Pattern, Coloration and Play Form a Port Royal Dwelling

A wash of sentimental greens and blues shapes a palette that shifts gently from room to room on this Port Royal residence. Pattern is the fixed: latticework partitions, chevrons, botanical murals and painted by hand particulars create a cohesive rhythm whereas giving every area its distinctive identification. “White walls feel so bare,” says lead designer Megan Hickman, noting how she makes use of wallcoverings to carry dimension to a room. “They add color, texture and personality to the space.”    

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Despite the house’s location—one block from the seaside—the Freestyle Interiors designer wasn’t concerned with recreating a themed coastal look. She wished one thing that felt gentle and uplifting, with colour and particulars that carried a subtropical spirit with out counting on literal cues. “I wanted a coastal feel, but not-in-your-face coastal,” Megan says.    

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The group, together with Freestyle Interiors president Faith Fix, MHK Architecture, Griffin Builders and Architectural Land Design, fashioned a plan that paired coastal-contemporary structure with softer, extra playful interiors. Megan landed on Sherwin-Williams’ Underseas as a defining hue. The sea glass inexperienced paint colour, paying homage to Gulf waters, carries all through the home, washing over the kitchen island, the pool tub vainness and a scalloped vainness within the powder tub. The paint additionally exhibits up as a contrasting backdrop to the white treillage and fretwork trim within the cabana room, which has a personal entrance. “I love a good [treillage] pattern as it adds a whole layer, literally, to the room,” the designer says.     

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Floridian influences present up extra straight on the outside by John Orgren, previously of MHK, and the late David Fisher. Wave-white lap siding, clean stucco, grey shingles and heat wooden storage doorways set up the house’s profile, whereas brackets, corbels and deep overhangs echo the area’s vernacular. Inside, the structure opens to shiny, roomy areas lifted by tongue-and-groove ceilings and tall home windows.    

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In maintaining with Gulf Coast design, the architects centered the plan on a transparent indoor-outdoor circulate. Maureen Minker, MHK’s residential director overseeing the mission, says they conceived each aspect of scale, detailing and orientation to assist Florida’s year-round alfresco way of life. From the entry, sightlines prolong to the pool, establishing the intent. Both the dwelling and eating rooms open to the lanai, and a rounded archway hyperlinks the eating space to the inside kitchen, persevering with the circulate with a gentle transition between areas. The arch merges basic and fashionable: Its conventional form defines the rooms, whereas its clear profile and beneficiant width maintain the structure open. “I try to use clean lines and timeless details with playful touches throughout,” Megan says.    

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Outside, the lanai acts as one other dwelling zone with its personal kitchen and eating space, and the first suite meets the pool and spa by a wall of home windows, surrounding the owners in lush greenery—a continuing invitation to slide exterior. Upstairs, 4 visitor suites collect round a household loft that results in a lined terrace and balcony, positioned to catch the sundown. Smaller areas, just like the trellised cabana suite, membership room and tucked-away terraces, provide extra intimate retreat-like areas all through the house. Vaulted and tray ceilings and expansive home windows maintain the interiors feeling broad and light-weight.    

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In the kitchen, the group positioned a window above the sink to attract the greenery of the encircling panorama into the room, then layered a botanical wallpaper on a gentle pink background by Schumacher. The motif may be seen from a number of vantage factors, including a dose of liveliness to the area with out overwhelming the palette.   

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Pattern-play units the tone for every room. A branchy mural painted by native artist Molly Wooley climbs behind the headboard within the main suite, taking part in in opposition to the en-suite’s marble veining. The visitor rooms proceed the botanical thread, with small-scale ginkgo print for a delicate, all-over sample in a single area and a barely there leafy motif in one other. Most rooms preserve the nature-rooted palette drawn from the coast’s greens, blue-grays and heat neutrals. But the colour deepens in strategic locations, just like the pastel palm print in a visitor tub, the marine upholstery within the membership room, and in customized works from native artists all through. “I just loved this blue wave fabric as an alternative to a typical white fabric on a grouping of chairs,” Megan says.    

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One room is calm and tonal, the following leans gentle and botanical, then one other delivers a well-placed jolt of colour. The distinction offers the areas a pure dialogue with out repeating the identical motif or shades. Megan pushed the palette into its most expressive vary within the public-facing baths, together with the pool suite, with its water-drop ceramic tiles from Popham Design, that draw their colours straight from the Gulf. Everything else is deliberately pulled again: a easy, slab-side vainness, white counters, bronze globe sconces, maintaining the design from tipping into kitsch. In the powder room, a whimsical wallpaper of willows and lilacs wraps the room. “Wallpaper is a must in a powder bath,” Megan says. The sample rises behind a scalloped vainness, with brass fixtures that sharpen the perimeters and a checkerboard marble ground, grounding the palette with its geometry.     

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Material picks stability magnificence and livability. Performance materials add texture and sturdiness, whereas pure marble was chosen for the counter tops. In high-use areas, porcelain and ceramic tiles carry the identical visible softness as stone however with simpler upkeep. “I don’t want to create a home that is not livable,” Megan says. “I want the children and grandchildren to play games in the bonus room or help bake cookies in the kitchen.”  

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Photography: Venjhamin Reyes

Architecture: MHK Architecture

Interior Design: Freestyle Interiors 

Builder: Griffin Builders