Innehållsförteckning för September 2017 från House Beautiful

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Denise McGaha doesn’t do half measures when it comes to color. “I’m a big believer in committing to a palette. If you love a color, go big with it!” says the designer, who layered five shades of purple in this glamorous exhibition kitchen. McGaha found her initial inspiration in Shadow, a moody amethyst gray—and Benjamin Moore’s Color of the Year—that she chose for the exterior cabinets. Its neighboring hues on the fan deck, a wispy lilac and a lush iris, were the ideal complements for the floor and ceiling, respectively. To ground the room, the designer topped the island with a slab of deep gray Silestone and an oil-rubbed bronze fixture from Kohler, which make the unit feel like a piece of furniture, not simply counter space. Gold-flecked antiqued mirror…

Say you’ve fallen in love with a fabric—perhaps one featured on these pages—and you want to use it for pillows, a sofa, voluminous curtains. But you can’t pinpoint a retailer or an upholsterer who can get it done. Sound familiar? All is not lost! Well Made Home, a burgeoning business founded by seasoned home-retail alums Kelly Bedford Willrich and Melanie Mount, was created with you in mind. The Marin County, California, outfit is part workroom, part design therapist, producing custom furniture and window treatments in trending fabrics—a task that has traditionally required hiring a professional. “Thanks to Pinterest, Instagram, and design magazines, customers today know exactly what they want,” Mount says. The duo’s formula: Pair reasonably priced furniture with fabrics from a who’s-who roster of textile designers (think: Lisa Fine,…

UTILITY Wash and Wow Don’t let its beauty fool you—this luxe laundry room really works. When designer Dina Bandman got the chance to create a laundry room at this year’s San Francisco Decorator Showcase, she gave the typically overlooked space a dramatic upgrade: unexpected lighting, scenic wallpaper, and a spot for sudsing pups were all integral. “The laundry room is the new powder room!” Bandman says. “It should feel special and be an extension of your home’s design.” Top This Ice Cream “Making ice cream from scratch is hard, so I often opt instead to garnish vanilla Häagen-Dazs with something fun, like candied bacon—easy to make by brushing on maple syrup and brown sugar as it bakes. Delicious! Or, I let the ice cream soften a bit, mix in something…

how does one sell a client on a turquoise, yellow, and tiger palette? That dining room is wild! KATIE McCAFFREY: This couple is gutsy and fun-loving—and their main home is fairly neutral. So for a San Francisco weekend house designed for family gatherings, they were ready to be adventurous with color. MARTHA ANGUS: Plus, they have three kids in their 20s and 30s. They wanted to appeal to the whole family’s tastes and sense of design and make the house enjoyable for all. AMY PREISER: The living room continues the playful scheme, yet the mantel is impressively uncluttered. MA: The lovely wall paneling behind the mantel is original to the home. We wanted to highlight that feature as well as the sunburst mirror we hung above the fireplace. It’s a…

HOUSE BEAUTIFUL • SEPTEMBER 2017 A listing of designers, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers featured in this issue. For complete product information, go to housebeautiful.com/resources. THE SYMBOL (T) = TO THE TRADE. “To the trade” means a manufacturer sells primarily to design professionals. Many design centers offer hourly decorating and shopping services that can assist you; some fabric shops, workrooms, and websites may be able to place an order for you as well. PAINT BENJAMIN MOORE benjaminmoore.com CENTURY BENJAMIN MOORE experiencecentury.com FARROW & BALL farrow-ball.com FINE PAINTS OF EUROPE finepaintsofeurope.com PRATT & LAMBERT prattandlambert.com SHERWIN©WILLIAMS sherwin-williams.com FABRIC & WALLCOVERING BENNISON FABRICS (T) bennisonfabrics.com BRUNSCHWIG & FILS (T) brunschwig.com CHINA SEAS (T) through Quadr ille quadrillefabrics.com CHRISTOPHER FARR CLOTH (T) christopherfarrcloth.com CLARENCE HOUSE (T) clarencehouse.com COWTAN & TOUT (T) cowtan.com DE GOURNAY degournay.com…

Purple’s in the air— just flip through this issue! On a recent family trip to Switzerland, I found the most divine deep, dark periwinkle. It works brilliantly with the hues I live with and love, all on this page! Right, from top: My universal “garnish”: chartreuse, like this trim. It’s a squeeze of citrus—makes everything feel fresh! • Arsenic is one of Farrow & Ball’s famous color names and the bravest shade in my house. • Meals at home: bright tapers, neutral tablecloth. • Benjamin Moore’s rosy Boudoir, a wild success in my dining room! • My baby Whit with my next obsession— that periwinkle!—at the 1907 Hotel Walther, near St. Moritz. (Our mini-guide to family style is a few pages ahead!) • Clinique’s iconic Black Honey lipstick, now and…

