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- Hi guys, welcome welcome to Whisky Ridge.
I'm Joyann King, editor of harpersbazaar.com, come on in.
This house actually has a really interesting story,
it was built in the late 80's, but it is made from
the parts of three 1850's colonial homes.
So the authentic wood floors,
the windows, the doors, a lot of like the charm
that you feel throughout the house
all dates back to the 1850's.
I'm gonna take you into our formal living room first.
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This has got to be one of my favorite rooms
from a design perspective.
I love that it's got this just beautiful
white and black palate.
However, I will say practically, we don't spend
a lot of time in here because you don't want to
get red wine all over these couches.
My husband and I are really into photography
and this is a photograph by Edward Burtynsky
that we bought right after we met
and I love the way that it sort of picks up
a lot of the hues in the room
and it looks like sort of like an abstract painting
but it's actually a photograph of
a bunch of oil lands in Texas.
These are my favorite chairs in the house.
I found them at Brimfield Flea Market
with a friend right after we had
bought the house four years ago.
But they were deemed un-sittable by my husband,
so they've been relinquished to a corner
just to be viewed and not sat upon.
And they just really have that kind of
county glam vibe that I love.
This is where we spend all of our time,
on the side porch overlooking these beautiful rolling hills.
And these two Adirondack chairs actually
are really special to me,
we picked them up on the side of the road
for like 20 bucks each, the day after we bought this house.
And it's actually where Jeremy proposed to me,
so it's very sentimental.
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So this is our sunroom,
and the room where I had a lot of fun with color.
I love, as a fashion editor, I love prints,
so I love my rainbow ekat pillows, my butterfly pillow.
This is where my Goldendoodle Isla likes to watch
for her squirrels and her birds, am I right, yes.
We have this really beautiful ceiling moment in here
that kind of threw us for a design loop
when we first moved in, we weren't sure if we should
paint it white or make it look a little bit more sleek.
But ultimately we ended up leaving it exactly as it was
and juxtaposing this antler chandelier to kind of
give it a little bit of that modern touch
that we're looking for.
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So instead of doing another dining room,
we were like, we don't need four kitchen tables,
we decided to make a bar room where we could
put our feet up, watch TV, read a book, enjoy the view.
And what's cool about this room actually
is the artwork in it.
My husband's uncle is a relatively famous wildlife artist
and all of these are his paintings which are so beautiful.
And so I sort of took a cue from Pinterest
and put them all into this sort of
statement gallery wall where we can enjoy them all together.
These leather chairs are from Restoration Hardware.
They're supposed to look like they're from
Paris in the 1850's but they're not.
We give them a lot of love, we let our dog sit in them,
we spend a lot of hours in here,
so they're been very good to us.
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This is our dining room that we
renovated two years after buying the house.
We replaced some of the small windows
with these huge picturesque windows
so that we could really enjoy the view.
We got this really beautiful, handmade dining room table
actually from a local woodworker in Rhinebeck.
I love the brass inlays,
sort of back to my country glam style.
These Biedermeier candles are actually like sort of famous
in the design world, and I borrowed them for
my tabletop during my wedding,
and I was so obsessed with them
that I begged my husband for our first anniversary
to buy them for me so that I could have them forever.
The kitchen is where we spend all of our time.
We actually gut renovated it two years ago
because it's where everybody gathers the entire weekend.
I love these French bistro dining chairs
that just remind me of an evening in Paris.
And I really wanted the lighting to have a nod
to rustic modern throughout the rest of the house.
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This is our master bedroom.
I mentioned before that I love prints
and I this is sort of like a culmination of my obsession.
I think the trick with working with lots of different
fabrics is to really stick to a color palate.
So in here it's really about the black and the cream
and then this sort of burst of burnt orange.
And if you stick to that you can kind of have
a lot of variety in the prints that you choose.
This is such a sexy chair,
and it's called a papa bear chair.
We recovered it in kind of this cozy, modern,
light gray flannel and it's one of my favorite places
to kick my feet up and read a book.
This is my daughter Sienna's nursery.
She's 10 months old, so we just did this room
and I did this very mural, whimsical, wallpaper
on all four walls that really sparks the imagination.
Every time I put her into her crib,
a Restoration Hardware baby find that's like my favorite,
she's just always staring at the wallpaper
and is totally entranced.
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And welcome to my bathroom.
This is where I come to relax and just take some me time.
My husband and I have his and her bathrooms
which at first I was like really, you don't want
to share a bathroom with me?
But now I totally get it, his is very masculine
and clean and I really wanted to go super girly in here
with a lot of green and pinks and florals.
These are a little bit of boho glam chandeliers,
they're made of like white beads.
They have a bit of a 70's disco vibe,
or maybe Paris in the 30's.
And I cannot remember where I found them,
it must have been on some deep eBay dive.
But I think they really bring the room together.
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So now we're on the third floor,
which has some of my favorite rooms.
All of my friends fight over the black and white toile room
when they come to stay with us.
The third floor had pretty low ceilings
and I knew I wanted to do something that
was like very graphically impactful.
So I really looked for like statement wallpaper
that could cover all the walls and all of the ceiling.
This is actually one of my favorite pieces in the room.
It's a vintage trunk that I found
at the Paris flea market in between fashion shows
the September after we moved into the house.
So it's a really special piece for me,
and I just feel like it has that very historical vibe
that I was going for up here.
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I feel like a four poster bed is a must
in like a country house.
I found this on sale, I was so worried when it got delivered
but it ended up being one of our
like favorite beds in the house.
I love this room, I call it the star room
because of the wallpaper.
And we've got a little red theme going on.
My husband and I had just gotten engaged
when we moved into this house, so we each brought
all of these like random knickknacks and sort of
sentimental things to the mix,
so I've been trying to find a place for all of them.
I love dogs, and my first dog actually was
a King Charles Cavalier and they make these amazing
collectable statues, they're actually really hard to find,
and my mom gave me one of these for Christmas
and I just love the little pop of orange in the corner.
And lastly this is our pool and our side porch
where we hang out and go swimming with Sienna
and have friends over and do pool parties.
And this is where our Goldendoodle likes to swim
all summer long, and I like to sort of stay out of the sun
and just hang out on the couch reading and napping
with my daughter and just sort of
enjoying being out in nature.
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Thanks for coming home with me.