What style will suit the interior of a country house? There are many options. We offer you to study the brightest projects that have appeared on the pages of ELLE DECORATION

1. The house of the decorator Olga Maleva in the Moscow region

The debut project of the decorator Olga Maleva, a graduate of the Details studio school, was her own house in the Moscow region. The character of the interior was largely determined by the architecture of the house in the Norman style. The facade with a lot of windows and openwork fences looked unnecessarily decorative, so the decorator wanted to make the interior space more restrained and light. Olga sought to create an interior that would be relevant in ten years. The decorator took her favorite shades of gray as a basis. In addition to this range, she chose a delicate palette of hydrangea colors: fabrics and carpets in pale pink, purple, blue, green and white-cream shades appeared in the rooms. The decorator covered the floor with black boards. The main rooms of the house are located on the ground floor along one axis. This technique helped to create beautiful prospects. Most of the furniture for this project was ordered in America. In order for the interior not to look like a “needle”, Olga added pieces of furniture “with history” to the furniture: Ralph Lauren Home brand tables with a table top made of old wood, an antique fireplace grate and so on.

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2. A mansion in the Moscow region, decorated by decorator Kirill Istomin

Listing the brightest interiors of country houses published in ELLE DECOPRATION in 2014, it is impossible not to mention this work by Kirill Istomin. The customers invited a decorator to develop an interior design for a country house without changing the architectural solution of the facade and layout. Almost every room has access to its own terrace – according to the decorator, this is the most important element of country life, which allows you to feel the fusion of nature and interior. The first floor is given over to common spaces. Next to the entrance hall there is an office with a winter garden adjacent to it. This is the owner’s favorite room. The living room and dining room are an elongated hall with a row of French windows. The unusual shape of the room is explained by the fact that it used to have a swimming pool, which the owners almost did not use. Therefore, during the reconstruction of the house, the pool was abandoned. Next to the living room there is a large kitchen. Private rooms – the children’s room and the master bedroom, each with its own dressing room and bathroom – occupy the second floor. Under the roof arches there is another study and a guest bedroom. The decorator turned it into a kind of tent, pasting the walls and window slopes with wallpaper with floral patterns repeated on pillows and curtains. Most of the furniture is made to order. However, there are also antique items in the interior – for example, a metal table of socialite Brooke Astor.

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3. A house decorated by American decorator Kelly Westler

This mansion is located on Mercer Island, Washington, USA. The area of the house is more than 1 thousand sq. m. The owners dreamed of an interior reminiscent of a private Parisian art gallery. Decorator Kelly Westler realized that the interior cannot do without unusual vintage furniture, luxurious finishing materials and, of course, painting and sculpture. The floors are a bright mosaic of different types of marble and onyx. The decorator developed the patterns of these stone “carpets” herself, for each room – her own. In some rooms, Westler used stone to decorate the walls, enclosing marble panels with picturesque veins in thin brass frames. She combines this unusual technique with hand-painted wallpaper from Porter Teleo and De Gournay. The decorator was engaged in the choice of furniture together with the owners of the house. Many objects are made to order according to Westler’s sketches. One of the most difficult engineering structures was the spiral staircase in the library. The openwork brass railings are covered with several layers of patina.

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4. The house designed by architects Vyacheslav Valovn and Elena Barykina

The owners of this house have always dreamed of living in the country. The house stands in a pine forest near the Gulf of Finland. The owners were not satisfied with the initial standard project, so they turned to architects Vyacheslav Valovny and Elena Barykina. “First of all, we plastered the brick facade and supplemented it with wooden details characteristic of the suburban architecture of St. Petersburg at the beginning of the XX century,” says Vyacheslav. – The outdoor terrace to the right of the dining room has turned into a veranda, which also serves as a small living room. But the most troublesome thing was the space at the entrance to the house – he was assigned the role of the main living room.” Vyacheslav designed an oval oven, which turned the room into one of the most spectacular rooms in the house, at the same time hiding the structural elements. The mosaic floor, made in the terrazzo technique, unusual for our latitudes, complements the picture. Together with an oval neoclassical stove decorated with medallions and a garland, it gives the living room an Italian character. In general, the interior of a country house (photos of the main rooms are attached) turned out to be eclectic – as often happened in Russian mansions of the turn of the century. The entrance hall and staircase are designed in strict proportions of the Northern Art Nouveau, the interiors of the bedrooms are closer to the French classics, the spa area resembles the Moorish living room of the Yusupov Palace, and the living room on the attic floor is an English club.

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5. House in Pavlovsk, designed by architects Irina Shkolnikova, designers Elena Zaretskaya and Vera Lyzhina

The private house is located near the palace and the park of the Pavlovsk Museum-Reserve. The lion’s share of the second floor, according to the original project, was occupied by open terraces, while the owners lacked living quarters catastrophically. The owners involved architect Irina Shkolnikova and designers Elena Zaretskaya and Vera Lyzhina in the reconstruction project. The extra walls on the ground floor disappeared, the resulting through space was supplemented by glass doors leading to the garden. A light ladder with “flying” steps spun around the supporting column. The open terraces on the second floor have turned into bedrooms, living rooms and an office with access to a balcony. The windows have been increased in size – now they “grow” out of the floor. The floors in all rooms are lined with large slabs of granite. The walls are painted in neutral tones – so the designers created a background for bright furniture, which plays a key role in the interior. There are many objects in the interior, for example, from the Italian designer Paola Navone – her handwriting is recognized in painted wooden furniture and sofa covers, deliberately crumpled, sewn as if in a hurry.

