Rainbow Drive, Carrboro, North Carolina
Hello! No more playing hooky for me- it's back to Zillow I go! Today we're visiting Carrboro, North Carolina, at the suggestion of reader Yvonne. She described Carrboro as an old mill town now grown onto the side of Chapel Hill. It is funky and fun. That everything-old-is-new-again thing, a walkable community.
This house on Rainbow Drive seems the epitome of Yvonne's description. Built in 2006 in traditional style, the house is in town, yet with mature gardens and a wrap-around porch. Everything new looks old again.
The living room is already charming, with a hint of coastal decor.
Let's unfurl those sails and live large in the scale of the room. (Also beef up the moldings- that french door looks especially dinky.)
{Susan Zises Green}
We've got scale with the sailboat and topiaries, now let's think about layout.
Actually the layout almost works. How about colors?
I like this furniture arrangement, especially with it's sailboat-friendly color palette.
The living room was charming, but the den is a little sleepy:
This should wake it up:
{Brooks and Hill} (with Marshall Watson's throw pillows instead of red ones)
The kitchen is a perfect blank slate. It just needs some colorful accessories, and perhaps...
... some decorative corbels, just for a little more architectural interest.
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The breakfast nook is like the den- a little on the drab side:
Drab no more! Keller Donovan doesn't do drab; he does traditional with a hint of coastal:
{T. Keller Donovan}
Moving upstairs, I want to take the existing decorating and expand on it:
Smaller telescope, but bigger decorating punch:
{Oomph}
Oomph is right. Those chairs make me want to do a happy dance.
Now, on to bedroom one:
Similarly to the living room, let's stretch the scale and play with the color palette:
{Phoebe Howard}
Bedroom two- second verse, same as the first. (Well, except for the pretty bay window.)
The verse is similar, but a little more "sophistimicated", as my daughter used to say:
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Last, let's address that wrap-around porch I mentioned:
It definitely needs a swing!
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Now that's a porch that lives up the house's pretty interiors.
Yvonne also sent this cute image for Carrboro:
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It says "It's Carrboro. You couldn't make this place up." Luckily for us Rainbow Drive is so livable, all we had to make up is if it were mine!
