It is difficult enough without being diverted by all this eye-candy in the Houzz design getaways to Tuscany, Greece, the Caribbean, Hawaii and Mexico to return in the swing of things. All this discussion about travelling to remote (and heater) areas has me feeling a little wistful. For the last few years, we’ve had the good luck of spending Xmas in the south of France with my partner household. Having spent summers in a camper touring all over Europe, they handle heading to remote locations like it is a simple weekend escape and are enthusiastic travelers. Therefore, when they let a small house in southern France, decrease from England having an auto carried full of everything from sheets, to towels, to kitchen knives, and say “come one come all,” who is able to deny them? So even though we only got back, using assistance from some Houzz pictures, Iwill take another trip on the other side of the pond. Need to join me?

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Cypress trees dotting the landscape, urns and gravel drives — each is trademarks of landscapes and Mediterranean paintings.

Hint: To get that French state landscape in the house, choose pea gravel over asphalt or pavers. We never regretted it and did it our farm-house. Then add urns, a couple of boxwoods and decorative cypress appearing trees which are hardy in your zone and voila, the appearance is whole.

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This year, the view in the pool in the house we leased. On the times were the temperature reaches at 60 degrees, we’d eat lunch outside. In off-season you will get much more bang for the dollar. Even in winter a lot of the foliage continues to be green. Getting the drive up was difficult, however.

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Said pool…it was about 4 5 degrees that day-so barely perfect for swim, but warmer as opposed to Midwestern United States, that is for certain.

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After I look only at that picture, I can only hear the crunching of gravel. Stone partitions every-where…

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The farm house, or mas, is an average building seen throughout the south. The lightblue shutters will also be a touch of the area.

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The gravel veranda having a pergola coated in vines for al-fresco eating is critical for each house.

Sutton Suzuki Architects

Dining alfresco is the lowest priced strategy to get somewhat French design in your surroundings. Benefit from an unseasonably warm day, set a linen tablecloth out, and have lunch outside. It certainly feels feels as though France, although this could be in Ca. Next, mo-Re pictures that bring a bit French flair house.

Tracery Interiors

Flagstone floors and decor that is easy. With stuff like this who wants embellishment? I am able to hear it jogs my memory of houses we have seen also the echoes in this hall.

Summerour Architects

Black steel windows consistently get me feel of France and make me want I lived in a mo-Re temperate environment where single-pane windows could be enough…perhaps not to mention no screens

Tip: Feeling envious of the black-metal windows also? Paint mullions and the sashes just of your personal windows and get a look that is similar.

Tracery Interiors

Hearths that are enormous. A few of the leases we have remained in hardly had any warmth, only several small wall radiators. So a hearth is created every day — perhaps not a luxury however a necessary!

Every yr we push 6 hrs west to see with some buddies. I am reminded by this amazing spread of a few of the celebrations we have crashed. No one h-AS actually ever endured a problem together with the strangers our buddies bring along!

House & Harmony

Despite a lot of people’s notion of a region kitchen, most are are usually modest and straightforward. The material below the sink is a a vintage.

Hint: Get some “immediate” south-of-France sense below at residence by by eliminating the doorways and including a Belgian linen or grain hammock drape to the very front of akitchen cupboard (should you not have a farm sink like this one).

Carson Poetzl, Inc.

This ladies’ room might maintain a home we have seen. A dressing table was become by the furniture and fantastic pendants are excellent.

Claudio Ortiz Layout Team, Inc.

The terracotta flooring tile that is herringbone gets me believe of locations we have been been.

Inform us: Do your traveling inspire your decorating?

Mo-Re Houzz Escapes
Bask in Amini Greek Get Away
A Visit to Tuscany
Cut out to the Caribbean
Headed to Big Island