By Torie Temple
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| Photos past times Melissa Donald |
Nestled with the busy streets of the Highlands neighborhood stands a turn-of-the-century shotgun household with redefined spaces too eclectic inner workings that comfortably blends inwards with its surroundings. Living nether its 12-foot ceilings is Holly Gregor, old author on interior pattern turned full-time designer. “When I moved, I knew I wanted a completely unlike living sense than my terminal house,” Holly says. “So when my oldest graduated from high school, I wanted to downsize too uncovering that novel living experience. The Highlands was the perfect solution. It’s a unlike sort of living here, too I tin hand the sack walk to anywhere I desire to go.”
Fate had a manus inwards leading Holly to her Highlands home. Her friends too beau designers Rick Jenkins too Virgil Vaughn knew the terminal 3 owners of the habitation too were able to inform Holly of its impending sale earlier it was on the market. Once she secured the house, Holly, Rick too Virgil got started on making the within vivid too livable.
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| Paint too saved Holly coin inwards the kitchen past times transforming the ceramic tile flooring. "The flooring tile inwards the kitchen looked gray to me, too the walls were mustard, then nosotros had the walls painted cream too the cabinets painted green," Holly says. "The greenish (Porter Paints, Fatique Green) inwards the cabinets brought out the greenish inwards the tile that I didn't come across before. I didn't select to tear the tile upward because everything was then cohesive." |
The home’s biggest transformation came past times the gallons. Cream-colored pigment (Porter Paints - Velvet White) covers the walls, ceilings, too hardwood floors throughout the house. “My whole household is done on a budget because I am really price-conscious,” Holly says. “To salve money, I had the floors painted instead of having them refinished. Painting everything cream gave me a build clean palette too the all-white hold back I was going for.
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| The habitation was originally a one-bedroom with a divide dining too living room, precisely Holly needed 2 sitting rooms too an extra sleeping room for her son. She solved this past times converting the old dining room into her extra sitting area, too she used a trivial imagination to add together around other bedroom. "The front end room/library is straightaway my bedroom," Holly says. "Since the household was a one-bedroom, I had to occupation the infinite inwards a modern way, then my sleeping room too serves every bit the dining room." |
“It is amazing what a coat of pigment tin hand the sack do. It made everything to a greater extent than opened upward too made the ceilings hold back higher. You come across things differently too it brings out the details inwards the house.”
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| Front sitting room |
Now redesigned too redefined, the home’s unique trend continues with the combination of antique too repurposed decor. Holly has gathered pieces from
World Market,
Joe Ley, too Rick Jenkins too Company (Rick too Virgil’s company).
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Designer Rick Jenkins says coming to dinner at Holly's household is a lot of fun, really European, too yous don't intend nearly beingness inwards a sleeping room piece eating. This could last because of the clever means the tabular array is placed inwards Holly's room with a large mirror behind it. The mirror was designed past times Rick out of a slice of molding he constitute at Joe Ley Antiques.
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She has learned that it isn’t nearly how the household was lived inwards before, precisely how yous desire to alive inwards the house. “When you’re going to deed into a house, endeavour to intend how yous alive inwards society to designate each room for what yous postulate it to be,” Holly says. “Just because it’s supposed to last a dining room doesn’t hateful it has to rest the dining room. Bring inwards a mix of modern too antiques. Having the 2 together makes for an interesting house.”
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| Holly incorporates playfulness into the organisation of her bath -- opting for stacking her shelf with john newspaper rather than towels. |
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| In her son's room, Holly created a sofa using twin beds. |
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