Tag: American Interior Design

28Jan

Windsor: A Luxury Residential Club At Vero Beach: CSOW

Windsor, vero beach, florida

I feel like I’m cheating by posting about Windsor, a luxury residential club in Vero Beach, Florida as a commercial space of the week.  For many reasons, first because although it offers many commercial spaces, it’s also a community.  Windsor is a village by the sea in Vero Beach, Florida where every detail was perfectly planned and designed to give their residents the ultimate luxury living experience.  Every one of their amenities is set in perfect-looking settings.

Windsor vero beach florida

The private residential club offers a full-scale Equestrian Centre consisting of 18 stables and 14 paddocks with 4.6 miles of riding trails surrounding the community, a 400-yard-long polo field, the tennis courts designed by Wimbledon champion Stan Smith are lined with jasmine, a championship golf course and much more.  Windsor was founded in 1989 by Canadian businessman W. Galen Weston and his philanthropist wife, Hilary Weston, the former lieutenant governor of Ontario.  The now luxury residential community started as a private summer residence for the Weston family, later they enlisted Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk to design the New Urbanism style of living.

Windsor vero beach florida

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22Aug

Tour Tory Burch’s Beach Home In The Caribbean Island of Antigua

Tory Burch’s beach home in Antigua is not only chic by design but also by provenance. This beautiful beach house once belonged to the garden designer and private socialite, Bunny Mellon. Bunny is well known for her impeccable taste and fantastic garden designs. Albeit the house sat for years without being sold, once Tory Burch laid eyes on the beach house she undoubtedly saw the gem that Architect H. Page Cross built for Bunny Mellon in the 1960’s. Vogue describes the pretty house as a series of elegant pavilions. Back in the days, Bunny enlisted the legendary Interior Designer Billy Baldwin to jointly with her, design the house. This was usually the case with most of Bunny Mellon’s houses; she was an active collaborator in the interior design process of most of them. Her only design request for this particular coastal home? She told Billy Baldwin to make the interior look as if was furnished with furniture found in the attic.

Tory Burch's beach home, canopy bedroom

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13Aug

Traditional Home: Tour A Home With A Perfect Balance of Modern and Traditional

Traditional home, Michelle Smith, traditional design

Traditional Home, Michelle Smith, traditional design

This home located in South Carolina housed the excellent balance between tradition and modern with an even better equilibrium of masculine and feminine style.  On the more masculine side, are the plaster walls, reclaimed wood floors and antiques while on the female side, sophistication is presented in the forms of gleaming soft fabrics, touches of shimmering surfaces and whimsical Gracie wallpaper.  Hard to not love this level of complexity found in a contemporary home which is very well suited for a young family of four.  A Traditional Home which is equally cozy and elegant.  It’s beautiful to see the rise and revival of traditional design.  Classic style is one that never grows old, and it only gets better with time.

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10Jul

A Revamped Montecito Vacation Home By Mark D. Sikes

Mike D. Sikes, Montalcito

Mike D. Sikes, Montecito vacation home

Interior Designer Mark D. Sikes assisted the homeowner of this charming Montecito vacation home in updating the decor by incorporating new finds and antiques.  The result is a classic American style in Mark’s signature palette of blue and white.  Pastel color and chintz fabrics mingle with natural textures like sisal rugs, an antique wicker chair, and dark wood antiques.  The coral chandelier was repainted in white.

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29May

A 480sf Beach Bungalow All California Style Only Cozier

After Memorial Day weekend it is ”officially” summer.  White clothes are allowed, and sunscreens are but an everyday essential.  While all that is great, the most exciting part of the summer is spending time away at our favorite summer destinations where everyone smells like sunscreen.  When I saw this SoCal beach bungalow with a very California cozy style, my first thought was how great it would be to own a beach cottage where to spend the long summer weekends.  As this charming 480 SF bungalow proves, charm and coziness have nothing to do with space, so it won’t need to be that big as long as it has plenty of windows where light can come in, cozy outdoor spaces and a light palette indoor.

Beach bungalow, California style Living room

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23Apr

A Beach Home Decorated With Blue and Rattan: Bahama Style

Tom Scheerer has designed many a beach home in the Bahamas.  In fact, Tom says he prefers them because homeowners tend to be more open to trying new things in a vacation home.  It makes perfect sense although a house like this one, I wouldn’t mind to call it a permanent residence.  Waking up to sunny days and walking on talc-pink-powder-like beaches would be anyone’s ultimate dream.  I was happy to find one of his latest Bahama style projects in the current issue of House Beautiful.

The architecture of this Bahama home is a traditional Colonial home which Scherrer designed for modern life.  The color palette is composed of different shades of blues, sprinkles of purple and rattan furniture.  The kitchen especially is quintessentially Scheerer’s style with graphic cement tiles as the backsplash and no upper cabinets as to avert any form of formality.  A beach house should be free-spirited and airy with durable fabrics and materials.

I especially love whitewashed wood in a beach home, in this case, Tom used a wood called pickled pecky cypress in various spaces in the house to bring cohesiveness to the open rooms.  All the fabrics in the house are indoor/outdoor… practicality is everything.
beach home, bahama style, rattan, blue, living room

The living room has white shiplap on walls and the tray ceiling is clad in beautiful pickled pecky cypress.  Notice how the striped rug picks up the different shades of blue, brown and beige in the room…

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