Farmhouse Chic Can Set Your Home Apart
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Farmhouse Chic
Designer Giana Allen Draws Inspiration from Multiple Regions for the Rustic Cabins at Pine Creek Sporting Club
Written by Blake Miller
Photography Courtesy of Pine Creek Sporting Club
throughout the country stem from her surroundings and experiences: travels to Switzerland and Belgium; summers in New England with family; buying trips to Africa, and hunting weekends in the Florida back country. So when she was tasked with designing the interior of all twenty-three cabins on Pine Creek Sporting Club’s property, she knew exactly where to look for inspiration.
Though the façade is unassuming and otherwise traditional, the interior is a slight departure with the coupling of the two wholly different looks. The kitchen showcases a layering of both aesthetics with the industrial concrete floor, sleek white cabinets, leather titanium granite, and hand-sawn wood beams on the ceiling. “Because the kitchen is such a large part of the great room, I chose to do the kitchen cabinets in almost the same color as the walls so it felt integrated and not [like] two separate rooms in one,” says Allen of the white, plastered walls in both spaces. A cutout utilized as a bar area is accentuated by dark wood paneling and granite counters, “to give it some texture and let it stand out.”
The great room serves as a resting and entertaining space. The high, twenty-foot vaulted ceiling provides an element of grandeur, while the horizontal barn wood paneling and stone fireplace are more inviting. “It gives a cozy space a large, grand feeling but keeps it intimate,” says Allen. The earth-tone color palette is worked into the decor via luxurious yet comfortable and practical Belgian linens on the sofas, couches, draperies, and pillows, while a custom Merida sisal rug provides an organic touch to the industrial look and feel of the concrete floors. A large, early 1900s western trunk-turned-coffee table that Allen found on a buying trip to Texas, anchors the conversation area. An oversize chandelier from Allen’s line of home furnishings, Giana Allen Homes, hangs above; always one to i
ncorporate a vintage look, Allen affixed antique corbels to the top of the pendants on the iron chandelier.
neutral with subtle pops of color through the striped Dash & Albert rug, and artwork by Maura Allen.
The master bedroom, though, is the highlight of the overnight options. A tall, winged headboard swathed in Belgian linen serves 
as the focal point of the bedroom. Above, lanterns sit atop vintage corbels while wide white barn wood lines the back wall and ceiling giving texture to the space. A custom Merida sisal, and thick, heavy Belgian linen drapery, complete the farmhouse chic decor.
“My life really does inspire how I design,” says Allen, who borrowed bits and pieces of her world-wide travels to shape the design of Cabin 7. Her technique resulted in a relaxed style that welcomes any visitor.
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