This 1920s Southern Cottage Looks Like It Was Plucked Right Out England
The fa?ade of the early 20th-century cottage is studded with American boxwoods, which border the home’s large casement windows. While the glass on the lower level is framed in wood, the upstairs windows are encased in steel.
Homeowner and designer William Eubanks, a Memphis native.
Just inside the entry, a portrait of the Earl of Leicester hangs over a roaring fire.
Eubanks furnished the east end of the drawing room with a 19th-century oak draw-leaf table and Charles II-style walnut chairs from the same period. The cut velvet draperies are by Scalamandré.
A plush sitting area is awash in warm, rich fabrics and finishes; among them, gold chenille sofa fabric and fringe by Christopher Hyland, a gilt-wood tree-form cocktail table, and an antique Sultanabad rug.
A handsome "window office" is outfitted with statuary and antique porcelain.
An arrangement of tulips in full bloom echo the rich red fabrics throughout the house.
A favorite Rose Cumming floral dresses the walls, windows, and furniture of the guest bedroom.
“It’s like the garden has come inside," says Eubanks of the profusion of florals in the twin guest room.
Eubanks designed the labyrinth-style gardens himself. "I don't think there's a bad view from any window," he says.
The interior canopy fabric in the master is crafted of green herringbone velvet, bringing in another connection to the emerald gardens below.
Designer and antiques dealer William Eubanks' home in Memphis, Tennessee is a Tudor-style cottage charmingly blanketed in ivy, creeping fig, and white O’Hara climbing roses. Oak Leaf hollies line the brick path to the cottage's back entrance.
Before he moved in, Eubanks added more than a quarter acre of formally planted rooms and courtyards.
Statuary and fountains amidst the maze of lush plantings and boxwood pathways lend the gardens a meditative quality.
White O'Hara climbing roses mingle with ivy and creeping fig on the aged brick exterior.
Entry Courtyard
The fa?ade of the early 20th-century cottage is studded with American boxwoods, which border the home’s large casement windows. While the glass on the lower level is framed in wood, the upstairs windows are encased in steel.
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