Often it is the textures, patterns, and colors found underfoot that really set the tone for your home. Here’s what’s trending for functional and fabulous floors.
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A New Family Tradition
A Little Rock home that has housed two generations of one family receives a light, airy, and completely comfortable update from designer Susan Walsh
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Color Coded
From fabrics to furniture, 2015 is the year to embrace your favorite hue
1. Collection of 14 insect specimen prints in a decorative box. Bear-Hill Interiors, bearhillinteriors.com
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A Sportsman’s Paradise
Screaming Wings Lodge—the duck-season outpost of Witt Stephens Jr.—maximizes comfort and experience for guests and provides access to world-class waterfowl hunting
In 2008, longtime-client Witt Stephens Jr. charged interior designer Bill Beringer with the task of making of his imposing new hunting lodge a well-appointed, private retreat versatile enough to accommodate groups of all sizes and to foster a sense of intimacy and relaxation among visitors. From the outset, the owner had specific ideas about how the lodge would function and how it would look; “Ultimately,” Beringer says, “we wanted it to reflect him. He’s an avid hunter, but he’s also a businessman who needs an inviting place to entertain.”
Design Integrity
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Inspired by Nature
Taggart Design Group creates an architectural work of art that also highlights the home’s natural surroundings
Burt Taggart, Jr. approaches a new home’s design much the way an artist approaches a blank canvas. “For me it always starts with walking the land and letting the land suggest how it should be developed,” says the celebrated central Arkansas architect who co-owns Taggart Design Group with his son, Burt Taggart, III.
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Home, Made Happy
A cohesive color scheme, smart design plan and fun flourishes transform a small Heights bungalow into a space that lives large
The exterior of this charming post-war cottage is a hint of what is to come inside: a classic home that has been refreshed to function in today’s more casual style. To give the home its new life, owner Donna Barnett enlisted the help of her friend Kevin Walsh of Bear-Hill Interiors. “The house is a typical Heights bungalow,” says Walsh. “It has great appeal, and we just needed to update the plan and add a more suitable master suite.”
In a “shotgun house” fashion, the front door originally opened to the living room, with the dining room beyond and then—through a small door—the kitchen. “The house had good bones,” says Walsh, “but we wanted to give it a more open floor plan for entertaining by creating larger spaces with lots of natural light.”
To do so, Walsh called for a cased passageway between the living and dining rooms and opened the kitchen completely, stealing some square footage from an awkwardly placed master bedroom. Next, he created a new master suite behind the kitchen in what was previously a family room addition. “Now, instead of numerous small rooms, it feels as if you are in a large home,” he notes.
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