Storybook interior design

Storybook Mountain Estate is right out of a storybook—fashioned after storybook type of architecture. The main house is a storybook dream, with its turrets, stone, and archways. Imported red clay tile floors run throughout the home, which has cozy nooks as well as large rooms perfect for entertaining.

Storybook style architecture is a uniquely American form of architecture that originated in the Los Angeles area in the 1920s. A new book details the style's history.

There are few things I than a cozy cottage. Click the pics to peek inside!

The Storybook Style that swept the US in the 1920’s and 30’s conjures up all of these, and mixes the quaint, quirky, whimsy and magic together.

A team preserves this home's historic elements while not shying away from adding modern features.

Anthony Abode - Traditional - Home Office - Minneapolis - by Emily Pueringer Design Studio | Houzz

stairs lead to an upstairs landing with home library shelves

Tucked into the woods of Maine, an enchanting and whimsical house that's part castle and part storybook cottage is waiting for its first inhabitant.

Home sweet gnome? This 1923 house in Los Angeles exemplifies the fairy-tale subset of Historical Revival homes of the early 20th century.

Exploring the history of this all American style.

At Studio Wu's latest project in Marin, a suspended Orca whale greets visitors when they walk through the door.

The Storybook Style that swept the US in the 1920’s and 30’s conjures up all of these, and mixes the quaint, quirky, whimsy and magic together.

How Los Angeles-based design firm Nickey Kehoe modernized this stylistically eccentric home