Ideas to Try & What to Buy A Colonial Charmer European settlers with design sensibilities straight from the old country favored symmetry and puritanical simplicity. Here’s a little twist on that. A Plucky Bungalow Arts and Crafts–style homes from SoCal to the Great Plains have a tip: A pop of color or pattern is all you need to cozy up your beloved abode. A Posh Victorian If you veer toward maximalism, announce it on the porch with a curvy knocker or a Gothic spindle that would make a Brontë sister blush. A Breezy Mediterranean Left your heart in Siena? Potted lavender, rustic textures, and twinkling lanterns are made for indoor/outdoor joie de vivre. Items without prices are available through a designer.…

Vervain Previews New Collection with the New York Botanical Garden Vervain and The Hearst Design Group— ELLE DECOR, HOUSE BEAUTIFUL, VERANDA— partnered to host a celebration of Vervain’s new collection at the New York Botanical Garden with an exclusive cocktail party and private viewing of the CHIHULY exhibit. New York’s top interior designers toasted the collection inspired by the NYBG archive, gardens, and original art. Guests enjoyed music, cocktails, and premier catering from STARR Events. vervain.com FrogTape® Brand Painter’s Tape FrogTape® is the only painter’s tape treated with PaintBlock® Technology. PaintBlock® forms a micro-barrier that seals the edges of the tape, preventing paint bleed. FrogTape.com Miele MasterCool Tasting is believing with Miele MasterCool™. The best cooking starts with the best refrigeration. mastercool.mieleusa.com Serena & Lily and House Beautiful Make Life…

this place is a lot funkier than your usual South Carolina beach house. Where are all the seashells and palm prints? ANGIE HRANOWSKY: By the time my client hired me, she had already sent the stereotypical beach furniture that came with the house to Habitat for Humanity and was ready to start fresh. Her name is Christina Cochran; she is cool and creative, loves lots of bold colors, and, like me, is a bit of a risk-taker. She wanted to create a vibrant vacation home for her husband, Rob, and their five children. She had seen my work in a magazine and called me one day to say, “I love your style. I want you to do this house.” It was built in the early 1990s as a showhouse. We…

PLUS 14 cometogether hues you and the kids will love LITTLE BOY BLU SW 9054 SHERWIN-WILLIAMS DAVID KAIHOI The designer’s delicious, child-friendly dining area HIDE & GO SLEEK “The banquette seats flip up for storage to stow away hideous— but inevitable— plastic toys.” THINK CLEAN “Shutters are a practical swap for curtains, and the painted floor stands in for rugs, which can also get gum-in-hair messy.” HIGH BEAMS “Light fixtures are a perfect oppor tunity to add something interesting, since they’re well out of arm’s reach.” Similar to Sherwin-Williams GENTIAN SW 6817 ELIZA DYSON Creating a bedroom for kids of all ages SHOW & TELL “Whether it’s trophies or toys, kids love to display their treasures, so provide spots for them to do it stylishly.” LEAVE OPEN SPACE “Overstuffing a child’s room is…

PEIGNOIR 286 FARROW & BALL “This is about glamour, glamour, glamour. And fashion—it’s a mauve you usually only see in satin, as if a mercury silver was overlaid with the palest blush pink and a hint of blue and brown. So wonderful in a Paris apartment with modern pieces from Hervé Van der Straeten, vintage Maison Jansen furniture, and acres of smoky mink-colored silk velvets.” VEERE GRENNEY SPRING LILAC 1388 BENJAMIN MOORE “Surprisingly complex, this strikes a balance between delicate and strong. For a recent beach house project, we combined it with John Robshaw textiles, mirrored bedside tables, and apple-green gourd lamps. This was a small bedroom with just one window, but when sunlight hits the space, it absolutely glows.” BETHANY CASSELL VANN QUEEN ANNE LILAC SW 0021 SHERWIN-WILLIAMS “I…

Headboard, Serena & Lily. Bedding, Lauren Home. Bolster, Designers Guild.…

NEXT WAVE True Colorist When Miles Redd is your boss, you’d better know how to work a room. With her keen eye for eccentric pieces and kaleidoscopic palettes, designer Blake Brunson helps propel the New York firm’s provocative vision. NEXT WAVE “WHAT’S MORE NEUTRAL than sky blue and grass green?” asks Blake Brunson, who recently lacquered the walls of her kitchen a glossy Prussian hue. Given that the 31-year-old Alabama native has spent the past seven years as the righthand gal to the “King of Color,” designer Miles Redd, her gravitation toward the theatrical is no surprise. A key Redd lesson? Good design lies in the union of form and function. “Some people spend all the money in the world on terribly uncomfortable, cold rooms,” she says. “But we want…

it’s brave to take on clients who are related to you—and even braver when those clients are your parents! But I suppose they couldn’t—or wouldn’t— think of hiring anyone else. SARA GILBANE: My parents are very laidback people. But they have waited 30-plus years to own their dream house in Palm Beach, so there was a little pressure. I confess it was easier to say, “Too bad, I already ordered it! You’ll love it” to my parents when they pushed back than it would have been to any other client. KATHLEEN HACKETT: There were certainly a lot of decisions to make. When I first laid eyes on the place, I was rather shocked: It was a soulless spec house on the Intracoastal Waterway, with 6,000 square feet, five bedrooms, and…