Designer: Jill Cordner of Jill Cordner Interior Design
Client: Laura
Location: Glen Park — San Francisco, California
Designer Jill Cordner shares a project where she turned a client's California cottage into a happy home:
This was a fun and exuberant project done on a budget. The client recently bought a cottage that had great bones but a bland personality. She LOVES all things candy colored and with pizazz, so a large part of my role in the project was to edit, show her what would physically fit in the space, and keep the big picture in mind.
• The inspirations were multiple: we treated each space as its own little world: • The bathroom was a preppy/nautical inspiration that we got from the existing white wainscoating and oil rubbed bronze fixtures. • The bedroom and adjacent dressing room were a girly enchanted forest inspiration. • The office is a library feeling antique map inspired room. The kitchen wall color was inspired by a tiffany box. • The dining nook took a Parisian turn originally inspired by an existing black, white and bamboo French stool.
One issue that we had to overcome was the tiny dining room. We ordered a modular striped banquette so that the small room can now comfortably seat 4-5 people. It is a great project — done largely with flea market and yard sale finds, in addition to Ballard Designs, Target, Urban Outfitters, Crate & Barrel and other retailers.
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i'm at a loss for words
Me too, sunan.
love the shower curtain!! is that a real sail?
Isn't using words to say "I'm at a loss for words" an oxymoron?
90s retro...I love it
90s retro...I love it
I don't get it.
Completely bizarre, especially the bathroom which makes no sense with the rest of the house.
+1 on the shower curtain, good find!
I find the green of the bathroom a little jarring, but I always think bathrooms are the rooms to go a bit nuts in anyway. . . I loved everything else about it. Perfect for a girly girl.
Yeah. I don't get it either. Maybe wider shots would have brought helpful context? As it is, not seeing it.
Although I agree that the shower curtain is kind of cool.
this from a 'professional'???
surely no one paid for this. it makes no sense, in a bad way. no, no and no.
I don't see the candy color. Banquets can be nice, though. (Er, to see in ppl's homes; I don't think I'd really want one....)
And the bedroom is so gross, it looks like a bad motel from a B movie in the early 90s.
I just had a look at the designer's website, and the photos of other rooms from the same house were actually better than the ones shown above. The kitchen was OK, as was the study with map-wall. Why mention all those and then not show them?
It looks like you REALLY have to love it to be able to live here... nice try, but... nothing really goes with anything, there's really no theme or matching elements, if anything all the different dynamics clash, not flow. It's loud too loud and messy for me, sorry.
It definitely got my attention enough to inspire my 1st post to a site I was sooo excited to find!.....my 1st impression of this design is "Super Crazy" for sure! In the kindest way possible.
I enjoyed the memory it sparked of my Nana's room when I was in my teens.
The fabulous vanity in such a cozy floral space makes it feel more akward than fancy.
Bathroom is cool and I like it. I imagine it in the b/r of a preppy fraternity house.
I don't love it, but as long as the client does, Job well done!...
I'm sorry, but this is so sad. Maybe it's the lighting in the photos, but the peach wall color in the bedroom depressing and mixed with the greys it looks old. Maybe pick out the blue for the walls and change the black shades to a smart barrel shape to update the lamps?
I'm generally a fan of banquettes, but the scale of this room is off. The really small light fixture juxtaposed with the table, which looks huge in contrast, and then the jarring stripes... Like I said, maybe it's the photos? I think a larger scale light and ditching the mirror, which I would generally like, but looks fussy in this space, would have balanced everything and brought it together.
I can't tell the scale, but I think I would have switched the two mirrors, the more rustic one above the desk would have been better (depending on scale). If the chair was painted to match the wood mirror, it might work better, also.
Good luck...
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I looove this house and how every room is so different! It is definitely not boring, that's for sure. It seems like the designer (and the client?) are not averse to taking risks with color and style, which is awesome, IMHO!
The bedroom looks a bit over the top girly, but some people are into that. ;) The wall color does not look peach on my computer -- it looks very clearly like a dusty PINK.
i LOVE the dining nook! i am going to disagree with the scale being off- i think a bigger light fixture would look cramped in that small space. totally fun and original considering the designer was working on a budget!
Does not look like something you would see in San Francisco. I'm certainly disappointed.
I've been in this house before, and in real life it's pretty dreamy and it does all make sense. The woman who lives there is very Audrey Hepburn-girly and ice blonde, and *she* looks fantastic in every room!
It looks just ghastly in the photos.
wow tough crowd! i LOVE booth seating in kitchens. also the woodsy wallpaper is so whimsical. lou (fabulous los angeles restaurant) has the same. im seeing it everywhere.
If they were after tacky 50's cottage, they nailed it...