Wyngate Court, Muncie, Indiana

With Mother's Day coming up, I decided to be a good girl and listen to my mother.  She had asked me for ideas for her and Dad's summer house. She doesn't really need decorating ideas, because her houses are always beautifully finished. But if there's one thing we both love, it's design, so when I found a house on the market similar to theirs, I decided to go for it.

The front entrance has a long wall perfect for a console table:

Mom likes classic neutrals and has a nice mix of traditional and transitional furniture. The clean lines of this  vignette remind me of her style:

{source unknown}

Here is a better view of the dining room, which is just off the foyer.  The built in cabinet on the left separates the living and dining rooms:

Here is the answer as to why I didn't suggest a mirror over the foyer console table.  It's on this opposite wall instead. Mom already has a pretty round table, chair set, and buffet similar to this:

{Dana Wolter}

I like the informality of the picture leaning against the mirror frame and the simple centerpiece, but what really caught my eye was the beautiful tablecloth. 

Here is a good view of the living room. The fireplace and dinette are different than Mom's, but once she sees the pretty inspiration room I found, I don't think she'll mind.

The fireplace in the inspiration room is more like Mom's. What a difference a tall vertical mirror makes instead the horizontal one above.

{Skip Sroka}

I'm also digging the window treatments and the chairs.  I never would have thought to mix so many styles, and that goes for the lamps as well, but it all works very prettily together with a restful color palette.

Tucked behind the living room is the kitchen.  I wondered where in the world I would find an inspiration photo with an angled counter like this one:

Aha!  I found one! But these colors are too stark for this house.

{Dana Wolter}

It's paint wizard time:

I wanted to soften the look of the kitchen so that the colors would blend better with the living and dining rooms. Fittingly, I virtually painted the cabinets Benjamin Moore Smoke & Mirrors and the barstools are painted Barely There.  

The master bedroom is beyond the kitchen and dinette:

It's a neutral, blank slate. Yawn.

Ok, here we go:

{Lauren Liess}

Lauren can do no wrong in my book (or hers). Not only is this lovely & coordinates so well with our other rooms, but she even gave us an idea for the tray ceiling. The girl is good.

Here is the master bathroom. Again, Mom & Dad's is already updated, but I couldn't resist showing it when I found a nice inspirational match:

This on-trend wallpaper nicely compliments Lauren's botanical touches in the bedroom:

 

{source unknown, but I neutralized the emerald towels with a little more Smoke & Mirrors.  Of course there had to be 5 of them....)  If it were mine, I wouldn't hang that vintage botanical print over the towels, though.

Moving on, here is the guest bedroom:

For it, I found a room with seemingly simple but well curated design choices:

{Holly Freres}

That brings us to the den. Mom & Dad don't have this built in bookcase, so feel free to hold your finger over it for the rest of this post.

No bookcase, no problem. Closed storage it is:

{Blair Harris}

Although this next view must be in front of another window (non-existent for us), I also liked this very clean and simple idea:

Well, I don't know about Mom, but I definitely found some pretty inspiration for myself this time. I'm glad I listened to her and gave this house a whirl. What can I say, Mother knows best.

Linking to: Inspire Me Monday, Inspire Me Tuesday, and Wow Us Wednesdays.