At Home in Arkansas: Your home is so pulled together, which hints at years of careful editing and accessorizing. We have to know: new build, or renovation?
Melissa Haynes: It’s a new build in Fayetteville’s Clear Creek neighborhood, but I love that you thought it might have been a renovation. One of the things that was really important to me in designing this house was to draw from the classics—French influence, Mediterranean design, British architecture—and create a house that was timeless and would age gracefully.
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Modern Glamour
At Home in Arkansas: What was the home like before the transformation?
Homeowner Jane Meade: The house had been redone beautifully five years before and was in excellent shape. My quandary was finding the style I wanted the house to follow.
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Livable Luxury
At Home in Arkansas: The overall feel of this home is opulent and elegant, without seeming too feminine or fussy. Can you tell us about the inspiration behind the design?
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Rustically Refined
For Julie and Ben Pruet, escaping to the European countryside doesn’t require purchasing tickets or packing bags. Rather, the couple simply steps outside and wanders through their garden, making their way to the arched doors that lead to their Old World-inspired outdoor kitchen.
Travels through Europe influenced the couple to infuse their West Little Rock home with Tuscan ambience, a look that carried over to the home’s exterior and grounds. When Ben retired a few years ago, Julie cooked up the idea of a European-inspired outdoor kitchen as a mutually enjoyable addition. “The kitchen was my retirement gift to Ben,” says Julie, “a space where he could enjoy grilling, and I could share in the experience with him. We love being outdoors on the beautiful days here in Arkansas, and wanted to bring a little of our indoors outside.”
Blending the outdoor space with the style of their home was a priority, and Julie worked with builder Jack Hartsell, designer Kim Brockinton and decorative painter Andrew Bruckman to give the new area rustic appeal. “Even though this kitchen was basically for my husband’s use, I wanted it to be a space that would be visually pleasing for us and for entertaining as well,” she says. “Being an engineer by background, it is all about the functionality for Ben, but for me it was much more than stainless steel appliances and a prep area for cooking.” Julie ensured that each element in the kitchen, including the stone and Western cedar construction materials, Spanish cedar cabinets and island, bronze metal vent hood, copper light fixtures, textured and colored walls, along with aged shutters and arched doors, added to the overall Old World look she envisioned.
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The New Traditional
At Home in Arkansas: Carita and Bennie Ryburn and their two daughters, Halley and Madison, are a young, active family. How did they amass such an impressive collection of antique furniture?
Designer Tobi Fairley: This house belonged to Bennie’s grandparents, and he was very close to his grandmother. When she passed away, she left the house to him and his family. It was full of her antiques—wonderful old furniture, with many pieces from Hickory Chair and Baker. The Ryburns left things intact for a little while, and when they were ready, I came in and helped them with the process of determining which items to keep. Many items were sentimental to them, but they wanted the house to feel modern and updated for their children—someplace they could live in for a long time.
Once you began the remodeling process, your initial plans were derailed a bit.
After we finally decided which items to keep, I picked up all the antiques, moved them to my warehouse in Little Rock, and began refinishing and reupholstering them. Once we began the remodeling process with the contractor, the house caught on fire due to some old electrical wiring in the sunroom. A few things in the house had to be restored. We didn’t lose much, but we had to completely start over on the renovation. That was about four years ago, so this has been a five or six year process.
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Blended Spaces
At Home in Arkansas: What did these spaces look like before the transformation?
Designer Kimberly Harper: When Michelle Trumbo and Joe Whiteside married, Michelle moved into Joe’s home with her daughters, Holley, age 12, and Anna, age 9. The craft space was a guest room/home office, but it was full of the belongings that didn’t fit elsewhere when Michelle and the girls moved in. The TV/game room upstairs was just an empty stairway landing area.
What design elements were important to the family to include in the craft space?
Multipurpose was important with office and craft areas. Michelle had a picture from a magazine showing a room with geometric wallpaper and a wall unit with modern, white shelving. So we went from there. She needed a place for her printer and files, and those are underneath the counter. We added baskets for storage and a customizable rod system that holds cups for craft supplies.
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Outside the Box
At Home in Arkansas: Your son Sawyer’s room is so colorful and fun. What was your inspiration?
Homeowner Katie Henry: I have always been drawn to colorful, modern design, but didn’t necessarily want that look in my entire house. This room was a great place to implement that style. When we moved into this house, we were expecting our daughter, so it was a good time to move Sawyer into a toddler room, and I wanted to create a room that would be fun, bright and transitional as he grows older.
Tell us about the stencil on the wall and how you created it.
I wanted to create an accent wall in his room and could not find any wallpaper that fit my concept. After looking online for a few days, I found the stencil from a shop on Etsy. When I received it in the mail, I realized that it was not something I was patient or talented enough to paint without mistakes. I hired someone to paint it and it turned out to be quite the mathematical task to line up everything correctly. She did an amazing job and I love how it turned out.
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Will in the Wild
At Home in Arkansas: The nursery you created for Will is so imaginative. What was your inspiration for this space?
Homeowner Laura Keener: My husband, Michael, and I decided to not find out the baby’s gender before he was born, so the main requirement for the nursery was that it be gender neutral. I enlisted the help of my sister-in-law, [At Home in Arkansas art director] Mandy Keener, and we used Pinterest to find all sorts of ideas and communicate those with each other.
You captured a nice balance of soothing blues with pops of bright colors throughout.
Mandy Keener: I’m obsessed with color, so I wanted to pump in as much of it as I could without it being overwhelming.
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Blue Belle
At Home in Arkansas: Blue is an unexpected color in a baby girl’s room. What inspired the color palette in 9-month-old Catherine Riley’s nursery?
Homeowner Sarah Brantley: I’ve always loved blue bedrooms and knew that was the direction I wanted to go here. It’s my favorite color and it’s soothing. I found all of the fabric at Cynthia East, and the print for the crib skirt helped determine the palette and pull it all together.
Not knowing the gender can be challenging when designing a nursery. Which aspects were ready ahead of time and which were added once Catherine Riley was born?
The crib, bedding, glider, changing table and curtains were put into place before she was born. I had planned to bring out the pink in the crib skirt with accessories if we had a girl and the blue and green if we had a boy. Our goal was to keep the room soft and sweet either way.
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Bringing the Indoors Out
Two floors above the downtown Fayetteville square, Ted and Leslie Belden are settling in for a family movie night. Leslie’s curled up on the sofa with the couple’s five-year-old grandson, Hayden; Ted is relaxing in an upholstered armchair nearby. As the opening credits roll, a quick flick of a switch lights a terra-cotta fire pit nestled into the seating area, and the family catches a glimpse of the sunset through the terrace hedges.
It may be on a roof, and it may be a deck, but to call the Beldens’ recently renovated outdoor living space simply a roof deck would be an understatement. When the couple moved into Fayetteville’s historic Campbell-Bell building 10 years ago, the empty nesters were delighted to trade yard work for the ease of city living. But as their daughters’ young families started to grow, the Beldens knew they needed a more family-oriented retreat.
“What we wanted most dearly was an outdoor space to enjoy with our family,” says Leslie, “a place where our grandkids could go out and spill their juice and ride a tricycle.”
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