Indholdsfortegnelse for December 2018 i House Beautiful

WATER’S EDGE 1635 BENJAMIN MOORE “For a client’s library that opens to a garden and pool, we chose this beautiful blue-gray to give the illusion of bringing the outside in. We color-matched the shade to a true lacquer paint for a mirror-like shine that regular high-gloss paint can’t achieve. The process was laborious—this room took eight coats—but the end result is absolutely show-stopping.” PALOMA CONTRERAS H00730 FINE PAINTS OF EUROPE “Some clients fear that red can be too bright and hectic, but this deep, rich shade—which we used in the library of an Upper West Side apartment—is anything but. The result is a room that feels exotic and warm, equally suited to curling up with a good book or entertaining guests late into the night.” ALEXANDRA PAPPAS AND TATYANA MIRON…

Am I right that this is the third home you’ve decorated for these clients? LETA AUSTIN FOSTER: Yes! About 10 years ago, I received a call out of the blue to decorate their apartment. Six months after that project was finished, they decided they weren’t apartment people and asked if I could repurpose all of the furniture we had just bought for a house instead. And I did. They were thrilled. Later, they found this house in Palm Beach’s Regents Park. I’m a firm believer that you don’t put things in a landfill. My motto: Recycling is good, but reusing is even better. KRYSTIAN VON SPEIDEL: Do I detect a not-so-subtle nod to the decorator Billy Baldwin throughout the house? Definitely. We discovered that Baldwin had worked in the area,…

NO.1 MORE THAN A LITTLE EXCITED Small is going to be big in 2019, as dollhouses are finding a receptive new fan base among young adults mesmerized by all things teeny-tiny. (They’re also playing pivotal roles on TV—see HBO’s creepy Sharp Objects.) For Brits Kevin Mulvany and Susie Rogers, a husband-and-wife team who’ve been making miniatures for more than three decades, spending up to two years crafting a single residence in one-twelfth scale isn’t unusual. mulvanyandrogers.com NO.2 Say Cheese Interactive, Instagrammable pop-ups—part fun houses, part branding exercises—are the hottest tickets in town. Designed as photogenic backdrops for selfies, they have rooms where visitors can flop into an all-yellow ball pit or be showered by rainbow confetti. “They resonate because they create connections,” says Color Factory founder Jordan Ferney. colorfactory.co 3…

OPRAH WINFREY: Millions of people have been wondering how you’re doing, how’s the transition, and I think there’s no better example than the toast story. Can you share the toast story? MICHELLE OBAMA: Well, I start the preface right at one of the first weeks after we moved into our new home after the transition—our new home in Washington, a couple miles away from the White House. It’s a beautiful brick home, and it’s the first regular house, with a door and a doorbell, that I have had in about eight years. OW: Eight years. MO: And so the toast story is about one of the first nights I was alone there—the kids were out, Malia was on her gap year, I think Barack was traveling, and I was alone…

When the owner of a historic 1860s whaling captain’s home in Sag Harbor, New York, asked Liliane Hart to evoke the Scandinavian simplicity she recalled from childhood visits to Sweden, the designer looked back to her own Nordic memories for inspiration. “When I was growing up, my family would spend midsummer on a tiny island off Stockholm, visiting my father’s oldest friend,” Hart says. “Those weeks were magical. They taught me so much about Swedish style. I wanted to bring the country’s love of subtle hues and sunlight to these rooms.” While the three-story Victorian was in turnkey condition, strategic nip-and-tuck renovations “improved the proportions and pared down the embellishments,” Hart says. All the door heights were raised to the same level, mantels were stripped of excess molding, and the…

White walls are what my nightmares are made of!” says Atlanta-based designer Jared Hughes. “I need to feel color in my environment.” For proof, look no further than his own bedroom walls, coated in a brilliant saffron hue. An affinity for bold palettes was something Hughes picked up during his time as a floral designer in Charleston, South Carolina, where he fell for the Holy City’s singular blend of Georgian architecture and chinoiserie influences—characteristics that eventually found their way into his color-saturated, multilayered interiors. Since opening his eponymous firm last year, he has continued to explore the dichotomy between the traditional and the exotic, always adding a splash of the unexpected. Take the minimalist white-plaster side tables he designed for a client’s bedroom that sit among Rococo-style bergères, a hodgepodge…

Do you think a chef to the glitterati would ever arrive at a fete empty-handed? “I always bring a hostess gift,” says “entertainologist” Lulu Powers. “I share things I love with the people I love.” In December, she ups the ante with easy-to-arrange custom gift baskets for all the luminaries on her holiday-party hop, be they into-the-wee-hours revelers or brunch-a-holics: “A gift basket is like a jewelry box—you’re dying to see what’s in it.” Powers tailors each one for its recipient with homemade items and favorite finds from the grocer. “They’re colorful and fun, but don’t forget to make them personal, too!” THE DEBAUCHED BASKET Have your friends been naughty? Get them something extra vice. Powers tricked out this gift selection with Lord Jones CBD Gummies, which she serves in…

Renovating the house was like an archaeological dig! This house comes with a bit of history, doesn’t it? ANDREW FLESHER: It was built in 1710 and is one of the oldest houses in Westchester County, New York. A man named Benjamin Lyon, a patriot of the Revolutionary War, was one of the early occupants. He didn’t sign the Declaration of Independence, but he voted on it! FRED NICOLAUS: And with that comes a few quirks, I imagine. Oh, yes. When the house was inspected, they gave us a book of everything that needed to be fixed. It was 87 pages long. The place was in really rough shape. There was an extension cord running in from the garage so you would be able to plug in a light in the…