A Designer’s Historic Connecticut Home Rich in Color and Character l 4K l HOUSE TOUR

Hi Homeworthy, I'm Kate Smith and this is Habibi. Welcome to our house in Connecticut. Come on in. Today we're in Connecticut visiting interior designer Kate Smith at her 1858 Greek Revival home in the heart of the historic village of Farmington. After more than a decade in New York, including a formative chapter at Torrey Birch, Kate returned to her Connecticut roots to raise Originally built in 1858 and reimagined in the 1920s, the home is rich with architectural detail from beautifully preserved millwork to grand fireplaces. This room was something we really fell in love with when we first saw the house, mostly because of the massive fireplace that's in here. I know people love gas fireplaces but I have to say I'm a New England girl at heart and I am a sucker for a wood-burning fireplace and one of the things I think is so remarkable is just truly the scale of it. So just to give you a little reference point here, but I love all the architectural details here. I really just wanted to keep this room a little bit cleaner and more simple so that we could focus on the architecture itself because I think it is so special and so phenomenal. Kate's style is rooted in tradition but energized with bold color, layered pattern, and pieces collected over time. Paris flea market finds, vintage treasures, and meaningful heirlooms all living alongside custom upholstery and playful prints. Designed for real life with kids, dogs, and frequent dinner parties, every room strikes a balance between polished and personal, refined but never too serious. To watch Kate's home tour ad-free, scan the QR code on screen or visit homeworthyplus.com for access to all of our latest episodes ad-free plus exclusive membership perks. You're watching Homeworthy where we believe every home has a story. Hi, I'm Kate Smith. I'm an interior designer and welcome to my home in Farmington, Connecticut. We moved into this home in 2021. I actually originally grew up the next town over in West Hartford, Connecticut. And as a teenager, I swore I would leave this area and move to New York and never look back. And that's exactly what I did when I was younger. And turns out two kids later, it's really nice to move back to your hometown and have family close by. And we've been so fortunate to find just the most welcoming community ever here. What initially drew me to this house is all of the charm to the architecture. We live in the historic district of Farmington in a really small, quaint village. And I love old homes. I just think there's nothing quite like the charm and quirk that you get with an older property. The thing about this home was that while many things were done originally, a lot of renovations had taken place throughout the various decades that their homeowners lived here. So the kitchen had been done in the 1990s and really needed to be completely gutted to both make sense with the architecture of the house and then also for functionality and for use with our young family. Welcome to my foyer. This is a really collected space where we have some cherished pieces of artwork. It's really the heart of the home. So many rooms come off of this. So we're constantly hustling and bustling, walking throughout it. It's also the location of a lot of late night dance parties, either with my children or if dinner parties get a little raucous, this is where we end up for dance parties later on in the evening. But really the space, what feels so special to me, is a lot of the artwork that we've brought in. It's a perfect place to showcase this. Starting here, this is actually a painting of the Hillstead Museum. And as I said, I adore our neighborhood and one of the things I love most about it is that we back up to a phenomenal museum. The Hillstead is a bucolic property and it's actually a historic home as well with one of the most amazing Impressionist art collections. So we feel so grateful to have that there. It has two of Monet's haystacks, which is one of the only museums, I believe, in the country that has two of them. And so last year, a really fun thing that they did on property was building real life haystacks on the grounds themselves. This painting was done by a wonderful artist, Christian Breknoff, and it was capturing what it looked like when we had the haystacks on the property and then the house itself. I love the movement in it. I love the color in it. I love how it brings out all of the yellows in this space and some fun pops of green as well. So I feel really grateful to have a piece of Christian's hanging in our home and just adore it. It makes me happy every day when I walk into the house. Then moving on to some other collected pieces that we have. I have all of my children's pictures here, but what I really love in this space is this vintage Goyard trunk. This is something that I collected in Old Saybrook at an antique fair. It was something sort of a hidden treasure. I was so happy when I found it. It's been worn and torn over the years, but you can see the original initials, and I actually have all of the travel paperwork from the original owner of the trunk. So I love thinking about the adventures and where this has been and how