where i livemartha angus hi i'm martha angus i'm an interior designer and an artist. i live in san francisco and i spent my weekendsin napa. which i love beyond belief. i built the house, designed and built it about five years ago and we're thrilled with the result. i bought it because i love the property it's one square acre and i was very just crazy about the big old oak trees in the frontand the vineyards in the front and the back
as an interior designer i like to do spaces with good bones and fairly neutral uh fairly neutral colorsand then and like to sort of go in and put like sort of splashes of colors sort of like the bright green sofas or the bright artwork, but i basically like a veryneutral very simplistic space. it's classic but it's clean and i'd like to sort of throw in bits of sort of quirky objects and powerfulcontemporary art
this house has just good energy and wonderfullight fantastic light i love the fact that it faces two vineyards,i had the luxury of having vineyards but not having to maintain them and i love to just walk down the lane buya bottle of wine, bring it back for dinner knowing that the grapes came from my backyard. i have a lot of are and passionate about art, it'sprobably the most important thing to me other than design. i also love to shop in france, a lot of the thingsi bought,
i bought in the flea markets in france, i bring them back for my clients and a few for myself these two wood panels i bought in new york cityin an antique shop and the dealer didn't know where they camefrom so i'm not sure how she happened upon them but i think they're antique wall panels. the dog is pluto. pluto i bought in the south offrance. he used to be an a merry-go-round, he was outside so much he lost his paint, but to me he's sort of the jeff koons poor man's sculpture.
my favorite space is in here it's in the living room i like to sit on that chair, i like to just sort of take in the lightcoming in read a book i think pottery barn likes to use my houseas a backdrop to their furniture in catalogs because it'svery neutral it's a large space it has good bones. when i open the catalogs i love racing through them and i find, i find my house as a background in quite a few of the pictures and i'm always like
oh my gosh look at this it's my living roombut they made it into a bedroom, how clever is that? so i love discovering them this house is my own personal expression ido things for clients and i do things their way, but it's kind of of real luxury tobe able to do things as i envision them pottery barn