This LaGrange Park home is an historic victorian lovingly restored by it's owners over the last 25 years or so. This home has been through many renovations and redo's including stripping the paint off of all of it's interior moldings to reveal its original oak, redesigning the kitchen to have modern conveniences but hold onto it's old world charm, updating bathrooms, screening in porches and most recently lighting up the colors used in it's formal living room.
About 20 years ago these folks called me in to choose colors and fabrics for a first go around at pulling their first floor together-kitchen, dining room, living room and family room. At the time, 1990 or so, the couple had two small boys and green leather sectionals in their family room and a collection of family antiques in the living room and dining room. We went with the very popular color scheme of the early nineties-greens and burgundies.
Now, twenty years later, the green leather sofas are long past their prime and some of the antiques have been relegated to bedrooms. We've kept the original rug, entry wallpaper and the settee in the living room but we've lightened up the walls, changed the window treatments, bought 'new' antiques and recovered all of the furniture. The over all effect is one of lightening up and comforting up by getting a few new pieces that are comfortable yet traditional.
