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Pro Spotlight: 3 Ways to Turn Your Home Into a Personal Sanctuary
A Palm Beach Gardens designer shares her tips for creating a beautiful, peaceful home that perfectly suits your taste
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Who: Lorraine Rogers-Bolton of Rogers Design Group
Where: Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
In her own words: “We want to give our clients homes that are both beautiful and personal.”
The elements that make an interior space feel peaceful and inviting to you may not be the same things for another person. Perhaps for you it’s looking out to a calming view, the expansive feeling of high ceilings or a soothing color palette, or maybe it’s a sense of contentment from being surrounded by objects and furnishings with personal meaning. Interior designer Lorraine Rogers-Bolton enjoys helping her clients figure out what makes their space feel like a personal retreat. “A beautiful home can have positive effects on a client’s lifestyle and their peace of mind,” Rogers-Bolton says. With the right design, she says, a home can feel timelessly elegant, suit its environment and be a place of personal sanctuary.
Where: Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
In her own words: “We want to give our clients homes that are both beautiful and personal.”
The elements that make an interior space feel peaceful and inviting to you may not be the same things for another person. Perhaps for you it’s looking out to a calming view, the expansive feeling of high ceilings or a soothing color palette, or maybe it’s a sense of contentment from being surrounded by objects and furnishings with personal meaning. Interior designer Lorraine Rogers-Bolton enjoys helping her clients figure out what makes their space feel like a personal retreat. “A beautiful home can have positive effects on a client’s lifestyle and their peace of mind,” Rogers-Bolton says. With the right design, she says, a home can feel timelessly elegant, suit its environment and be a place of personal sanctuary.
A love of beauty. Rogers-Bolton grew up with parents who were always changing paint colors and rearranging furniture. “They felt beauty was paramount, and the joy that creating beautiful living spaces brought them was contagious,” she says. She followed in their footsteps, studying both architecture and interior design. “I realized the cohesive match of interior architecture and interior design and knew that was my true self,” she says. “I adore interior architectural design, as it allows me to constantly challenge my creativity as an interior designer.” After getting a degree in interior design, she opened Rogers Design Group in 1982.
Integrated design process. Whether it involves new construction or transforming an older home, Rogers-Bolton works with her clients from the initial drawings to the final details. Her process includes specifying architectural details and interior finishes as well as curating the homeowners’ belongings and finding just the right new pieces to finish the space. “We don’t stop until they have a home that is filled with cherished objects, both new and old,” she says.
Looking for ideas to update your home’s interior? Rogers-Bolton offers some tips below.
Looking for ideas to update your home’s interior? Rogers-Bolton offers some tips below.
1. Look for Inspiration Sources
Create a space you love by drawing inspiration from various aspects of your life, such as travel, films, a particular style or era, a certain object or art piece or anything else that might strike you as beautiful. For example, the owners of this Palm Beach Gardens home asked Rogers-Bolton to give it a “London meets Hollywood” look, drawing inspiration from both to create a home they would love in Florida. “They wanted glamorous and fun, elegant yet casual,” Rogers-Bolton says.
To achieve this goal, Rogers-Bolton turned to the home’s strengths, playing up the 25-foot ceilings with millwork and mirrors to add a sense of grandeur. The mirrors bounce light around the room and pair with the warm grays in the paint and furnishings to evoke the feel of an elegant London club. Bright touches of gold and silver add the Hollywood glamour. The focal point is the custom raindrop chandelier over the dining table. “Its handblown crystals include integrated lights inside so it glows,” Rogers-Bolton says.
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Create a space you love by drawing inspiration from various aspects of your life, such as travel, films, a particular style or era, a certain object or art piece or anything else that might strike you as beautiful. For example, the owners of this Palm Beach Gardens home asked Rogers-Bolton to give it a “London meets Hollywood” look, drawing inspiration from both to create a home they would love in Florida. “They wanted glamorous and fun, elegant yet casual,” Rogers-Bolton says.
To achieve this goal, Rogers-Bolton turned to the home’s strengths, playing up the 25-foot ceilings with millwork and mirrors to add a sense of grandeur. The mirrors bounce light around the room and pair with the warm grays in the paint and furnishings to evoke the feel of an elegant London club. Bright touches of gold and silver add the Hollywood glamour. The focal point is the custom raindrop chandelier over the dining table. “Its handblown crystals include integrated lights inside so it glows,” Rogers-Bolton says.
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2. Scale Things Back
Even if surfaces are kept clean, busy interior architectural features can visually clutter a room and get in the way of achieving a serene space. Plus, when these features are added as design trends, they often look dated a few years down the line. Rogers-Bolton recommends paring back overdone features to start with a clean slate and then thoughtfully adding timeless elements.
For example, when redoing the interiors of this Palm Beach Gardens home, Rogers-Bolton first had the heavy stonework on the fireplace and dated finishes removed. She then redid the floor-to-ceiling fireplace surround with dark stone tile that’s distinctive yet simple enough to look good for years. “It sets the look for the space,” she says. She filled the rest of the room with soft furnishings and art in tones of silver, gray and charcoal to complement the fireplace, and accents of black, bronze and sea green. “The home is traditional outside, but it’s a whole new space inside,” Rogers-Bolton says.
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Even if surfaces are kept clean, busy interior architectural features can visually clutter a room and get in the way of achieving a serene space. Plus, when these features are added as design trends, they often look dated a few years down the line. Rogers-Bolton recommends paring back overdone features to start with a clean slate and then thoughtfully adding timeless elements.
For example, when redoing the interiors of this Palm Beach Gardens home, Rogers-Bolton first had the heavy stonework on the fireplace and dated finishes removed. She then redid the floor-to-ceiling fireplace surround with dark stone tile that’s distinctive yet simple enough to look good for years. “It sets the look for the space,” she says. She filled the rest of the room with soft furnishings and art in tones of silver, gray and charcoal to complement the fireplace, and accents of black, bronze and sea green. “The home is traditional outside, but it’s a whole new space inside,” Rogers-Bolton says.
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3. Play Up Nature’s Focal Points
If you’re lucky enough to have a view of a garden, water or other vista, consider designing rooms that look out to it to show it off as much as possible. “The ocean view is the main event,” Rogers-Bolton says of the living room in this Riviera Beach condo.
She went for a neutral palette and subtle details to keep the focus on the serene water view. The furnishings are low-key but still luxurious and inviting, and the overhead light is intriguing without overwhelming the space. The linear, gas-burning fireplace framed by white stone is equally understated. As a final touch, inset mirrors on each side of the room reflect and expand the view.
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More: For more information on Lorraine Rogers-Bolton and examples of her work, visit Rogers Design Group’s Houzz profile.
This story was written by the Houzz Sponsored Content team.
If you’re lucky enough to have a view of a garden, water or other vista, consider designing rooms that look out to it to show it off as much as possible. “The ocean view is the main event,” Rogers-Bolton says of the living room in this Riviera Beach condo.
She went for a neutral palette and subtle details to keep the focus on the serene water view. The furnishings are low-key but still luxurious and inviting, and the overhead light is intriguing without overwhelming the space. The linear, gas-burning fireplace framed by white stone is equally understated. As a final touch, inset mirrors on each side of the room reflect and expand the view.
See more of this project
More: For more information on Lorraine Rogers-Bolton and examples of her work, visit Rogers Design Group’s Houzz profile.
This story was written by the Houzz Sponsored Content team.
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