{inspiration book: Jen Catto's weekend house}

My friend Jen Catto has been writing about travel and food for over eight years as an editor and media resource for tips and advice, travel trend information and data analysis, conducting TV and radio interviews in markets around the country, including NPR, NBC, The Wall Street Journal, Fitness, Redbook, Cooking Light, Cigar Afficionado, The New York Times and Wine Enthusiast. She has also served as a resource for Marie Clare, Cosmopolitan and Shape and was a travel expert for Martha Stewart Living on Sirius Radio before landing at Gourmet--the only epicurean magazine earnestly dedicated to travel. Here is her design inspiration book for her weekend house in upstate New York. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have!

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Frederick Fekkai's upstate kitchen
love the cabinets. would use soapstone counters.
Photo from http://www.pointclickhome.com/

Floors, Dark wideboard floors - old Greek Revival
Fekkai's upstate house. Taupe walls throughout, ebonized (or more espresso-colored) old floors.
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Steven Gambrel's 19th-c. cellar kitchen EXACTLY how I want to renovate the summer kitchen. Trestle table and all.
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Garden, Barn and pool
Garden ideas
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Olive walls, historic home
shutters painted same shade too
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Living room, 3 windows, one curtain rod
Great tones too.

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Kitchen, Pewter Aga stove
Soapstone counters, pewter Aga stove

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Fine Paints of Europe - persimmon
LOVE this color for a front door on an historic house! Can't decide between this and the bible black option...

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Garden, German beer garden table

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Guest room 4, Antique Sheraton Field bed (maple)
Leonard's $3900

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Guest room 3, Cow parsley Cole & Sons wallpaper
Guest room 3, yellow room.

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Guest room 3, National Geographic collection

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Kitchen floors, Farmhouse Provencal Tomette
Recycled antique French tiles for kitchen floor (or wideboards instead)

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Living room, Hugo Guinness collection, John Derian

Kitchen, Astier serviceware, John Derian

Guest room 3: Canary yellow faux bamboo lamp
Best part is I already own this lamp, just need to paint it!

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provencial kitchen

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perfect door

kitchen

penguin books

Guest room 3: French faux bamboo desk

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toast welsh tapestry bedcover 220- BP
For blue and white guest room

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VELORBIS Dannebrog
Dutch-designed bike built in Germany

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Wessex Bathtub
The perfect clawfoot $1400

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Bac Dinner Plate by Astier de Villatte at Tabula Tua
House serviceware $86

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Pair of Gustavian sofas
$23,000, need upholstery

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Guest room 2: Quadrille Alan Campbell
Love this Alan Campbell fabric for a revamped reading chair, room 2

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Urban Archaeology Bathroom

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1965 Porsche 356C
Come to mama. (Ned's 35th b'day gift this year...shhh!)
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