Interior Designer Nancy Taylor's Home

<div class="fb_title">Today we'll visit Nancy Taylor's 18th-century Rhode Island farmhouse. Warm and welcoming rooms filled with antiques and reclaimed wood. And to top it off a magnificent garden.<br /></div> <div class="fb_subtitle"><br /><img id="fb_image" src="http://www.countryliving.com/cm/countryliving/images/patterned-chaise-de-5616922.jpg" style="top: -55px; left: 44px; width: 500px; height: 639px;" /><br /><span style="display: inline;" id="fb_captionbox">The dressing room includes a vintage chaise as well as a 19th-century English vanity and pieces from Nancy's collection of pokerware. These boxes are decorated with an Arts and Crafts-era technique in which designs were burned into wood, as if with the tip of a red-hot fireplace poker. Pink lusterware brightens the green-vined wallpaper.</span><br /><br /><img id="fb_image" src="http://www.countryliving.com/cm/countryliving/images/framed-print-de-71065136.jpg" style="top: -55px; left: 44px; width: 500px; height: 638px;" /><br /><span style="display: inline;" id="fb_captionbox">The furnishings and accents include '40s French leather armchairs, a framed batik print from Bali, and a flat-weave Peruvian rug. I hesitated before including this photograph because I don't like animals' heads on the walls (nor anywhere else!) but well, other people do. Do you?<br /><br /></span><img id="fb_image" src="http://www.countryliving.com/cm/countryliving/images/blue-dining-kitchen-de-82846667.jpg" style="top: -55px; left: 44px; width: 500px; height: 638px;" /><br /><span style="display: inline;" id="fb_captionbox">The dining area in the kitchen, includes toile-covered banquettes, Indonesian chairs, and a custom English cherrywood table.<br /><br /></span><img id="fb_image" src="http://www.countryliving.com/cm/countryliving/images/potting-sink-de-17611759.jpg" style="top: -55px; left: 44px; width: 500px; height: 638px;" /><br />Potting area. <span style="display: inline;" id="fb_captionbox">Enameled-tin graniteware outfits the potting area, which centers around a salvaged soapstone sink.<br /></span><br /><img id="fb_image" src="http://www.countryliving.com/cm/countryliving/images/bathroom-tub-de.jpg" style="top: -55px; left: 44px; width: 503px; height: 642px;" /><br /><span style="display: inline;" id="fb_captionbox">The master bath features a claw-foot tub that came with the house and a white-painted 19th-century English spool chair with an upholstered seat and arms.<br /><br /></span><img id="fb_image" src="http://www.countryliving.com/cm/countryliving/images/wood-hallway-frames-de-90302643.jpg" style="top: -55px; left: 44px; width: 500px; height: 638px;" /><br /><span style="display: inline;" id="fb_captionbox">The stairwell was lined with hand-hewn planks from the oldest part of the house. "These are the boards that were carved from the oak trees on the land in 1776," she says. "I left them unpainted, so when I touch the boards I am touching the same wood those colonial farmers touched." She uses the stairwell, which is surrounded by the house's original banister, as an area to display her family photos<br /><br /></span><img id="fb_image" src="http://www.countryliving.com/cm/countryliving/images/bedroom-wood-ceiling-de-11162685.jpg" style="top: -55px; left: 44px; width: 500px; height: 638px;" /><br /><span style="display: inline;" id="fb_captionbox">In the master bedroom a c. 1840 mahogany Empire-style bed, a late-19th-century mirrored oak chest. A hand-crocheted bedspread, rag rug, and beadboard walls offset the dark wood furniture and ceiling.<br /><br /></span><img id="fb_image" src="http://www.countryliving.com/cm/countryliving/images/porch-seating-de-3527710.jpg" style="top: -55px; left: 44px; width: 500px; height: 638px;" /><br />Front porch opens to a gorgeous garden.<br /><span style="display: inline;" id="fb_captionbox"><br /></span>Images and information from <a href="http://www.countryliving.com/">Country Living</a><br /><br /></div>

Interior Designer Nancy Taylor's Home

Today we'll visit Nancy Taylor's 18th-century Rhode Island farmhouse. Warm and welcoming rooms filled with antiques and reclaimed w...

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