Photo copyright Jeffrey Totaro, 2018

The laundry room is added on to the original house. The cabinetry is custom designed with blue laminate doors. The floor tile is from WalkOn Tile in LA. Caesarstone countertops.

It’s easy to find a place to sit or stash a coat in this comfortably organized mudroom. Scott Bergmann Photography

Ryan Garvin Photography

Designer: Laura Engen Interior Design Architectural Designer: Will Spencer Studio Builder: Reuter Walton Residential Photographer: Alyssa Lee Photography

Jessica Glynn Photography

Mud Room with Custom Built In Storage Bench.

The clients bought a new construction house in Bay Head, NJ with an architectural style that was very traditional and quite formal, not beachy. For our design process I created the story that the house was owned by a successful ship captain who had traveled the world and brought back furniture and artifacts for his home. The furniture choices were mainly based on English style pieces and then we incorporated a lot of accessories from Asia and Africa. The only nod we really made to “beachy” style was to do some art with beach scenes and/or bathing beauties (original painting in the study) (vintage series of black and white photos of 1940’s bathing scenes, not shown) ,the pillow fabric in the family room has pictures of fish on it , the wallpaper in the study is actually sand dollars and we did a seagull wallpaper in the downstairs bath (not shown).