{A french country house and her soul}

Finally here!

You know E-Magdeco, for sure. I read that cosy online magazine every week to see what's new and I was waiting for that french country house.

Eccolo!

Tutte voi conoscete E-Magdeco. Leggo tutte le settimane questo fantastico giornale online per vedere le novità e stavo proprio aspettando di vedere questa casa

Laetitia Rissetto run the magazine. She's unbelievable.

She's like a magician with a magic hat. She always surprise me with her discoveries and with that house I think she just surpassed herself!

Laetitia Rissetto dirige questo "giornale". E' incredibile. 

Come un mago con il suo cappello magico da cui tira fuori sempre piccoli tesori senza tempo. 

Mi sorprende sempre con le sue scoperte e con questa casa ha davvero superato se stessa.

A family home in the south of French, in Aix-en-Provence. The owners renovated it entirely.

Una casa di famiglia nel sud della Francia,a Aix-en-Provence, totalmente rinnovata dai proprietari.

Antique furniture and objects founded at the antiques marquet decor the rooms.

A decorare le stanze, mobili antichi e oggetti trovati nei mercatini e brocantes.

They used natural color for furnitures but they used details to add colors. Pink, red, yellow...

La preferenza dei colori naturali permette di osare con i dettagli scegliendo colori brillanti. Il rosa, il rosso, il giallo.

Candles, frames, old furnitures help to give a strong personality to this amazing house where the details are the real protagonists.

Candele, cornici, vecchi mobili aiutano a dare una forte personalità a questa bellissima casa dove i dettagli sono i veri protagonisti.

The bathroom is my fav room, maybe because of those stripes... I have stripes at home and so, you know I have a thing for stripse!

Il bagno è sicuramente la mia stanza preferita, forse proprio a causa delle righe...

Ho utilizzato le righe anche per casa mia... Sapete che ho una passione per le righe, e non riesco a rimanere indifferente quando le vedo!

I love the idea to hang necklaces to the wall... I think it's a very good idea to copy!

I have lots of cozy necklaces and my boxes can't hold them anymore!

Mi piace l'idea di appendere lo collane al muro. Proprio una bella idea da copiare!

Ho tante collane carine e le mie scatole non possono più contenerne! 

You can read the entire article and see more pics here

Potete leggere l'articolo intere e vedere tutte le foto qui

Enjoy!

Courtesy of the magazine e-magDECO

UPDATE: I'VE REMOVED PICTURES FROM THAT POST... I'M SORRY BUT I HAD TO DO IT!

{Cosy details - part 2}

Few weeks ago, I've spent an entire day with Irene and her family. You can read here (More than a lunch - Part 1) how beautiful and intense that day has been!

This is the 2 part of that day....

After  lunch we went to Valdirose her beautiful Bed & Breakfast. A charming old villa that used to be her house when she was young. In 2007 the house has been totally renovated by her father and transformed in a charming Bed & Breakfast.

Actually it's very reductive calling it B&B. Do you know the "Chambre D'Hotes"? Well, they are charming villas all over France where you can rent a room and eat amazing food! 

Valdirose has nothing to envy to those "Chambre d'Hotes". Irene, Paolo, her husband and Irene's parents run this beautiful place with passion and love. Love that you can feel all over the house and the garden in every single details. 

Irene it's "obsessed" from details and that's one of the thing we have in common!

I couldn't take any pic of the cosy rooms...They were all occupied. A pity for me but a joy for them!!!

If you want to see them you can visit her website Valdirose.

Valdirose has a fantastic veranda where you can enjoy a good breakfast with homemade products!

Irene and Paolo serve breakfast every morning! They made all the efforts to make their guests happy and they try always to satisfy their requests! 

Flowers from her garden 

and pillows everywhere ...

In the kitchen beautiful porcelaine...

They have a cute wood stove just outside the house were they prepare Pizza every Saturdy for their guest!

They have an outdoor swimming pool too...

Just in front at Valdirose ther's her parent's home!

