Sarah Naseer took her color cues from the backyard. Tour her living, dining and family rooms and get the sources for her Farrow & Ball paints and favorite finds.
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Open Sarah Naseer’s front door and your eye goes right through the dining room to the backyard. It’s the view that gets the most “oohs and ahhs” from guests, Sarah says, even with a good contender right underfoot: the vintage Moroccan rug in the entry. When she and her family moved from Brooklyn to Weston, Connecticut, they fell for the bones of this midcentury Dutch Colonial and the chance to raise their son with more room to play. Inside, the rooms were mostly white and gray. Sarah already knew where to look for color.
She left the windows bare so she could see as much of the yard as possible. Then she took the greens she saw outside and brought them indoors, changing the shade as she moved from room to room. You can follow that thread from the front hall, but the dining room is where it really takes hold.
A vintage Moroccan rug greets you at the front door. From the kitchen, a doorway frames the green dining room.
A dining room with a fresh take on “Fruit”
In the dining room, Sarah painted the woodwork in Farrow & Ball’s Beverley Green, from the wainscoting up to the crown molding and around the French doors. Between those bands of green, William Morris’s Fruit wallpaper picks up the garden theme with curling leaves and clusters of fruit.
One of Sarah’s favorite pieces is the antique French china cabinet she found in Litchfield County. Its worn wood looks right at home against the crisp green paneling. The brass sconces, also antique, were found at Fairfield County Antiques. Across the room, a green lamp with a patterned shade and a landscape painting the couple bought together sit on the Highgate Cabinet from McGee & Co., also the source for the dining table. We love how much there is to notice in this room, even before you sit down in the O&G Studios Windsor chairs and bench.
Two corners of the dining room: Sarah’s antique French china cabinet and a green Cabana x OKA lamp against the same “Fruit” wallpaper.
A family room in Farrow & Ball Green Smoke
“This is where we spend pretty much all of our time,” Sarah told us. There’s room to pile onto the leather sofa or play games on the plaid rug. As she admits in the tour, she did hide a few toys for us.
Here Sarah used Farrow & Ball’s Green Smoke on the walls, window trim and sashes. The gray in it makes it softer than the dining room green, and it shifts with the daylight. Painting the window frames the same color keeps your eye moving out toward the trees. Look back into the room and you’ll see how well the green sits next to the red brick of the fireplace and the warm brown leather.
The mix of patterns is just as personal as the paint. Sarah grew up with textiles from her grandparents in India, and she still looks for ways to bring that love of color, embroidery and handwork into her rooms. On the sofa, patterned pillows are piled against the worn leather. One of the lampshades is made from vintage sari fabric. The pink fabric shade is in a Fermoie fabric.
Green Smoke wraps the family room walls and window trim, alongside red brick, a leather sofa and a plaid Schoolhouse rug.
A hallway that gives a peek into the great room
In the nook between the kitchen and entry, an antique British pine cabinet and a ladder-back chair sit beneath a pair of scalloped sconces from Nickey Kehoe. A clean-lined mirror from Pottery Barn adds a modern edge to the patina’d pieces. The mirror has another purpose: it gives you a glimpse all the way into the great room, something Sarah says delights her every day. In the sweet breakfast nook, a pendant from Lulu & Georgia
A hallway mirror catches the great room in its reflection. In the breakfast nook, a woven pendant hangs above a table set for a game.
A quiet turn to cream in the great room
In the great room, Sarah kept the palette soft so the original stone fireplace and its thick timber mantel could hold their own. Two Akari paper pendants hang from the original woodwork, drawing your eye up to the vaulted ceiling. Down at sofa level, there are books to flip through and flowers on the table. And once again, there’s nothing between you and the view.
Sarah’s advice for getting that feeling at home is to start outside and think beyond paint: try a piece of old pine, some rattan, or florals against neutral upholstery. In her great room, the windows do most of the work.
In the cream great room, paper pendants hang from the original beams and the bare windows keep the trees in view.
Sarah, the former CEO of FEED, is bringing her love of textiles to Souk du Sud, her slow fashion line, which she plans to launch in early 2027.
Sarah Naseer at home in Weston, wearing a top by Maison Hotel.
From Sarah Naseer’s front door in Weston, Connecticut, you can see straight through to the backyard. That view inspired the greens she carried through her midcentury Dutch Colonial, from the bold woodwork in her William Morris dining room to the softer Green Smoke of the family room. Come inside for the video tour, Tory Williams’s photographs, and Sarah’s paint colors and favorite sources.