Recently, our Home Makeover: Jenkins Edition team completed the makeover of a home we originally built approximately ten years ago. The owners sat down with their family, and as per our instructions (see previous post), set a budget, determined their goals, then set their priorities. In their case, the home was built when the children were very young. Now they are teens and pre-teens and their needs have changed. Instead of a playroom, they wanted an up-to-date media room in which to invite their friends and host parties. Because we recently expanded their pool area to include a fantastic outdoor kitchen, we suggested a wall of doors that allows the media room to open to the outdoors.
The other main issue with the home was the decor. In order to bring in more of the feeling of the Old World Mediterranean style – as per the original intent of the home’s design – we used an integrated plaster throughout the main Kitchen-Living-Dining Rooms. Integrated plasters use pigments from the earth for tinting, allowing the colors to be custom matched “to the bones of the house” and used in any kind of space. It also “gives it more depth and more life, [so that] as the sun and the lighting in the room changes, so naturally does the pigment of the wall. It just gives it a lot more depth and authenticity.” says Meaghan Haslam from Artisan Designs. Now, as you
enter the home and main living areas, it looks and feels like a high-end custom home. In the Dining Room, a brick effect was added to the plaster as if the plaster was peeling away to reveal brick. The bricks, actually made from quickset, are 3-dimensional…not just painted on, so that they feel authentic as well as look authentic. They make quite an impact in the room!
Finally, the front door had aged through the years, plus the homeowners felt it did not create the entry that their 4000 sq. ft. home deserved. The solution was to widen the opening and bring in a custom-made entry with iron accents that changes the whole look of the home from the outside.
With just a few changes, and about two months of work, the home looks and feels like a brand new home! Now they are ready to celebrate Superbowl Sunday in style!