Celebrating the 45th Anniversary of Show House

The Junior League of Boston is celebrating the 45th anniversary of its Show House fund-raiser. More than 20 of Boston’s top designers have transformed 25 rooms in the historic 1854 Nathaniel Allen House in West Newton. Owned by the Newton Cultural Alliance, the home is on the National Register of Historic Places and was a stop on the Underground Railroad. The show runs from May 7 through June 5. Tickets are $35 in advance and $40 at the door. For more information, go to www.BostonShowHouse.org.

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Bringing Showhouse Style Home

Text by Stacy Kunstel Photography by Stacy Kunstel

The Boston Junior League Show House is back! The historic Nathaniel Allen House in Newton has been transformed by some of Boston’s most noted interior designers.

Showhouses are like supermodels. They simply defy our grounded sense of reality and take beauty to its most extreme level. How do they do it? They do it with the help of designers given free reign to play out their unbridled fantasies in rooms that were once forlorn and decrepit.

Unlike a supermodel though, it’s possible to see a showhouse close up now through June 5 in Newton at the Boston Jr. League Show House.

Here’s a sneak peek of one of the featured rooms.

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Show me style at the Show House

By Marni Elyse Katz GLOBE CORRESPONDENT MAY 06, 2016
For this year’s Junior League of Boston Decorators’ Show House, more than 20 local designers transform 25 rooms in the Nathaniel Allen House, the site of the earliest co-educational school in the country and a stop on the Underground Railroad. From the gracious receiving room by Gerald Pomeroy and cozy bar by Cecilia Walker and Tracey Foley on the first floor, to a nursery done in designer Mally Skok’s own pink and purple prints, plus a preppy, chinoiserie chic-themed bedroom by Elizabeth Benedict on the second floor, there’s a wide range of talent and style on display. The Junior League of Boston 2016 Decorators’ Show House at The Nathaniel Allen House, 35 Webster St., West Newton, bostonshowhouse.org

Show House Stars

Join us on a tour of some of our favorite rooms from two recent show houses that featured the talents of New England designers.
Text by Paula M. Bodah
September – October 2016
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The Nursery
With its palette of pink and lavender on a creamy background, the nursery Mally Skok designed has all the sugar and spice a little girl wants. The playful mix of patterns in the fabrics and wallpapers—all from Skok’s own line of hand-screened products—gives the space the sense of whimsy, but any design-savvy mom or dad can appreciate the sophisticated tone Skok has achieved in a room designed to suit a girl as she grows from baby to teen.