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Entrance | Stairway Detail: The front entrance provides many visual cues when you walk through the door. A clear view of the water is visible straight through the house. There’s the grand staircase and the foyer chandelier from Fine Art Handcrafted Lighting. The design team carefully selected spectacular lighting to ensure it enhanced the home’s design. They tucked the foyer fixture into the tray ceiling, so its beauty is noticeable but not overwhelming. The homeowners wanted the sleek floating staircase, but the wooden handrail tempers the contemporary style to align with the overall aesthetic. The Legno Bastone Wide Plank Flooring is Lancaster 13mm from the La Famiglia Collection, with this specific finish only available through Naples Flooring Company. Front Elevation: “This house has a great street presence with that two-story front entrance,” says John Orgren, Residential Studio Director for MHK Architecture. “It has a very welcoming sequence of spaces that are layered and give you the feeling that you’re heading somewhere special. Inside, you’ve got a view straight to the pool through the main living space. It feels fantastically open.” Design elements indicative of MHK Architecture’s Old Florida style include wood brackets, metal roofs, and stucco board-and-batten-look walls.
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LEGACY LIVING A STATELY OLD FLORIDA-STYLE COASTAL HOME LIVES LARGE AS A MULTI-GENERATION VACATION HOME
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Waterside Builders set out to build a spec home in Aqualane Shores, but it was off-market almost before owner Mike Assaad could get a sign in the yard. The design and build team, including MHK Architecture and Jeffrey Fisher Home, have completed numerous projects, so it’s easy to demonstrate their capabilities when potential buyers call. “This wasn’t our first project together,” Assaad says. “It was helpful, when the homeowners were considering buying this home, that we could show them completed projects that involved this specific team.” Assaad’s boutique construction firm has built over 200 homes in Naples in the past 20 years. Those years’ worth of knowledge — and those of the team — means this design reflected what people want in a Florida home, and these homeowners proved it. “They had their fingerprints all over the decor — certainly the furnishings, but only made some minor floor plan changes,” Assaad explains. “For the most part, they liked the house the way it was designed.” u
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Dining Room: Fisher says the house echoes the matriarch’s great taste and appreciation of quality, as does the spectacular dining room table by J. Alexander Furniture. “It has an asymmetrical polished brass base, almost like a piece of jewelry — like a bracelet,” he says. “The homeowner certainly has that elegant glamor about her, and the house is a real reflection of that.” The six center dining chairs have an elegant take on rattan paired with seafoam green leather seats, while the armchairs’ upholstery pulls colors from the living room rug, creating another weft in the overall palette. The dazzling chandelier over the table is from lighting designer Fisher Weisman from San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. It blends papier-mâché with crystal and mother of pearl.
Living Room: The matriarch and patriarch of this multi-generational family like a neutral palette with hints of color here and there. Fisher created a continuum of subtle hues that sweep through the home, blending one space to the next. In the living room, the Romo rug is the artwork that brings in color, including aqua and rust, while the furnishings are subdued creams and taupes. The paneled fireplace wall creates a traditional, sophisticated appeal.
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Kitchen: Fisher’s team is adept at mixing metals and wood tones throughout a space and having the result be refined and sophisticated. The kitchen features a black faucet, gold pendants, and bronze barstools. Likewise, the adjoining living room has blonde cerused oak, charcoal-painted wood cabinetry by Marcus Jelley, and gray-washed oak paneling. “We’re big believers in mixing metals as well as mixing wood tones, which you can see throughout this main floor,” Fisher says. Box-beam ceiling treatments delineate the individual spaces within the sizable great room concept. Bar: The bar is a stately feature with a mix of closed and glass-front cabinetry in the same deep charcoal paint color as the kitchen island. The elegantly veined Pompeii Quartz countertop runs up the backsplash, as it does on the range wall in the kitchen. Using the brushed gold cabinet hardware, Fisher created additional connections between the spaces.
