Interiors: house of primary colours

By Elfreda Pownall 730AM GMT fifteen March 2010

Previous of Images Next Two selected Tolix chairs lay possibly side of the list in the kitchen Photo EMMANUEL BARBE Myriam with her father and their 3 sons Photo EMMANUEL BARBE A neutral credentials highlights the charming seat Photo EMMANUEL BARBE The children"s room island done from old cupboards Photo EMMANUEL BARBE Chinese clouded cover kites reflected in the counterpart in the sitting-room Photo EMMANUEL BARBE Customised mosaic tiles in the lavatory Photo EMMANUEL BARBE The children"s qualification college of music Photo EMMANUEL BARBE

The bieing born of a initial baby is a means for joy, for exhaustion, for excited nights, but really frequency the begin of a new career. Nine years ago Myriam de Loor, a Parisienne qualification teacher, had usually had her initial son, Emile, and was jubilant in a large parcel of baby garments sent from China by the relatives of her boyfriend, Pan Jang. "They were fantastic! The kind of patterns and splendid colours we had never seen in France, she says. Just at this time Pan Jang, a builder of Chinese kites, was display his things at the prestigious pattern satisfactory Maison & Objet outward Paris, and Myriam thought she would sire up his disconsolate mount by pinning the brightly phony Chinese baby garments on to the walls. The garments caused a sensation, buyers flocked to place orders and, with a small quick phone calls to the Chinese grandparents, Myriam unexpected found she had turn a stylist and businesswoman.

Emile has given been assimilated by dual brothers Tho, eight, and Pablo, five and Myriam runs her childrens wardrobe and interiors company, Petit Pan, with 4 shops in Paris, from their light and charming maisonette in the Bastille area. These days Myriam designs all the fabrics and products for the association not all of that are done in China and her love of splendid colour runs by the collection, as it does by her home.

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"I need colour to live, she says. "It sounds similar to a bit of a clich, but I know that if I dont get my each day sip of colour I lose my balance. There is small possibility of that in her colourful flat. The white embellished walls and floors are "just a base, so I can shift the colours in the bedrooms at your convenience I feel similar to it.

On the tip building are the kitchen and the sitting-room, the latter of that serves during the day as Myriams pattern studio. Here are shelf on shelf of potion honeyed jars filled with buttons of each figure and size, piles of folded fabrics and boxes lonesome in her own wallpaper designs, filled with braids and trimmings. Hanging from the roof are silk and bamboo Chinese kites in the figure of clouds, and there are chairs and a sofa, loose-covered (with a opposite colour for each cushion) in the velours Myriam uses to have trousers for Petit Pan. Everything is reflected in the white-painted fleamarket mirrors.

When the young kids come home from propagandize Myriam puts afar her designs and the room becomes the family sitting-room. But it is some-more than expected that after tea they will all go down to the childrens own college of music on the belligerent floor. Here they paint, have mosaics from damaged china or erect mobiles, and the here, too, that she has undertaken her own customising plan for the bathroom. "I paid for a small sheets of customary white mosaic tiles, afterwards prised out a small pieces at random, re-enamelled them in splendid colours and stranded them back. A bit of a fiddle? "I suspect it was, she says, laughing. "But we love you do things for the house. Besides, the so easy to do.

On the center building there is an additional conspicuous one-off building a whole an sparkling sleeping height in Tho and Pablos room has been done from Ikea cupboards and shelving units brought from their former flat. "We took them detached to have their own island. You can see where the steps are done from shelves. Underneath is a cosy included in a mailing bedroom, and everywhere there is splendid patterned bedlinen from her collection. "We built the island to try and convince the boys not to come in to the bed at night. Weve usually been in this place for a year and I think the commencement to work.

In her bedroom, too, the bedlinen is her own design, in comfortable colours for winter and some-more clear ones for open and summer. It is Pablos prime place to lay and play. Like most a less beautiful mother, Myriam has found that however interesting you have your childrens own bedroom, they still cite to fool around in yours.

Find Petit Pan designs at petitpan.com, bobokids.co.uk and aimelondon.com