While Katherine felt challenged with a rather small bedroom to work with, my good sized bath was not without its own unique design dilemmas ...
BEFORE: An awkward location for a
mirror and medicine cabinet combination.
AFTER: since the medicine cabinet had to be reinstalled after the show per the homeowner’s request, I created a temporary diorama in its place.
Step 1: medicine cabinet removed
Step 2: freshly painted walls and niche with
wallpaper covered panels being tucked in place
(wallpaper from Thibaut)
Step 3: Katherine found this vintage-style mermaid illustration on tin, which just happened to fit within the niche (hung on string). A white frame and beach stone finishes it off.
Detail shots of Syrena’s bath ...
photo credit: Rosanne Palazola
shelves styled with items from Blue Peacock Home + my personal collections
black makeup towels from The Turkish Towel Company
photo credit: Eric Roth
framed canvas: “Meadow” modern art collage by artist Parvez Taj
accessories via Blue Peacock Home // tile work via Weaver Brothers of Lynnfield sink, glass counter, faucet and mirror available via Designer Bath
I liked how this Duralee sheer so closely resembled the round sink bowl
flat fold roman shade in Molokini Natural from Thibaut Farrow + Ball paints: Borrowed Light, Manor House Gray, Pitch Blue
ceiling painted in Farrow + Ball Borrowed Light, trim in Strong White
The Turkish Towel Company Zenith in Silver, Blue Ice, and White
my jewels and organic touches // other accessories via Blue Peacock Home
One of my favorite parts of designing a show house space is styling it. It comes very easily to me, setting up vignettes. I love taking on these types of projects for clients as well. Of course it helps when beautiful objects are donated to the cause. Thank you, Blue Peacock Home and The Turkish Towel Company!
generous sized storage basket and coral sculpture from Blue Peacock Home
Let’s take one last peek downstairs at the room Rosanne transformed for the York Show House. What used to be a dark mudroom is now a vibrant space with luxurious amenities to enjoy the salt water pool just outside the door ...
custom mesh window treatment by Rosanne Palazola
art via Tracy Finn // accessories via Blue Peacock Home
recycled coke bottle glass lighting via Lucia Lighting
console fabric: Duralee // design by Rosanne Palazola
photo credit: Eric Roth
photo credit: Rosanne Palazola
Poolside Portal shelves styled by Rosanne Palazola
photo credit: Eric Roth
Benjamin Moore paint (shelves and walls) via Home Decor Group
art: Tracy Finn available via Lucia Lighting
Just as Rosanne helped me by fulfilling my framing requests for my two spaces and Katherine added art to my upstairs bath, I was able to leave a small mark in Rosanne’s Poolside Portal. I chose a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson that I felt spoke to Rosanne’s design, the seaside location and the salt water pool just outside her room. I had Charles Trainer of Artistic License output my typographic treatment and then he installed it right on the glass door. He has helped me with many retail display projects at Designer Bath, and I knew this typographic treatment would easily solve the aesthetic problem of an interior window without a view.
A handful of snapshots from York ...
with Rosanne at my mom’s summer cottage in York, Maine
the fourth person in our Trio team: Katherine with her husband Dave
Meredith Bohn in her living room
Barbara Elza Hirsch in her screened porch
Frank Hodge with Michael Nest in the Study // art by Frank Hodge
photo credit: Dave Hawkins
To see more photos from the York Show House,
While this may be the end of my York Decorator Show House updates, I do have another show house project waiting in the wings ... The Danvers Historical Society Designers Holiday Show House at Glen Magna Farms scheduled for December 2013. How could I possibly say no?!