it's ended up here and just brings a lot of patina, a lot of character, and a lot of wear to this space. I also have a beautiful prayer rug hung here. I'm a huge believer in having original art in a home, and it doesn't always have to mean having paintings. It can be framing something that is really special or important in different ways. This piece actually belonged to my husband's father. It was something that he was gifted when traveling in business in the 80s. So it's a wonderful piece to have in our home and to have all those fond memories with us. One thing I love in a home is bringing in vintage pieces. I never want a home to feel too brand new, especially a home of this era. So I love this vintage rug. I think it really sets the tone for the colors for the space. I love how it's really worn. Again, I don't feel bad having shoes stomping all over it, dancing. I think it just adds a lot of charm and character and interest to the space. This picture right here has actually followed me from every apartment and home that I have ever lived in. It is a picture of me and my husband at prom. Oh my goodness, I should be embarrassed to admit this now. We're about 25 years old, but it's followed us to every home that we've lived in. Again, I just love the pop of color here in this John Rob Shaw frame. I love to bring in fresh flowers whenever I can. I think it really adds a lot of detail and depth to a space. Some more artwork here. I just adore the colors. This is an Eleanor Scott Davis piece. She does some beautiful abstract landscapes, but I really love the scenery of this one. It just feels like a dinner party scene where everything just got set out beautifully and the colors come to life for me. So again, felt such a natural piece to be set in here into our foyer. And then you'll notice throughout the home as we go through, I have a ton of convex mirrors, witch's eyes as they're referred to from others as well. And I just think they add a lot of interest. And again, that like quirk and fun that I like to bring into a home. And now let's head into the living room. Welcome to my living room. So the inspiration for the color palette of this room actually stemmed from this beautiful Gracie panel that we have hanging here. It was a piece that I had purchased years before we bought this house and I had had stashed away. And the moment I saw this living room, I knew it had to go in here and it had to set the color palette for the rest of the space. So I really pulled out a lot of blues and greens and then some fun pops of color as well with this beautiful purple and more ochre color as well. So I love all of the fine details on this. I'm amazed by the craftsmanship that goes into hand painting each of these various elements. I think it's just, it's so impressive. And I think it's lost art in this day and age that we don't necessarily appreciate all of the craftsmanship that goes into things. So I just, I adore this piece and it really set the tone for the rest of the space. As I mentioned, I love to entertain. This is a huge entertaining zone for us as well. We're always having guests come in here. So I keep a bar cart set pretty much at all times so that if someone decides to pop in for a quick drink in the evenings, we're just, we're ready to go. And I think that it keeps the fun vibes going here. I keep some fresh flowers from our garden. These are actually, they grow in our formal garden throughout the springtime. It's a Russian sage. I trim them, they dry out beautifully. And I keep this here all year round. I really love incorporating different textures into a space as well. So while a lot of the home has some more polished finishes, I love bringing in natural woods and wickers. I think that it just adds such an interesting element and I love the sweeps detail of this skirted look as well. This room definitely tends to have a more feminine feel than some of the rest of the house. And so I love matching that to the skirted detail there. I'm certainly never one to shy away from prints and patterns. And so that is something that takes a front stage in this room here. I love these Schumacher Arborvitae print chairs. They're so cozy and comfortable. This is actually where I usually have my morning coffee each day. I'll come in here. It's quiet. Kids aren't in here yet. And I just sit here with my coffee. My dog will usually climb on my lap and I'll get to catch my breath before the day starts. And so it's just, it's lovely lighting here in the morning and I really enjoy cozying up. One of the things, as much as I love to bring in different pieces for my travels, I also really love to work with local brands and local companies as well. And Oomph Home is a Connecticut-based brand that I like to work with quite frequently. I love the lacquer detail. I think nothing beats having true shine. So both my coffee table and my side table there are from Oomph. The team is wonderful to work with. They're so great. And I think that it adds just a perfect hint of color in a space whenever you're needing a little extra pop. I always keep some collected items on my coffee table as well. Some of my favorite art books, some favorite design books, and then pieces for my travels. So these are some beautiful inlay, bone