SENECALIBRARY – AssociationI create a home that is a safe and nurturing place for me, where I am free to gather myself.
post image

Whimsical Chateau in the Pacific Northwest

Just around the corner from downtown Lake Oswego sits a beautiful French chateau, which makes you feel a world away. Dede Marriott has dwelt within this magnificent, unforgettable home for three decades. The home has been created in 2003 by Gösta and Mary Nilson, owners of Marquess of Granby Antiques in Lake Oswego. Dede thing about her home? It was built for, and around, a few exceptional antiques instead of being built first and afterwards looking for pieces to match the home. Dede has intertwined the old with the new to create a cozy, functional and historical home.

in a Glance
Who lives here: Dede Marriott and her puppy Mina
Location: Lake Oswego, Oregon
Size: 4,500 sq. ft., two-story detached house with 4 bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms

Whitney Lyons

Marriott’s home makes a bold curbside statement. To the right is a three-car garage which has a little living room above for guests. The house sits on a half-acre of property. There’s no grass on the house making yard work a simple endeavor. The driveway is quarter round gravel and is safer to walk on than pea gravel since it doesn’t roll under foot.

The beautiful French doors in the entry are 300 years old. They’re complete with classic hardware and also a sliding bolt latch that are styled out by hand-chiseled stone blocks.

Whitney Lyons

The shutters from the dining area are 200 years old. In the cabinet is a flag created in Portland, Oregon in 1910 that reads”fearless and true.” The flag was created for Portland’s”Liedertafel,” a singing society composed of German immigrants that settled in Portland.

Persian rug: O’Gallerie auction

Whitney Lyons

Marriott has a unique knack for mixing the old with the new, the elaborate using all the plain and the unique together with all the ordinary. She decorates boldly, mixing pieces most people would not think to combine but wish they had. “I don’t have one design — it’s eclectic. There’s a story to everything I accumulate,” says Dede.

The chandelier in Marriott’s living room is in the 1700s and after hung within a castle in Germany. Beautiful Persian rugs and embroidered tablecloths also from Germany complete the diverse room. She combines the old and the newest in this area using a leather sofa from Anthropologie.

Whitney Lyons

Marriott went all out with decorating for the holidays this season. Her house was one of five homes in the Lake Oswego Holiday Tour that happened on December 8. Children’s novels gave her inspiration for a”gnome dinner party.” According to the novels, gnomes are vegetarians. Marriott served her gnomes lettuce, mushroom, milk while the tour happened.

This gnome is a great addition to Marriott’s vacation theme. She discovered him along with all the cosmetic mushroom and stocking Digs Inside and Out in northeast Portland.

Whitney Lyons

Marriott doesn’t buy anything unless it’s available, and also these gnome dishes from Digs Inside and Out are no exception. She also found gnome-themed wine toppers out of Digs Inside and Out as a fun addition to her tabletop collection. Although Marriott has discovered a number of her collections in Digs Inside and Out, she doesn’t have a favorite shop. “I only love to shop. I wish I did have a favorite shop. It would be much simpler! I find things all over the place,” she states.

Dede loves her kitchen cabinets. The translucent cupboard doors replicate chicken wire. As there’s absolutely no glass on the cabinets, minimal cleaning is needed.

Whitney Lyons

“I am a collector. I can not only have anything,” says Marriott. When she discovered this classic tiger carpet, she had a few Steiff tigers. She has continued to improve her collection during the years.

Whitney Lyons

This 80-year-old dressing table from Europe was installed when the house was built.

Whitney Lyons

The chandeliers through the house have been antiques from France. The mirror has been bought from Stars Antique Mall from the Sellwood neighborhood of Portland.

Her walk-in cupboard uses curtains as a space-saving alternative to doors.

Whitney Lyons

Marriott’s library holds many of her late mother’s belongings, including this white carpet from Atiyeh Brothers which has a 1920s Austrian design. Above the desk hangs a painting of her mother, Gerda.

Whitney Lyons

This whimsical chair is constructed of cast iron antlers. Marriott located it at a card shop, of all places, in Beaverton, Oregon.

Whitney Lyons

It was love at first sight 20 years ago for Marriott’s mother Gerda when she watched this exceptional sheep foot feces while the family vacationed at Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Whitney Lyons

Drapes out of Pottery Barn enclose this outside area in winter. In summer time she pulls back the drapes to relish the Northwest sunshine.

In her backyard, Marriott utilizes industrial electrical pump housings and an old chili pot as flower pots.

Whitney Lyons

Marriott loves unique houses and has lived in several different historical homes across the Portland area. This may likely not be the last home that Marriott decorates, but it will have a extraordinary home to lure her to leave this one.

More Tours:

Traditional Home Goes Coastal

Northwest Home using a Mountain View

Traditional Splendor in Minnesota

See related

Archives

  • February 2023
  • January 2023
  • December 2022
  • November 2022
  • October 2022
  • September 2022
  • July 2022
  • June 2022
  • May 2022
  • April 2022
  • March 2022
  • February 2022
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
  • March 2017
  • February 2017
  • January 2017
  • December 2016
  • July 2016

Calendar

October 2018
M T W T F S S
« Sep   Nov »
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293031  

Categories

  • Bathroom
  • Bathroom Guides
  • Bedrooms
  • Budgeting Your Project
  • Coastal Style
  • Color
  • Concrete
  • Decorating Guides
  • Dining Room
  • Doors
  • Eclectic
  • Eclectic Homes
  • Electrical
  • Fireplaces
  • Floors
  • Flowers and Plants
  • Furnishings
  • Furniture
  • Garden
  • Gardening and Landscaping
  • Global Style
  • Halloween
  • Handyman
  • Home
  • Home Cleaning
  • Home Offices
  • Home Painting
  • Hvac
  • Kitchen
  • Kitchen Guides
  • Life
  • Lighting
  • More Room Guides
  • Organizing
  • Patios
  • Remodeling
  • Renting and Tenant Rights
  • Roofs
  • Saving Water
  • Small Bathroom
  • Stone
  • Tile
  • Traditional Architecture
  • Trim
  • Tropical Style
  • Uncategorized
  • Wall Treatments
  • Water Damage
  • Windows
  • Wine Cellars
  • Yellow

Copyright SENECALIBRARY - Association 2025 | Theme by Theme in Progress | Proudly powered by WordPress