SRQ MAGAZINE | HOME+DESIGN Spring 2026

H&D SPR I N G 2026

S RQ H O M E & D E S I G N M AGAZ I N E | FRO M TH E E D ITOR S OF SRQ MAGAZINE

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UMBRELLA HOUSE + LIGHT IT UP WITH FAMILY BUSINESS

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SPRING 2026

Home design stories, inspiration and thoughtful architecture on the West Coast of Florida— from Anna Maria Island and Lakewood Ranch to Sarasota, Venice and the Barrier Islands.

10 WONDERLAND This holiday season, Lisa Beddigs— founder and stylist-in-chief of Scarlett J Designs —found a new passion for holiday decor. With a special project for an apartment at the St. Regis on Longboat Key, Beddigs brought a Hallmark Christmas wonderland to life.

12 SECOND LIFE Caitlin White is no stranger to second chances. Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, she majored in environmental science in college.

But when she moved to Sarasota in 2018 to be with her now-husband, she seized the opportunity to explore her lifelong passion for visual arts.

16 UMBRELLA UNFOLDED While the Umbrella House has had a lasting impact on architecture, nature has had an impact on the Umbrella House. Over the years, the house and grounds have had to undergo restoration

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work as time and weather have both taken their toll. Recently, Oasis Landscape Architecture (OLA) had the opportunity to design an exterior space for the Umbrella House.

22 LIGHTING IT UP Electricity depends on connection. Power travels along wires and through circuits, moving steadily from one point to the next until a light switches on. Most of this work happens quietly and out of sight, a careful network doing its job without fanfare. When everything is working together, something ordinary becomes transformative: an invisible force creating warmth, clarity and atmosphere in a space.Like electricity, family also depends on connection. It’s fitting then, that Bee Ridge Lighting serves as a kind of hub connecting a network of family businesses.

This page and cover: Eridel Construction and Design; Barnard Brothers Electric, Bee Ridge Lighting and Vice & Virtue Furniture, photography courtesy of Eridel Construction and Design,

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Written by Cecilia Mould.

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Lisa Beddigs focuses on a client-first approach to every interior design project.

This holiday season, Lisa Beddigs—founder and stylist-in-chief of Scarlett J Designs—found a new passion for holiday decor. With a special project for an apartment at the St. Regis on Longboat Key, Beddigs was able to bring a Hallmark Christmas wonderland to life. “It was seriously such a dream job for me, because this home was a blank slate for them. This is the family’s second home, and it was also their first time having Christmas here,” she says. “I really was able to allow the design to set the stage for the memories that they would build from this season on, to many more holidays in this home.” Beddigs launched Scarlett J Designs, her interior design firm, in May 2025, working on a range of decor projects for new or remodeled homes in the Sarasota area. When the holiday season rolled around, she began accepting clients who were hoping she could decorate their homes for Christmas. Although these projects differed from typical interior design, Beddigs soon found a love for holiday decorating. “Now, I know how much I love holiday design and hope to really put a big emphasis on that in my business, more than maybe I thought I was going to. But I love it so much that it’s just allowing me, in 2026, to pivot to those areas,” says Beddigs. Complete with a classic Hallmark Christmas theme and a traditional color palette, Beddigs created a full design featuring a fully-decorated and personalized tree, a hot chocolate bar and a custom-made floral piece. While Beddigs hopes to expand her work on holiday designs, she also enjoys the full-service interior design projects she completes throughout the year. Inspired to start her own business after spending 25 years working in corporate marketing, Beddigs now brings her business expertise and her passion for design together in her own work. With a Master of Business Administration and multiple interior design certificates—including Applied Color for Design from the New York School of Interior Design, Beddigs says she has loved every aspect of owning her own firm. “Being able to shift my focus to what I really love to do gave me a fresh sense of the business side.” As she looks to the future of Scarlett J Designs, Beddigs hopes to continue the work she loves most and eventually bring her daughter into the firm. “Building this business was important to leave a legacy for my daughter, and something that, if she wanted to, she could carry on and be part of the business,” she says.

SOURCES Scarlett J Designs, 2419 Temple St, Sarasota, scarjdesigns.com 10

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Written by Kate Wight

SECOND LIFE

Caitlin White is no stranger to second chances.

Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, she majored in environmental science in college. But when she moved to Sarasota in 2018 to be with her now-husband, she seized the opportunity to explore her lifelong passion for visual arts. “When I moved here, I decided I was going to pursue interior design,” White says.

“I interviewed at an architecture and design firm for an interior design position with absolutely no background, just seeing what would come of it. They hired me to work the front desk, and after a year I became the office manager. And then quickly after that, I was working right underneath the lead interior designer because I just kept pushing. I was there for over six years working on high-end residential design, and I haven’t turned back since.” During her daily drives to work, White would often spot furniture that had been left by the curb. It was then that she would discover that she had a knack for refinishing old furniture– giving it a second chance if you will. “I started seeing these vintage, quality pieces of furniture by the side of the road and I couldn’t leave them there,” she laughs. “I would find full dining sets and take them home.” White learned how to refinish furniture, and she began fixing up her curbside friends, bringing them back to life. Some she kept: she found a beautiful arts and crafts desk, and when she peeled off the veneer, she discovered it was made out of solid red oak.

That still sits in her kitchen to this day. Other pieces she sold to owners who could appreciate them in this new phase of their lives. “When I started refinishing, it was a creative outlet for me,” White says. “It made me realize that I really appreciated this creative independence and the freedom to really trust my instincts.

I kind of pieced together that maybe it was time for me to go out on my own just to have that creative autonomy that it seemed like I had been longing for for so long, because I had this thing on the side that I was doing that had allowed me to explore that.” Now an RIDQC-certified interior designer, White opened her own studio, Coburn Designs, in 2024. Coburn Designs is a full-service interior design studio, offering a wide array of services. If you’re building a new home from the ground up, Coburn Designs can be there from day one, working on everything from millwork design to finishes to procurement to installation.

White also works with clients on procurement projects to furnish a particular space whether it’s one room or two, or a whole house. Coburn offers staging and styling which can be super helpful if you’re trying to sell a home, and also offers renovation services. On occasion, some of her refinished furniture pieces find a new home in one of her new projects. “At Coburn Designs, we create spaces that tell stories. We want to be more than just a style. We want to craft collected, meaningful interiors that really are deeply personal to the client,” White says. “I think my biggest thing is, I want people to feel inspired. And I want people to understand it’s okay to take risks and follow your intuition.” White, who is also no stranger to following her own intuition, should know.

SOURCES Coburn Designs, 941-299-5026, www.coburndesigns.com.

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WRITTEN BY K AT E W I G H T, PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF OASIS LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

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This spread: Originally designed by renowned architect Paul Rudolph in 1953, the Umbrella House stands as an enduring icon of mid-century residential architecture.

Arron Diedrich of Oasis Landscape Architecture talks about the exterior design of Sarasota’s iconic Umbrella House.

UMBRELLA UNFOLDED Sarasota is celebrated for its beautiful beaches, an exciting culinary scene and a thriving arts community. What’s often overlooked is that the city is home to a rich architectural history.

Much of Sarasota’s architectural legacy can be traced back to the Sarasota School of Architecture, a significant midcentury modern movement spanning between 1941 and 1966. Also known as Sarasota Modern, this regional style of post-war modern architecture is characterized by open-plan structures, climate-responsive features like self-ventilation and integration with nature. Many of the architects who pioneered this style would go on to become world-renowned, particularly Victory Lundy and Paul Rudolph, and many of the buildings constructed as part of this movement are still considered iconic. One of the most recognizable and beloved is the Umbrella House.

ALSO KNOWN AS THE HISS RESIDENCE, the Umbrella

House is a midcentury modern home designed by Paul Rudolph. The owner of the home was Philip Hanson Hiss III, an entrepreneur who planned to open a real estate development on Lido Shores. Hiss was a supporter of midcentury modern architecture, and he thought that taking a radical approach to design would might attract international attention to his development. He approached Jack Rudolph to design a prototype home that would serve as the model for future structures. Originally built in 1953, the building combines elements of modernism and indigenous tropical design and is now considered one of the most remarkable homes of the twentieth century.

While the Umbrella House has had a lasting impact on architecture, nature has had an impact on the Umbrella House. Over the years, the house and grounds have had to undergo restoration work as time and

weather have both taken their toll. Recently, Oasis Landscape Architecture (OLA) had the opportunity to design an exterior space for the Umbrella House.

