Atelier Amor Milagre
The original designs by Amor Milagre are most appreciated by authentic romantics, sensitive people, and children of all ages. The designs balance the simplicity & complexity of every day life, the ideal dream life, the romance of simple pleasures, a sensitivity of materials, organic nature, natural light, flow, and functionality. Every detail is tailored to each project and to the user. Every choice is carefully made with sustainability and a healthy life cycle and use for all in mind. Known for an expert use of colour, with just the right balance of textural layering, Amor Milagre’s designs are unique and personalized for the senses of each beautiful soul. Design your life in beauty, peace, nature, and Love.
Custom design services are now available here online for many fields of design.
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Our Amor Milagre Sustainable Eco-Home Building & Renovation
Custom Design & Build: Interior, Exterior, Garden, System, & Lifestyle
First House: Dove Cottage was designed to feel like a tree house, using natural light and large windows to frame out the seasons. The design choices are European in style, specifically inspired by classic French and Italian homes. Nature is always the muse. In turn, I am inspired to write books and paint for a full, endless cycle friendship with the tree leaves, acorns, stream, and clouds. My designs include consideration for easy cleaning and short/long-term non-toxic living. All colours for this house were chosen to complement the surrounding forest for a calm, light, daily mood. There are two rooms with brighter colours, such as this raspberry wallpaper above (Designer’s Guild, London), and a soothing French Blue in the basement. When paired with neutrals, nature’s brighter colours still look natural and speak to the soul. The lighting choices of sconces enhance each chosen mood as the sun sets into evening. A bed of sleepy foxgloves and many perennial flowers cosy up in the front garden, and the organic edibles rest near the visiting deer family in the back garden. A green world of mossy whale-shaped rocks and endless trees and streams enchant the back woods.
My husband and I sold Dove Cottage, our first home, that we lovingly and sustainably hand-built with positive energy. We had to move due to the neighbour’s thoughtless acts of deforestation and various kinds of pollution. We have since moved from that house by the ocean to a house by the mountains where we have been renovating for the past 3 years with sustainable design choices and major room changes. See below for information on how to follow along with our renovation journey.
Second House: Our current New England home is called Rose Cottage.
I will soon be adding more to my Home & Garden Renovation Journal here on this website.
Follow along for the various renovation project reveals and design tips that I share as we renovate our New England home. My soulful designs are all about sustainability, organic nature, and a healthy sensitivity so that everyone can thrive.
Every inch of Rose Cottage, and the surrounding cottage gardens, are being gently designed and renovated by myself and my husband. We sell unwanted items and systems and replace them with efficient, sustainable materials and eco-systems. The colours are still natural, as were the colours for our first house, but many of the rooms have moodier shades such as dusty lavender for cosy nappers, deep plum-berry for romantic evenings by the hearth, caramel chocolate for a teddy bear/violin inspired bedroom, cream and green library-office-homeschool room to invoke fresh curiosity for little readers and for myself as I work on my books, and glowing dusty pink lingering baths in the moonlight. The rest of the house is a heavy cream, as is the exterior after painting over a gloomy grey-blue colour. Our custom built-in storage & furniture is either natural wood, creamy, or a gorgeous moody shade. This storage allows for a calm, organized home that is free of dusty clutter. We brightened up the rooms, and deepened others into the mood that each room was asking me for. When I choose colours for a room, I lean into the shadows and listen to the light. The gardens were made into a children’s fairyland playground with pathways to explore, arching patches of tall buzzing flowers, a large section for organic edible plants and orchard trees, new evergreens and spring bulbs, and endless blooms to peak into…as you know the faeries love to sleep in the petals.
Unfortunately, this new town and the neighbours here are extremely pollutive on a daily basis. This has made us sick, disturbed our daily life, cost us more in both money and in precious family time, and has slowed our renovations. It seems that there are not many places where people and towns are not polluting to a ill-making degree. Are there any? In the future, we will be searching to build a new eco-home somewhere quiet and unpolluted. There, we will preserve the nature around us and heal from the chaos the world keeps choosing. Wherever we go, we grow magic, oxygen, and lasting peace.
I simplify the home for the senses. Awareness is key. Too many lines, sounds, scents, etc are overwhelming and take energy. My designs give energy back and allow the dweller to rest and increase their health and energy for positive daily choices. We parged the brick chimney to rest the eyes (using leftover cream exterior parge from our first house), we unified the flooring and added a joint-healthy cork underlayment, and we changed the flow with new walls to quiet the home so one can think of beautiful ideas and sleep well. For the big job of changing out the old, loud (no sleep) heating system to radiant heating, flooring, changing rooms/entrances around, and for our daily projects, please visit my recent posts on instagram.
Many of my peaceful children’s books and novels have been written here, and you can sense my home and garden designs within the pages. A few upcoming children’s books are all about building and renovating. The Amor Milagre design and lifestyle book is also in the works. Check back for new book releases…
I recently opened up a new section in my shop for Flower Seeds from our organic Rose Cottage Garden.
Each season, new flower seed varieties will be added to my growing collection to encourage everyone to plant seeds everywhere for a green, healthy world.
