Dream homes – a beautiful home in a castle vintage

A home of your dreams, unique and suspended in time and space: those in the images are the interiors of an ancient castle, restored by the owners and partly converted into a hotel, which houses a truly magical atmosphere. And with a “design” a fairy tale. “Once upon a time …” is how I would spontaneously begin this story, because the inspiration. “Once upon a time …” is how I would spontaneously begin this story, because the inspiration is the same fairy tale, if you’re in a place like this. Suspended in time, suspended in space, Perpetually on the edge of something, always been a crossroads of steps required.

Proceno: here, 600 souls, in the heart of the hinterland Italian, that little strip of land that lies between Lazio, Tuscany and Umbria, there is a house where the clocks have stopped ticking and where to stay to enjoy a quiet unavailable anywhere else is inevitable. This house, which in past centuries was castle, Contains traces of a living past, fits in with this almost as a real time machine. Set foot in these rooms back to a size that I thought forgotten, the sound of silence up here is really loud and the crackle of fire in the chimney, fill the whole atmosphere.

The Castle Proceno is a medieval fortress in the twelfth century, which includes three towers, battlements, a drawbridge, a fort and about 2 acres of parkland. Bisoni Cecchini family, which owns some 300 years the magnificent castle, has spent the last 15 years restructure the whole, While keeping intact the spirit of history and culture that permeates deeply. And after the death of some family members to fill rooms left empty, the owners decided to convert part of the castle into a resort, unique in a sense very special, because alternative for tourists in search of unusual experiences, outside the circuits of mass, but still close to the most important historical cities of Italy.

But most of the building still remains the family home, A house in front of which you can not help but admire his mouth open, just like in a museum. In the so-called music roomFor example, one can not but be delighted by a “fortepiano” original (one of the ancient ancestors of the piano), a mandolin antique, vintage harp, placed between sofas and chairs, plants and carpets, as in a real and 700 at the end of their living room, a place of cultural exchange, meeting fascinating. Where I would have liked to play as the time to sing and put some air chamber.
In addition to furniture, and decorations belonging to the ancestors and from a past that only serves to add luster to rooms, there are numerous original ideas and valuable of delicious hostess, showing inventiveness absolutely in line with the atmosphere of this place.

Thus, an old guitar, a mandolin and a vintage rifle has become the foundation for beautiful shades, and a transparent floor opens a door to another world in the basement, the old cellar, which now houses the wine bar of the resort ( where you can sample traditional dishes and really great). Another world because not only the medieval echoes to be heard in this place, a far more distant past looks in these rooms, with roots in Italian history and peoples who have inhabited since time immemorial. The Etruscans have left many traces in these places, and artifacts found in the family land, are now on display in his house as a museum, of course authorized by the Superintendency. In one of the magnificent rooms of this house-museum, vases and other pieces are lined up on shelves, as well as down Enoteca amphora set into the wall and lit pieces suspended in the transparent floor to introduce a level even below, already used just by the Etruscans.

Every detail in this place has been carefully: The choice of fabrics to that of the objects, with excellent service to you courtesy of the hosts. And the result of a restructuring so punctual is truly amazing: a interior design from the pastBut faces the future with great skill, to create a place away from whatever you have now become familiar and welcome those who, for whatever reason, go looking elsewhere a place to call home “.