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I especially love the bowl collection. What did you use to hang it?

Your home is beautiful-- I am always searching for a way to integrate color that doesn't distract from a modern aesthetic, and doesn't look too harsh (or, conversely, too prissy or old-fashioned). Good work!

Aside from your brilliant design choices, I have to say that your ADORABLE dog is quite possibly my favorite accessory.

Lovely! So many interesting things to look at! Although why on earth did you cover that beautiful fireplace? (I'm sure there's a reason!)

Kayla here -

A preemptive comment on the TV in front of the fireplace: it is a non-functioning fireplace and all outlets and cables really left us no choice but to position the TV there. It actually works beautifully and we wouldn't change it at all.

Love the vertical artwork/frame over the horizontal bed.
It looks so good!
And Bacon, who can resist Bacon!

What a beautiful home. And yes, the pop up ads were horrible.

P.S. Your dog is ADORABLE!!!

I think that I would have loved this tour -- unfortunately I had a hard time seeing any of the photos with the pop up ads blocking every picture if I lingered for more than half a second. Is there any way to get rid of them? They're horrible!

Love the house tour - love the color of all of the walls, from the gray to the turquoise. Did NOT love the pop-up ads that kept blocking every photo and then turning to video. SO FREAKIN' ANNOYING. Yelling at AT, not you Wes and Kayla. Love love your home. And most of your posts, too, actually. --Tara

Love the decor. Though the space looks a little dark. I like the wall decor.

Bacon!

Lovvvvve the house! It's perfect! That Bacon's adorable too ;)

Is this another sequel to the Wes & Kayla saga? The doggie is cute, though.

Hey there,

I was wondering what color you painted the living room? What brand of paint, and what color name? I painted our living room a light grey a few days ago, but i think I want it just a shade darker. I really like yours.

Thanks!

I love that coffee table.

Did you do the closet "doors" yourselves? If so can you share your secrets. I've been planning something similar (I was going to use MDF, wallpaper, and wishes) in my house and love this treatment.

I love your place Kayla! Where did you get those living room orange curtains?

mod-century - The paint colors are all listed above in the body of the post. The one you're looking for is BM Silver Fox.

ewg109- The closet is an Ikea system. There is a link above to an entire post about it (Sliding closet solution)

Lovely bones, lovely apartment!
The sliding closet doors look great.
Your apartment looks so comfortable but poor Bacon looks as if he was disturbed during a nap in a few pics.
Is your couch nicely firm, it looks similar to Gregory's and I am looking for a firm one?
Where is your kitchen island from, it doesnt look Ikea?
Great job, thanks for sharing.
Also noted no ugly cords under your computer, like mine.

I love this tour. The whimsy, the colors, the artwork, and Bacon! Thanks for sharing, this was a breath of fresh air.

from one Brookline resident to another... how lovely! will you share your paint colors with us, please?

Wes & Kayla,

Your home and tour looks amazing!!!

You guys are so damn talented. Seriously.

Kyle

lovely, lovely, thank you for sharing. and I was so relieved that Bacon is a dog and not a child! (people with their naming these days...)

esp. love the trim and pale blue in the dining room. works so well with frames, etc.

Lesley, there was an AT post a couple months ago about a how-to for installing that wall of bowls, maybe Wes or Kayla can post a link?

Lovely place- and nice to see a house tour all together, I've enjoyed all the smaller posts about this place.

What a wonderfully, warm, inviting and inspiring home! Love the pups name too :)

Great place. My two favourite things are the shower curtain (though I'm not sure it would look as cool without a window behind it) and the white porcelain cow thing hanging with the frying pans.

Love, love, love your place! It looks beautiful and modern, yet comfortable. Definitely one of my favorite home tours ever.

Can I ask where you got the living room and dining room curtains?

Oh, what a sweet looking dog; Bacon seems to have selected the exact best place to relax. Love how he's looking straight at the camera!

Living room curtains are from anthropologie and the sheets in the dining room and bedroom are from west elm

I really like the light-filled living room, it's fresh and comfortable. Bravo for un-colorcoding your books.

@meg22 et al. There exist free programs to block ads, just do a google search.

