This Total Residence Was Created All-around One Wallpaper

Considering that 2010, a Houston few experienced fortunately lived and raised a brood of 4 kids in their renovated 1960s ranch-design and style house in the Memorial Villages. But, “over time we only essential far more closet and lavatory area to accommodate our expanding little ones,” explains one of the owners. So, when the lot straight up coming to them turned out there, “we jumped at the possibility to be equipped to layout a custom property where we could continue to be set in our neighborhood,” they demonstrate.

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Chandos Interiors created a residence that blends “softness and comfort” with a “more fashionable edge.”

For this sprawling desire abode, courtesy of Goodchild Builders and Newberry Architecture, the house owners turned to Chandos Dodson Epley, founder of the neighborhood agency Chandos Interiors, to invigorate each and every area. Specified the spouse and wife’s divergent tastes—she desired “softness and comfort and ease,” whilst he has a decidedly “more modern day edge,” claims the owner—Dodson Epley experienced a challenge on her arms. “I desired to come across a centre path, wobbling concerning all those worlds to generate a cohesive search,” she states.

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Right away on listening to the couple’s vision for the property, Dodson Epley was reminded of a vacation to Los Angeles various decades back again, wherever on a go to to MJ Atelier’s Van Nuys studio, she was struck by a bas-relief sculptural wallcovering depicting an stylish floral vignette. “I understood I desired to use it in this house. I’d under no circumstances observed it accomplished in Houston right before, and it was going to be remarkable,” she remembers. “It finished off starting to be the leaping position for the total style.”

That wallpaper, prominently showcased in the eating place, paved the way for other things the two delicate and daring: hand-sawn oak doors, lacquered walls, and swaths of marble established versus antiques and a slew of tailor made pieces. The concluded item attests to Dodson Epley’s deft melding of warmth and panache.

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For some two decades the designer fulfilled with the few weekly, prioritizing their layout tastes this sort of as a sleek wine space, a bevy of free of charge walls so that they could organically increase their artwork collection over time, and open up, absolutely free-flowing areas that would be welcoming to the quite a few mates and relatives dropping by for a continual stream of celebratory fêtes they prepared to host.

Plentiful lights fixtures—there are all over 135 sprinkled in the course of the house—are a collectively highly effective addition, purposefully put to buoy the art and furnishings choices. To be certain the lights plan was each “efficient and extraordinary,” Dodson Epley introduced in a professional, a reflection of her “top-down decorative” method. “We considered just about every detail—the tiles, vanities, paneling, doorway casings, to make this a cozy and stunning but purposeful loved ones household,” she says.

Entry

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Dodson Epley’s own laser-cut flooring installation—comprised of Arbescato Altissimo, Bardiglio Dim, and Grigio Carnico marbles—sets a subtle tone in the home’s entry, producing a solid initially perception. “The hand-completed tile reads each present-day and vintage,” clarifies the designer.

Flooring: Chandos Dodson Epley. Sconce: Circa Lights. Buffet: Jean-Marc Fray French Antiques. Stair Runner: Stark. Artwork: Tony Magar/Laura Rathe Good Artwork.

Kitchen area

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Two metal doors and walls of streamlined cabinetry insert a perception of symmetry to the kitchen, where by cooking will take area beneath a personalized hood and a reclaimed wood ceiling is elevated by classy splashes of Calacatta marble, zinc, and brass.

Pendants: Avrett. Hood and Island: The Lonestar Vary Hood Organization.

Stools: The Wicker Functions and Holly Hunt. Paint: Sherwin-Williams. Components: Rocky Mountain Components.

Eating Place

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The blue-and-gold eating space is a showstopper, starring the sculptural wallcovering Dodson Epley fell in really like with a long time ago. “It’s a modern day acquire on scenic wallpaper,” she factors out, whilst the owner, who deems it “one of the most innovative components of the property,” provides that it “looks like a function of artwork.”

