When San Francisco landscape architect Todd Cole bought a former steam-generating plant in Cloverdale, the 1903 building had crumbling plaster walls and no central heat. A decade later, when he hired interior designer Myra Hoefer, it had "too much carpet" and "too much fussy stuff everywhere." Now it has Belgian white linen, a rustic dining table, and "a sense of spaciousness."
It also has a sign that's been restored.
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Comments (6)
be still my heart!!!!!!!!!!!!
definitely inspired by Axel Vervoordt...
Yawn. The house is nice but the decor is too predictable of the style we Americans like to call "French country." Real French style is so much more interesting than this.
That's because this house is derived more from Belgian style then French (and not even the French part of Belgium...)... Belgian design is much more streamlined than French.
(the designer even mentioned Vervoordt in the artice).
Lovely. I would kill for that much open space and detail. Monika1, my first thought was Vervoordt too.
Sorry, Belgium or France, it still feels like paint-by-numbers design to me. Let's see... we've got the white slip-covered sofas, the chunky farmhouse table, several stone figures, and antique tools that don't get used. This has been done a thousand times. It looks more like a showroom for some furniture store than a home to me. But that's just one person's opinion.