The sophisticated classically modern design of Jamie Herzlinger Interiors & The peace-ful rural homes of At Ease Interiors

 

Jamie Herzlinger Interiors is a nationally renowned Interior Design Firm as well as a leading custom home building company, specializing in high end residential, with offices in New York, Scottsdale and Tucson.

Jamie Herzlinger is a designer who blends diverse elements, periods and cultures to create a sophisticated intercontinental environment.

Jamie Herzlinger

Her design style is inviting, yet elegant and luxurious, and above all irresistibly comfortable.

“To me, a home’s aesthetic should draw on diverse influences within a particular style. One’s home should be beautiful, exciting, thought provoking and emotionally accessible.” explains Jamie at her website.

 

I love all of the seats, especially the design of the armchairs, Jamie has chosen for this room.

 

Very classy!

 

Sophisticated!

 

 

Intercontinental environments…

…as you notice here at this kitchen with the French provencal influences.

 

Or in this Italian styled dining room with its gorgeous Italian chairs.

 

 

 

This is one of the houses built by Jamie Herzlinger home building company.

  You really have to go to the renderings page, of Jamie’s website where you will discover some beautiful renderings together with “before and after” images of some of Jamie’s pojects.

 

To visit Jamie’s blog : click HERE.

To see more of Jamie’s gorgeous interiors,

please visit her website by clicking on logo of Jamie Herzlinger Interiors.

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A second designer I want you to meet is the Belgian designer Bieke Pittoors, owner of At Ease Interiors.

At Ease Interiors is a unique concept, that has grown out of Bieke’s hobby to  her true passion : helping her clients to build a house and create a warm, peaceful home where you immediately feel ‘at ease’.

Bieke Pittoors

Bieke creates welcoming and warm rural homes with character.

“My goal is to help to create a warm and nice home, where, after the rush of the day, you can relax in a cozy, homely atmosphere.” explains Bieke at her website.

 

My readers, who are following my blogposts over the last year, will definitely recognize a lof of the characteristics of the Belgian rural design style at these images of Bieke’s work.

So enjoy!

Subdued color palette and Belgian linen upholstered seating.

 

Belgian blue stone floor.

 

  Very peaceful and relaxing atmosphere.

 

Well chosen decorative items.

 

 

Notice these wooden children’s chairs!

 

 

From the first construction or renovation plan or specific to that one decorative object, Bieke is willing to listen to you.

If you wish to invoke Bieke’s services, you are always welcome to visit At Ease Interiors by appointment or contact Bieke HERE.

To discover more of Bieke’s Belgian design style, please visit her website by clicking on logo of At Ease Interiors.

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I hope you enjoyed this post about these fabulous Interior Designers.

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Image source Jamie Herzlinger :  Jamie Herzlinger & http://www.jamieherzlinger.com

Image source At Ease Interiors : http://www.ateaseinteriors.be ; Photo credits : Bieke Claessens

A beautiful Belgian farm house

I love to tell and to show you a lot about Belgian architecture and interior design, so that you all become more and more familiar with it, my dear readers!

Today I am talking about a Belgian farm house, that is one of my all times favorites.

The house is new built but thanks to all the reclaimed materials, the owners brought in, it looks aged and very authentic!

Ingrid Segers and Annemie Coppens, the owners of the building company Porte Bonheur, and even the owners of this house, together with the decorator Natalie Haegeman, have done a wonderful job.

 

The house has a limed façade and the home extension is built with reclaimed oak.

Reclaimed Belgian roof tiles, which we call here  “Boomse pannen”.

 

The use of steel windows and doors are one of the characteristics of Belgian architecture. I wrote about this HERE.

The oak wood home extension.

 

The kitchen dinner corner.

Even the interior of the house has an aged appearance because of the antique and aged furniture the owners and decorator have chosen for. I love it!

 

The architectural plans of the house were designed to match the old doors which the owners bought long ago before the house was built. So as you can see above, the door between the living room and the kitchen is an old stable door.