inlay boxes from Lebanon. It was from a trip to Beirut with my family. We went with my extended family. It was such a phenomenal time to be together with them. So I like to keep things around that remind me of my travels that, you know, excite me and make me feel happy when I get to look at them each and every day. I really wanted to set up a conversational seating plan in here so that guests always feel really welcome and that it's open to sitting down, talking with one another, spending time with one another. Our sofa is from Society Social. I just love the window box detail on the back there. We've had it for years and it has held up so well with kids and dogs and all of that. And then I really love mixing together different prints as well. So mixing together block prints and e-cat all together. And as I said before, I like to have fun with design and not take myself too seriously. So a famous Taylor Swift quote here and also very apropos for a house with dogs and kids. Of course, the irony being I also like nice things. So therein lies the challenge. Over here, another piece of artwork that I really adore in our space is this painting that we have above the fireplace. This was a piece that we found in Paris at Les Pouces, the flea market there. And I just instantly fell in love with the colors, particularly this like chartreuse-y color that's going on over here. I think it's just such an interesting shade. I love the crackle detail to it. It's clearly been aged. I'm not sure who it's by, but I just fell in love with it. We bought it. We had not planned to ship anything home at that time. My husband, thankfully, is a wonderful sport and knows how to put up with my shenanigans. And he carried it through the streets of Paris for me as we found a shipper. So he gets extra bonus points for that. And it makes me happy every time I look at it. And I just love the pop of color that it brings in to this space, getting those bold pinks and purples and the chartreuse as well. We have so many new pieces in the space, but I love having some antique pieces as well. I think it's all about layering and all about that balance between them. So we're very lucky that we have a piano that was in my husband's family since the 1920s. I have zero musical talent myself, very sadly, but luckily my children did get some. So they are the ones always having piano lessons in here and practicing. And I'm very grateful to have their skills. Otherwise it would be a useless piano for me. And then again, bringing in other antiques like this secretary desk here. I like to have a little bit of tension in a space. So I never want anything to feel too old or too new. So we have an antique piece here, and then we have some abstract pieces by Casey Hughes. I love the juxtaposition and the tension that that builds between those. I think it makes a space feel more interesting and it doesn't date a space to have the mix between the two. I am attempting to have a green thumb after many years of living in the city. I sadly don't have one by nature, but this room thankfully gets great natural light. And so I'm very grateful to be able to grow a few things in here and then quickly and quietly replace them before they die and move on to the next batch. But at least I can pretend that I have a green thumb in here. Again, having juxtaposition between some older pieces and some newer pieces. I love the wicker detail on these chairs and then these antique plates that bring in just a pop of color, some interest getting the yellow in here. While I like having a set color palette as the main tone, I think it's always important to bring in a few unexpected colors, a few things that just add an element of interest. My personal design style is really rooted in traditional design. I love to pay respect to classics while infusing it with fresh life and modern twists as well. I think it's never too good to be too serious about how you design a home. I like to have fun with it. I like to be a little bit playful and whimsical. My home is very color driven and print driven and very reflective of my personality. I like to take bold choices while at the same time being respectful to the historic nature of the home. I actually started my career in New York City in the fashion industry where I worked for over a decade. The majority of that time was at Tory Burch, which was a wonderful learning experience. I started when the company was so very small and we grew exponentially throughout my tenure there. It was a really wonderful opportunity to get hands-on experience in so many different areas. While I was there, I started working with the store planning teams for our various retail partners. We'd put together shop-in-shop environments. I got to work with different architects and different team members on creating these retail spaces. I fell in love with interior design at that moment and decided it was more of a passion project at that time. I started doing smaller projects for friends and family and it really grew and exploded from there. I founded my own business, Kate Smith Interiors, 10 years ago and have been growing and thriving ever since. On our way into the TV room, I'll show you two different spaces. One thing that I think is really important