Name: Saule & Chris and their three young children
Location: Frederick, Maryland
Size: 2,800 square feet — 4 bedrooms
Years lived in: 9 — owned (and still changing it every day)
It turns out that discovering Silk & Burlap in downtown Frederick was a bit like discovering a house tour goldmine. Last month we peeked into the home of the lifestyle boutique's co-owner, Angelique, and today we get a glimpse of her business partner and good friend Saule's perfectly suited family home. Saule and Chris have infused their house with a lively mix of quirky antiques and upbeat accents for a mix that's reminiscent of both Frederick where the home is located and her native Southern California. 
My first thought on walking through Saule's door was, "how on earth does this stylish woman keep her house looking this perfect with three young kids and a busy career?" She and Chris have mastered the art of balancing interesting and unique accents with durable, practical materials. Furniture textiles and flooring are attractive and kid-friendly, storage is well-thought out, and every room has it's own strong stylistic sense. The result is a comfortable and inviting home that manages to retain its clean, open feel even when bustling with activity.
Additionally, although the home is quite narrow — only 20 feet wide— Saule and Chris have taken advantage of its depth, keeping window treatments simple, sticking mostly with clean-lined, perfectly-scaled furniture, and adding a few key narrow but lengthy storage pieces such as the stainless steel industrial cabinets in her kitchen. They've also made the most of the main floor's height, choosing high back chairs for the living and family rooms, adding lots of vertical shelving in the kitchen and family room, and building a high breakfast bar— Chris poured the concrete counter tops himself— which makes the kitchen appear larger.
When it came to decorating their children's rooms, Saule and Chris followed their leads, making for a happy infusion of colors, textures, and patterns in each room. I was especially smitten with their son's room which houses a fun mix of Southern California flavor with vintage objects and classic kid wares.
For more details and a better sense of the home's flow, check out the captions in the full House Tour gallery.
Apartment Therapy Survey:
Style: Clean Eclectic
Inspiration: Fashion + Art + My Children (I frequently ask my oldest son and daughter for their advice, and they almost always have a meaningful opinion!)
Favorite Element: Collection of Art
Biggest Challenge: Making vertical square footage meet the needs of our family. Narrow rooms and lack of storage have made furnishing the house and living in the house with 3 children challenging, but have helped us edit the amount of "stuff" we collect. We have to "LOVE it" or "NEED it" to keep it.
What Friends Say: Everyone is surprised by how big it feels on the inside based on what they expect from seeing the outside (it is only 20 feet wide-built as an infill project in an urban setting).
Biggest Embarrassment: Unfinished Laundry Room and (GASP!) A very messy storage room which houses what most people would shove in their garage!
Proudest DIY: Kitchen Renovation on a budget during our first pregnancy. Ikea cabinets, sears appliances, and my husbands first try at concrete counter tops.
Biggest Indulgence: Grange Trestle Dining Table. We will keep it forever, no regrets! And custom built-ins in our family room. We would do those ten times over! Don't know how we lived without them.
Best Advice: Always buy what you love and use objects that have personal meaning whenever possible.
Dream Sources: Shine by S.H.O., Quadrille Fabric
Other Inspiration: color trends, things that remind me of California my home state, vintage textiles, and music.
Resources of Note:
Paint:
Living/Dining: Benjamin Moore Philadelphia Cream.
Kitchen: Benjamin Moore PT210 Base coat for Metallic Paints.
Family Room: Benjamin Moore Plymouth Rock.
Kid's Room 1: Benjamin Moore Sweet Taffy.
Appliances: Kenmore, Jenn Air, Kitchen Aid
Furniture: Living Room: Lee Sofa, Plexi Craft waterfall coffee table, Vintage
Side Chairs, Vintage bench with Marble top. Family Room: Lee Slip Covered Sofa,
Reproduction Egg Chair, Hand-me-downs (my in-laws once oak round coffee table and
once plaid wing chair, both refurbished), Vintage Desk with Brocade Home carved
Chair. Basement: Vintage Factory Cart, Room+Board Sofa, Lee Mohair ottoman, vintage
side table, vintage sideboard, industrial console table from Silk&Burlap. Dining
Room: Grange Trestle Dining Table, Vintage Bench passed down from my husband's
grandparent's farmhouse. Kitchen: Ghost stool from Silk&Burlap. Girls Room: Vintage
Metal Chippendale Chair, Ghost Chair. Boys Room: Vintage Red Bench passed down
through family, Vintage Herman Miller Chair. Back Porch: Emu extension table and
chairs
Accessories: Pillows: Home made and custom made pillows, Anthropologie bolster (living
room),Pier One Ivory Ruffle Pillows (bench and family room sofa), Trina Turk Pillow (kitchen). Up-cycled kitchen mirror (painted turquoise), up cycled vintage frame turned bulletin board (painted white), Vintage Frankoma candlesticks, BOOKS: Cook books, art and fashion books (oh and kids books galore!). Vintage dress form. On dining table: Crystal Wedding Gifts, Ruben Toledo dessert plates. Boys Room: Seth Thomas Vintage Clock.
