start the drooling now… In the spirit of schools and libraries and such, I’m SO ridiculously excited to share this home renovation from Dana Hardy and her husband Paul, of Meadowbroke. They are tackling this house one room at a time and I stumbled on to their blog recently to find this!! I’m so jealous I can hardly stand it. Read below to see pics of this super chic, dark, cozy library all done by these two incredibly talented and creative people. The colors (or lack there of) are absolute perfection. It all reminds me a bit of Roman and Williams. Which I love.

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before, well during really… This is a shot of mid construction. They built ALL of this. If you want to follow the full story visit their blog for the scoop.

after…

I loved this door so I asked Dana for some details: they are from a local convent that was demolished. Our amaing realtor purchased the rights to the building and saved all of the beautiful things inside befor the wrecking ball was taken to it. The doors themselves were the doors to the nuns rooms and is why they have the numbers on them, in fact the #5 door has a morning prayer pasted to the back. We got 3 doors and all of our picture molding from the convent, and Paul merged 2 of the single doors and made them into the giant double door for the library. So now our library/bar is behind door 75, which is very appropriate since the french 75 it is such a great cocktail. They have crazy awesome transom windows and all of their original hardware, not sure how old the convent was but its on our list of things to investigate next time at the library.

Shut the front door over this light?!?!? It’s awesome. Love the dark ceiling. I was freaking out over how fabulous and rich the ceiling was but the light and airy feeling of the light fixture really keeps it from feeling heavy.

And I knew you would ask about the paint colors, I’m one step ahead of you — via Dana: For the paint colors, the navy is sorceror, which is the darkest navy ever. Half of the time people come in the house and say they love our black or purple ceiling, however it is in fact a midnight blue. The grays on the wall are dark granite (the darker) and ashes(the lighter) and as we were painting i came to realize that the room feels like what I would imagine being inside of a bankers tie to feel like. Its a very masculine color combo which was a nice break from all the white on white that we’re doing in the rest of the house.