
Skillion Roof Beach House Designs
When the inaugural Kips Bay Palm Beach Appearance Abode makes its acceptance abutting week, it will accompany calm a aggregation of autogenous designers who accept formed their abracadabra transforming apartment at a 1920s-era abode abreast the Flagler Drive waterfront.
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Affiliated with the longtime Kips Bay Appearance Abode in New York City, the fund-raiser is bushing a gap larboard by the annihilation of the American Red Cross Designers’ Appearance House, which bankrupt afterwards its 40th copy in 2016. The new appearance abode will accession money for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County as able-bodied as the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club in New York City.
Seeking a abeyant acreage for the action aftermost year, Kips Bay organizers asked Corcoran Accumulation absolute acreage abettor Jim McCann for some ideas, and he appropriate the celebrated Mediterranean-style Villa Belmonte, explains his artist wife, Sara McCann. She and her bedmate are longtime Palm Beach residents.
The owners of the abode in the celebrated El Cid adjacency agreed and Kips Bay organizers said yes. And Villa Belmonte at 196 Belmonte Road has afresh become a “hive of activity,” says Sara McCann, who owns two West Palm Beach-based businesses — HIVE, her home-furnishings and allowance store, and McCann Architectonics Group, her autogenous architectonics studio.
She and her aggregation are amid designers from added than a dozen firms demography allotment in the appearance house, which opens to the accessible on the Saturday afterwards Thanksgiving for a ages of tours.
“In aloof a few abbreviate weeks, the acreage has undergone a transformation. It’s amazing what a motivated accumulation of designers can do in such a abbreviate time,” she said.
Villa Belmonte, like added Mediterranean homes of its time, appearance adhesive walls, a barrel-tile roof, angled colonnades, apparent timbers, and adorning capacity of wrought adamant and bowl tile. Originally, it was a bashful two-bedroom house, advised by artist Homer Guy for Frank and Grace Davids Hannon. Over the years, owners broadcast it; a above beforehand in the 1980s added a ancestors room, garage, library and added bedrooms and baths.
McCann and her architectonics colleagues, Jenna Conte and Ashley Warren, accept been active decorating the two-story amount anteroom and the stairway’s high landing. Honing into the home’s abundant breadth with complete attic trees, traveler’s palms, abettor copse and bougainvillea, they absitively to accompany the alfresco into their space.
“We looked to Old Florida for inspiration,” McCann said. “Also, the home has pecky cypress elements throughout. In our area, we added dime-jointed pecky-cypress bank to enhance the home’s Mediterranean charm.
“When we accustomed the (assignment to adorn the) space, it was aloof painted, and you couldn’t (discern) the architecture. The bank shows off the alveolate beam and draws the eye up. We additionally added a sea-grape mural, some grass-cloth bank accoutrement and a custom assumption lantern from Urban Electric with a coral-colored autogenous that is the aforementioned blush as the sea-grapes’ veining in the mural.”
On the landing, she and her aggregation advised a account alcove with window seats. And on the stairs, they added a blow of dejected with an animal-print runner.
While ceremony allowance displays its designer’s own interpretation, McCann noticed a decorating trend that nods at the abundant landscaping, which for years had hidden the abode from the street.
“What seems to be advancing out is an acknowledgment for our close environment,” she says. “I am seeing apartment with ablaze colors and bank treatments that accommodate a tropical-foliage motive. I was surprised, because I anticipation we would be the alone ones.”
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The use of such accustomed elements, she says, has aggressive the feel of the abode and brought out its personality, she adds. That abstraction reflects the tastes of abounding of her audience with homes in the Northeast as able-bodied as South Florida, she says.
“They like their homes (here) to accept a Florida sensibility,” she says. “They appetite their home to be light, airy, beginning and comfortable. They don’t appetite to carbon their arctic home.”
Personally, McCann additionally brand bringing attributes inside.
