This Family-Friendly Georgia Home Is Drenched In Color

Step within the Atlanta domestic; it actually is quiet and realistic.

When designing a domestic for a young family of 4 residing in Atlanta’s Buckhead neighbourhood, Whitney Durham, the founding father of Whitney Durham Interiors, becomes charged with making the five 300 square foot spaces feel brighter, lighter, more colourful, and extra younger.

“When [my clients] moved in, the house had exceptional bones. However it in the end felt dark and cold to them,” Durham says. She laboured to integrate their significant circle of relatives’ portions and antiques along family-pleasant performance fabric fixtures to create an area that’s welcoming and best for interesting. “The blend of playful styles, colourful artwork, whimsical wallpaper and family heirlooms create the ideal balance for this younger family to call home,” Durham says.

Beautiful And Functional

Durham turned into conscious of designing a space that has the same elements that are aesthetically captivating and useful for this younger family. “Performance fabrics have come a long manner in recent years and are available in so many special forms, which includes velvets, linen, cotton blends, faux leather, and tweeds,” she says. In the kitchen, the clothier chose to cowl bar stools in an inexperienced faux leather Schumacher cloth. “Faux leather is simple to wipe easily with a moist cloth and really forgiving to spills of any type,” she explains.

She carried the usage of green over into the breakfast nook, in which a stain dealt with cotton/polyester blend material from JF Fabrics takes a centre level and provides yet no other cheerful contact to the kitchen. Durham styled the dining benches with pillows covered in Sunbrella overall performance fabric, in addition to a few crafted from Schumacher fabric with a stain remedy implemented to make certain sturdiness. An art piece sourced domestically, features a number of the customers’ preferred colours; it occurred to be the best area for the corner.

Statement-Making Pieces

Durham is a proponent of incorporating Turkish rugs inside the kitchen; here, a colourful variety makes a declaration with the aid of the sink. “The styles and colourations in those rugs assist hide stains and upload a lot personality to a space,” she says, noting that she integrated comparable rugs inside the foyer, number one bedroom, wet bar, pantry, and powder tub.

Happy Hues

Durham describes her clients’ aesthetic as preppy and conventional; they admire playful, happy hues, too. “You can often see a colouration and fashion correlation to a client’s wardrobe on the subject of the colours and patterns they like to combine into their domestic,” she displays. “I pulled in a lot of pinks, veggies, blues, and amusing patterns, which can be additionally a whole lot of the colours my clients seemed to get dressed in.”

In the dining room, Durham covered the partitions with a blue and green floral print—Schumacher’s Persian Lancers in citron. “The eating room and powder room are constantly first-rate spaces to comprise wallpaper in case you aren’t positive it’s something you need to stare at all of the time,” she says. In this example, she considers the wallpaper to absolutely entire the gap for the reason that it plays to the numerous ceramic chinoiserie portions her clients maintain on show throughout their home. “This wallpaper is a nod to the one’s portions and pulls in all in their favoured shades whilst last at the mild and neutral side, however nevertheless being playful and complex all at the identical time,” Durham says.

A Collection On Display

Durham went lighter and airier while designing the bar in line with her client’s request and styled their series of glassware on the glass shelves, which sit down on the pinnacle of Schumacher wallpaper. Perpendicular to the cabinets, Durham hung a spherical replicate. “It added an extraordinary shape to all of the rectangles and instantly traces of the space and additionally facilitates the distance experience larger,” she says.

Carrying Color Throughout

When it came to the clients’ maintaining room, Durham desired to head bold with a blue colour, Benjamin Moore Labrador Blue, that ties in properly with the kitchen island shade.

In the powder bath, Durham hung a coral Thibaut wallpaper and designed a custom conceitedness, whole with scalloped detailing. She says, “It’s unique, preppy, playful but sophisticated all at the same time!” The piece is lined inside the equal light blue colour used on the ceiling. Underneath the conceitedness, woven baskets allow for essential storage.

Blending Old And New

Among a number of the customers’ antique treasures is a collection of vintage needlepoint footstools, which Durham artfully located throughout the home.

Durham always encourages her customers to fuse collectively the old and new for a nicely curated look. She adds, “Often, you can find vintage and vintage pieces at exact rate factors that could allow you to splurge more on the larger custom upholstery portions and window remedies.”

A Serene Retreat

The number one bedroom is greater serene in fashion and features framed intaglios hung above the mattress as well as an assortment of patterned throw pillows. Durham says, “My customers wanted to have colouration but now not an amazing quantity—an area wherein they could curl up and study an ebook on the give up of the day.”