Where are your living room draperies from? Beautiful!

oops - I meant that the "sheers" in the dining and bedroom are from West Elm!

Well, methinks, it'd have been better not to have couches block the view of the two windows in the living room from the hallway. I just feel something uncomfortable in the picture of the livingroom as if something is blocked by the sofa from the window...

In all, gorgeous! I especially love the paint colour in the bedroom.
But I just can't drop the issue of the beautiful fireplace, which I feel merits more reverence.
There are tons of cool ways to work with a non-functioning fireplace already posted on AT...we've seen books, plants, candles.
To me, it just looks as though you pulled some furniture in front of it and forgot it there.

Oh I still love me some Bacon. House is great too.

Love your place but that first paragraph is cringe-worthy.

Great bedroom closet. Killer card catalog. Such a sweet puppy. Can't get over the fireplace violation. It doesn't matter whether it works or not, it is a gorgeous piece of architecture. Where there is a will, there is a way - including finding ways to run outlets where you need'em.

Wow, this is exactly what I want to go for in our new apt! Thanks for the inspiration!

Boontje. BACON.

Also, please make me a kitchen island just like yours. No problem, right?

Oh, and it bears repeating: BACON.

I enjoyed your tour, thanks. I'm another fan of Bacon's too.

I love that you have so much nicely framed art, and also love your comforter cover, the kitchen pegboard, the card catalog, and the great ceramic display in the living room.

I'm sad that the TV is in front of the fireplace. Even though it's non-working, its (unobscured) architectural heft would have added to the room, IMO.

People who were plagued by pop-ups should look to their computers -- I saw none so I don't think the problem is with AT.

And people wanting paint colors, sources, etc. should consult the very thorough list that the homeowners provided, above.

Thanks for the tour, though I did experience some deja vu.

Great place! So rich in ideas. Really enjoyed the colors even though I am not a big fan of light blue or that type of yellow.

I would normally put the tv at the fireplace, but I think in this situation they made it work well with the unified colors and shapes.

I love your tour and your voices on AT ... *sniff*

Yes, people, stop complaining about pop-ups and do something about them.

Download Firefox
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So glad Bacon is a dog! (and what a cutie he is...)

Beauitful and so well put together. Everything has a nice flow from one room to the next. Very calming. Well Done!

What a sweet place and what an adorable little dog! I especially like the clever bedroom closet and the colors used on the living room walls.

great house tour, i love the combination of pics during the day and at night to get a better feel for the place.

one question: where did you get those arrow wall hook/hangers? i love em.

Lovely home!

I would like to know where 2 of your couch pillow are from; the brown one with turquoise birds, and the one with turquoise and brown cross. Thanks!

this is just so damn up my alley. i love it all.

beautiful color palette!

Do you own this apartment? It's gorgeous! If it's a rental, you are quite ballsy to create something so beautiful in a rent-control-free city!

That dog is so frickin cute and I like your home too---cozy and sweet.

I just have to comment...first of all, your apartment is STUNNING! I actually work for the real estate office that you rented your apartment from and I can not BELIEVE how much work you put into this place. Your landlord if very, very lucky to have you! If and when you ever move (I say, stay put!) there will be a bidding war, no doubt. Great job!

i love it! a very nice use of colors, classics and modern styles. i like the blu dot table, and think it works well for the apartment. (secretly i have often wondered how well blu dot sofas hold up, so keep us posted).

it's a delicate balance to make a home bright, cheerful, stylish, classic and comfortable. high marks on all counts!

michelle
http://cheeseloversinternational.blogspot.com/

What a great home you've created here. I really do love everything about it. Most of all, Bacon. I am a huge fan of Frenchies.

Great work on every aspect. It's aesthetically pleasing, sure, but you can tell that it's a lived-in home. Wonderful.

I love this apartment, and am amazed by how HUGE it looks. It has just enough "stuff" without ever seeming cluttered.

Also, just want to note that I have this same gray living room color in my apartment and it looks much, much darker in my (light-challenged) space. I also have the lighter color on the swatch, Abalone, and in my apt it looks almost exactly the way Silver Fox does in these pictures.

What a great HOME. It's colorful without being overbearing and thoughtfully designed. I'm loving your closet set up--great option for those of use who could use more space.

