Gun Nowak’s 12-acre spread in Germantown, New York, overlooks the Hudson Valley and the Catskill Mountains.
A lantern hangs above the rustic wood front door.
The living room features a cast-iron table and various seating pieces upholstered in silk. Religious totems, which Nowak collects, are displayed throughout the house.
Mirror-image love seats in the sitting room are upholstered in a floral print; the fauteuil is covered in velvet.
An antique French book cabinet fills a corner of the living room.
Nowak found the caned dining chairs at the Brimfield Antique Show in Massachusetts.
Nowak applied Chalk Paint to the cushion fabric on the Swedish chairs and ottoman in the master bedroom.
Striped silk curtains frame a marble-topped table in the downstairs bathroom.
The circular cast-iron clothing rack in the master bath is American.
Across the hall, Nowak has neatly arranged her largely black wardrobe in her walk-in closet, once a bedroom.
A guest room includes a pair of Swedish twin beds and a Swedish armchair; the armoire is American.
In her home office, Nowak has repurposed a Swedish farm table as her desk.
This article appears in the September 2016 issue of NYC&G (New York Cottages & Gardens).