Italian Magazine Feature – Casa Romantica Shabby Chic

A couple of months ago we received an email asking if we wouldn’t mind being featured in Italy’s Casa Romantica Shabby Chic magazine. Um, mind? Hi – we’re the Achesons and we LOVE to share our house! And being in print was one of our goals for this year. I think it’s funny how our first time in print was halfway around the world though.

Anyway, here’s our spread as sent to us by email by their editor:

And thanks to the fun that is Google Translate,  we could even read {approximately} what the Italian’s had to say about little ol’ us. Which is good, cause I’d hate to post this and have no clue what they said! Ha!

Browsing the web, we met a large group of girls of all ages who tell in chiccosissimi blog their fanciful ideas to make our home unique.

THIS EVENT IS WITH SHANNON Acheson: www.akadesign.ca

Bargain Hunters

Do-it-yourself projects, thrifty shop, recycling and recovery furniture and objects: is the “philosophy” which a Canadian couple has decorated their home.

In her eBook “Welcome Home”, or 50 pages thick with tips, ideas, tips for creating a wonderful home, Shannon and her husband Dean, (parents of three cute little children who they call “our little monkeys”), teach how to use used parts and shabby to create prestigious places without having to spend incredible figures.

Shannon has always loved to draw and decorate and was occupied for a few years of Graphic Design in Toronto and has worked with the Dean hands when he was little. It was inevitable that, once become a family, decide to pool their talents and their passions, creating a company called Homespun Country, managed from the perspective of the so-called “DIY” stands for “Do It Yourself” that is, do it yourself. Which reads: furnish and the corners of your home creates no waste and satisfaction.

Their cottage in the sixties, everything was looking revisited save. In this regard, Shannon says: “We did everything by ourselves only with the help some friend who has helped to recover floors and walls and create environments where entirely new. There were, as our current bedroom where, above the head, we attacked what remains of an old port which is now one of the pieces forts of our house.

Clearly, some things got lost in translation; I did not work with Dean’s hands when he was little (???), I don’t like to draw, Homespun Country is our old business (it doesn’t exist anymore) and we don’t have a fort in our house.  I was howling out loud when google translated some of this.

But we are flattered and feeling thankful and blessed just the same. So thank you Casa Romantica Shabby Chic. We are honoured to be included in your magazine.

www.simplesharebuttons.comPlease share...