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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An Artist’s Renovation
When Ashley Jones seeks inspiration for her paintings and photography projects, she finds it in the refreshing greens and blues of nature. But when it came to her 1969 ranch home in the North Little Rock neighborhood of Lakewood, lively colors and natural elements were clearly lacking. “The main living spaces were incredibly dark and closed off with tiny rooms,” says Ashley. “It didn’t leave me very inspired.”
And so Ashley, general manager for Merle Norman in the greater Little Rock area, set about transforming her kitchen, dining and living rooms into one open and airy space. She took her time and pondered the prospect of renovating for an entire year while planning and outlining a budget, and then began the project with the help of contractor Richard Harp.
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Open House
At Home in Arkansas:
As the dynamic duo behind the specialty furniture retailer I.O. Metro—your husband, Jay, is the founder and chief executive officer, and you’re the creative director—do you feel like kids in a candy shop when you move into a new home?
Christine Howard:
Definitely. Our homes have always been our testing grounds for new items, experimenting with styles and seeing how well each piece works over time. We’ve been married almost five years, and in that time we’ve lived in nine homes, so we’ve had plenty of experience with the process.
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History with a Heart
At Home in Arkansas:
How did this stately home, which you share with your husband, Neal, and your children, Elizabeth and Wesley, become yours?
Lisa Kirkpatrick:
We fell in love with our home more than 22 years ago. Neal and I would drive by often and just knew one day it would be ours. The dream became a reality nine years ago and since then we’ve poured our hearts into creating a look that the home needed and deserved.
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Garden Gala
Family time at the Moody household often finds Edward, Angela and their young daughter, Eden, walking the rows of their vegetable garden, sampling cherry tomatoes, examining peppers, picking blackberries or simply stopping to smell the flowers. The bucolic setting might seem at odds with the stately Georgian home and the formal landscape surrounding it, but creating a balance between family friendly and entertaining elegant is just what the Moodys had in mind when they began planning their gardens and grounds.
“My husband and I both like a formal design style with structure and symmetry, which certainly fits with the lines of our house, and in most areas we stayed true to that,” says Angela, “but we also wanted more informal places, including a comfortable guesthouse and a vegetable garden we could tend.”
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Comforts of Home
For families with children in the neonatal intensive care unit at St. Edward Mercy Medical Center in Fort Smith, options for staying near their child overnight were once limited to camping out on a hospital sofa or booking an extended stay at a hotel. That was until Ronald McDonald House Charities became involved, and raised the funds to convert a wing of the hospital used as physician sleeping quarters into a virtual home-away-from-home for families in need.
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From Orchid to Art
Beat the blues during the last few weeks of winter with a project that’s sure to boost the spirits. Floral designer Holly Mang, owner of Brick Street Botanical in Rogers, offers a how-to idea that will get you moving and add a dash of creativity to your home at the same time. First, you need to take a hike—head to your favorite park or trail, and search for the most unique piece of wood you can find, something you can envision cleaning and using as a centerpiece or on a side table. Then, follow Mang’s step-by-step instructions for turning the wood into an eye-catching orchid sculpture.
Materials
• Wood (driftwood or weathered branches work best)
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Elegant Inside and Out
At Home in Arkansas:
What influenced you to design your home around a central courtyard, with doors from nearly every room leading directly to it?
Debbie Tinnin:
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