Silver and lavender aren't usually considered warm colours. But Carole Joubert's home, set on 300 acres of winter wonderland in Quebec's Laurentians, is undeniably warm and welcoming. “It's a charming house,” says Joubert. “Challeure, we say in French.” It could be the quaint, unpretentious architecture of the circa-1940s house, or maybe it's the winter whites and creams that anchor the cooler colours. Perhaps it's something more intangible – a mix of chic French taste and a homeowner's love for it that makes this house a home.
And at home is exactly how Joubert feels here, especially since she enlisted Rollande Vachon, designer and proprietress of Montreal decor boutique Moutarde to “perk up” her place. “I often walked by Rollande's shop,” says Joubert, who works in Montreal, “and I always thought, when I do something at my house, I will ask her to help.”
The new palette is one of the home's most striking features. Like a snowy landscape at twilight, it is at once clear and crisp, yet aglow with a subtle warmth. At the heart of the scheme is a colour Vachon calls parme, a soft shade of lavender. “It's a very soft and easy living colour,” she says. She's applied it throughout, in the cream and parme striped upholstery in the dining room, cushions in the living room, and walls in the guest room.
To round out the soothing palette, Vachon added pale aqua in the master bedroom, a deep charcoal on the kitchen walls and creamy whites everywhere.
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