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Lockeland Springs · East Nashville · Built 1894

Pink & Leather

Our clients, a young couple with little kids, are the keepers of a historic Victorian, bringing their playful style to it one room at a time.

Their front door opens straight into the parlor, which flows into the dining room and beyond. The parlor was going unused and the dining room wasn’t earning the view. They wanted a wow.

They loved the idea of a wallpapered dining room ceiling, and so did we. When we pitched an Anthropologie wallpaper and coordinating Dash & Albert rug, both found on Facebook Marketplace, the color scheme was set in motion. We finished the dining room with a gallery wall of their own art (kids’ abstracts included), a vibey preloved chandelier, and a marble tulip table, then layered the parlor with preloved leather seating, vintage lighting and tables, and two eye-catching originals: their Mardi Gras piece and the cowboy we found together.

Now the front door opens onto the whole show: a parlor made for lingering and that ceiling just beyond. We hope every guest looks up.

A caramel leather chesterfield sofa with velvet and kilim pillows beneath a large pink cowboy painting, beside a diamond-pane window and a pink kilim rug

The Parlor

An entry parlor with a caramel leather chesterfield under a lattice window, black leather wingback chairs, a cowhide trunk coffee table, a purple and pink kilim rug, a stained-glass pendant, and two large pink paintings of a tuba player and a cowboy
The cowhide trunk coffee table styled with white anemones, a vintage cigar box, and a red enamel mug on a book, in front of the caramel leather chesterfield
The original 1894 front door with a glass transom reading THIRTEEN twice, flanked by lattice sidelights, brass candle sconces, a black leather wingback with a fur throw, and a kilim rug

The Dining Room

An 1894 dining room with a pink patterned wallpaper on the ceiling, brown walls hung with a collected gallery wall, a capiz honeycomb globe pendant, a marble tulip table with black chairs, an antique blue enamel stove with a turntable, and an oak mantle cabinet
A gallery wall of collected art including an artichoke print, a still life of oranges, and watercolor roosters, above an oak mantle cabinet with a mirror, brass candlesticks, and trailing plants, beside a Windsor chair
An antique carved oak hutch filled with glassware and a jade cake stand, beside floral-painted mirrors and a fiddle leaf fig, under a pink wallpapered ceiling
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