More cottage than coastal. Mark Sikes design - Page 2

Patriot3 · ‎06-07-2010

The wallpaper is awful. I like looking at open shelving, but couldn't live with it. I also like a window over my sink. Overall, it is cute, but not for me.

Oznell · ‎11-08-2014

Sikes always has such a feeling for color-- I love the tranquillity of that soft blue....

stevieb · ‎03-10-2010

I like Sikes' work, overall, and I find this a pretty space. So much so that I believe I posted it once myself a while back...

In my pantry with my cupcakes...

DREAMON · ‎03-09-2010

I would not have the wallpaper or Range Hood..the rest is very cute for a vacation home.

NickNack · ‎03-10-2010

I like the blue but don't like the wallpaper or cafe curtains (is that what they're called?--not sure).

The Bluebird Carries The Sky On His Back"
-Henry David Thoreau

Lucky Charm · ‎03-09-2010

That blue just makes me blue.

Can you even open up that corner cabinet?

ScrapHappy · ‎03-28-2010

It's nice. I would put some white to break up some of all that blue within the kitchen. Don't like the wallpaper.

Nonametoday · ‎03-09-2010

I know Sikes from, what now seems, long ago. He decorated a home of a person who is very well known (at my recommendation, who might be famous or infamous, depending on your view) several years ago before I moved here. Sikes attended school with a brother.

He did a great job of the home. It was featured on HGTV back when HGTV was worth watching, but that was, perhaps, decades ago.

My sister asked him about decorating one of her houses. Oh, dear, oil and water. She has a degree in interior design from a school of architecture in Illinois. She is very opinionated as is he but I guess that is what makes them both good at their trade.

Rockycoast · ‎03-02-2016

You are right @Nonametoday It is Cottage style. The only coastal thing I see are the sea shell fabric on the stools. Too much of the same color blue. It needs to be broken up. Maybe paint the shelving white, not a fan of the stove vent hood. Get rid of that, put in a plain stainless one. Wallpaper is fine, I would leave it as is. At least it isn't the blue.