Bright, pretty, and good use of the space. Wonder what the rest of the room looks like?

Oh, that is wonderful. Someone has a marvelous sense of space and color. I love the way the turquoise plays against the neutral exterior of the house, too.

Here's the house: http://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/joel-barkley-todd-klein-louisville-kentucky-house/all

Wow, love the use of color in that home! Fresh and fun.

The link indicates it's a powder room from a Louisville, KY home. That would not have been my first guess. I like the bold color choice.

I'm acquainted with this young couple. It was her grandmother's house and it's a gorgeous one. Neither the architect nor the designer are local to Louisville.

Are those valances in the dinning room.........

For a historic ancestral home I see little of the past except perhaps in the dining room, and I feel that a lot has been removed that probably should have stayed. For me the home doesn't evoke the sort of feeling that such a place should. I like combining the old with the new but in this setting I don't see much of the old and the new is fairly uninspiring, no interesting art or objects, and the monochrome rooms are a bit of a turnoff.

LOVE that powder room! Love the inset mirrors giving the impression of a bay window. What's your impression of what's giving the rice paper effect for the window frosting? Fabric? Custom frosted glass?

Also how do we feel about those lacquered ceilings? I feel like a bit of a Fuddy Duddy but I think I'm against them.

That powder room is TDF!

That house "had me" at the very first photo (which I've seen elsewhere), featuring the large and rather unexpected canvas piece on the wall. I love everything about this place. The colors used do feel particularly fresh here. It's lovely. Lovely, lovely, lovely. <3

Interesting that you had that reaction Ingrid, since I had almost the opposite one. I thought, "This is a pretty good example of how old and modern can mix well." And also, "How an old home can be given a fresh look without ruining its character." It is just my taste though, I'm not saying you were wrong. That's what I meant by "interesting" two people can have the exact opposite reaction to the same view. Some would take umbrage at the painting of the woodwork, but not everyone loves wood or appreciates it the way I do, and perhaps that woodwork was already painted long ago. One thing painted woodwork does is allow solid wood furniture to really shine due to no competition, which is what I notice on those rooms. But then I like rooms full of blowsy things competing with each other for attention, at least a little bit. A room that always has something interesting to catch your eye. How to do that artfully is tricky. This house may have erred a little on the austere side, but I think that is a lesser sin than the overstuffed side, from a dusting perspective if nothing more. Again, just my .02, YMMV. The one thought I did have when looking at that sink was "How does the water get IN to the tap? Where are those pipes?"

I think I see two lines running up from the floor?

Love love this house.

I think they did combine it - would not have been my taste, but it was done fairly well. They have an architectural gem of a home on acreage (no worry about that window over the sink!). They used traditional fabrics, some traditional upholstered furniture, lots of very contemporary art (her cousin is a major collector), and made the house contemporary and younger in feeling. I have doubts about that shiny ceiling - I always do this in kitchens and baths as it makes the ceiling more resistant to moisture and grease (in kitchen) and it adds light. I probably would not do it in a major reception room. But they're a young couple and I'm sure the house will change over the years. I'm just delighted that that very special piece of property was kept in their family and not sold to a developer to be subdivided (as her grandmother's SIL's house was).

I've come to see that my style is not what the majority here are partial to, and that's fine; it makes for lively discussions sometimes. It's interesting how the crown moldings have been made to disappear in some rooms by artful painting and in others I assume have been removed. The monochromatic living room makes me feel empty, but to others it's obviously exciting. We're all a product of life-long influences, different for each of us, but in many cases rooms that certain posters live in that are very different from my taste really appeal to me because of the purity of style, the confidence of execution, and the personality of the owner that is evident. I don't really find that here.

Just flat-out lovely!

I appreciate their use of color, and the way they mixed old and new in most of the rooms. Lots of good light too.

The dining area is one I'm having an aversion to though. Probably because I'm not a fan of orange and brown together.

Otherwise it looks like a fun home, one I'd enjoy entertaining in. Just makes me smile.

I like the bathroom and the choice of color throughout most of the house, but my reaction was similar to Ingrid's in I'd prefer to see them play up the unique features of the house more. Plus I felt the rooms were for lack of a better word, "empty".

As for the kitchen, it looks like almost every other kitchen I've seen here on houzz in the last 6 years.

I loved it, especially the use of all the turquoise. Only room, I wasnt fond of was the all white kitchen. I just couldnt live with all the white.