While the space is beautiful, timeworn, and one-of-a-kind, Ginny says the most important thing to her was “just keeping it where the boys could live in it, and if they messed things up, it would actually look better.”
Behind the range sits a beautiful French antique made of wood and plaster. Ginny found the piece on a shopping trip in France and says it was an old built-in piece that came out of a home in the south of France.
![“I think my own personal style is a bit of French design [and] a little bit of English, but I just love that overly collected, curated, layered space that looks lived in and comfortable,” Paige says.](https://thecottagejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Photo-May-05-2022-2-46-08-PM_OTR-feat-218x150.jpg "Designer Paige Kontrafouris Layers Her 100-Year-Old Home with Collected Treasures")
