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"I love crusty old homes!” declares Chicago designer Jenny Holladay. While the Lincoln Park home that she shares with her husband, Whit, and two young children, ages six and three, is indeed old—the building dates back to the late 1880s—it is by no means crusty. In fact, it’s positively bursting at the seams with a garden’s worth of botanical prints in a spectrum of hues that might as well have been specifically prescribed as an antidote to the city’s famously long, dreary winters. An eight-year veteran of Summer Thornton Design, Holladay found herself in possession of the four-bedroom Victorian as the result of an assiduous house-hunting campaign. Determined to find a home in Lincoln Park that maintained its turn-of-the-century charm—“that gave me that jittery feeling inside of excitement and potential,” as she puts it—Holladay began dropping letters in the mailboxes of several promising-looking homes, asking if their owners might be willing to sell. When one wrote back, Holladay leapt to secure the property, which checked off many of her wish list items, like original plaster moldings and grand stone mantels. A few badly needed structural updates—the floors, electrical wiring and plumbing were in a sorry state—would be a small price to pay, she thought. The butterflies quickly turned to pure nerves when Holladay learned that she only had five months to pull off the renovation: Unbeknownst to her, her husband had gone ahead and sold their existing condo. “There was no discussion of a timeline—he’s in finance, so he didn’t really understand what would go into a project like this,” Holladay laughs. “I still give him a hard time about it!” Luckily, Holladay had the tool kit to pull it off, having worked alongside Thornton on numerous high-profile projects in historic homes. “I knew exactly who to call to build my cabinets and fix my plumbing and all of those other crucial things, thanks to her,” Holladay explains. She also credits Thornton with the design ethos she came to live by: When in doubt, just add pattern. And more pattern. And maybe another pattern, for good measure. “Summer taught me that pattern just brings so much life into a space,” says Holladay, who took a no-holds-barred approach to deploying them in her own home, where eye-catching motifs play a starring role in nearly every room, from the front hall to the third-floor closet. The unabashedly bold blue-and-white Pyne Hollyhock wallpaper in the living room (“I knew I wanted to use it before I even had a house!” says Holladay) is the backdrop to chintz-covered chairs and tiger-print pillows. In a guest room, the small-scale botanical on the walls plays nicely with a
ticking-stripe headboard and gathered ikat lampshades on the
bedside tables. When walls are left bare, ceilings received Holladay’s
pattern-happy treatment: A busy floral wallcovering pulls the eye
upward in the white-walled foyer, while a whimsical raspberry-hued
border of animals and palm trees highlights the existing
millwork in her daughter’s room. (That attention to the “fifth wall”
is yet another Thornton signature, the designer notes.)

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