Interiors infused with color, particularly pink: that was a young couple’s request of interior designer Frances Kinloch Still of Kinloch Interiors. Their traditional home’s down-to-the-studs renovation, completed by Coln Construction, created a more open floor plan and allowed Still to turn a den into a dramatic music room.
“I wanted to make this special because it is the center of the house,” she says of the room, where two cased openings connect the foyer to the new family room and a third has views of the mudroom hallway. “We could go bold here because it is a closed-off space, but also, you must go through it to get anywhere in the house.
“It’s a joyful stop,” Still adds, and a spot where the couple can listen to their young children practice at the upright piano or slip away for a quiet moment with a cocktail prepared at the built-in bar.
- Because the wife loves Palm Beach, Still selected Mirage, a mural wallpaper from Osborne & Little’s Empyrea collection, to cover two walls. Its blush background and paradise garden full of tropical birds and palms were a jumping-off point for the room’s other colors.
- Still transformed a pair of tufted chairs inherited from the husband’s grandmother by recovering them in a raspberry-hued velvet from Designer’s Guild and adding a Samuel & Sons’ custom trim that matches one of the wallpaper’s hues.
- Turquoise Designer Guild fabric drapes, with Jim Thompson Labyrinth tape trim in Emerald, flank the room’s two windows. The colors balance the room’s pink elements.
- Still called on Coln Construction’s cabinetmaker to make the mantel—she designed it to look like bamboo—and the arched built-in to its right. Their custom pale pink paint was color-matched to the wallpaper’s background.
- Brass hardware pops against the built-in bar’s bright blue lacquer paint (Benjamin Moore’s Old Glory). The back-lit blue-marble countertop and mirror backsplash add an extra dose of glamour, while the mid-century glassware set and pitcher—Still found them on Etsy—add another pop of color.
- Still selected Kane Carpet’s Biscayne Chevron Pattern Luxury Carpet, in the Festival colorway, for the room’s custom area rug. It “has every color in it,” she says, and pulls the room’s other elements together.
- A painting by Charleston-based artist Harrison Blackford hangs above the mantel and hints at the room’s purpose, while a custom painting by Blackford propped on the bar’s counter pays homage to the bright pink paint that once covered the home’s front door.
