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Interior: Rustic Mid-Century Modern home
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Interior: Rustic Mid-Century Modern home
Interiors
Interior: Rustic Mid-Century Modern home
The modern, cohesive quality of Sharie and Patrick Hunter’s Calgary house may belie the fact that everything in it was collected over a long period of time. Even acquiring the house itself required a bit of patience on their part. Living right across the street, the couple – he is vice-president of North American sales for a pipeline maintenance company and she is a painter and the creative director at a graphic design company – fell in love with the house as they watched it being built from the ground up. Constructed by engineers-turned-homebuilders from 2006 to 2007, it was as solid as a bunker and featured an open layout, natural materials, clean lines, lots of windows and plenty of wall space meant for adding art (ideal for Sharie, who uses the house as a gallery for her large contemporary works). But when the couple expressed interest, they discovered it had already been sold. “So for a year, we watched other people live in our house!” says Patrick.
The Hunters
Homeowners Sharie and Patrick Hunter dig deep into their Prairie roots and love of collecting Mid-Century Modern pieces to create a space that clearly speaks to their passions. The result is a house that’s full of rich tales and family history, giving any visitor plenty to write home about.
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Old film camera
In the master bedroom, a little wooden table displays an old Super 8 mm film camera and a Brownie from homeowner Sharie Hunter’s large camera collection. “The little table is from a church my grandfather built out in the Prairies, where I grew up,” says Sharie.
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A Mid-Century Modern credenza, which Sharie found at a thrift store in Medicine Hat, Alta., creates a strong focal point at the top of the staircase on the third floor when decorated with the couple’s collections and paired with Sharie’s artwork.
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The upstairs hallway gives Sharie another place to hang her artwork, and a streamlined bench is a stylish storage solution for magazines and books.
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Deer skulls
Sharie found two deer skulls on her family farm in Saskatchewan. Displayed here, they are great home decor accessories that boast an intriguing and rustic sculptural quality.
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Mid-century modern living room
The living room furniture and accessories showcases the couple’s neutral colour scheme and a love of Mid-Century Modern design. Hanging above the credenza, a black and white photo taken in 1903, which Sharie enlarged and mounted on a wood canvas, represents her ancestors’ prairie life. “My great-grandfather bought land from this gentleman [in the photo],” she says. “He’s just out there with his horses in the prairies with nothing but starkness all around him, and I just thought the rawness of this photograph was beautiful.”
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A black linen-covered settee, with its curvaceous, feminine lines, has a softening effect in the master bedroom, and the mirror adds a bit of glamour. The chalkboard-painted focal wall lends a sense of balance and anchors the light-filled space.
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A touch of farmhouse-inspiration
The kitchen’s “chill-out area” exemplifies the house’s mix of Mid-Century Modern and farmhouse: Two Le Corbusier chairs are paired with a time-worn wooden trunk from Sharie’s family farm.
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Inspired by the French bistro look the couple saw in Paris, the kitchen’s eating area features a rustic farmhouse table surrounded by iconic Panton chairs (four of which were brought back from Switzerland about 10 years ago). The chalkboard wall, which Sharie painstakingly personalized, depicts a cheese recipe, a Shakespearean poem about wine and a paragraph from a love letter written in 1913.
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Often inspired by what they see on their travels, Sharie and Patrick sketched out their bedroom decorating ideas in a restaurant in London. “We were in a bistro and got part of the inspiration from that,” says Patrick. Instead of incorporating typical nightstands with great table lamps, the couple paired Nelson floor lamps with iconic Componibili modules.
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Fabrics
The couple’s travels always include a day of shopping for fabrics, which Sharie brings home and makes into throw pillows for a quick way to change the house’s look. Here, the black and grey Eames printed fabric and other geometric patterned fabrics liven up the guest bedroom.
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Mid-century modern guest bedroom
The guest bedroom’s Mid-Century Modern twin beds, which Sharie found at a garage sale for $25 each, accommodate the couple’s parents or Patrick’s visiting children. A collection of art includes etchings brought back from Europe, sketches done by Sharie and a charcoal drawing of the man who, in his will, left all his belongings to Sharie’s grandmother.
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Guest bedroom accessories
A modern chair paired with a minimal pedestal table holding a Nelson desk clock and a Jieldé Signal table lamp makes an inviting sitting area in the soothing guest room.
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