At Home in Arkansas:
How would you describe this home, in five words or fewer?
Reggie Marshall of Marshall Clements:
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Growing at the Governor’s Mansion
Roasted autumn vegetables, feta puffs with fresh spinach, and pinwheels with beets, goat cheese and pistachios have become first family favorites at the Arkansas Governor’s Mansion, made all the more delicious because the main ingredients have been grown on-site.
The mansion sits on eight-and-a-half acres in the heart of the historic Quapaw Quarter in Little Rock, and an organic vegetable garden is nestled in the southeastern corner of the property, surrounded by a distinctive picket fence and encircled by flowering crabapple, holly and magnolia trees. The bucolic setting in the heart of the city was created as part of garden designer P. Allen Smith’s overhaul of the mansion grounds in 2005, and over the past few years the 3,600-square-foot plot has produced bountiful harvests under the guidance of the Pulaski County Master Gardener program.
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Modular on the Move
In the Pettaway Park neighborhood in downtown Little Rock, a simple and sleek new home on a corner lot breaks from convention. Although it qualifies as affordable housing, ample windows and a slatted wooden exterior convey high quality materials. While it appears nestled into the lot, mere months ago it was built in a Fayetteville warehouse and trucked to the site. And though the streamlined appearance suggests professional design and construction, the home was created by a group of students from the University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture.
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Play Time
Boys will be Boys
Vincent, in a white Splendid tee from Tulips, and Fore Axel & Hudson zip-front plaid jacket and Me Too shorts from Bella Jack’s Children’s Boutique in Fayetteville, makes silly faces. Ladylike Jett smiles in a pair of Diesel gladiator sandals, and a Kico Kids cardigan, skirt and yellow eyelet tank, all from 3 Monkeys Children’s Boutique in Rogers. The bench and mirror are vintage; pillows are from Target. Brooklyn climbs on a Louis ghost armchair from Little Rock’s Soho Modern, showing off her ruffly green Splendid dress from Tulips in Little Rock.
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Bright and Boyish
At Home in Arkansas: Where do you begin when designing a room for an 8-year-old boy?
Designer Casey Roark: For this project, I began with the color. When the Brooks family moved to Fayetteville several years ago, and Sam was a toddler, I helped Mary Beth Brooks with the design of his bedroom and the playroom next to it. Now that he’s older, she felt it was time to change some of the furnishings and freshen up the rooms. Because we wanted to keep a few elements, like the playroom’s Dr. Seuss-inspired mural based on the book “Sam I Am,” we needed a color that worked well with what was already there. I chose a bright blue for the bedroom walls to connect the two rooms together.
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Twice as Nice
At Home in Arkansas:
You worked with homeowners Jennifer and Patrick Schueck to design their twin daughters’ nursery. Now that the girls are 3-year-old toddlers, what did you have in mind for their bedroom makeover?
Laurie McFarland of Tuck & Cover:
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Modern Beginnings
At Home in Arkansas:
This isn’t a traditional baby-blue nursery. What motivated the look?
Designer Eric Ford:
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Family-friendly in the City
At Home in Arkansas: This house looks so chic, especially for a family of five with two young children. How did you manage to combine good looks with daily family living?
Designer Tobi Fairley: Choosing the right pieces makes all the difference. You find out how a family lives and give some thought to making it work. Take the living room in this house—it’s one of the first rooms you enter, and it was unrealistic to think that the kids wouldn’t play here. We added an oversized ottoman covered in vinyl, so the kids can run into the room and plop onto it and there are no sharp edges. We used a sectional sofa to seat lots of people, kids included. And behind that sofa we added a console table with open shelves for stowing toys. Clever ways to store toys are critical, so you can pick up rooms quickly.
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Family Friendly in the Country
At Home in Arkansas: You’ve described yourself as a country girl at heart, growing up on a farm in southeast Arkansas before you became an interior designer for TLC’s television series Trading Spaces and started your own practice in New York, as well as an online magazine, lauradayliving.com. Now, you’ve come full circle by transforming a historic farmhouse in Bridgehampton, Long Island, into your own family-friendly retreat. What drew you to this particular house?
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Touchdown for Family Time
“Something for everyone” is how Sue Redfield describes the back yard of the home she and her husband, Charles, share with their sons, Avery and Matthew. Now sporting a spacious pool and patio area where the boys congregate with friends, an adjoining covered porch where Sue and Charles can relax in the shade or entertain guests, and even a firepit surrounded by seating where kids and adults gather to roast marshmallows, the newly completed outdoor area has every member of the family singing its praises.
This laid-back, family-friendly lifestyle is what the Redfields had in mind when they moved into their new home on a wooded hillside in Bentonville. “We fell in love with the home’s setting and the idea that there was room for the boys to run around without worrying about traffic,” says Sue. The steep lot, however, meant that the backyard had been left untouched, which Sue and Charles saw as a design opportunity. “We were looking to create an outdoor setting that each member of the family would enjoy,” says Sue. “A place to kick back and relax outside, a pool and patio area that fit all the needs of our family—those who love sun as well as those who love being outside but in the shade.”
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