Jane Foster ⋆ Design Mom

Have you ever seen a breath of fresh air? It usually appears suddenly, boldly, always beautifully, and leaves you much happier than you were just a second ago. And that’s exactly how I’d describe Jane Foster’s home. Jane is a brilliant screen printer and fabric wizard who lives in Totnes Devon in the UK with her partner and young daughter. Together they’ve built a contemporary modern eco home where she creates all of her happy designs. I promise her home tour will make you want to paint every wall in your house white!

Please say hello to Jane!

Hello. I’m Jane. Three words to describe my decorating style are retro, cheerful, and mid-century modern.

This is our caravan, we use it for holidays in Cornwall.

The red poppy table and pink couch were both from different antique shops in Brighton. I spotted the Marimekko formica table in a junk shop one Sunday and phoned them to ask if I could buy it. They opened up the shop the same day and sold it to me! The rest of the shop was old horrid-looking antiques so this caught my eye!

I don’t collect any one artist, just ones that catch my eye. I particularly love Scandinavian ceramics from the 50s and 60s. The cars and figurines are all from second-hand shops, car boot sales and eBay. The artwork on the walls is mostly my own or a friend’s.

The garden doors are open in the summer to create one large living space. We often have a paddling pool on the deck, rugs and floor cushions. It’s an easy, low maintenance space. In the winter, we make our space cozier by closing off the room with curtains and getting our log burner going.

The secret to using so many bright color together is: keep the walls white! I tend to prefer bold primary colours to pastels. I avoid black and brown and we have pale maple floor which also reflects the light and keeps the space bright and sunny.

The little piece in the corner that looks like slices of pie is a Dutch 1950s birch-ply sewing box! It’s one of my favourite belongings.

If you’re curious, we do have a very small TV that sits on a small low down table on casters so it can be wheeled in and out of the corner and is never a focal point!

My daugther loves that she can ride her scooter up and down the open plan space and can dance to my piano playing!

The two places I can’t leave without buying something for our home: a car boot sale or Ikea.

For design inspiration, I like looking through coffee table design books from the 60s and 70s. For example, The House Book by Terence Conran and anything by Marimekko.

My home works best when we’re all in one room doing what we all love: drawing, painting, or dancing to my piano playing. Mostly nursery rhymes for my daughter!

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Thank you for the tour, Jane!

Did you just add Buy White Paint to your to-do list? I did, too. Thank you, darling Jane, for inspiring us with your fresh style! By the way, I very much prefer car boot sale to flea market, don’t you? Be sure to keep Jane’s shop on your radar.