LakBDesign's Controlled Color House Call

The first picture was the one that clinched it for us. We'd moseyed over to LakeBDesign/FergusandMe's Flickr after spotting a few shots on the Apartment Therapy LA Group Pool Flickr page and then we saw it. Unusual and unexpected combinations of colour are our personal swooning point; the green West Elm Parsons desk against the Farrow & Ball blue wall was elegant in a way that left us speechless. This is a little larger than our usual house call; there were so many luscious vignettes in LakBDesigns/FergusandMe's gracious home that we had a hard time choosing among them.

Here Ikea mixes with fine antiques and upscale pieces (love the Barbara Barry sofas!) in a setting that is traditional with a humourous twist of colour that is unique. This is a home we'd enjoy visiting, it's also a home we like to see more of!

[images from the Apartment Therapy LA Group Pool and from LakBDesigns/FergusandMe's Flickr]

Comments (12)

i love this! and i'm glad they have real family pictures on the walls...looks so welcoming.

- kate @ southernbellsimple.blogspot.com

This is lovely, and I'm not just saying that because the colours are so close to the ones I chose for my own place! ;)

Actually, the dining room looks to be the exact colour I JUST finished painting in my bedroom. How cool!

Lovely!! My attention was immediately drawn to the mirrors- any suggestions on places to find mirrors similar to the two shown in this post? They are exactly what I need in my bathroom, I've been looking for months...

Holy moley. This looks insanely gorgeous, but also like a live person lives here. It's like a Martha photo come to life. I feel pretty good about my first apartment, considering I'm also a law student without a trust to fund my decorating, but this puts me to shame. Also, inspires great amounts of envy. I love that blue on the walls. As soon as I can paint my rooms, that is the color. It's so pretty it's making me feint.

Nice, but it kinda looks like they raided the Wisteria catalog.

Beautiful! I want color but I don't want it to scream at me when I walk into a room. This is a great example of the color layering that I'd like to achieve in my home. I don't have the same fabulous architectual details as this home, but I'll certainly be looking over the photos in more detail for inspiration.

This makes my heart beat quick. More, please!

I don't love everything (it's a little cutesy for me), but I adore the wallpaper in the kid's room! what is it?

http://mylittleapartment.blogspot.com/

jbess101

if you're in la, there's a place on robertson, just about 2 blocks north of national (around David) on the east side of the street, that has similar mirrors. They display some examples of them outside when they're open so even though i can't give you an exact address, it should be pretty easy to find.

abby

abby! i completely missed this. yikes.
fyi all: nothing from wisteria. kids' room 'wallpaper' is actually fabric - oilcloth - from john lewis in the uk. mirror in first photo is from ballard designs, other mirror is 1920s venetian from an auction. thanks, all :)