Thursday, March 12, 2009

European Revival

The Dream Home


Jennifer and Michael Digaetano fell in love, decided to get married and build their dream home. They found the perfect place on West Shores with lake view and a private beach.
Two years later, after many disappointments, the house was not even close to be finished. We met at the end of December, 2007 and their deadline was the end of April, 2008. After interviewing the couple and hearing their needs and desires, I explained to them that the style that they wanted was a Modern European Country or European Revival. They asked me, “ Elena, do you think that all of this could be done in this short period of time?” I assured them that working together, three of us on the same page, we will make things easy and possible.
After we defined the style of the house as French country meets Tuscan style; I re-designed all the cabinets to give them the classic French touch but with the warm and cozy Tuscan feeling. All the cherry cabinets, including the kitchen ones, were faux painted in light cream ivory with some gold tones to achieve the clean, but classic feeling of a modern European Château. This set the basics for the scheme of colors in the entire house including tile, stone, granite, columns, furniture and window treatments.











The result was spectacular, everything in the house was one hundred percent custom made. The medallion and the impressive Lantern by Fine Art in the foyer set the feeling of what follows in this magnificent house, with impressive stone fire places, marble floors, custom wrought iron rails and two story faux painted, gold-accented columns. The kitchen, great room and formal dining room are refined but cozy and give one the feeling of a perfect Dream Home .