Our hearts and prayers go out to everyone affected by Hurricane Ida. We went through Irma in 2017 while living in Florida, and it was a harrowing experience. It’s tough during these dark days to think about pretty homes, however I have always found comfort in beauty, and this historic New Orleans home has always brought a smile to my face. Originally featured in 2016, I thought today we might take a walk down memory lane…
When I saw this 1926 New Orleans Mediterranean Revival featured in Southern Living, I immediately fell in love. It belongs to designer Brannan Geary and her husband Scott. The home was built by Scott’s great-grandfather, and has survived almost 90 years of hurricanes and “regrettable design fads” with both its structural and architectural integrity in tact. Brannan took a light approach to New Orleans’ signature formal style with a more livable elegance, and the classic results will surely transcend the next 90 years. Photography by Laurey W. Glenn and captions below via Southern Living…
Brannan limited the dining room to only two dark wood antiques: a set of graceful yet sturdy French dining chairs and a classic sideboard.
Located right off the foyer, the dining room was deliberately designed to be a lively greeting for guests—the palm tree muraled walls in particular.
Gracious curtains in a warm rust color and an 8- by 11-foot trompe l’oeil screen make the necessary formal, old-world references.
Abstract art by New Orleanian Amanda Talley and a gallery white fireplace add contemporary accents.
The walls in the study are painted in Farrow & Ball’s Smoked Trout.
“Children (and parents) deserve rooms that will grow along with them,” says Brannan, who used the classic Colefax and Fowler fabric Bowood in her daughter’s otherwise neutral room. Learning to live with antiques comes with the territory of being a child in New Orleans. So Brannan wisely incorporated an older cabinet as a bedside table and outfitted it with a pair of fragile but not priceless porcelain lamps.
(Read more about Bowood here… it is one of my favorites!)
“I’m a traditionalist, an old soul, and a chintz fanatic who was heavily influenced by my grandmother, but I’m also not into fuss,” says Brannan.
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So pretty. Would you happen to know what color the walls are in the room with the fireplace? I can see it is yellow but what brand of paint and color name??
Lovely…I want the dining room walls in my home!