“WHITE SPEAKS OF PURITY AND
ORDER, BUT IT’S ALL THOSE TACTILE ELEMENTS THAT MAKE NATURAL AND NEUTRAL SPACES SUCH A PLEASURE”
WHAT ARE THE SECRET STORIES BEHIND A SUCCESSFUL AND BEAUTIFUL WHITE HOME?
All photographs from The Love Of White: The White & Neutral Home by Chrissie Rucker & The White Company. Available now.
WHAT MAKES A WHITE ROOM REALLY COME ALIVE FOR YOU?
“White brings all the details of a room to life and then becomes this perfect canvas for all the layers that you want to add - the furniture, fabrics, art, books and little treasures.” Rooms, she says, should be furnished to appeal to all the senses - something she feels can oſten be overlooked. “Soſt white towels and crisp sheets, stacks of white plates and folded napkins at the dinner table, along with all those little, personal touches that make a house into a home,” she notes. “So touch is really important to me and introducing lots of different textures, but sight and smell also need to be nourished,” she explains. “It’s why I love candlelight and being by the fireside, or spending time in a beautiful spa-like bathroom.”
“For Te Love of White celebrates a lot of very different ways of living with white, but behind all of these houses there is plenty of planning and thought,” Rucker says of the spectrum of homes featured. Each uses natural tones and textures in a rich variety of ways - and in some very different places, she notes - and belong to creative-thinkers who have their own fresh take on the theme. “Tese are restful houses where the owners have spent a lot of time thinking about the layout and the flow of the rooms, the way that the lighting’s going to work and what the focal points are going to be.”
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