw this shot I just stared at it for a bit. OK so it’s in a supermodel’s Soho loft, big deal. You could definitely take the elements from this shot & reproduce it. Pink glass. Ochre. Wood. Brass. White. Soft florals. It’s like a modern take on that mid-10’s obsession with white and millenial pink. Thank you Emily Henderson for introducing me to my dream chandelier. Another life goal added to the list.
I love 3 things about this shot:
1 the colors. It’s just so happy even though that’s a dead bird in the painting let’s just ignore that.
2 the patterned tiles. I would love to use patterned tiles one day that’s not in the super-popular concrete tile way. You know the look. It’s not that I don’t like it, because I do, I just worry about things being SO popular that they quickly look dated, and that’s tough when it’s something so difficult to change like tile.
3 what they do with paint throughout the entire property. They use paint to create baseboards, crown molding, chair rails, even wall nooks with painted on vases! It’s such a great way to draw the eye up or create details in a unique way. In this room they use the deep gray/sage color to create baseboards and then that beautiful bright yellow to create a chair rail look. Both colors are pulled from the patterned tiles.
This place looks straight out of SoCal or even Hawaii but SURPRISE it’s France. It’s an absolutely gorgeous getaway home and I’m so hoping to copy this bar one day for a vintage tiki inspired basement bar. You could create this bar using the half-dowel trick stained to look like vintage yellowed bamboo. The whole home tour gives very 60s hawai’i meets minimalism vibes and is just so chill. This isn’t blended daiquiri tropical, but rather caipirinha tropical. Also, terrazzo.
I had this home tour up in my browser for 3 days. It is quite literally my dream home. You need to see the before pictures in the Architectural Digest article. THE WOOD WAS PAINTED THE MOST BORING COOL BROWN. Now I’m not against brown paint because I live for that 70s aesthetic. But cool brown? Bleh.
I love that they did the fireplace in a brick red tile. So you get that warmth of the brick but it’s reflective to keep things bright and easier install since it’s tile.
They literally have an olive green shag carpeting in this elevated lounge space!!!!!!!! Can I explain to you more how much I love this? The 70s loved steps to different areas (remember those steps down to the living room that you’d sprain your ankle on, or conversation pits that I actually love but are still pretty ridiculous?). This is such a cool little lounging area perfect for kids playing, reading, listening to records - it even has that little catwalk (another intensely mid-century feature) to a reading nook. It’ll take me a bit but I WILL convince my husband that green shag carpeting in a play nook is a good idea. Plus that cozy velvet burnt orange modular couch.
The living room is of course gorgeous with those wood beams, rich reds & oranges that play off the olive green window trims (we’ve all seen people fawn over black window trims, but that green is just so cool and a great play off the greenery outside). Super cool burlwood coffee table, too.
I didn’t get a picture of the kitchen here but you need to check it out. It’s such a great mix of modern & mid-century and a terrazzo masterpiece. Bright & cheerful.
This is the kids bathroom but I want it for my own. The tiles are simple but so fun, and the terrazzo is of course gorgeous. Grounded by the wood vanity that’s topped with the same terrazzo.
I hope you liked this months roundup! It’ll definitely be hard to top that last home tour when I’m looking for next months roundup, we’ll see what I find.
What’s your favorite home tour/pins you found this month? Comment & link below so we can see!