For a look at the height of home style, tour model and musician Karen Elson’s Nashville home
Nashville has plenty of beautiful, well-appointed homes (we just shared some great ones last week). But if you’re drawn to the height of current style, supermodel and musician Karen Elson might have a few pointers for you.
English-born Elson probably saw more of the world by her 18th birthday than most of us do in a lifetime, with modeling stints from London and Paris to Tokyo. And she’s appeared on some of the globe’s most fashion-forward pages, on the covers of magazines like Vogue and Elle. After she moved to Nashville with then-husband Jack White, Elson moved into the music world too, releasing 2010 debut The Ghost Who Walks, which quickly turned her into a club-circuit draw.
So her bona fides for well-rounded style are pretty decent — and unsurprisingly, that seems to extend to home decor. As she leads up to the release of her new album, Double Roses (out April 7, 2017), Elson invited Architectural Digest into her Nashville home to get an intimate look into her design taste.
The photos, which you can click through here, show a high-end home that doesn’t feel unapproachable, with very little that’d be called “neutral,” but a long list of details that’d definitely be called cool, from the dramatic tiled fireplace to the wow-worthy La Cornue range in the kitchen.
Elson picked the historic Nashville home, she told Architectural Digest, because it reminded her of a cottage back in England, and “all I ever wanted was an English country house in Nashville.”
Up at the top, check out a video that points out key design choices from Elson’s place, and how you might steal them.
And if Karen Elson’s home-decor style appeals to you, here are a few properties on the market now in the Nashville area that echo some of its attributes and/or aesthetic inspiration:
2006 B Overhill
Nashville, TN 37215
$974,650
In Elson’s home, even though the upscale range is a kitchen focal point, the backsplash is no shrinking violet — it’s unique and bold too. Same goes for the tile choice in this new Green Hills home. This is more subdued than Elson’s, but it pulls forward the copper and white in a similarly striking way.
2300 Elliott Ave
Nashville, TN 37204
$995,000
If you’re also drawn toward historic aesthetics and vintage sensibilities, this 1885 home in the 12 South/Melrose area might be worth a look. It’s updated without being modernized, so the historic vibe is fully intact. And if Elson’s eye-grabbing range caught your attention in particular, look up there, in the right corner.
2121 W Linden Ave
Nashville, TN 37212
$1,150,000
Judging from the Architectural Digest tour, Elson’s probably never told her designer, “I’ll just take the white subway tile, please.” In her master bath, a serious soaking tub sits on top of really arresting encaustic tile. You won’t see similar tiles in too many Nashville homes, but this fully renovated 1930 home in Hillsboro/West End goes big in that department, too.
5134 Stanford Dr
Nashville, TN 37215
$1,395,000
If you’re looking for a particularly unique tiled fireplace in Nashville, odds are you’ll have to go custom after the fact, like Karen Elson did. But this large Oak Hill home — designed by famed Nashville architect Edwin Keeble and built in 1932 — has a fireplace worth keeping, and the bones to stand up to some daring renovations, if you went that route.
4300 Lillywood Rd
Nashville, TN 37205
$1,850,000
This mid-century contemporary home in Royal Oaks has a totally different, much sleeker vibe than Elson’s place, but one thing they have in common: an appreciation of really daring, really cool wallpaper.
Does Karen Elson’s home inspire you to redesign yours? Or get you thinking about a new Nashville home that’s a little closer to “all I ever wanted”? Let us know if you’re leaning toward the latter, and we’ll start looking for your dream home.
Included listings via MLS, not under agreement with Radius Residental Partners and/or Village Real Estate, unless noted.
Published on 2017-03-15 21:10:48
