Christine Tuttle and her clients have been talking about ending the basement in their Lexington home when the pandemic hit. “They pointed out getting a foosball desk, and instantly the husband claimed, ‘Let’s set a damp bar in the corner,’” Tuttle recalls. To accommodate the couple’s need for 4 stools on the entrance and two on the conclude with out impeding the circulation from the stairs to the seating area past the bar, the designer proposed an on-craze curved silhouette. The couple hangs out at the bar soon after evening meal with a distinctive, fun cocktail each individual 7 days. “It’s like a night out on the city,” she says.
1. The clients’ have white-bronze Ironware International stools—with stain-resistant upholstered seats—worked nicely with Tuttle’s layout.
2. Tuttle wrapped the bar in wooden tambour paneling painted Farrow & Ball Hague Blue. “Tambour has Nordic and Japanese influences,” she says, “but the typical navy shade helps make the style and design feel really New England.”
3. Community artist Seth B. Minkin gave the few the triptych as a wedding day gift. “When we unpacked the box from the go and held them up, it was a ideal match,” Tuttle suggests.
4. The burnished silver leaf metal pendants by Aerin for Visible Consolation give gentle downlight, tie to the stools, and don’t stand out. “I did not want the lights to just take awareness absent from the backsplash,” Tuttle suggests.
5. The Phillip Jeffries variegated-wooden mosaic wallcovering is produced from die-reduce parts of wooden veneer that are organized in a geometric cubist sample and stained blue.
6. Adaptable tambour sheets wrap snuggly close to the posts at the conclude of the bar that would have been far too expensive to relocate. “Boxing them in with conventional trim would have been cumbersome and did not fit stylistically with the curved layout,” Tuttle states. “It’s what prompted me to initially consider of utilizing tambour.”
Marni Elyse Katz is a regular contributor to the World Journal. Send feedback to [email protected].
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