When I see this tour, I think I about how much time it would take me to make my home look this neat and organized. LOVE the bedroom "closet" and your style (goes well together obviously!). I was looking forward to your tour, and it didn't disappoint (though morbid curiosity begs for a pic of the pink bathroom) and I am in the no covered fireplace camp...but it doesn't really detract at all from the fact that your apartment is great. Thanks for sharing!

Great job, great ideas! I am in the process of painting my home of 1 year, so it's fun to see someone who did it already. I love the Place des Vosges poster in the foyer!...I have a small watercolor of it that I need to reframe and put up once the painting is done. I'll be referring back to this for ideas as I get around to the arranging and styling. I'm not as modern in taste, but some things transcend. Grew up with Engl. bulldogs, so Bacon, albeit a Frenchie, is adorable! :)

Those are some of the most beautiful wall colors I've seen. Calming, barely noticeable, and warm.

Seems silly to fixate on such a small detail, but does anyone know where I can get the white table runner? Thanks.

This is an awesome place, I loved everything in this place.

The runner is one of our favorite things - it's by Chiliwich and available at Design Public or many other sites. I think we wrote a post about it, too...

Generally, I am not bothered by pop-up ads, so I don't think it was my computer at fault. I was one of the first to post and complained of them, and then a number of others complained as well. I think they were modified in response to the negative feedback.

I went through the house tour without any pop-ups bothering me this time -- and I had done nothing to adjust my computer.

Very nice place

Love this home! I kept seeing a lot of the same details we have around here too. :)

Wow, it's just so nice. Loved the "in-action" shots of the dining room, and all of the Bacon shots. Nice to see a place being lived in. Lovely colors, lovely arrangements.

At first, I didn't really like the TV/fireplace thing, but I have to say that it's grown on me. And it seems to work for you, so rock on.

I always enjoy your posts. Thanks for sharing your home and keep up the good work.

i love your home! as a fellow boston-area resident (if across the rivah in cambridge), i have one sourcing question: whereeeee did you get the bird lamp? at least i think they are lamps? white, with clothespin "feet"?

i've lived in my apartment for over a year now in search of the perfect bedside lights that are wall-mountable, quirky and fun. i found some folded paper dinosaurs a few months ago, but they weren't quite right. i LOVE the birds and would love to make those a reality!

thanks in advance, and i adore your space.

Lovely space!

I'll speak up in defense of the "fireplace violation." Work with them or around them, as your tastes and needs dictate, but there is nothing sacred about fake fireplace mantles. My condo had (past tense) two of them, in the LR and DR, hogging the only real length of wall space in both rooms. When I bought the place I thought they were pretty, but after a while it was clear that they dictated the layout of the rooms in ways I didn't like. When I finally did some major renovation work elsewhere, I had them both ripped out. My mother practically cried but I don't miss them a bit, it opened up both rooms in a big way. I donated them to the Boston Building Materials Resource Center, so maybe they'll have another life elsewhere.

Adorable home.......and adorable doggie!

I love seeing the Flor carpet, because I am thinking about using something from them in my new LR. Also thinking about the same Merimekko shower curtain. Love it.

Your bedroom closet is like the answer to a prayer! Where did you get the sliding panel things? Or did you get the hardware and make them? If you did a post about this i didn't see it, sorry. I really need that- can't stand curtainy curtains.

Last but not least, please give Bacon a big kiss and hug for me!

I love the color schemes! The purple-grey-mustard in the living room and the red-light blue in the dining room and superb. Very clever to use those IKEA curtain panels to make part of the bedroom a closet. Even worth sacrificing that window, since there is another one anyway and it makes for a bright closet! Agree the TV could go in the corner instead, maybe wall-mounted on a swing-out arm?

Thanks bostonkayla for the info about the runner!

a lovely home!

i've been looking for curtains like those in your living room!!! do you have a source?

I keep coming back to this house tour. I love your style, the rug in the LR, the chalkboard paint in the kitchen, and the mix of old and new / modern and antique. Very nicely done.

Also, I'm not a "dog person" - but I love this one! What a cutie Bacon is.

love that blue color.