Modern Farmhouse Meets DeGournay

Today we are sharing a project where LiLu Interiors was enlisted to decorate a main floor and primary bedroom for a client who had built a new construction home. During the building process, our client felt confident making finish and lighting selections but when it came to furnishing and decorating, she felt a bit overwhelmed! She and her husband are full-time doctors and parents to two young children (I can only imagine how busy they are). Making the many hundreds of decisions required to create the home they envisioned was just too much so they reached out to our team at LiLu Interiors.

This year they decided to prioritize the entry, great room, office, and primary bedroom and leave the dining room and other rooms in the home for a different phase of this decorating and furnishing project.

As with any project, we always start by combining our clients’ intentions for how they want to live with their aesthetic dreams and the current architecture and color palette of their home to create a concept. Every design decision we make must fit the concept. This approach prevents design detours that can be expensive and time-consuming.

Concept

For this project, our concept was to design a home that has a lasting style, functions well, and marries the aesthetic of McGee & Co with the sophisticated look of DeGournay.

Modern Farmhouse Meets DeGournay Entry

We started in the entry, where a statue of the Hindi deity Ganesha will greet visitors to the home. We selected a simple, linen-wrapped cabinet so Ganesha will be emphasized. An antique rug we found at IMS Design Center. It introduces the homes color scheme of neutrals combined with teal and oranges and some blues. What a find the rug was! Our clients fell in love with the patinaed look.

Office

In the adjacent office, which is mainly composed of built-in cabinetry we had an opportunity to express the design concept with a textural window seat fabric that we combined with hand-block printed fabrics on the pillows adding a cozy and welcoming space it will be.

Kitchen

In the kitchen, very little was needed but the barstools became an important element, since they are the only furnishings. We selected a stool with a rattan back and used a commercial (easily cleaned) fabric in teal, orange, and cream for the seats. Livable, pretty and fit perfectly with our sophisticated mix of materials.

Modern Farmhouse Meets DeGournay Living Room

Continuing our modern farmhouse meets DeGournay concept, in the living room portion of the great room, we used a mix of materials that included soft, welcoming fabrics, a feel free to lay down wool rug plus a mix of wood, metal, and leather. The overall mix is sophisticated, unexpected, and a bit playful, just right for a young family.

The two roundish lounge chairs swivel, allowing our clients to continue their much-loved daily tradition of drinking a nice cup of coffee or tea in this spot every morning while taking in the view of the woods behind their home.

The sectional will be the perfect place for the family to pile up to take in a movie on the weekend.

Dining Room

Our clients value having friends and family over for casual dinners and get-togethers. We designed the living and dining room to be welcoming and used practical indoor/outdoor fabrics on the sectional and dining chairs to prevent worries about spills, Because the dining area is on the small side, we selected chairs that are light in scale. It is a bonus that younger kids will not have trouble moving the chairs around.

Bedroom

In the primary bedroom, we replace the low platform bed with a canopy bed that fills the volume of the space and fulfilled one member of the couples' dream of one day having a canopy bed! The large nightstands are the perfect scale for the large room and the mix of patterns on the pillows bring in a floral, DeGourney-like floral with hand-block printed patterns that honor our clients' heritage. The pattern mix also softly echoes the color scheme of the rest of the home in a serene way.

Are you curious about what it is like to work with LiLu Interiors? Check out this recent interview with one of our clients.