All the Light We Cannot See House, Dinan, Brittany, France

In light of Netflix's recent release All the Light We Cannot See, I thought a re-post of this oldie but goodie from 2016 was in order:

Today I've found a storybook house for us, in a manner of speaking. I've stayed in vacation mode and  have been reading when I should have been posting.  I recently finished Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See.  The story was engrossing, but I was especially intrigued by the houses and locations in the book. (The fact that a character makes little model houses may or may not be why I started to read it.)  To share a bit of the book's setting with you, I found this listing in the town of Dinan in Brittany along the River Rance.

The listing is pretty bare bones- it doesn't say when the house was built- but when the house and the town are as storybook as this one, I don't think the exact details matter.

{dinar-tourisme}

18 degrees Celsius is 64.4 degrees Fahrenheit.  If you want to literally join me in vacation mode, this would be a good spot!

Here is the living room, which is a pretty great blank slate:

Let's stay inspired by those terra cotta colors and indoor/outdoor flow:

{El Mueble}

The kitchen's gray blue tile works well with the terra cotta floors:

Since this house is essentially timeless (because I don't know when it was built), the kitchen could be called timeless, too.  But, if updated, this pretty design is perfectly in step with today:

{Design editor Beth Hitchcock, House & Home}

Moving upstairs, the landing proves a perfect spot for a library, as all proper dream houses should have.  I think blog friend Karen might agree. 

The only thing it needs is a perfect perch:

{This Old House}

This bathroom is another spot that would be hard to improve:

...Unless you're a fan of perfect perches there, too:  (No, not that type of perfect bathroom perch.)

{Country Living}

I wonder if this beautiful bedroom comes with this pretty cane bed?

This design might help our disappointment if it doesn't:

{source unknown}

It's hard to use the word disappointment in conjunction with this house, especially when you see the gardens surrounding the sunroom:

Finishing a good book can be a bit of a let-down, but finding possibilities for this lovely house in its wonderful location was definitely a happy ending.