CHEERY COUNTRY: The 13 x 18-foot kitchen holds more than just a few favorite things.
• Color cue: Yellowware bowls, jadeite utensils and an eye-popping island make the kitchen the warmest room in the house.
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Take a tip from collector Patrick Thorpe and choose hues that make the most of your flea market finds.
By Dorothy Brigstock Schoenfeld
 atrick Thorpe’s house is in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but there’s a little bit of Haines Falls, New York, in it. That’s the rural community in the Catskill Mountains where Patrick hails from, and he brought from it some of the decorating style that makes his country-in-the-city home such a warm, comfortable, welcoming place.
Patrick bought his three-story, 1,100-square-foot house in 1997, exactly 100 years after it was built. He was attracted to it first because of its age (a regard for timeworn things having been instilled in him by his mother) and secondly because it was, he says, “an empty canvas,” ready for a brush with style.
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