Dream House: Behind the Scenes

Last Friday and Saturday the Lake County YMCA Dream House was abuzz with activity by an invasion of designers. We were all making beautiful happen. I call it organized chaos. You’ve already seen a sneak peek of my room – so here are a few other shots I snapped during install:

Here we are looking down into the great room from the second floor catwalk area. The guys in the kitchen were installing the mircrowave and range Friday morning as we were trying to decorate.

Amazingly, there were relatively few tradesmen in the house and we were all able to go about our work.

The master bathroom pays homage to the marshes of “Marshview Landing.” The design on the wall is a raised relief. The fireplace and tub surround is riverstone. This year’s house has a “Jackson Hole, Wyoming” ranch-style home feeling – rustic yet elegant.

One of my favorite aspects of the house is the kitchen ceiling!  I love the corregated metal framed out with simple 1×4’s. It’s an unexpected design element that’s certainly never been seen in one of our Dream Houses.

There is no formal dining room in this year’s house. Instead the eat-in kitchen and two bar areas seat a total of 10. Love the bar height table and stools – the upholstry is stunning as are the custom mirrors.

Because real people will be living in this house at some point, there has to be flow from room to room. (Unlike a designer showcase home which is all about the designers, so you go from room to room with no connection of design or color). 

Although two different design firms were working on the great room and kitchen, you can see from the photos they have created flow with their use of color. The beige of the furniture/accessories and the citron green seen in the sofa pillows is used in the kitchen chair fabric.

Here is a look at the living room fireplace. I think the designers created a stunning mantel – resisting the obvious rustic, chunky look and instead designing an elegant mantel with mass and scale. Beautiful.

While there are many other rooms in the house, you’ll have to see them on the official tour. Here’s one last shot  . . . the exterior:

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