If you're familiar with decor firm Conceptuwall, then you probably won't be surprised to learn that the home of creators Laurence and Patrick Chavanne is a wild, pretty convergence of pattern and color. Their decorating motto? "We must dare, never mind if we are wrong. The key is spontaneity."
The Chavannes converted the home from a painter's studio that sat unused for fifty years. While I tend to be a neutral-with-splashes-of-color type of decorator, this home could convert me. It looks like so much fun and like the people who live here must be a blast. After all, you can't take yourself too seriously if you have a hot pink bathroom with a chartreuse toilet seat.
Even if it's too much for your tastes, there are really wonderful color combinations throughout the tour — a key-lime-painted frame accents a blue door, a yellow chair sits on a purple rug, mauve patterns decorate a caledon kitchen and so on. These combinations could be easily recreated on a smaller scale using accessories and strategically-painted accent walls.
While there are always interesting debates on Apartment Therapy over what constitutes good design and good taste, I also love seeing a home in which the people clearly don't care what anyone else thinks. Their joy in decorating comes through in their whimsical, iconoclastic home.
See the full tour and read more about the home at Marie Claire Maison.
Images: Mia Linh/Box Management.



Comments (9)
Pure fun and great adventure.
So cool! I love it!
That is pretty awesome.
If only that purple rug were mine. ಠ_ಠ
I'm on the hate side, except maybe for the bedroom, which is more subdued.
We see a lot of those "over the top" apartments in design shows here in France, and they are only balanced by a huge amount of "family heirloom houses" which look all the same. I wish we had some variety...
I think this is one of the most refined uses of color I've ever seen on this site. I'd move in in a heartbeat. I'm not even sure why this works - it just does!
My favorite is the bedroom in photo #3. It looks fun yet peaceful.
This is the second anti-gay comment from rayk that I've read. Homophobia is unacceptable here. Review the AT comments policy.
If I lived here I'd think I was sooo cool! haha! Love it!
now, I want to know what rayk said. were they drinking hateraide?