Untitled 6 - Wilson Kelsey Design

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2012 / 12 / 02
5 inspired rooms
Behind each of these creative spaces is a theme that pulls everything together. Designers and
homeowners reveal how they found that spark.
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PHOTOGRAPH BY KELLER + KELLER
Delighted by a pair of cement French garden statuaries she took out of storage, interior designer
Kate McCusker of Theodore & Company got the yen to redecorate her Beacon Street office. The
office, being rather small, made Parisian decor the obvious choice. First, she repainted the walls
the gray of weathered French stone. Then she appropriated her mom’s Louis XVI-style sofa,
upholstered in a now out-of-print Stroheim & Romann floral toile. Next, she unearthed an extra
bolt of the fabric and had one floor-to-ceiling curtain panel made. She swapped her desk for her
late stepfather’s metal campaign desk and brought in a turn-of-the-last-century French balloonback chair reupholstered in bubble-gum pink leather. A framed photograph of Paris plucked from
the walls of her own apartment supplied the finishing touch.
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PHOTOGRAPH BY LOUISE MICHAUD
Cheryl and Richard Durgan of Beverly, with the help of designer Sally Wilson, decided to
sacrifice the shower in a bathroom off their study to house air conditioning equipment. That
meant redecorating the full bath as a powder room. When Wilson showed the Durgans
Brunschwig & Fils’s “Bibliotheque” wallpaper, from the Boston Design Center, Cheryl knew
they had found their look. “The study was starting to resemble a traditional English club, and this
fit in beautifully,” she says. From there, they added a slab of rust Alhambra marble for the vanity,
along with a bronze waterspout, handles, and bowl. Wilson, of Salem-based Wilson Kelsey
Design, selected faux ostrich wallpaper, which echoes the appearance of a leather-bound book,
for below the chair rail.
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PHOTOGRAPH BY KELLER + KELLER
Twelve-year-old Elisabeth Weeks knew what she wanted in a bedroom, even when she was 10.
After soaking up Elisabeth’s ideas, Hingham-based designer Robin Pelissier conjured Cirque du
Soleil as a working theme for her Milton room. Elisabeth asked for clouds on the ceiling and
pretty things from the outdoors. She loves the tree-and-bird toile of the Roman shades, whose
pattern reminds her of “little gardens,” and the lime green ceiling fixure with pink flowers by
Stray Dog Designs. Pelissier hung multicolored sheer panels by Tricia Guild on a track around
the bunk bed, adding privacy with a circus-like aesthetic. The curtains also allowed Pelissier to
pull more colors into the scheme.
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PHOTOGRAPH BY LAURA MOSS
Susan and Glenn Rothman have traveled the world, so when it came time to redo the master
bedroom in their Tudor-style home in Wellesley, they knew where they’d look for inspiration.
“We love the serenity and architecture of Southeast Asia,” Susan says. Plus, they were eager to
display the artifacts they had brought back. So the couple hired interior designer Laura Meyer of
Boston architecture firm Meyer & Meyer to transform the space. The model was Bali’s Amandari
resort, with its open-air villas. Meyer, however, achieved the effect with a bamboo ceiling that
perfectly echoes the feel of a Balinese pavilion. She incorporated an ancient carved column that
the couple had packed away, splitting it lengthwise and using the pieces as the posts for a
custom-designed platform bed. A Balinese tapestry was framed and hung over the bed, and throw
pillows were made with textiles that Susan had carried home.
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PHOTOGRAPH BY BEN GEBO
When Cathy McCarty and her husband, Shomir Ghosh, decided to renovate the master bathroom
in the Brookline condo they share with their two young children, they wanted something that
didn’t look like it came straight from a catalog, but not something so far out that it could impede
resale. “My husband’s from Bombay,” says McCarty, “so we thought a nod from there could be
nice.” To make that happen, they turned to Boston-area interior designer Brenda Be. The
medicine cabinet, with an intricate latch cast in India, has clean Federal-style lines, but the glass
mosaic wall tile, an of-the-moment look, is flecked with gold, reminiscent of the metallic threads
often woven through saris. The 12-by-12 stone slabs lining the shower hint at the expanse of
white marble of the Taj Mahal.