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Cleveland Park · East Nashville · Built 1947

The Listening Room

Our clients came to me wanting a space that felt more “them” (specifically a little more “him”). She had purchased this Cleveland Park Tudor several years before the couple met, and they wanted the redesigned space to reflect both of their styles and preferences.

We swapped the locations of the living and dining spaces and got to work sourcing pieces just for them: clean-lined, modern furniture, bright colors, and Persian rugs for him; antiques, thrifted treasures, and anything purple for her. Their new space is a little bit of all of it.

The result: a study of mixing styles, colors, and eras. Interesting. Unexpected. And, in my opinion, really, really beautiful.

A couple sharing tea and records in the listening room, with a tulip table, mismatched chairs, a sputnik chandelier, and a whitewashed stone fireplace

The Listening Room

A gallery wall of elephant artwork, Turkish tiles, and collected paintings beside the sputnik chandelier and the tulip table with fresh thistle
The black record console with a turntable and rows of vinyl below, a tobacco-leaf ginger jar lamp, tiger-print drapery, and an antique library step chair
The listening room: a tulip table with mismatched chairs on layered Persian rugs, a whitewashed stone fireplace with an orange abstract painting and a disco ball on the mantle, a sputnik chandelier with amber globes, and a black record console with a turntable

The Living Room

The living room with a navy velvet sectional piled with velvet and striped pillows, a kantha throw, a mustard swivel chair, tiger-print drapery, and a layered Persian rug
The navy velvet sectional’s daybed end with a kantha throw, a black sculptural side table with a bowl of apricots, tiger-print drapery, and the couple’s wedding photo on the wall
The wood bar cart stacked with books beside the navy sectional, the couple’s wedding photo framed above
An ink-wash portrait in a black frame above the wood bar cart with a seeded-glass lamp, beside the navy velvet sofa with orange and gold velvet pillows
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