Summer Street home - If It Were Mine

I like to browse real estate sites and imagine how I would decorate the rooms.
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I like to browse real estate sites and imagine how I would decorate the rooms. Even though this is imaginary decorating, I still am budget-minded, so I focus on furniture placement, scale, and carrying a similar aesthetic throughout a house. 7/30/2014 Summer Street, Springfield Today's home feels like an old-fashioned summer retreat on the aptly named Summer Street in Springfield, Vermont. It's an 1840 home with lots of spaces for you to curl up with a breezy novel. (Also, for those of you who care, and I hope there aren't many, this makes #10 on my Springfield challenge.) Let's start it off our visit with a wow. {Celerie Kemble for Schumacher} I don't know about you, but I feel like I could just end this post here and be satisfied! Ok, maybe not. I'm pretty partial towards this living room design, too. {New England Home} This, I like. It's funny how we're basically reversing the original blue and white placement on the walls and trim, but it would really lighten the feel of the room. Next, the dining room: {Kelley Proxmire} I know, this is a little brighter blue and more Swedish Country than our previous inspiration, but I think that this is prettily appropriate enough that you'll let me get away with it. That chandelier alone should sway you. (Plus, you know, there's a window seat and all...) This house has more than one window seat! Welcome to the library: {Luxury Home Magazine} Again, I would tweak this final design a little, with smaller, comfier chairs and a larger, bluer rug. I was just so pleased with myself for finding this image in the first place- what are the odds of finding a paneled room with a spiral staircase similarly adjacent to a window seat, after all? Want to see where this sort-of-secretive spiral staircase goes? Of course you do. {New England Home} It leads to yet another beautiful spot to curl up with your book, of course. While we're upstairs, let's check out one of the bedrooms. {Tobi Fairley, Traditional Home} Finally, I just had to show you the sweet kitchen of this home. I like that it hasn't been remodeled to become too contemporary for this house. I would try to keep that cozy, old-fashioned feel and just polish it a little, like this: {New England Home} Lots of possibilities for this pretty retreat on Summer Street. How fun would it be to curl up in that oval sunroom with some decorating daydreams?