in a home is to think about transitions, how one space flows into the next, and to also really be mindful of small spaces because I think small spaces can sometimes have the biggest impact in a home and I think they often get overlooked as well. In the small vestibule here, we just added this marbleized paper. I love how it has sort of the feel of an Italian book jacket and I think that it really flows nicely going from the vestibule space into the TV room itself. Then we have our small powder room down here as well, which I think really feels like the inside of a Lotteria macaroon. I just love the colors of it. I love this robin's egg blue. Another favorite piece of mine from Les Pouces in Paris is this beautiful floral pot. It's actually made by a brand in the Netherlands called Depo or Depot, probably mispronouncing it, but I just love the handmade nature of it and the texture to it and I think it's important to put special pieces in unexpected places and while a powder room and a bathroom might not be the most glamorous space, I think that we can always work to make everyday utilitarian spaces feel more special and more interesting. So I love the idea of bringing in special pieces there as well as some original artwork because every room in the house deserves artwork, even the bathroom. But heading out here, a room that we use probably the most of any others is our TV room. I guess you could call it a den but it's truly functional as a TV room. It is where my two kids and I and my husband and our dog just cuddle up and watch shows, hang out, spend time together, laugh, read, live our lives from day to day. So I really didn't want to focus on making this space too busy in any way so we just focused on having one giant sectional that we could all curl up on together and it works out really well. Everyone gets their own space and we can be cozy. As you've probably guessed by now, I love print. I love color. This is a quadrille wallpaper called the Persopolis print and I have adored this paper for years and years and years. We had a version of this in our previous house. I had to bring it in here again. I was so sad to leave it and so this really is the perfect place to ground it. As I said, artwork belongs in every space and sometimes that means like a high-end artwork and sometimes it means more fun and playful pieces as well. These were two pieces I picked up at a tag sale about 10 years ago. I just adore this camel. He's making the funniest expression ever. I love how it sort of feels like a menagerie in here with all the different animals. We have our elephant stool as well so I think it's just a really fun and playful way to bring in some interesting elements into a space with kids. And while the wallpaper in this room is sort of just two tones with the blue and white, I really wanted to bring in some additional color into the space as well so really brought in some additional patterns. I love this Pierre Frey pattern here. Getting in some of these different reds and blues and different tonality throughout the space I think keeps it really interesting and keeps things from feeling too one-dimensional. And of course always bringing in pups of color with plants as well. Still working on that green thumb. We'll see. And then back here again interesting pieces from different travels. This was actually my mother-in-law's that we got but I love the detail to it to the brass lamp there. And then my ever-growing book collection which I think I am constantly collecting coffee table books and reading through them and it's just a great way to add texture to a space, to add color to a space, and then also to see more of the world. My son, he's so cute, who's in third grade right now, he will always tell me, Mom, books can be either doors or windows. They can either reflect back or take you into a new place. And so I love that take on it and I love getting to see the world through different books. The constant debate in design is whether to hide the TV or not. And some people are firm believers one way or another. For me it's really a space-by-space decision that I make. There's plenty of rooms that will work on really creative solutions for hiding it. Because this room is focused on being a TV room, I'm perfectly fine with it being out. I always want to ground a TV in a space. I hate when there's just a floating box and there's nothing underneath it. That drives me bonkers. So a really beautiful grass cloth piece here from Villa and Home that really grounds the space. And so this room is really a very livable space. We spend so much time in here. It's right off of our library, which is where we have another fireplace as well. So we're constantly in the wintertime when it's cold, closing the doors between these two spaces, putting on a roaring fire, and living between these two rooms and staying cozy. I really feel the most inspired by all of my different travels. I love to explore, I love to go to new places, and I love to pull in different pieces from all of the cultures that I visit. I think that there's nothing more inspirational than getting on an airplane and waking up in a totally new destination. So a lot of the things in my home have been found and collected over the years on different