Female-led Design Teams Transform House Beautiful’s Whole Home

<p>Provenance® Woven Wood Shades  Fabric: Glace   Color: Carmel</p> <p><br /> Photos: Marta Xochilt Perez</p>

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Female-led Design Teams Transform House Beautiful’s Whole Home

November 3, 2023

by Hunter Douglas

For the first time in the magazine showhouse’s history, an all-female design and build team revamped a historic home for House Beautiful’s latest iteration.

Perched in the Colorado mountains, this striking Breckenridge vacation home is outfitted with everything you need for enjoying your surroundings, relaxing with convenience and resting with comfort—the window treatments included.

Complementing the home’s rustic sophistication, our

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Provenance Woven Wood Shades.  Fabric: Glace   Color: Carmel

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Designer Roller Shades   Fabric: Palmer  Color: Iced Slate

Provenance Woven Wood Shades, Fabric: Glace  Color: Carmel and a Designer Roller Shade in Fabric: Palmer  Color: Iced Slate

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In addition to completing the general renovation, a number of baths, and the nursery, Julie Laux, owner of J. Jordan Homes, even designed a bowling alley. But the home was not without its age-specific challenges, with lighting being one of the most universal. “Each of the spaces presented their own unique challenges,” she says of her approach. “Lighting was a challenge throughout the home as the walls are plaster and lathe so [it was] very difficult to move anything. We found many workarounds to bring the home up to today's standards of living!”

Designers faced the lighting challenge in their own ways, all while balancing old and new throughout their chosen rooms. Says Brandolino of her approach to her self-described “gentleman's office”: “We wanted to incorporate a vintage feel to keep with the character of the home but with a modern twist to the space.” She opted for Provenance® Woven Wood Shades “because we loved the warmth and texture it brought to the space, the convenience of being powered, the classic look of a Roman shade, and [that] it allows for some light to come through during the day.”

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Provenance Woven Wood Shades   Fabric: Glace  Color: First Frost

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Vignette® Modern Roman Shades   Fabric: Siena  Color: New Mauve

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“But the truly stellar moment,” she shares, “is the top-down/bottom-up orientation of the shade that lets us enjoy the light while also blocking the unattractive views of the rooftop. Adding on the motorized element just took this particular design element to another level. Win-win!”

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Vignette Modern Roman Shades   Fabric: Siena  Color: New Mauve

House Beautiful is also collaborating with two notable organizations, Humble Design, a charitable organization based in Chicago that provides design services to families transitioning out of homelessness, as well as Wellness Within Your Walls

Experience Whole Home virtually on HouseBeautiful.com and in the November/December 2023 Renovation Issue, on newsstands November 28.

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