Over the last few years, Beth Ann Kallen, co-owner of home furnishing and interior design firm Folly, has been helping a client redecorate the family’s home in Blandemar Farm Estates room by room. For the latest project, the master bedroom, Kallen (a mother of three) knew just what the mother of four needed: “I wanted her to have a refuge.”
Kallen’s design process always starts with a fabric. This time, her jumping-off point was a Sanderson floral in blues and green, with daisies and butterflies providing yellow accents. “Just a lovely palette,” says Kallen. “I like bringing in colors from nature, and I’ve been working with this client for years—I know she loves blue.”
The fabric became drapes for the windows on three sides of the room, set off against walls in a warm white. The Matouk Schumacher bed linen (white with a blue-and-green geometric trim) is keyed to the drapes’ colors, with a cadet blue wool on the headboard as a darker accent. The Stark carpet, a pattern called “Kubra,” in soft blue and white, picks up the theme: “I wanted the rug to fill the whole room, to give it warmth,” Kallen says. (Of course, the fireplace helps there, too.)
Another restful feature is a window bay with a small Hickory Chair sofa, upholstered in an easy-to-clean Crypton fabric—after all, this is a household full of kids and dogs. Blue-and-white floor-standing ginger jars at each end reinforce the motif, while the client’s dresser was repainted a muted blue and fitted with antique brass pulls.
Every room needs some accent pieces, and Kallen included two she’s especially fond of: a curvilinear cartouche-shaped mirror bordered in a buff rattan, and a dresser lamp made from an ochre Italian ceramic jar Kallen found at an antique shop. Both of these pieces pick up the yellow in the fabric that inspired the whole décor.
And the result? A cool and quiet space to relax and regroup.