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WHEN DESIGNER MELODY DURON DECIDED TO MOVE INTO HER RUSTIC WEEKEND HOME FULL TIME, CLEVER UPGRADES GAVE IT THE COMFORT SHE CRAVED.
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CALL IT FATE. Designer Melody Duron and her husband, Bill, were planning to downsize to a smaller house in Toronto five years ago but,thanks to a hot realestate market,they sold quickly and suddenly found themselves without a home. “It all happened so fast!” she says. With their belongings in storage, they decamped to their weekend retreatin the hills of Mulmur, Ont., to plan their next move. Dubbed Lyric Pond,the 44-hectare property comprises wooded trails, five ponds, rolling fields and a country home that’s so remarkable,this is the third time H&H has photographed it. The first was for the November 1997...
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PLAYING AGAINST TYPE
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here was a time in my life when all I desired was an entirely white home — white floors, white walls, white furniture, even books sheathed in sleeves of white paper. It was an aesthetic I’d seen successfully carried out in magazines by artistic homeowners often living in New York City lofts with soaring factory windows. When we bought our first house in Toronto, we decided to live in the space for a few months before taking on a major renovation. The walls were a deep burgundy and the floors were a dark-stained, cheap parquet. Prior to moving in, I...
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ALL IS CALM
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Kim Dawson worked tirelessly to turn a garish property into a serene home, ideal for a Scandi-style Christmas. When Kim Dawson first viewed a handsome Edwardian house in her dream location, she was unfazed by the multicoloured, dated interior, realising that with vision and determination, it could be totally transformed – just in time for Christmas. ‘I’m sure many people would have been put off by the riot of colour that confronted me when I walked in,’ says Kim. ‘The house was completely over the top, decorated in all colours of the rainbow dominated by yellows, reds and purples.’ Despite this...
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Dream Weaver
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THE HOMESPUN BEAUTY AND HISTORY OF ANTIQUE FRENCH LINENS CHARMED THIS VERMONT HOMEOWNER, WHO USED THEM TO CRAFT HER HOME’S UNIQUE DECOR—AND HER HER LIVELIHOOD. WHEN WENDY LEWIS HAD HER SON, ETHAN, AND 18 months later her daughter, Innogen, she was overcome with such a profound feeling of love that she vowed to surround them with beauty and history. But the photographer and amateur genealogist didn’t know precisely how she would express her love tangibly until she pulled a piece of 18th-century printed cotton from a pile of textiles at an antiques store in the French countryside. “It was as...
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BECOMING HOME
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A cramped and crumbling 1840s English cottage bursts back to life once it falls into the right hands. AT ONE POINT IN TIME, THIS COTTAGE housed factory workers. At another, squatters staked a claim to the abandoned structure. When Justin Capp bought it in 1998, it was the home of a 102-year-old opera singer. Justin, a chef and leather artist, easily recounts the history of the house—he grew up next door to it in a Northamptonshire County village in the United Kingdom. “I’m a local lad so I knew the place all my life,” he says. “When it came up...
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