Decor Insights: The Angle's Salaciously Simple Saltbox from Canadian House & Home

The pictures speak for themselves – this place is drop dead gorgeous. Located on a 52-acre plot with an immaculate hilltop view in Nova Scotia, Canada, it is the vacation home (screw that, I’d live there year-round!) of Eliot and Alexandra Angle, better known as Aqua Vitae Design in Los Angeles.

Featured in the June 2009 issue of Canadian House & Home Magazine, I spent more time looking at these pictures than I wish to admit. I was hoping to find a gallery on the CH&H website, but they didn’t have one … so I took some snapshots of the magazine instead.

Thanks to the currently shit-tastic lighting here in New England (it’s only been cloudy for a month now!), the snapshots didn’t come out that great. The photographer, Janet Kimber, posted a few images from the shoot on her website – these will give you a much better idea of just how stunning this place is.

So much natural light & so little “stuff” – a perfect combination! The main thing that I don’t like about the condo my husband and I are hoping to land (we are writing an offer now) is that there aren’t enough windows a.k.a. natural light. This house in Nova Scotia has that in spades! Oh well, for our first place, we didn’t expect to get everything we wanted; the condo also has carpet throughout (ew!) and we’ll plan to put in wood floors throughout eventually (when we can afford it).

Until then, the Angle’s vacation home gives me countless ideas for my future dream home. I plan to have as little “stuff” as possible in our new place, but I don’t want it to feel vacant … a tough balance, if you ask me: airy yet comforting, not sparse or deserted.

The Angle’s place also gave me some great new resources for decor items:

Rugs (which I used to hate but am now enamored with) – Fedora Design

Bedding – Plover Organic