Entryways and staircases - basics that should not be ignored

Staircases and entryways are something most of us have in our homes yet so many people overlook them when decorating their home. If you are one of them, or are just bored with yours, hopefully you'll find some inspiration below...

Okay, so really I just love the dog bringing the watering can...so cute!!

It must be so wonderful to open the door at the end of the day to this large, sparse entry.


The wall paper is a bit much for me, but the architecture of the stairs is beautiful, and the painted underside is interesting as well



I like over-sized round tables in foyers.

What do you think?
via Eric Roth Photography

Stunning interior photography from Dan Duchars

I think these photos speak for themselves...

I love the color on the walls, but I don't know if I'd ever have the guts to use it on a wall...maybe I'd test it out in a bathroom or hall...have you used a color this bold?

...soooo pretty




What do you think of these?


All photography property of Dan Duchars

Interior Designer Nancy Taylor's Home

Today we'll visit Nancy Taylor's 18th-century Rhode Island farmhouse. Warm and welcoming rooms filled with antiques and reclaimed wood. And to top it off a magnificent garden.

The dressing room includes a vintage chaise as well as a 19th-century English vanity and pieces from Nancy's collection of pokerware. These boxes are decorated with an Arts and Crafts-era technique in which designs were burned into wood, as if with the tip of a red-hot fireplace poker. Pink lusterware brightens the green-vined wallpaper.


The furnishings and accents include '40s French leather armchairs, a framed batik print from Bali, and a flat-weave Peruvian rug. I hesitated before including this photograph because I don't like animals' heads on the walls (nor anywhere else!) but well, other people do. Do you?


The dining area in the kitchen, includes toile-covered banquettes, Indonesian chairs, and a custom English cherrywood table.


Potting area. Enameled-tin graniteware outfits the potting area, which centers around a salvaged soapstone sink.


The master bath features a claw-foot tub that came with the house and a white-painted 19th-century English spool chair with an upholstered seat and arms.


The stairwell was lined with hand-hewn planks from the oldest part of the house. "These are the boards that were carved from the oak trees on the land in 1776," she says. "I left them unpainted, so when I touch the boards I am touching the same wood those colonial farmers touched." She uses the stairwell, which is surrounded by the house's original banister, as an area to display her family photos


In the master bedroom a c. 1840 mahogany Empire-style bed, a late-19th-century mirrored oak chest. A hand-crocheted bedspread, rag rug, and beadboard walls offset the dark wood furniture and ceiling.


Front porch opens to a gorgeous garden.

Images and information from Country Living

Interior Designer Helen Green

Today let us enjoy the work of UK based interior designer Helen Green. A look that is lean, clean and classic yet seductive and inviting. The palette is subdued, with rich, understated fabrics reflecting in polished surfaces, recalling the sleek glamour of the thirties; hushed, pristine and relaxed.

Hope you like my selection of rooms.

















































For more photographs visit her website right here.

Photographer Mark Darley.

Photographer Mark Darley was born in Hampshire, Great Britain. He graduated from Radley College, Oxfordshire, and later studied law at Reading University in the UK. This was followed by a life-changing two and a half year voyage, circumnavigating the globe under sail.

He then moved to New York City and studied photography and design at the Parsons School of Design. Within three years of arriving in America he had launched his career, specializing in interior and architectural photography. Mark moved to the San Francisco area from New York in 1989 and has continued to work on assignment from both East and West Coasts and internationally.

Mark Darley's images have appeared in A+U, Architectural Digest, Architectural Record, Architektur & Wohnen, Art & Antiques, Ambiente, Australian Vogue, Casa Vogue, Dwell, Elle Decor, House and Garden, House Beautiful, Interiors, Interior Design, Maison et Jardin, Metropolitan Home, Smithsonian, Traveler, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, Western Interiors and Design and many others.





Was this done on purpose? Look closely and you will know what I mean!





























All images and information from his site right here.