As you might have expected, the home of candle magnate Baroness Monica von Neumann is classy, luxurious and beautiful. However, it’s the simple things that make her home welcoming and warm like the smell of home-cooked food, the flickering ambiance created by the sight of a lit candle, an orchid’s vibrant colors. By blending the classic and contemporary, the simple and the elegant, the Baroness’s home is a valid reflection of her down-to-earth nature, albeit married into aristocracy.Monica likes taking a style that is modern and adding lots of comfort with plenty of touches of romance, including fresh flower displays and loads of cuddly warmth, with accompaniments like soft rugs.

In spite of her celebrity status and Austrian noble title, Monica is from quite humble beginnings. She was born in Detroit in the state of Michigan, buts her parents raised her in Los Angeles in California. She was a dancer and model before meeting and marrying the Austrian baron, John von Neumann, in 1984.

American singer-songwriter Garth Brooks and his partner Trisha Year wood, who is herself a singer, author, and actress, live - among other places - in a Ranch House in Malibu.

It's a single-story building, erected in the late 1950s, and boasts four bedrooms, three and half bathrooms, in an area that spans about 4,236 square feet.

The couples have been using it as their Malibu family retreat but it is far from lavish by either Hollywood or Nashville standards.
No pool but still valued at $7.5 million

The Beckhams’ London home has a grand façade that has not been altered for 150 years. The footballer David and his singer, model and fashion entrepreneur wife Victoria are believed to have spent £30million for the London house on one of the smartest Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea streets. The renovation budget is understood to be £5million.

It contains more than 9,000 square feet of space and is one of the largest houses in the area, with eight bedrooms and just seven bathrooms.
Victoria’s chosen interior designer is her friend, Kelly Hoppen. The mansion has four nail bars, just in case the Beckhams have a group of guests to stay. The kitchen is restaurant-standard and the gym has a fish tank.

If sprawling lawns and impressive masonry is your style, but you lack the pounds to purchase a French chateau, perhaps toning it down to suit your individual home is not the impossible task you think it is. If the exterior of your home cannot change to incorporate this impressive style, don’t be dismayed. Turn your home interior into a chateau with a few clever touches.

Take time to pick the furniture

We’ve all been inspired by a film in certain aspects, however, when it’s a design aspect we tend to leave it on the back burner for the fear of seeming foolish. Here are seven films that stirred up the designer in us all, and quite possibly ended up costing more than the movie ticket.

1.    Patrick Swayze’s cabin in Dirty Dancing