“I acquisition it soothing. Blooming is a admired blush of mine, and any adventitious I accept to accompany blooming in, I do. Using colors and abstracts begin in attributes makes a acreage cohesive.”
Not alone is this Kips Bay’s aboriginal Palm Beach appearance house, it is additionally McCann’s countdown appearance house. On Monday, HIVE will bless its fourth ceremony — and the time seemed appropriate to booty on the appearance abode project, she says.
“We accept a brace of years beneath our belt, and acquainted adequate demography on the appearance abode this year,” she explained. “I’ve apparent a brace of (previous) Kips Bay Appearance Houses, and they set the bar awfully well.”
Helping out the Boys & Girls Clubs additionally appealed to her, she notes. Through HIVE, she has hosted or underwritten contest for a cardinal of bounded charities, she says.
“We advice out as abounding as we can, but charities that account children, families and women, we abnormally feel the charge to support, acknowledge and advice them out,” she said.
McCann advised bartering at the University of Wisconsin and had taken a cardinal of autogenous architectonics courses to accomplish the requirements of her major. She formed for Neiman Marcus as an abettor client afterwards graduating, catastrophe up at the Palm Beach abundance on Worth Avenue. That’s area she met her husband.
“We affiliated 19 years ago, and we adapted or congenital a half-dozen homes in our aboriginal years of marriage, accepting acquaintance through alive with architects and builders,” she recalls.
Those projects were undertaken through McCann Architectonics Group, which grew to the point that she opened her retail abundance at 424 Palm St. The account includes furniture, adorning accessories, books, jotter and alike amusing eyeglass frames, all with a architectonics affection that is at already adequate and chic. It’s a appearance that resonates with her retail barter and architectonics clients, she says.
“People are attractive for a home that is comfortable, livable, beginning and of today,” she says. “Even admitting our architectonics nods to the past, we appetite to accomplish abiding that appliance shapes, abstracts and fabrics are adequate and beginning for today’s living. Bringing in lots of accustomed fibers, linens, sisals and grass-cloth adds layers and textures to a room.”
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IF YOU GO
What: The Kips Bay Palm Beach Appearance House’s by-special-ticket-only examination cocktail affair will booty abode Nov. 24 at Villa Belmonte, 196 Belmonte Road, West Palm Beach. The abode will be accessible for tours Nov. 25-Dec. 19.
Hours: Hours are 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday; and noon-5 p.m. Sunday.
Cost: Tickets are $35 and accessible in beforehand at KipsBayDecoratorShowhouse.org and at the aperture during accepted acceptance hours.
For information, alarm (718) 893-8600, ext. 11245.
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WHO’S WHO AT THE SHOW HOUSE
In accession to the aggregation from McCann Architectonics Group, added designers accommodating in the Kips Bay Palm Beach Appearance Abode include:
* Amanda Lindroth, Amanda Lindroth Autogenous Design;
* Christopher Drake and Will Steele, Bierly-Drake Associates;
* Christopher Maya, Christopher Maya Inc.;
["970"]* Caroline Rafferty, Caroline Rafferty Interiors;
* Ellen Kavanaugh, Ellen Kavanaugh Interiors;
* Fernando Wong, Fernando Wong Outdoor Active Design;
* Jennifer Mabley and Austin Handler, Mabley Handler Autogenous Design;
* Lisa Erdmann, Lisa Erdmann & Associates;
* Mary Foley and Michael Cox, foley&cox;
* Matthew Quinn, Matthew Quinn-Design Galleria Kitchen and Bath Studio;
* Philip Gorrivan, Philip Gorrivan Design;
* Robert Brown, Robert Brown Autogenous Design;
* Roric Tobin, Bradfield & Tobin;
* Stephen Mooney, Stephen Mooney Interiors;
* Susan Zises Green, Susan Zises Blooming Inc.;
["485"]* Tom Konopiots and Michael Stornello, Vincere Ltd.
Decorator Bunny Williams is the honorary chairwoman, and the architectonics chairwomen are Ellie Cullman and Pauline Pitt.
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