Lighting:
dining room chandelier: Pottery Barn
kids rooms and kitchen pendants: Lowes
Vintage lamp on desk
crystal living room lamp: through Ann Marie's Interior Details,
vintage living room glass chandelier on vintage bird cage stand.
Rugs and Carpets: Seagrass rugs through NaturalAreaRugs.com, zebra printed hide,
Dash and Albert indoor/outdoor runner (kitchen) through Silk&Burlap, Dash and Albert indoor/outdoor rug (back porch) through Silk&Burlap.
Tiles and Stone: tumbled marble backsplash (kitchen)
Beds: Pottery Barn Teen Upholstered Headboard Girls Room, Vintage bed painted pink
Girls Room, Nautica Home-MB, Bunk Beds put end to end- Boys Room
Artwork: (Living Room) H.I. Gates Abstract painting on canvas, Pop Art Prints on canvas (of my Children), (Dining Room) Large Whimsical Canvas by Doug Group, Chesepeake Watershed Sign by Molly Strong, Floral Art by Naomi Smariga, "Elizabeth's Stomach" (seattle artist), "Small Harlequin" by Jennifer Cohen, "Laughter and Forgetting" by Joe Thomas, Marc by Marc Jacobs Fashion Print by Ruben Toledo. (Family Room) "Life is so Frustrating" Anton Smariga. (Kitchen) Missing California Print by Alicia Peck/Bellamuse, Ruben Toledo Card/Note. (daughter's Room) Framed Nanette Lepore Fashion show invite, Wallpaper Mural through Sherwin Williams. Naomi's Room: 4 Beach Girls Prints by Lisa Petrucci, Mermaid by Japanese artist Yumiko Kayukawa, Self Portrait by Naomi. (son's Room) Tim Biskup print hanging over 2 pieces of NYC Street Art, "Landscapes USA-Allhoffs" by Elizabeth Cavanaugh Cohen, "What" by Bansky,
Original oil freeway landscape by unknown artist.
Thanks, Saule and Chris!
Images: Leah Moss
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Love it, too! A lot of personality, but still clearly a family home.
My favorite thing in the entire house is that turquoise mirror in front of those amazing little pendant chandeliers.
Yay for Frederick! I don't think I've ever heard it called "Old Town," we usually refer to it as Downtown. :)
I live downtown and it's such an awesome little place. Leah, you can definitely find tons more to feature in Frederick, we're an eclectic community.
I'd love to see a shot of the house from the front. I'm assuming it's a row home if it's in downtown.
I too love the turquoise mirror. Very pretty home. The paint color in the living room really makes the room cheerful and light.
Lovely bright home.
Silly question - where did you buy curtain rail for room with twin beds? I need one for a large closet and cannot find one long enough...
Beautiful place! The style is reasonably close to my own, so I definitely like it.
Though I have to laugh at the characterization of 20' wide as being narrow; and 2800 square feet being tight for a family with three children. My Philadelphia rowhouse is a whopping 14' wide and 1200 square feet, and we've got two children. Talk about making sure everything we have being "LOVE it or NEED it"!
Very nice blue mirror.
This is my favorite tour yet!
This is my favorite tour too!! Beautiful.
This house looks so comfy and welcoming. Eclectic but very nicely done! :)
I love the eclectic style, and the romantic pieces, like the chandelier and blue framed mirror are gorgeous!
Great space! Thanks for sharing. It looks very comfy.
--Cory http://www.etsy.com/listing/70848589/blue-sky-necklace
stephinmd - clearly I'm a Frederick newbie even living under an hour away. Can't believe it took me so long to visit! I would love to feature more homes in the area, so keep me posted if you have something in mind: leah@apartmenttherapy.com
So far everything I've seen in the area has been incredible, and I'd love the excuse to go back for another visit.
