Modern House Minimalist Design

This amazing villa near the Sorgue River with it's Southern facade bordering the Arquet, a branch of the Sorgue River was originally built during the 12th and 13th Century. In 2010 the villa was completely modernised as a luxury holiday retreat. I feel the modernisation has been done sensitively to the buildings original foundations, however, the interior design is an unexpected delight to the artist/designer.  The Interior designer has taken advantage of the spaciousness of the villa and included amazing pieces of artwork and some fabulous contemporary pieces of furniture whilst allowing areas of the villa to remain true to it's history.  I am fascinated by this gorgeous villa and hope you are too.   Prices for staying in this wonderful property in Provence, France.  is US$1,888 - US$2,334 per night. It has 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms (4 ensuites) plus the gorgeous pool. There is a link at the bottom of this post to the read more about this property or if you have the o...

Just wanted to let you all know that our 'Twas the Night Before Christmas Thermals are now available in our shop!!! Just click here ! Photo courtesy of JLYNN PHOTOGRAPHY And now here is Jason with with his October post.... To put it simply, our family is different. Yes… I know… Everyone thinks that his or her own family is the craziest group of people around and is deserving of its own sitcom. I can’t count the times I’ve heard someone casually toss out the phrase “they should really make it into a TV show” after telling some mildly entertaining story about one of their relatives. So don’t worry, I’m not about to claim that our family is in any way more worthy of having a camera crew follow us around than your own may be—but still, I feel as though it is at least a subject worth touching upon. For instance, I can comfortably say that under most circumstances we are at least remotely reasonable people, but put us all together on a croquet court or in front of a board game and the re...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!  Who better to feature today than someone who takes the color orange (along with green) to the most elegant and stylish heights. Say hello to......... Jan aka  "Queen of mosaics" of the beautiful blog.....    The French Tangerine OK, Jan is a gal after my own heart. I feel like I know her and we both certainly have plenty in common, including an unwavering obsession with pretty things, chinoiserie, blue and white, all things French, and have a wicked sense of humor (I can most certainly laugh at myself as can she which makes her so endearing). I laughed reading over her interview and loved getting to know more about this fun loving gal behind The French Tangerine. Now that 2 of her 3 kids are out of the home, she has devoted herself to her blog and claims it "the best hobby ever"! Her blog always promises a serious parade of eye candy, whether she is playing "investigative reporter" and having her friends open up their beautiful homes or ...

Dining tables I would love to have if I had endless space and no budget!  Please let me know by leaving a comment on this post if you like the idea below of displaying Interior design photos as a slide show rather than posting them individually on the page?  Your comments are very much appreciated. All images from Houzz.com I hope you had a lovely weekend.  We had what felt like an early Summers day yesterday in Auckland and everyone was out in force. My local beach was absolutely packed with people and the queue at the icecream shop was a mile long! Lee x

You know that my sweet friend Becky and her precious family came and stayed with us last week.  Now that they are gone and things have slowed down a little here in Tennessee, I want to share with you all some of the fun things that we did.   We ate.  We hiked.  We had a bon-fire and movie night.  We ate more.  We drove around looking at the gorgeous leaves. We went to the Nashville Flea Market.  We played house. You might be wondering what I mean by “played house”.  Well, let me just tell you. I really don’t want to embarrass Becky, but can I just tell you that this beautiful lady oozes with talent.  She cooks, she paints, she designs, she decorates!  Oh yeah, and her husband builds.  What a carpenter he is.  (more on his carpentry skills later) Now you know that I had to ask her to help me change up some things in my house.   And change up, we did!!!   We worked in pretty much every part of the downstairs ...

If you like Rachel Ashwell from Shabby Chic then you are going to fall in love with this home just like I did when coming across the blog- Simply Me !! I want a home like this one!!  Be sure to check out her BLOG to see more gorgeous Photos!

Today Bryan and I went back to the property to take a few more photos and to deliver a letter to our new neighbors; we want to let them know that we're finally actually going to build and give them an idea of what to expect and when. So far, we know there will be a backhoe on Tuesday and Wednesday, and then not a lot of obvious change until February. While we were there we started wandering, following a similar path to the one I took on Friday when I took most of the pre-clearing photos. This time, though, we started looking for the well. Yes, one of our wells was hiding somewhere in the dense shrubbery, and we do actually need to find it and to clear a path to it so it can be tested for potability and flow and, eventually, used. I had a decent idea of where it might be, since the boys and I visited the site when the well-digging equipment was there in 2006. I remembered going down the "road" along the western edge of the property and it curving around a bit. Now that roa...

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