making a house to home: mixing country and contemporary

A little while ago I presented the first room of the original House of Anais – the master bedroom which currently serves more or less as the twins bedroom and combined play area. And now our introduction continues: today it’s all about the dining room and living room. They are separate rooms, but as the shelves are open and there is no door, the rooms sort of blend into one, which also makes the house appear larger and airier.

The style of the house is not that strictly defined – there are elements of country style with oak coloured furniture and floral patterns, yet at the same time there is a lot of modern mixed into it: especially with the lighting and those cream leather sofas. This house certainly has been done with the less-is-more-philosophy, which means that it’s extremely easy to keep clean and in good order (I didn’t need to do any cleaning for the pictures other than move my laptop and coffee mug from the dining table – aka my home office).

On the other hand the reason why there is so little stuff in common areas (kids rooms are filled to the hilt with toys and could be cleaned with a nice donation spree to the thrift shop, at least that’s what I think) is because there isn’t that much space and I simply haven’t opened most of the boxes yet!

The living room is definitely the best room of the house. The shape of the room isn’t perfect for it’s rather narrow, but this room is all about natural lights and the views! That green, lush countryside all around: looking at it is the most calming thing I can think of (besides the sea of course). That is the everyday luxury country living gives you, and rain or shine it’s still amazing.

And the garden gives you so much -more  just look at the lovely bunch of flowers that our kids picked from the garden, their flower for the mom from their heart. Aww is all I can say!

{You might have also noticed that there is no TV in the house: England now has digital TV system and one needs special equipment for that and our receiver was in some box behind 200 other boxes. But TV has also been removed because our son tested their new rounders bat (sort of English version of baseball for girls, as buys play cricket) and he broke the screen. I am happy to report that no-one has been asking for a new TV as there is so much to do outside until dinner-time every day!}