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A Colorful Pair
At Home in Arkansas: As an artist, has your training and understanding of color influenced the design of your home?
Homeowner Bill Ratcliff: Because I paint, and I paint with a lot of wild colors, I’m not afraid to use color in my home. I learned color theory from an abstract painter, and in painting over the years, I’ve become more aware of mixing colors. The walls here are all custom mixed shades, and they’re a variety of neutrals. The color comes in with the furnishings, rugs, art and accessories, and they tend to be bold. I’m outgoing and bold colors appeal to me—bold colors, bold personality pretty much sums me up.
Since your husband, Wayne, is the owner of Baumans Fine Men’s Clothing, does his eye for style factor into the design of your home as well?
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The Layered Look
At Home in Arkansas: With one designing woman in a house full of men—your husband, Jay, and your two sons—what role did color play in creating a comfortable family home?
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A Wish for Whimsy
As an illustrator of children’s books, Melanie Siegel is a pro at creating colorful, whimsical images. When she and her husband, Bill, began the process of building a home in The Village at Hendrix in Conway, they envisioned a kitchen full of the color and whimsy that are Melanie’s hallmarks. With the help of builders Bret and Jennifer Franks of Bret Franks Construction, Melanie now has a space filled with the elements she loves.
“I work in the children’s industry,” says Melanie, relating her illustration style to her penchant for lighthearted, colorful design. “I don’t draw anything too serious,” she adds, “it has to be fun.” Fun is how she describes her kitchen, from the brightly tiled backsplash to the numbered clay knobs on the cabinets and the lettered pulls on the drawers. “I like surprises, and I love numbers and letters,” Melanie explains.
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Brilliant Blue
En route to Georgia nearly 40 years ago, renowned North Carolina interior designer and author Kathryn Greeley wandered into a little antique shop along the highway and discovered what would become one of the great loves of her life: flow blue china.
That happenstance paved the way for a large collection, and flow blue is now a calling card for Greeley’s gracious style of entertaining and decorating, which she shared with Arkansans on a recent trip to promote her book, “The Collected Tabletop,” and guide an antiques tour to Morris Antiques in Keo and beyond. “No room in my home, Chestnut Cottage, is without flow blue china,” laughs Greeley, “including the bathrooms.”
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Color Your World!
At Home with Tami Risinger
Out & About in Searcy
Ready, Set, Color!
Just Add Sweet Tea
At Home in Arkansas: You lived in your Georgian-style historic home in Little Rock’s Heights neighborhood seven years before renovating the interiors. How long before you tackled the exterior spaces?
Homeowner Lara Schock: It was simultaneous. Throughout the renovations, we were thinking about the views out our windows, what materials we would use, what the design would be. We didn’t want the exteriors to appear tacked on, but rather to be an extension of the style of our home.
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