“It feels like a very chic,
European hotel—and it’s
my bedroom!”
—JACKIE PERRINS
For contrast in the master suite (these pages), Graham combined
a gold bamboo silk rug from Timothy Paul with walls and custom
bedstead painted in Benjamin Moore’s Steel Wool. In the master
bath, light-hued walls and shiny hardware balance a rug-like mosaic
tile design by Ann Sacks and a black-stained custom vanity.
ors that would flow together through color, shape and form—with
nothing off-limits to the kids.
She set the tone in the foyer, which is marked by the strong presence of black mirrors, a console table and stools. “It’s clean and
modern with curvy lines,” Graham says. The vignette also speaks to
Perrins’s desire for a bit of Asian influence throughout the house,
as her two youngest children are adopted from Korea.
Many of the furnishings were ordered from catalogs, and instead
of purchasing new art, Graham kept to the budget by reframing
existing works the family had. “I couldn’t believe she was displaying it,” Perrins says of the artwork on the console table in the foyer.
“It was stored in a box somewhere!”
The same went for the reframed children’s portraits in the dining
room—a key space that “had to carry the weight of a formal dining
room, but be forgiving of small children who spill stuff,” Graham
says. She had a slab of spill-proof Calacatta Gold marble cut to fit
on top of an elegant base, and chose inexpensive Lucite ballroom
chairs from 1stdibs.com to create a dining space that beautifully
accommodates both guests and children. She purchased affordable
outdoor seat cushions, then indulged the parents with dramatic
host chairs at either end. Instead of spending a lot of money on
custom built-in cabinetry for the dining room, Graham ordered
the same cabinets she used in the kitchen in a different finish,
dressing them up with fancy hardware.
In keeping with the indestructible-luxe theme, the kitchen, too,
is “very kid-friendly even though it’s modern and chic,” Perrins
says. The bright white Corian counters can be cleansed of multiple
pen and marker stains without a trace left behind.
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