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6. The house of fashion designer Roberto Cavalli in the suburbs of Florence

Listing the memorable, beautiful interiors of country houses, it is impossible to ignore the house of Roberto Cavalli in the suburbs of Florence. This is a real treasure trove, where a lot of strange objects are stored, most of which were invented by the designer in recent years. In this house, which is a rebuilt tower of the XV century, lives the entire numerous Cavalli clan: wife Eva, children Roberto, Raquel and Daniel, as well as Tomaso and Cristina – the designer’s son and daughter from a previous marriage. The rooms are decorated with textiles with animal prints everywhere, the seats of the chairs are covered with zebra and cow skins. On the bedspreads and pillows, and even on the chimney, there is a pattern imitating the color of a leopard. This interior evokes associations with the first collections of Cavalli – the same bright and provocative. A few years ago, Cavalli built an additional structure in the garden, where his workshop is located. The owner is an avid collector. In addition to sculptures and paintings, the house has a lot of art glass from Daum and Emile Galle. However, there was a place not only for antiques, but also for samples of modern design. A considerable part of the furniture is made up of interior items from Roberto Cavalli Home. Table lamps and candelabra, wine glasses and porcelain with a branded monogram – the collection for the house of Roberto Cavalli has expanded significantly and today includes not only furniture, but also carpets, dishes, lamps, bed linen, wallpaper and even ceramic tiles.

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7. The house of the French decorator Jean-Louis Deneau in the suburbs of Paris

The main part of the building was erected in 1821, and in 1880 two wings were added to the house. The previous owners of the house used only a small part of the space – the hall, now turned into a pantry, the living room, which became a hall on the contrary, and the kitchen, in place of which Day made a guest toilet. The rest of the premises of the house were empty for several centuries. Today the house has eight bedrooms, a spacious living room in neoclassical style. There is a “Swedish” room, “Italian”, “Chinese”. Choosing a palette, the decorator was inspired by traditional English interiors. Most of the rooms are covered with wallpaper: the patterns enliven the interior, partly replacing paintings. Many interior solutions were born spontaneously. For example, the decorator could not figure out for a long time what to do with the lobby on the first floor – there used to be a dance room here. The parquet was in a depressing state. One day, Deno brought a table from Ala Shal here for a while and hung a chandelier of the Sputnik model popular in the 1960s, modeled after the first Soviet spacecraft. Both subjects unexpectedly “took root” in a new place.

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8. The house designed by architect and designer William Savaya

The plot that the architect chose for the construction of the house is located on top of a hill. The house is a three-storey modernist building with an area of 1 thousand square meters. As for the interior, the rooms are not separated from each other, nothing interferes with the movement of light and air. The dining room is located on the terrace – the local climate allows such luxury. From the terrace you can see the village of Magdus (southern Italy). All the furniture in the house is the work of Savaya himself or the work of famous designers who collaborated with his Sawaya & Moroni bureau, which he heads together with Paolo Moroni. In the center of the living room is Zaha Hadid’s famous Moraine sofa, its shape is similar to an iceberg. In the decoration of the house, William used materials that he had always had a weakness for: local marble for the floors and bleached birch for the walls. The interior is also decorated with works by contemporary artists.

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9. House in Vicenza, designed by architect Lanfranco Pollini

Italian architect Lanfranco Pollini created a modern interior in the walls of an ancient building of the XVI century. In fact, this is an agricultural building, which in the old days separated the main house from the wing. The building is adjacent to the famous Villa Valmarana, built by Andrea Palladio. Adapting the agricultural building for housing, Pollini managed to preserve the original proportions of the premises. He managed to restore the facades in their original form. But while working on the interior, the architect took a few liberties. For example, an atypical floor for such buildings is oak parquet laid out with a “herringbone”. For wall cladding, the architect chose artificial Venetian marble and wallpaper, which he painted in several layers of paint. Through wide arched openings, each room offers a panoramic view of the surrounding landscape. As for the interior, the architect relied on iconic design objects, such as armchairs by Arne Jacobsen, plastic DSR chairs by Charles and Ray Eames, Parentesi lamp by Achille Castiglioni.

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10. A house designed by American designer Jeffrey Bilhuber

The designer was offered to update the family mansion, in which the third generation of the same family currently lives. It was necessary to make the house modern, while not crossing out its history, full of memories dear to the owners. The legacy inherited by the decorator is an excellent collection of European furniture collected over many years, which has decorated this house all these years. To some extent, it reflected not only the history of the family, but also the very place where the mansion stands – Taksido Park, a fashionable resort in the mountains of New York State. The designer started his work with the living room – it seemed smaller because of the not very successful arrangement of furniture. Without thinking twice, the designer sawed off each of the two sofas standing here on the armrest and made one big one out of them. The room immediately became more spacious. One of the living rooms has turned into a bridge room, which the owners simply adore. Along the long sofa, the designer placed tables with frivolous umbrellas. Bilhuber removed the bulky stucco from the walls and painted them with multicolored stripes. The designer made the hall lighter by painting the brown wooden panels with turquoise paint, and supplemented the crystal chandelier in the dining room with red lampshades. Accents of purple, orange, fuchsia appeared in all rooms, visually uniting the interior.

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