places throughout our travels, as well as curated to work around that for the style and period of our home as well. Entertaining is a huge driving force of this home. I love to host holidays. I love to host dinner parties. I love to have a full house. Nothing gives me more joy. When we first found this house, it was in January 2021, when the world was still recovering from lockdown. Everyone was starved for attention and for human connection. And so the moment we saw this house and realized how perfect it was for entertaining, I just instantly wanted to grab it because I was so craving human connection. And my favorite thing about this home is when it's filled with our friends and family. And we're really fortunate we're able to do that quite often. Our house is a Greek Revival style. It was originally built in 1858, but what's really unique about the property is it underwent an entire renovation in the 1920s. The family at the time brought an architect, Eric Rossiter, and it actually changed the entire structure of the house altogether. So we have a couple of quirks that have left over from that. You'll notice we have two front doors as we're walking through, but the entire style of the house changed to Greek Revival at that point. So there isn't a lot that's left around from the original 1858 style, but besides the footprint itself. It is a more traditional style home just because of the period, but we really wanted to make it work for our family. I have two young kids. We have a dog. We really live in our house in every sense of the word possible. And so while the home itself has a bit of a formal feel to it, we wanted to make it extremely livable. Nothing is off limits. We have dogs and kids and friends and everyone running through each space at all times. And I really wanted to make it layered and livable for our whole family. And next let's head on into the dining room. So as I mentioned before, I adore entertaining. I love having dinner parties and hosting holidays. And this is a huge hub for that. This room was something we really fell in love with when we first saw the house, mostly because of the massive fireplace that's in here. I know people love gas fireplaces, but I have to say I'm a New England girl at heart and I am a sucker for a wood-burning fireplace. And one of the things I think is so remarkable is just truly the scale of it. So just to give you a little reference point here, it's just a magnificently spaced, our dog loves to just curl up by the fire and cozy up and get warm all winter long here because Connecticut winters are brutal. But I love all the architectural details here. I really just wanted to keep this room a little bit cleaner and more simple so that we could focus on the architecture itself, because I think it is so special and so phenomenal. I do have my ginger jar collection here. A lot of times with collected pieces, I love to keep them together and focus them into one space. I think it makes it feel so much more impactful and really makes a bold statement when you're in a space and you have everything all together at once. And it really draws your eye up to the beautiful arch and just to this phenomenal space here. So anytime it is below 60 degrees, I have this fire going basically. It's something that we have going all year round. So I love that. We have a giant dining room table here, extra wide. We love to pack in guests whenever we're entertaining. This tablecloth is by a London-based brand, Summerhill and Bishop. I just adore the details to it and the different colors. And this is something we're able to swap out throughout the year and give different feels and different interests as the year goes on. And then, of course, florals always being important. One thing that I love, even when I don't have florals in season, are these candlesticks here. They're a white plaster detail with all of the floral looks so that even when we don't have fresh flowers, it still feels like we have fresh flowers all year round. And so they are a constant on our table as well. We have a mirror on this wall with some marbleized paper. This was actually sort of a homemade project that my daughter and I did together. So again, I think it's really fun to mix together highs and lows and have some interest with pieces that are sourced for a space and then putting a little bit of your own self into a home as well. We have double chandeliers above the dining room table. I love having the very open look of the glass here because we do have so much light in this room with the windows and doors on both sides. I didn't want anything to feel too heavy. When we first moved into the house, there were dark black fixtures everywhere and it just felt so, so, so very heavy. So I love having the lightness of that here as we can have a light flow between the two spaces. In the warmer months, we have this door open. We can entertain inside and out, which really gives us some nice flow. So yeah, this is our dining room. Right up the dining room is the kitchen and it has sort of a unique footprint. And when we renovated this space, we took everything down to the studs, but we decided to keep the footprint of the space itself. One of the reasons being, as I mentioned, we live in the historic