Morrocan zelliges wall tiles in the kitchen.

 

Love this still, so inviting!

 

Even the exterior as the interior of this house are so charming and cozy, which creates such a familiar atmosphere!

Notice the beautiful pottery on the shelves.

 

Natalie Haegeman, a decorator of Antwerp, ( I wrote a blogpost of Natalie earlier (HERE) ), was asked to create a warm and inviting interior! She did it in an outstanding way, by choosing beautiful aged furniture, carpets and fabrics!

Natalie is also specialized in custom made lampshades. Her website of these remarkable shades will soon be on line HERE. So she took care of the sconces, the floor and table lamps. Sometimes she used old pots that she transformed into beautiful table lamps as the one here on the picture above.

Remarkable are the aged stools, placed around in this house. Very practical if all your friends are coming over!

 

Beautiful combination of the oak table and wicker chair.

Aged oak boards used as flooring.

 

“Although the chosen colors for the interior are held rather subdued, this antique secretary is an eye catcher.” explains Natalie. “It is an antique piece of furniture that is crooked, but it has the perfect look for this house.”

Notice the sconce with one of Natalie’s custom made shades.

 

The red painted sitting corner is in contrast with the neutral tones of the other lime painted rooms. But according to Natalie, a more smaller room as this one, is allowed to have a more pronounced color.

 

Antique bed.

Notice Natalie’s bedlamp.

 

The applied tadelakt technique gives the bathroom a rural and natural look.

 

Well-meant congratulations to Ingrid, Annemie and Natalie with their gorgeous, successful project, which is a wonderful example of the Belgian rural architectural design.

 

I hope you enjoyed this farm house tour of today and I wish you all a wonderful week!

xx

 

 

Architectural design by Porte Bonheur 

Interior design by Natalie Haegeman

Images scanned  Belgian magazine Wonen Landelijke Stijl – oktober-november 2008

Photo credit : Bieke Claessens

Flemish house in Bruges

 

Bruges, the most beautiful city of Belgium and which is called “Venice of the North”, has next to the gorgeous mediaeval houses in the city center, beautiful charming Flemish country houses.

This post is about one of these typical romantic Flemish houses.

Some pictures of the mediaeval part of Bruges.

Bruges ( source unknown-my files)

Bruges (source unknown-my files)

Bruges (source unknown-my files)

Bruges (source unknown-my files)

Bruges (source unknown-my files)

 

The country house in Bruges

The house has a bricked façcade which is, after been totaly cleaned, repainted in white. Charming isn’t it?

 

The entry of the house has an antique oak panelling.

 

The living room is decorated in the old Flemish way with an antique wood carved chimney piece.

The doors of the cabinetry are made of reclaimed elm wood. The doors are washed and waxed.

Reclaimed parquet floor.

 

A pine wooden dining table and French LXV chairs.

Bright painted walls to contrast with the darker wood of the parquet floor and furniture.

You notice that the house is decorated in a more modest way, the decoration is not overdone, which is a characteristic of Flemish interiors. You will always notice some charming objects  ‘objects with a soul’ and a choice for rather simply designed furniture.

 

 

A glazed antique double door towards the kitchen. Belgian blue stone for the kitchen countertops. French “Pierre de Bourgogne” floor.

 

The French Pierre de Bourgogne floor tiles.

 

The painted panelling behind the bed repeats the shape of the windows.

Beautiful chosen bed linen.

 

Behind the reclaimed poplar door is hidden the powder room.

 

The children’s room with Belgian bedlinen and linen slipcovered seats.

 

Table dressed to enjoy having tea in the romantic garden of the house.

 

Reading my earlier posts about Belgian architecture and houses, one of my readers asked me if there are only big houses to see in Belgium?!  Oh no, there are a lot of lovely smaller houses who are so charming and so pleasant to live in.

A house needn’t to be big to be beautiful! Smaller houses can be so much more cozy and warm to live in. Aren’t you agree with me?

I hope that today you learned something more about Belgian design and interiors!

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Image credits : Patrick Smith

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