Designer Joshua Smith refashioned a Connecticut house, favoring a palette of whites, grays and light blues to foster a sense of quiet and peace. Tour the home here.
Stylish living quarters await above Jenny Wolf’s shop, The Huntress, in Pound Ridge. Although Wolf confesses to being “a traditionalist at heart,” she likes a modern touch here and there among all the antiques and vintage furnishings—which is evident in the three-bedroom apartment.
In Rye, decorator Laura Tutun transformed a Georgian Colonial. “The soft furnishings were the hardest decisions to make, since there are always so many new fabrics and wall coverings to choose from,” the decorator says. “In truth, I see so many new products for my job that it’s more peaceful for me to live in rooms that are quiet.” Tour the home here.
Interior designer Amy Aidinis Hirsch boasts a cool pool house at her Cos Cob residence. “I wanted a low-maintenance, simple box that would remind me of my travels,” Hirsch says of the poolside structure, which was inspired by open-air structures in Australia and New Zealand.
When her growing family made the move from Brooklyn to Long Island, designer Kevie Murphy took on the interiors of their new 7,200-square-foot center-hall Colonial on a one-acre corner lot in Manhasset’s Flower Hill enclave. Click here to tour the whimsical home.
Holly Jaffe, principal of the boutique design firm Wowhaus, lived in this Westport home with her family for more than a year before starting the interior renovation in 2021. “That allowed us the time to figure out the smartest way to move forward,” she says. The renovation included a studio space for her artist husband, David Stephen Johnson.
Bill Cummings and Bernt Heiberg call this Shelter Island home “The Landing.” The Manhattan- and Oslo-based designers created an updated barn on the water with white, minimalistic interiors.
Decorator Bella Mancini’s fresh take on hippie chic is evident in her own Dumbo flat. “A room should tell a story, and not seem like it was done all at once,” Mancini says.
When designer Fiona Leonard set out to refresh her family’s Darien home, she took one look at the two dogs, two cats and five chickens that rule her roost and thought, “why fight it?” Animals, then, became the design code at the heart of the scheme for the entire home—including an addition and renovation of existing spaces. Tour the pet-friendly home here.
