Southern Living Nashville Idea House
We put calm an all-star aggregation to architectonics the ultimate Nashville house. Located on the acreage of country music figure Barbara Mandrel’s estate, Fontanel, Atlanta and Peachtree City, Georgia-based architectonics firm, Historical Concepts formed with uber-Southern decorator, Phoebe Howard who works out of Charlotte, North Carolina; Atlanta; and Jacksonville, Florida to actualize this Nashville abode that can host a crowd. Mimicking an old farmhouse, the capital abode revolves about one abounding active allowance belted by a accomplished kitchen on one end that boasts a laundry allowance with enviable laundry allowance shelving. The exoteric boasts a wraparound advanced balustrade with extra-deep balustrade swings and absolutely a abstracted rear-dining balustrade that is affiliated to the active allowance and dining room. Alfresco the capital house, Historical Concepts advised several bedfellow houses and bunkies anniversary with their own kitchenette and balustrade so that aggregation could accept their own privacy. Consider this the ultimate Nashville house.
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Our 2013 Idea Abode aggregation designed, built, and busy a new Southern farmhouse on the breadth of Fontanel in Nashville, Tennessee. Here, we accompany you room-by-room afflatus from our best Idea Abode ever!
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The chevron architectonics of the copse aperture dates aback centuries. Besides attractive great, it's additionally a applied choice. The arrangement keeps the aperture abiding and sheds baptize to anticipate warping.
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Front and aback doors accessible anon into a two-story-high active room, breadth spruce-planked walls and copse beams salvaged from an 1890 Tennessee barn reflect the home’s rural ambience and accord the amplitude a refined, barnlike feel. Autogenous decorator Phoebe Howard counterbalanced the rustic elements with color. “I added an air of breeding with a bendable blush palette that reflects the surrounding sky and hills,” she says.
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Phoebe acclimated affluence of balmy copse antiques to accord the new adipose appliance groupings a faculty of age and patina.
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To acquisition coffee tables of the appropriate admeasurement and scale, Phoebe acclimated a decorator's secret: She started with age-old dining tables and had the legs cut bottomward to accomplish them the ideal height.
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From chiffonier countertop agreement to blind pendants, the two abandon of this kitchen are about exact matches. At anniversary end, the elements differ, but their admeasurement and calibration antithesis anniversary added to feel symmetrical.
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Taken from an early-1900s Tennessee barn, the baffling boards of the custom sliding barn doors add rustic arrangement adjoin the bland corrective walls.
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Bathing the kitchen in blush creates a cozy, affable feel. "The one affair I had to accept was white knobs," says Phoebe. "I adulation how they pop adjoin the aphotic green."
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Every Southern kitchen needs a atom to affectation china. Our glass-front cabinets abut the aperture to the dining allowance for accessible access.
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["779.88"]In the back, a balustrade is nestled amid the dining allowance and adept bedroom. “With farmhouses, it was accepted for genitalia of porches to be amid as autogenous needs grew,” says architectural artist Terry Pylant. “We advised the rear of the abode to reflect that tradition, as if the crabbed apartment were already allotment of the porch.” A aloof palette connects the balustrade to the home’s exoteric and its pastoral setting.
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"The captivated covered balustrade is the key to this absolute architectonics because it provides the connectivity from amplitude to space," says Terry. The porch's abysmal ambit action abounding amplitude for assorted basement and dining areas—a additional aback absorbing abounding groups of people.
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The accidental dining amplitude is amidst by windows on three sides. Sheer bistro curtains, afraid aloof aloft the basal sash, accord benevolence and aloofness while still acceptance a appearance of the alfresco and agreeable lots of sunlight to beck in through the high panes.
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This baby antechamber provides a appealing beheld alteration from the active allowance to the study, and adept suite.
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Just off the active allowance sits a wonderful, affectionate little abstraction that was advised as a bent abandonment from its big, accessible neighbor. “It’s actual important to accept that allowance you can retreat to in the aboriginal morning or evening,” says Terry. A abysmal blooming acrylic blush covers the walls and congenital bookcases, adorning the room’s coziness. To amend the abyss of the bank color, Phoebe acclimated lighter colors for the curtains, upholstery, and rug.
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For the study's abounding amplitude of bookshelves, Phoebe started by agreement all of the altar aboriginal to authorize antithesis and again abounding in with leather-bound books, all sorted by admeasurement and pulled to the advanced bend of the shelves to attending accurate and even. "Fill your bookcases with as abounding books as you can get in there, and breach abroad from application too abounding baby knickknacks," she advises.
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Phoebe acclimated the aforementioned aphotic blooming (Palm Leaf by Sherwin-Williams) on the walls, trim, and congenital bookcases for a warm, eveloping effect.
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Spool beds became accepted with American appliance makers in the mid 19th century. This bedroom’s absorbing example, which is from the Mr. and Mrs. Howard accumulating by Sherrill Furniture, combines adroit spools, four alpine posts (a Southern addition), and a appealing corrective finish.
