Entitled "Bold New World, bold re-do for a Grove Park home”, the Evelyn Place Project was published in the Summer of 2016 in Carolina Home + Garden. Engaged initially for exterior paint selections, it was a key priority for these homeowners to sensitively ID color reflective of its noteworthy 1926 build history. This objective was met, teaming in total, color, lighting, and entry hardware.

The Project expanded to the interiors, posing an exceedingly different potential for color and aesthetics. Crossing this entry threshold might just as well be likened to time traveling, passing thru a narrow short hallway which opens to a matrix of rounded archways, a crossroad for color. The perfect opportunity to present itself as these owners art collections present with a blaze of color; chartreuse, teals, plums. Eyelyn Place became a project about color, in both paint and paper form, connecting art to the space, canvas to the walls. Pattern in bold abstract geometric wallcoverings took the walls of the Living and Dining Spaces. Creative liberty to railroad the living room wallpaper delivered design with an intentionally horizontal graphic, stretching these room walls to their optimal width. Bold Bookroom Red Farrow & Ball paint filled the wide entry crossroad. Venetian Plaster tinted with teal floods the ceiling of the sunroom, creating the illusion of a pool in the sky, the homeowners whim and dream.

The project added quiet yet elegant pewter silk crepe de chine drapery, a soft influence to contrast color. Decorative velvet pillows and a clean chrome table lamp were added to the clients mid century furnishings.
Kitchen renno included the redesign of the center island and side wall counter workstations, Labordorite Big Blue stone surfaces, and a cabinetry repaint completed the space.

The master bedroom project incorporated a whimsical focal wall in a Harlequin paper, a rich Oriole Mill throw for the bed, the move of her mothers painting from an upper hall to the master to be enjoyed daily.
Essential to this site: Placement of the clients artwork at onset, the essential inspiration to every element.

Project Date: 2012- 2015 / Ongoing Working on Second home Published Feature Story - Carolina Home + Garden - Summer 2016