house beautiful

I recently discovered the website A Bloomsbury Life and have been pinching myself ever since.  This is the stuff of my dreams.

Look at the gorgeous photos of her home here.

These rooms are my ideal.  Colorful, ecelctic, welcoming and full of books.  I love homes where books play an important decorative role not because some designer thought they looked cool but because the homeowners love their books and, you know, read them. 

Lisa Borgnes Giramonti, the author of A Bloomsbury Life, also shared the link to this unreal English home.  Look at some of these rooms in Dennis Severs’ London home.  The house is delightfully fabulous and spooky;  some rooms aren’t finished and pair rich red velvet with cobwebs.  The juxtaposition of rich colours and fabric with threadbare rugs and unfinished walls is strangely alluring.  All photos are from the AMAZING website Light Locations.   The colours are right from a Dutch Masters painting:  (all photos courtesy of Light Locations.)

I love this:  Grey Gardens meets English manor meets a box of Crayolas.

She is also needlepoint artist.  My favourite is this one.  Check out her other work here, here, here, and here.