district. There's a lot of red tape around extending the size of the house out and changing any of the architectural details with the windows. So we had a few built-in constraints, but I think sometimes when you're constrained in a space, it forces you to be more creative. And I love the solutions that you can come up with when you're in that situation. And I think this kitchen is a perfect example of that. So what we did was we really created three zones to the whole space. One being mainly for cooking, tends to be my domain. I love to cook. One being mainly for cleaning. That's my husband's domain. I would happily never wash a dish in my entire life. And then one being where we come together and eat and enjoy things as a family. Because this part of the kitchen is right off the dining room, I wanted to make sure we had a ton of entertaining things at our fingertips at all times. I love the brass detail that we have here. It's an Armach Matan screen detail. And this is where we keep all our glassware so that we can very easily, while entertaining, grab a glass of wine, pour one for the host, pour one for our guests, and entertain off of this space here. So this is our main cleaning zone, so to speak. One thing that I think is really important when looking into redesigning a kitchen is making sure that you're keeping in mind all of your functional needs for the space. Because of course you want it to look beautiful, but it needs to function for your life as well. And because I love to have a full house, having two dishwashers is one of the most important things that we've decided. So we can always keep things running. We have one here and one here. And between kids and guests and everything, I think that it is a really necessary feature to have in a space. I wanted to keep classic white cabinetry throughout the space. But I think a lot of times when you are dealing with a white kitchen, it can sometimes feel very sterile. And I certainly did not want that feel in this house. It just didn't work with the rest of the home. So I wanted to bring in a lot of warm tones as well. So we decided to do a very interesting patterned floor, a harlequin pattern, which really it seems appropriate to the age of the house. If you look back on period homes from a hundred years ago, you will see similar details on the floors there. And so I think it was a really natural fit to make this space feel more in line with the age of the rest of the home. I also wanted to add in warmth with different materials that we used. So while having marble countertops in the perimeter of the kitchen was a great choice for us, I love the warmth of wood and I think nothing compares to it. So I really wanted a walnut countertop for our island here. I just think I love the warmth of it. I love a natural wood grain. I think it adds such an interesting element to a space and it adds a lot of detail to it. So this was an important sticking point for me, and I just love how the walnut looks in this space. Another way that I really wanted to make the space feel more interesting than just a classic white kitchen was to bring in some color as well. So this was actually the first item that I picked out for the kitchen. It's the La Cornue range, and I adore this color. It's sort of a periwinkle blue, and I think it's just such a classic. I love how the brass is patinaed on each of the different pieces, and I have to say it's a real workhorse. I do truly love to cook, and we have hosted, you know, usually for holidays we'll have 30 guests in the house, and it works so well at turning out huge meals. So it's been a great workhorse here that I absolutely adore. I kept the backsplash a little bit more simple, going with more of a classic tile, but I love this pearlescence finish. The way that it shines in different lights is so interesting and really shows off the texture and shows different colors in different lights throughout the day. So I think even though it's simple in nature, it evolves and adds depth and texture in a really understated way. As I mentioned before, I love working with local Connecticut brands. Dunes and Duchess is another brand that I adore, and they made these gorgeous turned sconces here. I love their woodwork. Again, there's nothing like bringing in some warmth and some natural elements. And then for the hood, I really wanted something that could balance off what a powerful force the range was, but without competing with it. And so I worked with Coppersmith on creating and designing this hood here in this more matte brass, and I just adore how it feels scale-wise to the range without competing with it in any way, shape, or form. One of the most important things for this space was building in a lot of functional storage as well. And so we have some hidden spaces here, bringing more walnut in as well, and then giving us easy access to our day-to-day appliances that we use on a regular basis, getting them off the counters, out of the way, but still super functional and able to grab them at a moment's notice. My cookbook collection. Ina Garden would be my spiritual leader if she agreed to be. I adore her so much. These are probably the cookbooks that I turn to time and time again, but just a great collection here of my