A continued journey of design inspiration, fulfillment and family values.

PART 2

Interior Design Mallorca by Nielsen House. Sarah Jane Nielsen as creator and lead designer of Nielsen House

Creative Personal Passion

This was an extraordinary reality, running our new home, schooling, Family health and community on the island of Mallorca rather than the familiar Lakeland territory of our English National Park.

Although this move was just life playing out as a family of four in a different country. I had to admit to experiencing an overwhelming pull from my creative heart and core that I could not ignore.

Enveloped in the beauty of these mountains, powerfully commanding over exquisite landscapes of vineyards, farmland and surrounding countryside, my personal desire for embracing nature and enriching my design and architectural creativity could not be contained. Each view was a canvas, the layering of textures and shadows through the olive trees, vineyards and almond groves were exquisite. The colour, tone and depth of the red earth, cultivated terracing. Layers of lime green, sage and grey in the trees and foliage were straight out of my natural colour palette. Throughout the seasons, the fertile lands and imposing stone mountains enthralled me.

Autumn and Winter, always a favourite. The familiar composition of sculpture and organic form from the now bare, but artistically cropped vines forming long rows of pattern like stitching from a sewing machine onto deep copper velvet cloth. Each poplar tree stretching upwards with military precision to a fine point like a watercolour brush in clusters around elegant fincas and the small practical stone sheds built everywhere to house necessary irrigation pumps. So intriguing, does anyone or anything live in there?

Throughout the seasons, the dolomite and limestone breaks through the earth, out of the low-lying valley floors providing a characteristic flat top of green cover when seen from a distance. A truly unique Mediterranean landscape, and there is nothing more magical than hiking up through the low slopes and stone terraces to the heights where pungent herbs such as Thyme and Rosemary lie beneath the tall stone pine, aged oak and knarled olive trees. The views take your eye over the full width of the island to the sea beyond.

And then there is the sky! Wow! On an island like this the sky just does not stop surprising.

Between the sea and the mountains. Ever evolving. The cloud formations are so varied, one minute powerful and heavy with the following light and fragile constantly providing your imagination shapes and silhouetted forms of dancing horses, waves from the sea and cityscapes. I have never seen such strengths of warm tones of colour – salmon pink, flamingo, peach, apricot leaning towards lilacs. The sunsets and the sun rise with equal beauty and wonder. ( I note as a northern hemisphere lass, I have of course been fortunate enough to witness the northern lights in there flaming glory. So rare a spectacle, however in contrast, a palette of cool greens and blues in the dark skies sprinkled with white lights)

This Mediterranean vision is full of warmth and hope. Constantly changing the clouds and mist gather round the mountain tops and settle in the valleys where often you will see the clearest, most defined rainbow in its full exceptional splendor. This landscape is a constant source of complete ecstasy and inspiration.

Sensory interior solutions here in Mallorca

My ever-existent drive for self-purpose and growth brought me to explore how this wonderfully fulfilling experience was best nurtured to ultimately allow me to portray and share my vision and inspiration with others who may benefit. As a Designer, it is my gift to others to be able to capture this inspiration and deliver it in a presentable form to encourage prospective clients to really look around them and embrace influences as their own. To become at one with their surroundings and truly co-exist between the outside and the interior of their island homes.

How perfect it would be to share my career experience and design confidence within a like minded client base here in Mallorca.

Each Finca, Castello, farm and small holding scattered over the island holds a story. Each totally intriguing and sometimes unexplored. There is a very apparent “untouched” ethos here of what looks like so many abandoned properties, projects in the making! Or so I thought, however, like others before me, I very quickly learned an important lesson on the island. If the land and property is in Mallorquin family ownership, as proud inhabitants, these buildings will remain Mallorquin owned forever, as always intended by their fathers and ancestors before them. The thought of selling family property is a complete NO, so where there may be no available finances, buildings do fall into disrepair and will stay in disrepair. I admire their tenacity and strength in family, its extraordinary and magnificent, considering most of us would see an investment opportunity.

However, with the utmost respect, fortunately for most prospective holiday home buyers here on the island, there are still extraordinary and magical properties in abundance, opportunities to purchase, renovate or rebuild to create your unique Mallorca family home and with stunning interior Design.

Properties, old and new continue to be sought after by an ever-increasing wealth of incomer, whether German, English, Scandinavian or Dutch making the Mallorca we know more and more exclusive. As New York opens up its skies to direct flights from New York to Palma, the American interior design market is beginning to thrive.

Nielsen House cannot be all to all men, however, it has a strong and experienced offering to the distinguished clientele who leave their front door keys with us, both in our English Lake District National Park as well as our newly discovered and shared passion for Serra de Tramuntana National Park here in Mallorca.

It is my aim to present and deliver a fresh and sensory Nielsen House Interior Design approach to like minded clientele who are searching for warmth, comfort and healthy well being ,Sarah Jane Nielsen will personally support and guide them towards their ideal home or investment project journey in the heart of this wonderful island, of course, with a great deal of heart.!

With Love

Sarah Jane Nielsen