20 | Oregon Home At the same time, they tackled the outdoor spaces, which benefited from a larger-than-average backyard for the area. But the project truly found its aesthetic voice with the plan for the mudroom, which was repositioned for a more accommodating entrance. The collaborators chose local Portland maker Lonesome Pictopia’s “Solomon’s Seal” wallpaper for the mudroom and, with it, a dark gray-blue that would be used throughout the rest of the home. They loved the paper featuring the Pacific Northwest flowering native that grows in shade, which Van Sickle also grows in her garden. “There is still a lot of light in that room, so it never feels dark,” Van Sickle says. The pattern for the mudroom floor tiles was based on a larger-scale slate flooring from Van Sickle’s house in Ohio, which had been designed by her grandfather. Van Sickle had found photos of the slate floor and re-created the pattern in PowerPoint, and then a tiler painstakingly cut every tile and laid it to match the design.
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