![]() ![]() ![]() Mostly decorative brass furniture tacks were yet another way to add imperfection and character to walls. Hand-printed muslin wallpaper by artist Kevin Paulsen was hung above wood paneling layered with plaster and rubbed, painted, and glazed for a timeworn look. The first step was adding a patina of age to walls and floors. “I was obsessed-I wanted a house with wallpaper like this, floors like that.”Īnd so, during a single off-season, the pair went about giving the Beards’ new house an old soul. “I’d go into her shop and just daydream,” says Swanson Beard. “I envisioned us here in the off-season,” she notes, “and I wanted our place to feel cozy and layered.”Įven before she saw the property, Swanson Beard knew whom she would enlist for help creating this atmosphere of warmth: Michelle Holland of Nantucket House Antiques & Interior Design Studios. “It’s sturdy and well-built,” says Swanson Beard, “and the location is amazing-close to town and right on the bike path, which gives the boys so much freedom.” Her family had been renting summer properties on the island for a couple of years and had no interest in a ships-ahoy-style beach house. To her the 15-year-old house had the bones to become a second home for her family: husband Jamie and their three sons. The fashion designer, one-half of the sister-in-law duo behind the Veronica Beard label, has that enviable eye that can not only pick out the coolest treasure in a shop full of flotsam but also look at a blank canvas and see pure potential. The house was as plain as a dressmaker’s model: white walls, white ceilings, a cut-and-paste contractors’ kitchen. ![]()
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