“Mere color can communicate to the soul in a thousand other ways,” Oscar Wilde as soon as wrote.
Stylist Gillian Lawlee referenced the quote in a put up on her fashionable Instagram account, my.life.in.colour, and should you’re a follower, as I’m, then you realize precisely why she selected it. Gillian is a lover of colour and a believer in its energy to shift and soothe moods, and her account paperwork her joyfully saturated residence and different equally ebullient interiors.
She can be, just like the well-known author, Irish by delivery (“Cork Lady Residing in LA” is how she describes herself in her bio). And so whereas the outside of the small residence she shares along with her husband and two children hews traditional California bungalow, full with a red-tiled roof and arched doorways and home windows, the inside has the distinctive, lived-in look of a country cottage on a coastal cliff. (You’ll be able to nearly hear the wind howling outdoors.)
A whiz at styling (her work expertise contains residence stager for 1000xbetter and visible supervisor for Anthropologie and Nicky Kehoe), Gillian has the uncommon refined sensibility that isn’t color-shy. However what I notably admire is her anti-trendiness. Usually occasions I can scan a room and “supply” a minimum of a couple of items. In Gillian’s residence, practically all the things is classic and nearly nothing is instantly recognizable.
“I believe that there’s magnificence to be present in nearly any aesthetic. However the factor that I don’t love about ‘fashionable’ traits usually is the sense of a manufactured aesthetic. With social media, Pinterest, and massive model shops which have gotten a lot savvier, it’s very simple to tug collectively an area that appears good on the floor however lacks soul,” she says. “I’m all in regards to the feeling of an area and the perspective of its proprietor, but when a house is a catalog of prime 20 traits from the previous couple of years, it’s type of a turn-off for me.”
Final December, we requested Gillian for her professional recommendations on how you can craft a house that makes use of colour in significant, trend-proof methods. Right here’s what she needed to say:
Images by Gillian Lawlee, courtesy of my.life.in.colour.
Replace: Since we posted on Gillian’s LA home, she relocated to Cork, Eire, along with her husband and youngsters. Keep tuned: we’re wanting wanting ahead to catching a glimpse of her subsequent mission.
1. Activate the sink skirt.