Arron Diedrich, the principal landscape architect and creative director at OLA shared some insight into that process. Originally from West Virginia, Diedrich worked in Charleston, South Carolina before relocating to Sarasota seven years ago. He cut his teeth working at a large national firm and then some local firms before opening OLA two years ago. During that time, he began volunteering with Architecture Sarasota, a nonprofit organization that stewards the legacy of the Sarasota School of Architecture. “I started working with Marty Hylton and we did a pop-up garden for one of their events, and from there we met the owner of Umbrella House,” Diedrich explains. “We did the exterior design for their private design and that led to us becoming involved with Umbrella House as well.”

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The OLA team had to balance several priorities while planning out their landscape design. First, was historical accuracy. The team planned to utilize landscape materials that would have been available at the time of construction in 1953, in a manner that complemented the home’s unique architectural style. At the same time, they wanted to place an emphasis on coastal resiliency, designing the outdoor spaces in a way that would allow them to withstand and recover from coastal hazards like storms and erosion, using nature-based solutions, such as native plants.

“It seems like everyone in the Sarasota School came out of that Bauhaus movement, so we looked at those principles and thought about how we could essentially borrow those from the architecture and incorporate them into the landscape design,” Diedrich says. “I think for us, the biggest thing was we wanted to focus on designing when the landscape was to essentially be submissive to the architecture, right? Everything that we were doing was intended to be very subtle and really complement that.”

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Drawing inspiration from the architecture led Diedrich and the team to create a sequenced experience for guests that accentuated the garden experience and its correlation to the architecture while using key focal points to frame views.

“A lot of it really started out from creating these views or these vignettes so that, when you walk in the house, you have this lush green backdrop at the back of the umbrella,” he says. “But going back to the Bauhaus principles, we are also doing things that are very linear, very structural. It’s almost architectural the way everything’s laid out.”

The OLA team didn’t want to inundate the space with vegetation, so they stuck to using native plants that were period-appropriate (primarily sea grapes, buttonwoods and sabal palmettos).

OLA actually began designing the project in March of 2024, but before they could get started, Sarasota was hit by back-toback hurricanes later in the year. That only reinforced the thought that coastal resiliency needed to be part of the design plan.

Through the course of the project, Diedrich and his team discovered they had a real affinity for these historic landscape designs, and have now taken on more projects in that vein. It’s a unique niche for an upand-coming firm to explore.

“I didn’t know about the Sarasota School until I moved here and started getting more involved in the local architecture scene and learned more about the significance of these folks,” Diedrich says. “To be a design professional and be able to work on any of these historic projects, it really is fantastic and never anything I would have thought I would have had the opportunity to do.

Getting to work on a Paul Rudolph House and add something to that, even if it’s only temporary, isn’t something I take lightly.”

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Electricity depends on connection. Power travels along wires and through circuits, moving steadily from one point to the next until a light switches on.

Most of this work happens quietly and out of sight, a careful network doing its job without fanfare. When everything is working together, something ordinary becomes transformative: an invisible force creating warmth, clarity and atmosphere in a space.

Four family businesses shine brighter together.

LIGHTING IT UP LIKE ELECTRICITY, FAMILY ALSO DEPENDS ON CONNECTION. It’s fitting then, that Bee Ridge Light-

ing serves as a kind of hub connecting a network of family businesses. First, there is Bee Ridge Lighting itself, a family-owned showroom and retail space managed by Rob Barnard. Then there is Barnard Bros Electric. Owned by Rob’s younger brother Rory Barnard, Barnard Bros provides expert electrical services for homes and businesses. Rob and Roy have a sister named Erin Glueck who owns Eridel Design and Construction with her husband Oliver Glueck. Finally, the three siblings have a cousin Corey Gannon, the owner of Vice & Virtue Furniture. While all four businesses stand on their own, they’ve found that when they collaborate, they shine even brighter.

“My parents started Bee Ridge Lighting on July 5th, 2006,” says Rob Barnard. “I was out of school and ready to start a family, so running the business kind of fell to me. I’ve been here since the beginning.” Over the past twenty years, Bee Ridge Lighting has become one of Sarasota’s premier lighting stores. With an 11,000 square foot showroom, there is ample inventory to choose from. And because the business remains locally and family-owned, they’re able to provide the kind of personalized service you won’t find at a big box store.

