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Wood elements, including furnishings, recessed bookcases and a pitched wood-plank ceiling accented with beams, bring warmth and character to the great room.
Steel-and-glass doors on adjacent walls of this serene space at one end of the great room lead to garden and outdoor dining areas. Here, as in all her designs—whether for a Spanish Colonial abode or a High Country ranch cabin—Rapp likes to see variations on a theme repeated throughout. “It can be anything,” the designer explains, “a color, a design, a material from nature, such as a leaf, plant, flower, animal or bird. It must be subtle and restrained. It is like a good song or melody—think The Beatles songs on the Abby Road album. Those melodies never leave the memory.” The colors used here, as well as the fabrics and flooring materials, are repeated in other rooms as well.
New meets old in the master bath, which boasts a soaking tub,
tumbled-marble flooring in a basket-weave pattern, an antique table,
and old cupboard doors that serve as a screen. Walls are Venetian
plaster.
Taupe-colored walls and a sleigh bed upholstered in linen and covered with textural bedding paint a neutral palette in the master bedroom. Books are stacked on the nightstand, waiting to be read. Floor-to-ceiling draperies have a pineapple motif.
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