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Inside a Designer’s Absolutely Charming and Cozy Nantucket Cottage
A lovely vintage garden bench provides the busy mom with a place to take a breather. “When I’m here, I’ll pick flowers and make arrangements and place them throughout both [ours and my parents’] houses,” Elizabeth says. “I enjoy flower arranging, but I can’t say that I’m a great gardener—my mom’s the one with the green thumb.”
Inside a Designer’s Absolutely Charming and Cozy Nantucket Cottage
The flower-filled garden connects Elizabeth’s abode to her parents’ main house. And it’s her parents, at least partially, she has to thank for her career. “I worked for an interior designer here in the summers when I was growing up,” she recalls. “My parents said, ‘You have to get a job!’ and my mom helped find it for me. At first I hated it, but when the next summer came around, I went back. I stayed with it, and I ended up really loving it.”
Inside a Designer’s Absolutely Charming and Cozy Nantucket Cottage
A small bathroom space provides the perfect opportunity to go a little wild—and Katie Ridder’s Betelecat wallpaper is as fun as its name. The nautical motif is in full force here, but as usual, Elizabeth put her own spin on it. “I didn’t want to just do the traditional blue and white—sometimes I feel like that’s all I see here. I needed something a little different!”
Inside a Designer’s Absolutely Charming and Cozy Nantucket Cottage
Elizabeth’s pro touch is evidenced in her ability to make a Josef Frank butterfly-print chair coexist peacefully with an equally lively kilim rug and a striped couch. That this is a vacation home allowed her to really up the color and pattern ante plus let her more eclectic side play out. Cue the letters spelling out “Ack,” which is actually a nickname for Nantucket, not an expression of annoyance.
Inside a Designer’s Absolutely Charming and Cozy Nantucket Cottage
In keeping with the home’s loosely nautical theme, Elizabeth chose to use all brass fixtures: plumbing, lighting, hardware—everything. Not that she’s cooking up five-course dinners in the kitchen. “It’s small, so we do easy suppers and cocktails and breakfasts. We’re out a lot, honestly. We’re on our boat all the time.”
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