When stylist and content creator Laurie Beaulieu first stepped inside this 1960s house on Laval’s Île Verte, it was love at first sight, and that feeling still steers the renovation today. The project is a slow, considered one: original character respected, terracotta, wood and stone left to develop their patina, every addition weighed against comfort, longevity and instinct rather than trend.
Nowhere is that philosophy clearer than in the living room, the heart of the home, where morning light pours through generous glazing. Here, a leather Togo armchair and footstool sit low and enveloping, an invitation to linger that Beaulieu says the family returns to daily, while the Nils settee has proven so essential that plans to replace it were quietly abandoned.
The thread continues through the house. In the bedroom, the Peter Maly bed structures the room and lends it an instantly calming air, softened by cushions that turn a corner of it into an evening reading nook. Sculptural accents, from the Pukka armchair to the Vallée Blanche chaise longue, carry the same soft-edged sensibility into the home’s timber-panelled corners.
The result is an interior Beaulieu sums up in three words: “bright, organic, enveloping.” A home where French craftsmanship and 1960s bones meet, and where the furniture is chosen not to impress, but to stay.
