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By Manning Lee | Photography by Geoffrey Hodgdon
When you live on the water, a part of you is always absorbing its music, its beauty, its infinitely shifting countenance. These many moods and inflections are reflected in paint, furnishings, fabrics, and materials of this waterfront home in Edgewater. The owners purchased the property in the fall of 2013 and hoped to never move again. Their goal was to create the personal sanctuary they had always envisioned.
For guidance, they turned to interior designer Ty Christian, who had worked with the couple on other projects. Christian owns and is the lead designer of Parkemoor HOME, now based in NYC. The family room, the kitchen, and the eat-in area culminate into one great room that opens up to the outside with several sets of oversized windows. For the home’s overall palette, Christian chose blues and greens from the river, hillside, and sky just outside the great wall of windows. These tones repeat artfully and effortlessly throughout the home.
To assist with the rest of the transformation, Christian called in a team of talented professionals. The home’s expansive scale was wonderful, yet needed definition and mediating. Undaunted, Brian Fleming, owner of Compass Stone and Tile Studio in Annapolis coordinated the stone and tile throughout the home.
For the great room, they chose a porcelain tile flooring called Keystone Iron arranged in a Versailles pattern, which tones down the room and makes it less overwhelming. Next they chose the backsplash’s Erbium custom colored glass. This added a touch of playfulness while anchoring the blues and greens used throughout the rest of the great room.
Christian enlisted the help of Audrey Taylor of Reico Kitchen and Bath of Annapolis to design the kitchen. “The homeowners love to cook and simply love to entertain,” explains Taylor. She created a concentrated workspace by designing a large island with fifteen different cabinets, corner cabinets, and drawers. Here, one has control and fingertip access to cookware and utensils. Jason Hepp of Hepp Building and Remodeling, Inc. executed her design.
For window treatments in the eat-in kitchen and throughout the house, Christian summoned Margaret Blunt, founder of Sew Beautiful. Blunt’s confidence working with odd shaped windows, her quest for perfection, and her extensive knowledge of fabric informs her remarkable design, a unified and elegant ensemble that beckons and pays tribute to sun and water. In the eat-in kitchen, Blunt designed a casual board mounted shawl valance in a fun geometric print with a high contrast lining finished with a bright bead tassel tip. The beading, when the sunlight hits just right, mimics sunlight dancing on the water.
The master bath exudes a royal milieu. One is enchanted by the sun’s glow through the window sheers and soothed by the plumb shaded walls. The walls have a band of glass tiles and are finished to the floor with a light bardiglio marble subway tile that continues into the glass-encased shower.
The huge yet beautiful set of bay windows with lower casement windows and upper arch windows frame the room. Blunt made the most of the space, subtly calling attention to finely woven fabrics that manage to defer to the views. The window treatments are upholstered silver embroidered faux silk, embellished with tassel trim and crystal bead fringe shaped in a teardrop complimenting the teardrop crystals in the chandelier. Embroidered sheers connect the upper and lower windows and form a stunning backdrop to the vintage Cheviot Carlton cast iron claw foot tub. The floor’s dark, polished bardiglio marble adds depth to the décor.
To the untrained eye, this waterfront home is indeed lovely. But, to the trained eye, fabrics, stone work, color, and detail cohere to become an intricate visual symphony. There’s no level of the home where the eye may turn without an emotional response. To look and to examine closely is to uncover unceasing notes of beauty.
Resources:
Compass Stone and Tile Studio: cst-studio.com
Hepp Building and Remodeling, Inc.: heppbuilding.com
Parkemoor HOME: parkemoor.com
Reico Kitchen and Bath: reico.com
Sew Beautiful: sewbeautifulwindows.com
Sherwin Williams (kitchen: Baize Green, master bath: Executive Plum):
sherwin-williams.com
Woodharbor Custom Cabinetry: woodharbor.com
Cheviot Carlton Cast Iron Bath: vintagetub.com
Window Treatments
Eat-in kitchen face fabric: Fabricut (Ogden Diamond): fabricut.com
Contrast in the jabots and welt: Greenhouse Fabrics (Sea Blue): greenhousefabrics.com
Beaded tassel trim: Brimar: brimarinc.com
From Vol. 6, No. 1 2015
Annapolis Home Magazine