A Dark & Cozy Cottage in the Northern Ireland Countryside
Inspiration for designing our spaces can come in all forms, and when Eniko Kirkwood was looking to banish neutral tones from her home, she found her North star in the pages of a magazine. She and husband Michael had just moved into their new-to-them Comber, Northern Ireland home with their beloved labradors, Alfie and Penny. […]
Inspiration for designing our spaces can come in all forms, and when Eniko Kirkwood was looking to banish neutral tones from her home, she found her North star in the pages of a magazine. She and husband Michael had just moved into their new-to-them Comber, Northern Ireland home with their beloved labradors, Alfie and Penny. The carpets in the house were the first to go, but the walls took a bit of persuasion on Eniko’s end. “When we moved into our home all the walls were painted in Magnolia [a cream tone] and the carpets were beige,” Eniko begins. “The first thing we did was replace all the carpets with reclaimed wooden floors. Initially I wanted the house to look like a cottage and that?s the style I started creating, but then one day I was looking through interior magazines and I came across a beautiful home with dark walls and it looked so cozy and decadent — I knew immediately that was the style I wanted. When my husband arrived home from work I told him I was painting the walls black in our snug room. Initially his reaction was ‘no,’ but then I showed him photographs from the magazine and he agre...
Inspiration for designing our spaces can come in all forms, and when Eniko Kirkwood was looking to banish neutral tones from her home, she found her North star in the pages of a magazine. She and husband Michael had just moved into their new-to-them Comber, Northern Ireland home with their beloved labradors, Alfie and Penny. The carpets in the house were the first to go, but the walls took a bit of persuasion on Eniko’s end. “When we moved into our home all the walls were painted in Magnolia [a cream tone] and the carpets were beige,” Eniko begins. “The first thing we did was replace all the carpets with reclaimed wooden floors. Initially I wanted the house to look like a cottage and that?s the style I started creating, but then one day I was looking through interior magazines and I came across a beautiful home with dark walls and it looked so cozy and decadent — I knew immediately that was the style I wanted. When my husband arrived home from work I told him I was painting the walls black in our snug room. Initially his reaction was ‘no,’ but then I showed him photographs from the magazine and he agre...
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