There might be two kinds of homeowners in this world: those who fear patterns and those who embrace them. At the onset of this project, as with the four prior ones that designer Charlotte Barnes has done with this homeowner and her husband, Barnes and the client began with an afternoon expedition through New York’s D&D Building.
“We typically go there and fill up with tons of fabrics,” says Barnes, “and while she and I have no idea where we’re going with all the competing patterns and colors, we start playing around with them and, then, suddenly have a plan.” The homeowner, too, recounts, with fondness these fabric-shopping forays. “Charlotte and I have fun together—we understand each other. Mixing patterns is, I think, an instinct of mine, and, yet, I don’t like to make a single design decision without Charlotte. She is always my ‘taste check’.”
After the clients purchased this H-shaped, three-bedroom Vero Beach house on the Indian River, they had locally-based architect Peter Moor make significant layout changes. “It was a spec house originally,” says the homeowner, “and just too open-planned. Peter and Charlotte were so talented at reconfiguring rooms, making spaces a bit more closed off and defined.”
The real thrill of the home, though, was furnishing its rooms. “This is definitely a Florida house,” Barnes emphasizes, “but we decided to make this a chic house, wherever it is.” When Barnes came upon some exuberant two-tone Moschino fabrics, she knew they were right for the great room—and the pattern now wraps two John Saladino sofas. After Moor ingeniously carved out novel seating nooks in the room, Barnes was intent on cladding the ceiling with pecky cypress, a textured grade she then had painted to a sandy hue.
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The home’s great room feels especially expansive with its painted vaulted ceiling. The bright room is furnished with a pair of John Saladino sofas upholstered in a Paolo Moschino fabric, rattan chairs, and Urban Electric sconces centered in the fireside seat nooks.
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A Chinese bronze crane censer, from Avery & Dash Antiques, is set on an endtable.
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