I used to live in Florida and could NEVER get used to tile floors in living spaces, but I think that brown tile in your family room has made me give it a second look. It looks so warm and pretty, and a nice departure from traditional hardwood.
(Oh, and the rest of the house is pretty great, too!)
I cannot say enough how much I LOVE this house. I love how feminine and grown up it is while still looking like kids can live there, love this.
I love every room :)
I LOVE this house!!!
This is such a gorgeous home, and I have to rank it #1 house tour -- tied with Angelique's. :)
nice! Where did you get the industrial cabinets?
Consider it bookmarked!
Very, very nice.
I'm not tht big on painted furniture usually, but I dig the desk.
Beautiful home. The owners have clearly taken a lot of time to collect and coordinate the living spaces. I still love family photos at the stairs. :)
First: I love when house tours have photo captions! It really helps things make sense when lacking a floor plan!
Second: I love that blanket bin up off the floor in the family room!
Of all the beautiful things in this home, my favorite is the framed note from her son.
Love the Adel White kitchen and I totally didn't expect the Rubrik Stainless steel doors and drawer fronts! Nicely done!
I like the stainless steel cabinets and the turquoise mirror. Like the Brocade desk chair, too.
Great place. Not what I'd call super small though. Any ideas on where the shelves in the kitchen or the steel table in her sons room came from?
What a great home! I'm going to steal some ideas since I also live with three small children. I like the crayons in markers in the glass jars. I also love all the ornate lighting fixtures. My hubby would never go along with having so many. He wouldn't even let me put one in the bathroom we re-did last year.
lindseyh844 - The kitchen shelves that are attached to the wall are from Ikea. They're called Ekby. I think I'm going to get them too because I've been wanting something like that for a while. If only I didn't live 5 hrs from my nearest Ikea.
I love what people are doing with the old intricate frames. Painting them brings a whole new life to the mirror and it looks great in most spaces that I have seen. Very nice tour.
Leah, glad you're liking it! Anyone interested in downtown should stop by Saturday evening. On the first Saturday of every month the shops stay open late and we all hang out. It's a great way to see Frederick.
Love the feel of the house. The note from her son just tops it all! Super cute!
I like the dark kitchen, and the flower wallpaper.
Thanks Apt. Therapy for the continuous stream of inspiration. Leah, your photography is eye candy and your observations are always a joy to read! Thanks for all the comments....
Stephinmd: I live in a single family home that was squeezed onto a neighboring lot, just outside the historic district.
vendusinbluejeans: the stainless cabinets are Ikea
lindseyh84: midwesternmom got it right....ikea shelves, the stainless table used to be on my deck outdoors, but when my son moved to a new room, it became his desk. I think it was purchased at home depot.
Sigh....I Love Love Love the blue mirror on that wall color...too cute! Not just that room , but all that you have shared...nicely done!
Beautiful, wonderful mixture of vintage with modern. My favorite pieces are the dressform, the office desk chair and the turquoise mirror.
where did you get the blue mirror?
tomahto: The blue mirror was a vintage gilt mirror. My daughter chose the color for the desk in her bedroom, and we loved it so much, the mirror got a makeover too.
Really lovely space, extremely well balanced and edited. Congrats! It looks comfy to live in, too.
I love the way you've made this cozy and stylish AND functional for your family. What a lovely tour. Definitely one of my favourites!
The kitchen is absolutely fabulous!
Great family home, haven't seen many around lately. Absolutely adore the hand written letter in the frame! My daughter leaves me hilarious notes stuck to her door that I find on my way to bed. I might have to frame one :D Thanks for the inspiration.
lovely!
Simply stunning!
I love virtually everything about this House Tour! -- the Philadelphia Cream wall color, set off by the white baseboards and molding; the various floors (I have terra-cotta floor tile in my hallway, kitchen, bathroom and dressing aras and love it -- looks similar to this tile); artwork, especially in the living room (not sure I caught the name of the artwork nearest to the vintage sign in the living room); the pink bedrooms and that huge amazing wall mural of the flowers (what a treat to wake up to that!); and, of course, as others have said, the 2 chandeliers in the kitchen with their repeating reflections in the terrific turquoise mirror. And the note about having 2 sisters cracked me up. The kids look cute as can be. (Do they always dress with such style, or are those their photo op clothes? Either way, they look great!)
Do you happen to know the paint color you used for the mirror? I have been in search of the perfect turquoise for a long time!