Jennifer Eberle constructed her four-bedroom, three-and-a-half toilet Glenmary residence in 1999. After 17 years within the one-and-a-half-story home, she determined to present it a minor facelift with some recent wall colours.
“At first I used to be simply going to do some portray,” she instructed The Courier Journal. “However I knew Leslie (Lewis, of LL&A Interior Design), and had her come over. (I mentioned), ‘I’m open to your concepts.’ Then we determined to transform your entire first flooring.”
Prepared for a revamp
Eberle took the native inside designer’s concepts and ran with them, and he or she compares the large renovation divulge to one thing you’d see on a TV present. In in the future, she says, Lewis introduced in her complete staff, hung pictures, positioned decorations, and arrange a totally new, redone house. Eberle had the choice of buying any new items she preferred and returning those she didn’t.
“I mentioned, ‘I need to purchase all of it!’” Eberle recalled with fun. “(Lewis) simply made it really easy. I personal a enterprise (and) I don’t have time to buy. … (I) was wowed. It was like I simply (watched) an episode on HGTV.”
The unique plan to present the home a recent coat of paint led to updating doorways and {hardware}, putting in a brand new backsplash and cabinetry within the kitchen, utterly redoing the principle bed room, reconfiguring the built-in leisure middle, changing a not often used workplace into a big walk-in closet, and tearing up the previous flooring.
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“I had ceramic tile in (one room), carpet in (one other), and hardwood in (one other),” Eberle recalled. “We demolished all that.”
The house now boasts hand-scraped engineered hardwood in an ebony end all through, serving to to tie all the things collectively. Lewis additionally integrated a few of Eberle’s current furnishings and equipment, whereas including in new items that mirrored issues she likes, resembling horses and a blue-green hue that’s now sprinkled all through.
“I simply wished a extra cohesive stream and look to the home,” Eberle mentioned, “(however) we’ve such stunning views right here, I didn’t need it overdone. We wished the skin to have the ability to are available in.”
Attractive glimpses
With more-than-20-foot-tall ceilings and large home windows, each Eberle and Lewis felt strongly about making a serene and impartial inside house that lets the skin communicate for itself. The lounge appears to be like out towards the deck and pool, and the yard that contains a stone path resulting in a gate connecting Eberle’s property to her sister Julie Kelley’s, who lives proper subsequent door.
“I’ve a video of the (pool set up) — it was fairly spectacular,” Eberle mentioned with fun, explaining that the unique plan was to drive the fiberglass pool to the again of the home via Kelley’s property. However as soon as the pool firm realized that plan wouldn’t work, it needed to be craned over the roof from the entrance of the home.
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“It simply obtained executed on the finish of final summer season,” she added, “so we’ve spent a ton of time (at Kelley’s pool). Everybody requested why I used to be placing a pool in when my sister has a pool. … However I can’t simply bombard, (and) I need to have the ability to have my very own stuff. We’ll nonetheless go over.”
Favourite options
Although the outside space consists of the newest revamp to Eberle’s residence, her most-liked areas are inside.
“I spend loads of time within the kitchen,” she mentioned. “I wish to cook dinner, (and) it’s the place everyone gathers after they are available in.”
Her favourite room — hands-down — is the previous workplace that Lewis remodeled right into a walk-in closet. “Again then, no person was actually utilizing residence workplaces, and it was a waste,” Eberle mentioned. “Leslie had the good thought to make that complete workplace an enormous, walk-in closet, which I really like.”
The closet was additionally a serious promoting level for Kelley, who enlisted the assistance of Lewis for her own residence transform after Eberle’s was accomplished.
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“We simply love working along with her,” Eberle mentioned. “All of us have related kinds and related style and dealing along with her staff is simply straightforward and enjoyable.”
Julie Kelley’s residence would be the featured Dwelling of the Week subsequent week.
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nuts & bolts
Proprietor: Jennifer Eberle, who’s the vice chairman and proprietor of HighNote. Additionally within the house is Doug Strothman, Taylor Eberle, and Woodford Joseph the bernedoodle.
Dwelling: This can be a 4-bed, 3-and-a-half-bath, 5,000-square-foot, 1-and-a-half-story residence in Glenmary that was inbuilt 1999.
Distinctive parts: Open flooring plan; newly up to date painted kitchen cupboards; quartz counter tops; giant home windows provide view towards again deck and look at past; giant, walk-in closet, inground pool.
Applause! Applause! Leslie Lewis and the design staff at LL&A Interior Design
