However, the look is out of place in my woodsy mountain cabin, though my latent tendencies nevertheless sneak in.
Love Kate Forman's style and I would love nothing more than having an English cottage like this one with a wonderful garden. (In the late 80's, I tried those peachy pink tones shown above in 2005, but abandoned them for neutrals by the mid-90's mixed with a heavier velvety tapestry floral, not the cottony prints.) Still, I always thought this delicate look was so pretty (not to mention feminine), and I did manage a blue and white master bedroom with soft prints mixed in. But I am the mother of sons and a blowsy pastel floral style just didn't fit the family dynamic. I've always been a romantic Anglophile, so I was ripe for the picking when Laura Ashley came along, and in my first house in 1979 I made the living room curtains out of a Laura Ashley small print fabric in mauve. Thanks for all your thoughtfulness and your amazing research. Interior design is probably considered a superficial, even silly interest by many if not most, but once again your post has me waxing philosophical about the subject. Don't you think Kate Foreman paved the way for Rachel Ashwell, whose shabby chic morphed into the shabby slip phenomenon of covering absolutely EVERYTHING in white cotton duck and white linen? That is the course in which my personal sensibility evolved, INFLUENCED IN NO SMALL MEASURE by your blog. Its also lovely to see what Kate Foreman is doing today, although I don't think the current incarnation has quite the personal, dare I say obsessive vision that Laura Ashley embodied. Can't you see this Houston Heights cottage in nothing but Laura Ashely? Its lovely to be reminded of what a strong, unique, encompassing sensibility Laura Ashley expressed. If I could have afforded it, I would have done up my Cotswold on the Bayou cottage (which you featured in your blog in 2011 (). I was a Laura Ashely girl back in the 80's.
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