Post # 500! And a Summer House in Costa del Sol

Dear readers, this is my post number 500. And guess what we are going to do to celebrate? You guessed! House tour, Yayy!!

So, off we go to Costa del Sol, in Spain, to tour interior designer Vanda Jewiss's summer house. With stunning views of both the sea and mountains she restored it together with architect Eduardo Dorissa.

I think I love every single thing about this house. The Gustavian furniture, the beams, the rustic floor... and I especially love the dining room. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Have a happy weekend my friends!




































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Coastal House in Spain

Two brothers inherited a large two story house on the coast of Spain. It had been their childhood home and now that each had their own family, instead of selling it, they decided to split it vertically down the middle and make two homes, one for each family.


Huge windows provide lots of light in the eclectic sitting room. Sea-grass rug.


On the other side of the living room a limestone fireplace with a polished wood mantel adds warmth. I like the little guy resting on a block of wood on the wall.


Instead of the usual console table, a distressed vintage post office filing unit.


Different style Thonet chairs in the dining room.


Black and white diamond and octagon tiles for the kitchen floor.








Soft palette in the master bedroom.




Lots of storage space under these custom made beds. Norman Rockwell prints on the wall. Nice number of pillows for a great pillow fight!

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Guest House in Australia

Heatherlie is a lovely Victorian home in the historic country town of Maldon. Influenced by villas from countryside Italy and France and furnished with pieces collected over years from markets both locally and overseas.



































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Interior Designer Joséphine Ryan

Joséphine Ryan lives between London and the sunny country of Uzès, in France. She has restored an abandoned village house in which she displays her collection of antiques with inspired simplicity.


Opening onto a corner of the garden, the dining room's main features are original such as the reddish clay flooring, wooden beams, and stone fireplace. Distressed Swedish wooden chairs surround the farm style table which was custom made.


The table in the dining room stands on a cream coloured cement tile rug. A 19th century chipped rocking chair in the corner on the right.


These rudimentary stairs lead from the dining room to the living room. Glass topped wrought iron round table. The lamp is made with a dark gray shade mounted on an 18th century architectural element. Church candlesticks found in Montpellier.


The vaulted ceiling in the kitchen was restored. Cupboards and tiled worktop were custom made. Lantern, table and chairs, Joséphine Ryan Antiques.


A former child's toy, two wooden frames and test tubes as flower vases on a rustic table.


Joséphine displays the articles from her shop in the attic.


White walls and rough stones in the guest room. A Moroccan rug covers part of the bed. The stairs leads to the children's room.


In a bathroom corner, mottled pottery from the region is arranged on distressed shelves.


Twin iron beds from a convent in the children's room located above the guest room.

Photos Christophe Rouffio.
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