“The home has a beautiful indoor-outdoor feel, with the layout and the positioning of the doors and when you walk up to the door, you can see through to the home and into the outdoor loggia. To emphasize this beautiful architectural element, we chose a large 24X48 concrete-look porcelain tile that starts at the entryway door and goes all the way through to the loggia, guiding the visual interest through the home. The art is a beautiful painting that I found at an estate sale that, because of the layers of paint and repair and patina, has been estimated to be circa 1800s. The juxtaposition of this old oil painting with the modern architecture and concrete tiles kicks off the look and feel of the whole home as an entry way should. At the base of the painting, we layered a Katie Skelton oak-with-linen-and-leather bench to create an art gallery feel, and the painting is lit with Cedar and Moss lighting. The center of the foyer has an Apparatus chandelier.”

“Over the kitchen the architect planned a 10-foot-long skylight that casts amazing natural light in the house all day long. The challenge with a skylight over an island, however, is that the island needs task lighting and at night the skylight isn’t providing that. We solved for this by creating a custom chandelier that was inspired by a holly berry branch I had placed in an arrangement in my own home. I sketched my concept and ADG Lighting did a fantastic job bringing it to life as an 8-foot-long linear light fixture. We suspended the light on the beams above the island and the lightbulbs are perfectly placed over the sink and seating areas, providing light where the client’s friends and family will sit to eat on the Stowed barstools.”

“Additionally, the sides of the island were very visible from the living and dining room areas and we wanted a solution that was really elegant. We came up with a thin oak vertical wood slat cladding detailing and our cabinet maker created it and installed it on the ends of the island beautifully. All the appliances in the kitchen were panel ready and on the wall with the refrigerators, we created an oak open-bar-beverage-station that will be used for tea and coffee service or drinks while entertaining.”

“In the dining room, the client collected beautiful chairs for seating, and we upholstered them in a vintage French linen with exposed gold zippers that can be unzipped for dry-cleaning. The large oak dining table was custom made by Community Manufacturing, and the light over the table, probably my favorite aspect of that room, is a beautiful Wo and We fixture from France that is adjustable and has the most lovely little gold detail inside each lamp.”

“Maison by the Sea has an open floor plan, and the dining and family rooms are not separated by a wall. So to create some distinction between them, we added two different gorgeous large windows which frame the family and dining room as two individual spaces. The dining room window is tall and perfectly centered on the dining room table. The family room window is long and that linearity lengthens the living room and frames the sofas.”

“For the family room, we had two white linen sofas made through Community Manufacturing that face each other and create a comfortable and casual feel.”

“The most special part of the family room is the Kater Boly painting that the client was able to commission.”

“If there’s ever a room to make a statement, it’s a powder bath. This was a small powder with high ceilings that was begging for drama. We cladded the walls with vertical batten board and painted the walls and ceiling with Iron Ore by Benjamin Moore. We used a deep 18-inch Calacatta viola vanity with wall mounted gold Kohler Purist fixtures. My favorite part of the powder is the Rouse Home lantern which casts an elegant hue around the room.”

“My favorite aspect of the office is the gorgeous leather chair from Jayson Home. It gives the room an architectural element that is seen from around the property – even when you are at the pool looking in.”

“When designing the bedroom, our main objective was to create a beautiful retreat space for our clients. We designed a fireplace surrounded by plaster shelving and styled with a beautiful collection of meaningful antiques. The bed linens are a beautiful collected and curated mix of textiles that the client and I were able to find together.”

“In the bath, the vanities and the makeup vanity are all flanked with beautiful Triple Seven sconces.”

“The cabinets are all oak floating cabinets with custom routed door pulls that have a gold metal detail inside them. Although the room has a very elevated elegance, we wanted to keep the casual easy feeling of the rest of the house by doing a simple and bold pendant over the freestanding tub.”

“The media room is a subterranean room that we wanted to have multiple functions – from movie nights to folding laundry, to a wine room and a wet bar for serving pizzas for our client’s friends and family. The two wow factors of the room are the wood detail paneling on the walls that are layered over with an explosion of eclectic art and the beautiful long and linear iron light fixtures that are repeated all the way around the room.”

“The room also features a wine cellar which we designed with iron doors. Inside we designed a wine storage system which our finish carpenter painstakingly crafted out of oak dowels to create a place to rest hundreds of wine bottles. The inside of the cellar is painted Iron Ore by Benjamin Moore which helps the oak dowels pop off the wall. The dowels create a beautiful pattern that look amazing even when empty and allows them to artistically display wine around the cellar.”