An enchanting mix of natural and glamorous elements help to transform a lackluster home into a stylish, hillside sanctuary overlooking the Salt Lake Valley.
The story begins typically enough: A husband and wife duo finds a house, buys a house and decides to remodel a house. Then it gets interesting. He wants a nature-inspired and spiritual design, while she craves something more glamorous and chic. To satisfy them both, interior designer Anne-Marie Barton and contractor Steve Dubell married the seemingly disparate aesthetics as they masterfully transformed the hillside home.
In the master bedroom, Barton and Dubell enlarged existing windows to fill the room with mountain views and glorious light. The designer oriented white oak flooring diagonally to “relax” the space and accentuated the room’s height with a floor-to-ceiling, two-sided fireplace clad in two natural stones separated by a horizontal band of bronze. “It’s like a piece of art,” Barton explains. An upholstered bed, vintage rug and ethereal bubble chandelier infuse the room with serenity and style.
The luxe design continues in the main-level dressing room below, a space accessed by an open spiral staircase enriched with an oil-rubbed bronze finish. There, custom brass open shelves, solid walnut cabinets enriched with a driftwood stain and a jewelry cabinet topped with oh-so-chic smoked glass effuse undeniable elegance and elan. “We begin our days in closets, so they should not only be organized, but they should also be a peaceful sanctuary,” Barton says.
The adjoining spa-like bathroom is decidedly more dazzling. Barton detailed the fireplace box with a beveled bronze frame and dressed the walls in a shimmering floral metallic wallpaper and antique silver metallic tile. The freestanding tub adds soft, organic curves while the clean-lined, floating vanity of rift sawn oak and white-painted drawers elevates the room’s allure. “The level of detail and quality in this space is remarkable,” Barton says.
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