Dinan, Brittany, France
Today I've found a storybook house for us, in a manner of speaking. I've stayed in vacation mode and have been reading when I should have been posting. I recently finished Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See. The story was engrossing, but I was especially intrigued by the houses and locations in the book. (The fact that a character makes little model houses may or may not be why I started to read it.) To share a bit of the book's setting with you, I found this listing in the town of Dinan in Brittany along the River Rance.
18 degrees Celsius is 64.4 degrees Fahrenheit. If you want to literally join me in vacation mode, this would be a good spot!
Here is the living room, which is a pretty great blank slate:
Let's stay inspired by those terra cotta colors and indoor/outdoor flow:
The kitchen's gray blue tile works well with the terra cotta floors:
Since this house is essentially timeless (because I don't know when it was built), the kitchen could be called timeless, too. But, if updated, this pretty design is perfectly in step with today:
{Design editor Beth Hitchcock, House & Home}
Moving upstairs, the landing proves a perfect spot for a library, as all proper dream houses should have. I think blog friend Karen might agree.
The only thing it needs is a perfect perch:
{This Old House}
This bathroom is another spot that would be hard to improve:
...Unless you're a fan of perfect perches there, too: (No, not that type of perfect bathroom perch.)
{Country Living}
I wonder if this beautiful bedroom comes with this pretty cane bed?
This design might help our disappointment if it doesn't:
{source unknown}
It's hard to use the word disappointment in conjunction with this house, especially when you see the gardens surrounding the sunroom:
Finishing a good book can be a bit of a let-down, but finding possibilities for this lovely house in its wonderful location was definitely a happy ending.