A couple raised on peace and quiet builds a residence match for a crowd.Expanding up in Southern California in the late 1970s, Kelley Sheppard had a loving, but quiet, family home. “My dad just wasn’t into entertaining,” she says. Meanwhile, in rural Utah, Halston Brack was having a equivalent experience, exactly where spending time with buddies meant leaving the residence. “Neither of our households had people over considerably,” Kelley says. “And our residences weren’t comfy locations for our pals to hang out, so we would go to other people’s homes.” The couple met in college and when they later married, they vowed to do it differently. “We wanted to develop an old-fashioned property exactly where people could cease by without calling ahead,” Kelley explains. “A location where our kids’ close friends, as effectively as our own, would feel welcome.”
The Bracks set their sights on the suburban West Los Angeles district of Westchester—a place they describe as a throwback to an era when neighbors knew each and every other by name and children rode bicycles up and down the sidewalks. Despite the fact that the region fit their vision of a friendly community, the 1950s-style residence on their preferred lot clashed with their dream of an open, contemporary home. To reconcile the two, the family members enlisted Soler Architecture and Jennifer Dyer of Jeneration Interiors to generate a quite modern property in the old-fashioned neighborhood.
Kelley’s 1 concern about going modern was maintaining the property comfy for their 3 kids. “I didn’t want it to be also cold,” she says. Dyer alleviated any worries by incorporating bursts of bright color, graphic patterns and textural fabrics to make the interiors inviting. “People have a tendency to go with dark wood and white walls in many modern homes. We wanted vibrant colors that could be observed from all parts of the residence,” says Dyer. Since the home’s indoor and outdoor spaces are usually separated by nothing at all more than a wall of glass, Dyer decided to decorate the outside places as if they have been interior rooms.
In the living space, Dyer mixed the glamorous look of Hollywood Regency with the bold, bright colors of the moment. Custom armchairs upholstered in green Dedar fabric inspired the rest of the living room’s colour palette, whilst Jeff Soler and his team covered the clean-lined front door in a attractive snakeskin.
Featuring luxury appliances from Dacor and Gaggenau, the kitchen is a host’s dream come true. The couple turned a narrow walkway off the kitchen into a pantry, full with a sink and dishwasher, to make celebration prep and cleanup easy.
A set of vintage chairs that the customers currently owned inspired the color palette in the master bedroom. “The chairs were a bold magenta, so we decided to continue the hue throughout the area,” Dyer says.
In the master bath, most of the colour is supplied by the big windows framing the trees.
“It has great light and quite excellent vibes,” homeowner Kelley says of the office. Although it appears vintage, the desk is in fact a custom piece by Jeneration Interiors, and the glass chandelier is from Cyan Design.
“The playroom is truly fun,” Dyer says of the kid-centric space, which is outfitted with Giati indoor-outside textiles and a multicolored hide rug by Kyle Bunting. “The little ones love hanging out there because they can entertain themselves for hours.”
“When I consider of the property, I think of the film Four Weddings and a Funeral,” Kelley says. “Big life events and milestones take place with family members and friends around.” And with birthday and engagement celebrations, baby showers and finish-of-the-college-year pool parties, the house is a hive of activity.
By Kira Coplin
Made by Jennifer Dyer and Jeff Soler
Photo credit: John Ellis