A mix of Sleeping Beauty’s castle and the cottage from Hansel and Gretel, this dwelling in Ivankovychi, Ukraine, seems like it popped from the pages of a fairy tale. A Tudor-inspired exterior retains expansive rooms filled with daring decor and natural light. “It is the first building you see when approaching the village,” says designer Vladimir Lompier of Lompier & Co.”It is like a greeting card”

Lompier worked on this home twice: after a young businessman who wanted a traditional structure with minimalistic interiors, and another time for a couple with two children who discovered the minimal decor unacceptable. “We had to redesign almost every room in the home,” states Lompier,”making every floor warmier, cozier, and much more livable.”

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Simple colors were selected for the exterior, because the natural surroundings of the Ukranian mountains provide lots of color, particularly in the spring and summer. Bold red tones were infused into the pavement around the home in order to contrast with the environment’s vibrant green.

Lompier Interior Group

Lompier made the clean, contemporary interior as a stark contrast to the traditional exterior of the home. There are two principal colour schemes for the interior of the home. The more formal and public spaces — like this main living room — use bright, airy and bright tones. Lompier stuck to grays, blues, and whites for most of these rooms. However, for the more personal rooms — like the bedrooms — he also picked a warmer scheme that mainly plays shades of brown.

Each of these main rooms have many lighting situations — such as a more festive option for special events and celebrations. The firm found most of the pieces in the home from Fine Art Lamps and Circa Lighting, but many are from Italian and German producers as well.

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The clients wanted pendants and ribbons throughout most of the home, so these bold and big pieces became a massive part of the overall design. A sculptural metal chandelier has been installed in the two-story entry hall. This fixture may be understood in the library and the chambers on the first floor.

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The dining and kitchen area is Lompier’s favorite room in the home. A smooth mix of classic and contemporary designs, a large window facing one of the surrounding pine woods provides lots of natural light.

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Much of the wood has been stained, treated, and varnished by Lompier and his crew to achieve the same obsolete effect the exterior dictates.

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The master bedroom has been lofted on the house’s upper floor. The bedroom and the library have slanted ceilings in the angle of the roof.

Lompier Interior Group

The warmer colour scheme of the bedrooms is apparent in this room. The rich reds, yellows, and reds replicate the organic tones on the exterior landscape, but remain grounded with all the traditionally styled black furniture.

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A pair of symmetrical guest bedrooms on the second floor were created mainly for the owners’ two brothers — each in a really different fashion. This one has a more romantic and traditional appearance, meant to evoke the feeling of a secure haven. The thought was that this room would become a sheet of youth the women could always go back to.

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The second guest bedroom has been completed in a more contemporary, mature fashion. Each of these chambers could provide something quite different for each of the clients’ daughters when they’re living there.

Lompier Interior Group

The owner of the home was a frequent hunter, therefore Lompier & Co gave this room an Indiana Jones-like style. Two big white curtains make it seem as if you are peering from a tent in a 19th-century African expedition. The firm incorporated a huge array of finishes and materials, such as wood, leather, copper, and brass.

This room and the lofted master bedroom are the only rooms in which the building structure is shown to the interior through exposed beams and trusses.

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A Victorian fireplace has been installed into a custom made wood mantle. Paneling in darkened antic walnut was created for the rear wall to make the room feel much more like a traditional library area. The industrial looking light fixtures are from Ralph Lauren.

Lompier Interior Group

While the main rooms in the home have a very unique mix of fresh and contemporary fashions, each one of the bathrooms are extremely slick and streamlines versions of glass and marble. “This house’s style is quite hard to define, but transitional seems to be the best word,” Lompier states. “There is an eclectic combination of styles, ranging from Tudor from the exterior to contemporary in the bathrooms.”

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