go-to recipes. And again, it's a used space. It's something that we're using each and every day. And so wanting to make sure that I can grab each of the pieces that are important to me. In addition to having the sort of cleaning station over there, I needed to have a sink in our cooking zone over here. Instead of just doing a prep sink, I wanted a slightly larger prep sink in this. And that has worked so functionally for me because when we're entertaining, I can sort of be in this zone, block everyone else off onto that side. And it's a really great use of the space. I wanted to hide the more modern looking appliances. Again, wanted this to fit with the age of the house and feel more age appropriate. And so we did do panel covered appliances for the things that would be more modern. So functional. So great to have these giant, giant panels here, but also great to hide them away. And then going into the third and final zone, our breakfast nook. And we've got a little sleeping guy. I think Habibi has been following us around this entire tour. This is his favorite zone to spend time in. He is on this banquette each and every day. Hence why the blanket is down. This blanket lives here now because this has become a dog banquette. But it is his favorite space. I love how cozy and tight this space feels when we come together as a family at nighttime to eat in here. This is really our go-to spot. As I mentioned before, I really love juxtaposition between some different style pieces. So the wallpaper in this room is by Leigh Joffa. And I adore the floral motif, getting this tree of life detail. And then wanted to bring in some more modern abstract art as well. This is by local Connecticut artist Linda Coletta. And I just love how it brings out the blues and the deep colors while feeling very different with the more brushstroke feel versus the more traditional wallpaper detail here. Lighting is like the jewelry of any space. So always very important. I love this visual comfort light here and just the perfect little diminutive size for our small table. And then as I mentioned before, I like to keep collections together. And this was actually the only piece of the original kitchen that we kept. It was not part of the 90s renovation. And so we fixed it up to match the rest of the kitchen. But I really wanted to keep this hutch here, this original hutch. And inside it, I keep all of my cabbage ware, which we're using really all spring and summer long. And I love just having it at an easy arm's reach. I feel like it's both artwork and practical at the same time. So really special to have easy access to that as well. What I love most about this home is actually a bit of a surprise when we moved here. I love the community that we're in so very much. We are surrounded by the best friends and neighbors. I really just feel like we lucked out beyond belief, finding our little village here in the actual Farmington Village. Now let's head upstairs to the primary bedroom. So welcome to our primary bedroom. If any of you are from the MTV Cribs era, you know what I'm fighting the urge to say right now, but I will restrain myself. This bedroom here, I wanted to feel very serene and very relaxed. And to me, print and pattern is serene and relaxed. So we brought in a lot of interesting prints into this space. It also feels a little bit more feminine and calming. And I just adore being cozied up in here. The most important pattern that we brought into the space is on these bed panels. I didn't want to overdo it with the fabric width. I wanted to keep them a little bit cleaner and airier so you're not fully locked into the space, but I adore this fabric. It was actually something that I found at the Arezzo Antique Fair. There was just a bolt of fabric sitting on the ground. I peeked into this little piece of it and all of a sudden pounced on it. I was so excited. I just adore the colors in here. And it is a discontinued pattern from decades ago. So I was happy to grab every last piece of it that I could from the vendor. And this was really the jumping off point for the colors in this space. I love this like ochre color that's mixed in here, and I love these soft blues and purples as well, as well as the deeper greens. So every print and pattern in this room really pulls from this as our hero. Nightstand, I always have some interesting botanical pieces. We have lots of them throughout the house. Again, artwork doesn't have to be all, you know, it can be a mix of high-low and I like to register that in different spaces as well. And then an original painting that we have here of these beautiful florals, again, just really tied back to the colors that we have in this space. I like to have a little sitting area, sit with a cup of coffee, read a book, relax. It just feels very serene to be able to sit in here as well. We have a lot of traditional elements in this space, but I wanted to ground it with this anti-silky rug in a more neutral color way, just to keep it from feeling too overly formal. And I didn't want to date the space in any way, shape or form. So although we have the four-poster bed, a little bit more traditional, bringing it into a more relaxed detail with a jute rug here and getting again that tension between the