Dans Le Townhouse Home Tour

Today we have Tanya from Dans Le Townhouse.

Her use of modern furniture and bold colors is refreshing.

I share my home with my Handy Hubby and a Komondor puppy named Szuka (“Sooka”), who is only five months old but already tall enough to knock a pound of butter off the kitchen counter with her nose. Ask me how I know this. I’m in the final leg of completing my PhD and we’ll soon be moving 1500 km from our city townhouse to a rural lakefront bungalow.

I knew I liked design when I was in elementary school. I had stolen a very 80s, very frilly, design magazine from my mother and hid it under my bed. I used to pour over it and try to emulate the designs. I’d push together kitchen chairs, wrapped in a blanket and packing tape, to make a “sofa,” and would re-arrange my rock collection on the daily. I never stopped ferreting away design magazines, and making the most of what I have.

I think I’m still finding my style, which I hope never stops evolving, but I do tend to favor simplicity with some personality. I like uncluttered spaces with bold art and vintage accessories. I’m also a sucker for anything handmade and I’m passionate about art. I’m editing our things for the move right now, selling what won’t work and picking up a few pieces that will. I’m finding myself gravitating to fewer, but bolder, furniture pieces, art and accessories.

Looking at the townhouse, you wouldn’t guess my favorite colour is turquoise! I love watery hues and am working toward redirecting my colour palette toward blue, turquoise, teal, and green – grounded by grey and white – in the lakehouse. I used to use my favorite colour - turquoise - sparingly for some reason, but moving forward I’m using it in bold ways: we’re painting our kitchen cabinets turquoise and I just had a vintage chair we found in the trash re-upholstered a gorgeous shade of teal velvet.

Tanya is in the process of renovating a new home, and the before and afters are already so good!