At Home in Arkansas: This house has such serene colors, with blue, khaki and cream as the major shades repeated from room to room. What inspired the palette?
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Family Fun
At Home in Arkansas: Nearly every room in your home has a view into another one. Surely this was planned as a way to keep an eye on kids while going about daily life?
Justin Stewart: We have a very open floor plan that allows for large cased openings and entry ways, numerous windows to light up the space with natural light, spacious ceilings and a great vantage point to watch the kids play out back. At the same time, the boys’ bedrooms and playroom are upstairs, where they can escape and go nuts!
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Traditional Green
At Home in Arkansas: As a builder, tell us about your decision to build your own green home in Woodlands Edge, which is a sustainable neighborhood.
Jennifer Franks: It was an obvious next step for us to build a traditional Southern-style home, our favorite look, and marry that with green technology. We wanted people to see that you can live comfortably in a certified green home. We’re not extremists. You need to balance your life with all these things, but it’s doable.
Bret Franks: We learned much more by actually building it than was possible by just reading books about how to do it.
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Grassroots Green
At Home in Arkansas: You and your husband have followed creative career paths, which led you to Seattle. What drew you back to Arkansas, where you chose to build your home?
Kylie Williams: I have a degree in art history, and in Seattle, I worked for artist Dale Chihuly. My husband, Dustin, is a web user experience and interface designer. Before we had our child, we decided to move back to Arkansas to be near family. I chose to take a couple of years off from my career, but I needed a project.
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Lakeside Living, Redefined
At Home in Arkansas: Tell us the backstory on how this family of four from Little Rock created this retreat on Greers Ferry Lake.
Scott Paterek: They were originally drawn to the land, which has a dock and a beautiful view of the lake. They built a custom home on it, and then two years later the tornadoes that went through this part of the state destroyed it and they subsequently re-built.
AHIA: How damaging was the tornado?
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Serenely Chic
At Home in Arkansas: How did the waterfront locale influence your design? It’s equal parts serene, modern and chic.
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A Floating Garden
“A garden should be a nice place to visit year-round,” says Mark Gibson of Green Thumb Garden Center in Little Rock, which he helms with his sister, Marlene Murphy. As specialists in water gardens containing aquatic plants and fish, they have a creative and unique solution for season-less beauty: floating island planters. Comprised of a buoyant foam base that holds potting soil and plants, a floating island ensures there’s something alive and green in outdoor spaces even when land plants begin to wane, from the peak of summer to the dead of winter.
A floating island is surprisingly easy to build and maintain, and is ideal for anyone with a pond or area of water that needs some attention. And in a koi or fish pond, its benefits extend to providing shade and protection for fish, and oxygenating and purifying the water as well.
Here’s how to create your very own floating garden:
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Historic Meets Happy
At Home in Arkansas: Your home manages to blur several design lines that can be challenging: it’s historic, yet feels fresh and livable, and it’s elegant while still feeling comfortable. How did you strike that balance?
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Renovated and Refreshed
Old World meets cool contemporary in an updated home that’s elegant yet comfortable for family living
At Home in Arkansas:In the years since we last featured this 1920s Hillcrest home, it has changed ownership and undergone a dramatic renovation. When did the current homeowners contact you about a design overhaul?
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Container Makeover
For homeowners whose houseplants need rejuvenating, Ziggy Shumate, nursery manager for Horticare Companies in Little Rock, has some advice. Take them outside, and replant them in your outdoor containers with a mix of blooming annuals for a fresh look that will fare well throughout the growing season.
“Houseplants that have been living in a small container too long stop thriving because they become root bound,” says Shumate. “Moving them to a larger container gives them room to spread out.” The plants’ textural leaves and variety of colors make them an interesting option for spicing up containers, she notes, and adding in a few colorful annuals results in a blooming, budget-friendly combo. “Don’t be afraid to mix things up,” she adds. “You’ll get a look that’s more personal and often more interesting.”
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