Vintage Between Keeps Household Green

Jessica Helgerson sure has a green thumb, as shown in this orchard of a house, littered with branches and flowers and even wallpapers of scantily-clad autumn trees. Her team of designers have taken a Portland split-level ranch and spruced it up so thoroughly as to create a tree-hugger’s haven. Not only that, they’ve also scavenged far and wide for vintage items and antiques which, when insinuated within the modern-leaning interiors, add a dreamlike feel homestead to the white-and-green-suffused place.

The visual impact of this mixture of old and new, and furniture pieces reclaimed from Nature herself (like the coffee table below, carved out of Eastern hard rock maple by Jessica’s husband, architect Yianni Doulis), is heart(and house)-warming. But positively lording it over this bric-a-brac snatched raw and magically made to match is the exquisite lighting: it oozes from the pervasive white and floods the rooms from outside, meshing with the greenery to emphasize an overwhelmingly soothing, osmotic ambiance.

(Source: Freshome.com)