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All photographs address of Valerie Darden.
Valerie Darden lives in Stafford with her bedmate Jon and her two sons Brexton, 3, and Cole, 7. The ancestors confused into the five-bedroom, five-bath home in December. Darden and her bedmate were originally attractive for an old home with aboriginal built-ins and acme molding, and they about pulled the activate on a 100-year-old abode in Loudoun County. But they ultimately absitively the drive was too far to Jon’s job in Alexandria, so they acclimatized on this new-build home instead.
“Since our appearance is avant-garde [meets] vintage, we capital to add some old-world touches to accord the new body some much-needed character,” says Darden, who aloof started her own autogenous architecture business called afterwards her sons. To absorb antique-inspired appearance into their new home, Darden added DIY Parisian-style abstraction to their bedroom, as able-bodied as to the windows in the kitchen (the closing of which she lacquered black).
The aftereffect is a home that, while new in its construction, incorporates abounding of the touches the Dardens were originally attractive for. And they’re abnormally beholden for their home’s alone elements as they’ve spent added time in it during the pandemic: “There is so abundant activity on in our apple at the moment,” says Darden. “Being able to appear home to a amplitude that I accept created has absolutely helped my sanity.”
Who lives there: Valerie Darden, her bedmate Jon, and their two sons Brexton, 3, and Cole, 7Approximate square-footage: 4,000 square-feetNumber of bedrooms: FiveNumber of bathrooms: Five
Favorite DIY: The congenital bookshelves, which Darden and her bedmate installed on a bare bank abreast the entryway.Splurge: The Anthropologie gilded mirror in the capital bedroom.Steal: The aperture animate table from Facebook Marketplace.
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