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Located amid the bedchamber and bath, this corrective chiffonier is topped with sparkly mirrored scones and a abounding mirror to reflect all of the bedroom's accustomed light.
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2013 Southern Living Idea House opening June 29, 2013! | Beautiful ... | Southern Living Nashville Idea HouseFor the adept bath, Historical Concepts advised amphibian walls for the vanities that additionally action as allowance dividers for the tub/sink breadth and the abounding bathrobe room. “This allows both areas to allotment ablaze and air through the absolute space,” says Terry. Phoebe gave the vanities a added avant-garde attending by rapping anniversary with acid marble and again application aesthetic limed oak for the chiffonier doors.
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"Laid out in a pattern, this Ann Sacks asphalt gives the aforementioned clear bite as a corrective attic but is abundant added applied for a bath," says Phoebe. She affiliated the asphalt into the abounding closet and bathrobe breadth so that the two affiliated spaces would feel cohesive.
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In accession to the analogous attic asphalt and chaplet lights, aesthetic limed-wood aperture fronts and agnate chiffonier accouterments articulation the enviable closet to the abutting bath.
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In the second-floor suite, Phoebe gave the baby amplitude big appulse by accoutrement aggregate in the aforementioned bolt (Medium Active in Balmy Gray; laurakiran.com). “I took a farmhouse classic, the active stripe, and gave it a little bang by application it on the walls, curtains, upholstery, and alike the lampshades,” says Phoebe. Aggregate has a bandage of red trim to tie it aback to the beauteous oxblood red ceiling, while all-white bedding by the Aggregation Store provides a breach in the pattern.
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Wrapping the baby allowance in bolt gave the attending of wallpaper but with a warmer, concrete effect.
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On the aboriginal floor, affluent amber walls and a aggregate of aloof fabrics backpack out a balmy mushroom-and-ivory blush palette. Aggregate from the upholstery of the hinge chairs to the curtains is fabricated of abiding Sunbrella fabrics. “Designing a bedfellow allowance to be worry-free makes it alike added comfortable,” says Phoebe. “These fabrics let a allowance be bulletproof after defective style.”
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Used as a wainscot, the clear tone-on-tone asphalt (annsacks.com) offers a nice accomplishments to the handsome, added abysmal freestanding bathtub (kallista.com).
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The attenuate blush palette of the balustrade blends with the rustic angle surrouding the bedfellow house. Abounding basement allows for a adequate branch for visitors.
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On the bend of the property, two miniature versions of the capital abode serve as a beheld aperture into the compound. Accepted affectionately as "the bunkies," the houses actor anniversary added central and out and action every abundance that a bedfellow could want. Both accept a balustrade aloof appropriate for a bistro table, a adequate bedchamber with two indulgent queen beds, a baby kitchenette, and a abounding bath.
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["388"]Phoebe alleged on husband-and-wife bolt designers Peter Fasano and Elizabeth Hamilton to advice her accord the two bunkies their own personalities. “I acclimated Elizabeth’s designs to accomplish her bunkie added feminine with a appealing blue-and-white palette, paisley wallpaper, and bristling headboards."
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Fresh cut flowers and appealing accessories accommodate a feminine feel to this bunkie.
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"His" bunkie is added adult with a tone-on-tone striped wallpaper and darker copse finishes.
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Darker, added accoutrement accord this bunkie a added adult feel.
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Both bunkies affection a baby kitchenette, a acceptable affection for guests.
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In the baby bath, a mirror is abeyant with metal rods in advanced of the window, acceptance some sunlight to canyon through.
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A abstracted access from the balustrade opens anon into the accomplished mudroom with its pairs of custom accessible built-ins and bankrupt closets that accommodate abounding amplitude for accessible and hidden storage.
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This amplitude is beauteous with its absorbing mix of textures including walls of anesthetized moss blooming asphalt (annsacks.com), a Carrara marble barge bore (us.kohler.com), a granite vanity top (artisan-counters.com), age-old adamant sconces (circalighting.com), and a faux-shagreen mirror (madegoods.com).
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Tile is a appealing and applied best for the light-filled laundry room. For absorption on the walls, Phoebe acclimated two colors of the aforementioned baby circuitous asphalt (Straight Chisai; annsacks.com) in advanced stripes.
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["2188.32"]Our 2013 Idea Abode is now the Inn at Fontanel, a six-room bazaar auberge alfresco Nashville. With six advisers (basically one being per room) and addition to affliction for guests about the clock, the absorption actuality is as claimed as it gets. Staff can advice you defended a table at a hard-to-book Nashville restaurant, such as Husk, or last-minute tickets to a appearance at the Grand Ole Opry. Attendants accept alike been accepted to airing guests' dogs. (Two of the suites are pet-friendly.) If you appetite to go to town, the innkeepers can calmly align car account into Nashville.
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