We spent few hours there talking about some renovation Irene wanted to do to the rooms and playing with Beatrice! I love her! She 's a fantastic girl! I'd love to show you some pics... I'll have to ask to her mom first!

That's enough for now! I could go on and on talking about it but I'm sure there will be soon another occasion to show you some good pics from Valdirose!

If you need and information about rooms, reservation and whatever else, write to Irene...

Tell her I've told you that !

Have a nice day!

{More than a lunch - 1 part}

It's the first time that I don't have any words to describe the lunch at Irene's house.

She lives not far from Florence and with a sunny day and the blue sky you can see the cathedral from her bedroom's windows. She lives a Lastra a Signa a very tiny "village" so carachteristics.
I can't say nothing bad about Tuscany...I'm from Tuscany too!

It's in the counry side, no traffic, no noise, and a beautiful surround. Totally immersed in the nature...

 Irene & Paolo welcomed us in their amazing enchanted garden... 

As soon as we entered in the path I've been overwhelmed from a huge Hydrangea's hedge.

As I've told you it's so difficult to write about them, their home and their Valdirose B&B.

All the things I could say they won't be enough to describe them and how we felt.

Irene is a fantastic girl. She seems to be so "shy" but she's strong, too modest, very generous and with a talent for receiving that let me speechless. I'm an aesthete and a perfectionist and as soon as you get inside their home it's seems to be in one of the famous home decor's magazine...

I won't show you their home, I don't want to violate their privacy...

But I want to show you something better... Her home's details that say more than thousand words.

you know that I have a thing for details. Faschion details or home decor details define a personality! 

And Irene has a strong defined personality!

But if you follow her blog you know that already!

The attention she put in all the things tell me so much about her, about her style and her natural and not artefact personality.  

I think that style, like class and elegance, are something that you can't build or create or even buy...

you can work on it...But if you don't have it... people will understand it.

And Irene has it, and a lot!!!

Paolo, her husband, her friend, her partner, her world is a genuine and pure person. Mr B is not known to be a very open person. Usually he likes to listen and to analyze who is in front of him. With Paolo something happened. They started talking from the first minute they met that Sunday. 

Irene and Paolo are a magic and real couple. They couldn't find a better person for each other. 

 

 

 

Only at the end of the lunch, when he served Champagne they told us that it was Paolo's birthday. 

He served the cake with a style... he made a design on the slice...HE!!!

whatever...He suffle on the candle with his little princess Beatrice.

She express a desire ..."I want to be loved by Dad" and I almost burst into tears...

 

 

I was so excited that I didn't took any pics at the kitchen. My favourite place. For me that I love to bake, to have people for dinner, to cook their kitchen is heaven. 

But all the rooms are amazing... 

 

You've already seen this pics on her blog... I like the place she found for the trunks...It couldn't found a better home!!!

What I've loved about their home is that even if is so elegant it's comfortable and it doesn't make you feel worried to sit on the sofas!

They've that elegance....

The lunch...

she knows how to satisfy your eyes, your mouth and your soul...

The food, the presentation, the table set were perfect!

Beatrice... 

 

 

she's an angel! Big blue eyes, dark hair, white skin with pink cheeks ...

 

 

her tattoo!

She get along with Denis... 

I played with her all day... she's a gentle spirit and she 's so mature!

This is it! for now...

I had a fantastic day, I wish I could do it again soon...

I won't tell you what we talked about, it's the treasure I want to keep just for me from that day.

But she gave me good advises and she helped me a lot to spend a carefree day that is something I need now.

I'm jelous of my things and of my friends but I  wanted to share with you 

her kindness, her grace and her world made of beautiful things.

This is what a friend does, don't you agree?

Share and complicity is what friendship is for !

Before to leave she gave me lots of hydrangea that I put all over my tiny! apartment...

I will tell you more and more about Valdirose that needs and entire post!

Don't miss my next Guest...she's so sunny!!!

 

Have a wonderful Week darlings!