Get Away to the Country

Here are some rooms from country houses that I particularly like. Just above is a sunroom in the High Falls, New York house of Carol Schuster. The photo is from the December 2007 Elle Decor. I love the natural materials, graphics, and stone floors. The grey room with chandelier is of a French country house appearing in Cote Sud of June-July 2007. The two-story great room is in La Porchiglia, outside Sienna. The beamed bed and beamed sitting room are in the 13th century house of Monique Germain in the Coulommiers Valley of France, with interior design by the firm of Paul Mathieu and Michael Ray. With all these neutrals, the reader would think that my own home is comprised of neutrals too. But such purity is not to be, perhaps owing to my husband, Marius, the artist, who fills our walls with paintings, prints, scrolls and such, all of which add their bit of color to the mix.