Wallcovering: MJ Atelier. Chandelier: Circa Lights. Paint: Great Paints of Europe. Chairs: Thomas Pheasant Selection for Baker, Fortuny (material on backs), and Dedar Milano, (cloth on confront). Buffet: Jean-Marc Fray French Antiques. Rug: Resourceful Flooring. Material: Larsen (cloth) and Holland & Sherry (trim).

Fantastic Space

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Stools that belonged to the homeowners prior to the renovation in good shape proper in in the soaring, artwork-filled Excellent Room—including a painting by Rick Lowe, the artist and local community organizer at the rear of Houston’s Project Row Houses—which highlights antique chairs and an elaborately carved mirror.

Artwork: Rick Lowe/ C2 Art Advisors and Hiram Butler Gallery and Margaret Evangeline/Dimmitt Modern Artwork. Sofas: Lee Industries and Lark Fontaine (cloth). Rug: Stark. Center Table: Bunny Williams Dwelling. Cabinet: Chandos Interiors and The Joseph Organization. Flooring Lamp: Circa Lighting. Slipper Chairs: Lee Industries and Jim Thompson (fabric). Coffee Desk:Paul Ferrante. Chairs: Moxie. Mirror: Shabby Slips Home. Console Desk: Chandos Interiors. Lamps: Circa Lighting.

Formal Powder Bathtub

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A Venetian mirror that already belonged to the owners can take middle phase in the official powder tub, where it is set in opposition to a backdrop of blue shagreen tiles. “It’s particularly beautiful in this room when you see the self-importance reflected in the antique mirror wall with brass tacks,” states Dodson Epley.

Ground and Tile: ADR Tile and Stone. Wallpaper: Ann Jackson. Sconces: Vaughan Patterns. Vanity: The Furniture Guild. Paint: Sherwin-Williams.

Review

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“This is not your standard examine,” says Dodson Epley. “The house owners required a captivating area where the grownups could assemble for cocktails.” The lacquered blue partitions, custom made chairs, and fire, all lend the place, adds the proprietor, “a stylish, nightclub come to feel on all those evenings absent from the young children.”

Ceiling Fixture: Allan Knight. Sconces: Jean-Marc Fray French Antiques. Sofa: The Joseph Organization and Osborne & Tiny (cloth). Ceiling wallpaper: Donghia. Window Procedure: Dedar Milano (fabric) and Samuel & Sons (trim). Paint: High-quality Paints of Europe. Art: Natasha Legislation/C2 Art Advisors and Voltz Clarke Gallery. Chairs: The Joseph Organization and Kravet.

Bar

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Flanked by whitewashed brick is the petite bar, fashioned out of vein-reduce Gunsmoke Onyx and complemented by a medley of brass, glass, and acrylic.

Stone: Walker Zanger. Shelves: Peck & Firm. Sconces: Circa Lights (shelves) and Jonathan Browning (bar). Chandelier:Kelly Wearstler for Circa Lights. Stools:Muniz Plastics.

Primary Bed room

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A modernist Murano “Virgole” chandelier, flaunting two tiers of gold-leaf and glass, hangs about the learn bedroom’s personalized mattress.

Bed and nightstand: The Joseph Firm. Headboard fabric:Schumacher. Bedding: Longoria Assortment. Chandelier: Sourced by Janet Wiebe. Chest: Memorial Antiques & Interiors. Lamps: Christopher Spitzmiller for Circa Lights. Mirrors:Arteriors. Window treatment: Fabricut. Rug: Stark. Couch: Ferrell Mittman, Schumacher (material), and Janet Gust (pillows).

Key Rest room

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The spouse longed for a crisp white marble bathtub, and she got it, in the kind of Calacatta Vagli, but the husband also desired to assure the monochrome area experienced a masculine contact. By weaving in an ottoman, Artwork Deco light-weight fixture, and mosaic tiles, “we produced the space warm and appealing,” claims Dodson Epley.

Ground tile: Marble Systems. Sconces: Hudson Valley Lighting. Mirror: John-Richard. Ceiling Fixture: Sourced by Janet Wiebe. Ottoman: The Joseph Enterprise. Ceiling wallpaper and ottoman material: Schumacher. Drapery fabric: Ralph Lauren.

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