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a fun chandelier, which Jay bought for Paula as a gift. “Jay has a good eye,” Paula says with a smile. The dining room leads into the heart of the home, a great room built in 2013, where the Irons spend much of their time with family and friends. Originally a covered patio, the Irons first enclosed the space and added skylights to create a sunroom. The sunroom got a lot of use, especially in the morning while drinking coffee and watching the morning news. She says, “We really enjoyed having that little extra space—it created a little more flow.” For this recent renovation, they doubled the size of the room and vaulted the ceiling, taking it from sunroom to great room. Paula’s design inspiration came from a picture of a room with a coffered ceiling that she found online and gave to Matt Prescott of Prescott Construction Company, who handled the renovation. The Irons worked with Prescott to bring light into the space, using high, coffered ceilings, plenty of windows and patio doors, and repurposing the skylights. The wall color is Benjamin Moore’s Manchester Tan, painted in half-strength r vhomemaga zine .com
on the walls, and one-quarter strength on the ceiling—a trick design professionals use to adjust the saturation of color in a room. Again, Paula gives credit to Stephenson and Roe, “the color gurus,” who helped select and test paint with her. The effect is crisp and clean, and subtly highlights the details of the coffered ceiling. The fresh color palette of the furnishings from the other rooms is repeated here, with a pair of coral club chairs, a funky turquoise Asian wine cabinet, two upholstered X- stools that frame the TV, and a scattering of aqua pillows and ceramics. A soft, woven rug in a neutral shade grounds the furniture, with metallic pops from a pair of mirrored tabletops by Brian Lawrence at Artistic Metals, and a cleverly designed TV cabinet. Designed by John Davis, the cabinet conceals a large flatscreen TV and looks as if it’s made from an antique mirror, but is actually an anodized aluminum with a finish applied by Roe. The result is not only creative, but practical as well. Paula says, “If we’d gotten real mirror and then antiqued it, it would’ve been really heavy.”
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