as soon as we saw liane tyrrel’s beautiful pillows in her etsy shop, enabiten, we knew we had to see inside her home. it’s a three story barn in new hampshire, with the oldest part built in the mid 1800s that liane describes as a humble home architecturally and big and rambling with 13 rooms. nine years later, most of the home has been furnished with things given, vintage and thifted. as for style as liane and friends use “modern folk” or “rustic minimalism” which i think both do justice to the beautiful space. click here for additional, full-sized images, and don’t miss liane’s shop here. {thanks, liane!} -anne
[above: This is the view from the front hallway of the cape into the living room. The yellow painted tole lamp was a yard sale find. The small 1950s Formica table by the sofa was purchased off etsy. The wooden bench against the far wall is an antique buggy seat. The big bag of sticks by the door is kindling collected in the yard for the woodstove in my studio!]
I found this great old shelf in our barn. I pried it off the wall, scrubbed it down and hung it in my living room. It holds a rotating collection of my thrift and antique shop finds and I sometimes use it for shop images of my pillows. This pillow is part of a new line where I’m exploring early American stenciling. I’ve been buying up all the books on folk art and itinerant stencil work I can find in used book shops. You know when you discover you love something and looking at images of that thing makes your head explode with pleasure. D*S readers, I know you know what I mean!
Here’s a part of our dining room which is in the ell part of the house. This section of the home dates to about 1930s-1940s. This corner holds several great old finds and good deals. The typewriter table was a $1 yard sale find (it was rusty but I did a quick sanding and bought a can of metallic spray paint and it turned out perfect), the typewriter itself was a total steal at an antiques shop at $45 (it’s in perfect condition), and the plates on the wall were found at my town’s transfer station swap shop! Do you have one of those? It’s one of my favorite places to shop for free!
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This is a corner of my studio. I’ve been experimenting with stenciling on the wall. The paper garland behind my work table is from royalbuffet.etsy.com and the small print propped up on the wainscoting is called “From the Dream Book Nr. 6” by DearDodo.etsy.com.
This is our living room. The retro style sofa is made by Norwalk Furniture and I love it. We bought the hand-painted trunk in Portsmouth NH at a shop called European Home. The corner chair by the trunk is a really old piece of furniture we think dates to the 18th century. I actually bought it for $25 (gasp). The portrait above the sofa is by my son, Ethan, who is a student at Massachusetts College of Art.
Our dining room table was handmade in Dunbarton, NH. It’s a Queen Anne style reproduction called the Porringer Table. The small stuffed rabbit on our book shelf is made by Paulina of Lemmikkiapina.etsy.com. She has a way with symbolism and little hand-stitches that make me swoon. The glass vase on the green cabinet in the corner was a wedding gift for my Great Grandmother, Elsie Englehart, back in the 1920s. She was very special to me the first eleven years of my life.
The hutch in my kitchen was a piece of furniture from my husband’s childhood home. The small trestle-style table was bought back during our dirt-poor graduate school days for $50 and refinished by my husband.