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“We have four great salespeople and they’re very hands-on,” Rob says. “Not everyone has an interior designer, so they’ll work in concert with customers to make sure they satisfy a certain look that the customer is going for. We can store lighting for up to two years if you’re designing a new custom home, and we’re one of the only stores that will deliver and install. We even get into lighting controls a bit, with dimmers. We’re more full-service than any other showroom around.”

Bee Ridge Lighting didn’t always offer installation. That’s where younger brother Rory comes in. Rory started working at Bee Ridge Lighting after high school and with encouragement from his brother he decided to pursue an electrician license. After getting licensed, he set up an office for Barnard Bros Electric at Bee Ridge Lighting where he continues to work closely with his brother.

“We do some residential work, remodels, new construction,” Rory says. “We do light commercial work and service work. We get a lot of lighting installations with Bee Ridge Lighting so we do all their installations and work with some of their contractors too.” And that’s not the only family business on-site. Upstairs, you’ll find an office for Eridel Construction and Design. Like her brothers, Erin Glueck also had a stint working at Bee Ridge Lighting. She had a degree from

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This page, clockwise: Barnard Brothers Electric provides electrical services to homes and businesses; Bee Ridge Lighting carries a wide selection of unique lighting fixtures and offers the expertise of a professional design and installation team; Vice & Virtue Furniture takes pride in building and designing furniture by hand.

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Below,left to right: Local and family owned, Barnard Brothers Electric focuses on efficiency, accuracy and customer satisfaction to light up any home.

Ringling College of Art and Design in illustration, but through working with architects and designers at the family store she discovered she had a passion for design. She went back to Ringling and got a second degree in interior design, then worked in Los Angeles and New York City before returning to Sarasota and meeting her now-husband Oliver Glueck.

“We met in 2014, and then I started Eridel Design Studio,” Erin remembers. “We didn’t have a conversation, but it was just a known alignment that this was something we were going to eventually do together.”

Oliver had been working for his dad for about a decade installing solar panels. He knew he loved working with his hands, so he started working for builders and learning every aspect of the industry from the ground up. After becoming a licensed general contractor, he started Eridel Construction in 2021. He and Erin merged their businesses together in 2023. “People ask how we both work and live together,” Erin says. “It’s very easy, because this is something where we trust each other in their area of expertise. There have been times when I’m working with other contractors and I need to know that the designs I’m putting forward are buildable and realistic, so I run it by Oliver. It’s really cool to be able to utilize each other, even when he’s working with a different designer and I’m working with a different contractor.”

“Honestly, the things I’ve learned from Erin have helped me become a better builder,” Oliver adds. “I’m not the typical contractor with cookie cutter options.”

Someone else who stays away from cookie cutter options is Corey Gannon. Cousin to Rob, Rory and Erin,

he took a different path into the family business. After serving in Iraq for a few years, he returned stateside in 2006 and purchased a home with his wife, then a firstyear English teacher.

“It was dilapidated. It had been semi-abandoned. So we needed to do a lot of work,” Gannon recalls. “Without a lot of money, it’s imperative to just make a house habitable and start there.” In addition to teaching himself to fix up the house, Gannon also started building furniture. What started as something he pursued out of necessity soon became something he found a deep affinity for. Over the last several years he has refined his technique and craft, and in the process has begun to make some truly beautiful furniture.

“I take a lot of inspiration from the studio furniture movement of the fifties and sixties, names like Wendell Castle, George Nakashima and Sam Maloof,” Gannon says. “I’m not claiming I’m on that level. But I would love to someday be a very small part of bringing that back.” Gannon recently opened his own studio so people can experience his work in person. Naturally, Oliver did some work on the space and Rory did the wiring for the shop. Corey has also had a chance to collaborate with Erin and Oliver on a custom built-in for a project, and they often turn to Rob and Rory for light fixtures and wiring. After all, it’s all about connections.

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1667, barnardbroselectric.com. Bee Ridge Lighting, 3909 Bee Ridge Rd., Sarasota, 941-922-2626, beeridgelighting.com.. Eridel Construction and Design, 3909 Bee Ridge Rd., Sarasota, 941-599-1980, eridelconstruction. com. Vice & Virtue Furniture, 1542 4th St. #112, Sarasota, vvfurniture.com.

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