two, which I think keeps design interesting. This was actually a vintage piece that I had found. It was originally in a really dated brown wood and I had this painted out in this beautiful blue color. Love how it sort of pops against the lighter blue of the back here. And it also ties into our window treatments. This is a sister parish fabric. I did a relaxed Roman on top and then these really functional woven shades underneath. Woven shades are something I have really throughout the house. I think it's such a functional piece. And then you can really layer upon it with additional fabrics and colors and prints from there. Again, I think seating is important in a bedroom. So in addition to that little seating area over here, we have this sweet little diminutive settee. And I just love sort of this image here going from the settee into the bed and feeling like you can be a cozy window box into the bed there. I am a sucker for a cup of coffee in bed in the morning and that is my favorite luxury in the world is to just get to sit with that. So this is the space that I relax and I'm able to do that. Once again, trying to mix together some antique pieces and then some modern pieces as well. So this was a family heirloom of my husband's that we brought into the space and then juxtaposed with this beautiful abstract art by, again, Connecticut local artist Linda Coletta. I love the colors in this. I love the feeling it gives me when I look at it. I think art should give you a feeling. If you're not feeling anything when you're looking at the art you have, it's not right. You want things that are original and messy and interesting and make you feel things. So I adore this. The painting that we have above the secretary here is a sketch actually that we had bought again in Paris at Les Pouces. It is a reclining nude. My daughter, when she was younger and we first brought it home, was appalled that we had a nude woman in our room. She would refer to it as our nudie and it felt like we had hustler magazines all over the place is how she referenced it. So I think it's quite tasteful but I guess when you're a child, not always. Some great floral details here with this paper flower. So as much as I love to bring fresh flowers into a space, making sure that it always feels like you have flowers all year round as well. So this is by The Green Vase. And then again, my collection of books just always continuing to grow. What I love about this house is that we have a window seat that overlooks the portico of our front house. Again, mixing together patterns, really not necessarily that they feel together but it all works when you look at them combined. So I love having the interesting element of the block print on the window seat. And then again, this beautiful sister parish fabric on the windows. And this bedroom leads directly into our dressing room. As I mentioned, living in New York City for so many years, one of the things I fell in love with in this house was storage because it was utterly lacking for us for my entire early adulthood life, living from apartment to apartment. And so the idea of having a dressing room and having proper storage for all of our clothing just felt spectacular. So I love that it flows into the space. The space is still light and bright and airy like the rest of the room. And I think that it's a fun way to bring in some additional personal items. So I love the leopard carpet that we have here. Actually my shoes are sort of camouflaging into them right now. And then some more personal pieces as well. So a picture of my husband and I when I first found out I was pregnant with my daughter 11 years ago. And then some original artwork that we found as well. This chair I love. I actually had it in a show house a couple months ago. It's by Charland England by Louise Rowe. I just think this daisy detail on the chair is just so absolutely gorgeous. And then my daughter very sweetly gifted me this pillow, my Luke's pillow. I'm not sure if any of you are Gilmore Girls fans, but as a native it's close and dear to my heart. So it always makes me smile every time I look at that. And again, don't take yourself too seriously. It's fun to have those sentimental pieces from family members mixed in. In addition to the closet space, I love this wardrobe here. It was a vintage piece that I found years ago and has followed me from house to house. Brought in some of my own block print fabric to line the window panes with. And I just think that it's a really interesting way to bring some florals in with the leopard and really show a lot of personality in the space. So love having storage, love having all of the built-in space, and that's my dressing room. Home to me means being with friends and family. There's nothing I love more than snuggling up on the sofa at the end of a long week with my kids, popping some popcorn, putting on a movie, and just being together. And I really wanted to create a space where we all feel comfortable doing that. Thanks so much for coming to tour my home with me, Homeworthy. This was great, but I've got to take this guy for a walk, so you guys have got to leave. Bye! Thanks for watching. Be sure to go to homeworthy.com for exclusive content, shopping guides, and so much more.