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As it turns out, the dual primary suite design was perfect for the multi-generational family that will be enjoying the vacation home. “This is an MHK Architecture and Waterside Builders project — professionals deep in the roots of Naples and very experienced at what they’re doing,” says Jeffrey Fisher of Jeffrey Fisher Home. “The home has already got great bones. Then, we just take a classic approach to the design.” The home has a sophisticated, timeless style with a beautiful blend of whites, wood tones, and a contiguous palette of soft colors that blend one space into the next. Although there is a distinct lack of color in some of the rooms, Fisher’s layering of pattern and texture ensures the design is dynamic and luxurious. In addition, custom built-ins, time-honored ceiling treatments, a mix of clean lines and traditional silhouettes, and just the right amount of bling make this design sing. And, of course, no Florida home is complete without spectacular indoor-outdoor living. u
Primary Bathroom: Adding texture and pattern in the bathroom is essential because of all its smooth, hard surfaces. Fisher accomplished this with a high-low patterned wool and silk rug in the center of the room and a custom-modified animal print ottoman by Björk Studio. The shower includes a feature wall with large-format porcelain tiles in a mosaic-style leaf pattern. The mirror and Ultra Clear shower enclosures are sourced from Builders Glass of Bonita. A standout light fixture by Jamie Young Co. comprises mercury glass discs and is reminiscent of a midcentury Italian style, says Fisher. Tru-Flo Plumbing studied the MHK Architecture plans with the plumbing fixtures selected by Jeffrey Fisher Home to install water lines and drains for the underground plumbing.
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Primary Bedroom: The subdued palette, Fisher says, was again a client-driven design choice. He added lots of layers of pattern and texture to give the room a rich, cozy feel. The Baker Furniture bed is upholstered in a boucle-style fabric and features layered bedding. The nightstands have Capiz shell fronts, and the benches mix leather seats with chrome legs, all offering a touch of glamour, while two swivel chairs are upholstered in two different fabrics. The wool and silk rug from Kravet ties in the range of grays, taupes, and creams in an abstract pattern, while the layered window coverings offer several materials, hues, patterns, and textures.
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Guest Bedroom & Guest Bathroom: The upholstered bed in this room sits snugly framed by windows — the two flanking windows are joined by a transom, all of which have a Roman valance with decorative tape that follows the lines of the windows for visual interest. The fabric from Larsen Fabrics features an abstract pattern in a damask-style weave — a layer of texture and pattern in addition to the rug and bedding that enhances the neutral colors. The en suite is one area where the homeowners made a design change. Instead of a full wall of cabinets, the adult daughter who uses the space wanted a makeup vanity.
“The whole outdoor living area is enclosed by roll-down shutters and screens, which is a nice feature,” Assaad explains. “There’s a beautiful outdoor kitchen ensemble, and all the outdoor decorative details are PVC, so it’s maintenance-free. They can roll the shutters down, leave their house, and they don’t have to worry about anything.” MHK Architecture is known for this Old Florida style, but John Orgren, Residential Studio Director for MHK Architecture Naples, says no two are alike. “That’s one of the neat things about working within a style in residential architecture: no two homes will be the same. We might have some of the same pieces, but we put them together in a very different way. For instance, the soft arches over the garage and then repeating that over the front door. That’s not something that we would do on every house, but they work well for this one.” n
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Guest Bedroom: This room, intended for one of the youngest generations of residents, was designed to be feminine but not girly. As in the downstairs living room, the rug acts as a striking piece of art, and creating an amalgamation of the color palette of soft neutrals with peach tones in its geode-like pattern. The four-poster bed has highly textured chrome detailing and cream leather upholstery. The bathroom wallpaper by Schumacher carries the palette and pattern into the adjoining space.
“It was helpful, when the homeowners were considering buying this home, that we could show them completed projects that involved this specific team,” says Mike Assaad.
Loft: Fisher’s subtle use of color in the upstairs loft area brings together the neutrals, of course, but also the peach from a nearby bedroom and the green from the dining room chairs and living room rug downstairs. “I love those nods when you go through a house — there’s continuity,” he says. In addition to the lounge area with a comfortable Century Furniture sectional and a textured linen rug by Niba Designs, there’s a coffee bar so family members can have separate spaces when the whole group is in residence.
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Den: “This space was earmarked for the man of the house,” Fisher says. “There are slightly more masculine features in here, including grass cloth wall panels, and the console from Currey & Company below the television has a vellum door front with that beautiful pattern, which says ‘world traveled’ to me.” The sleek black desk coordinates with the console while texturally contrasting the rug and armchair. Pool Bath: The original floor plan included a coffee bar in the primary suite that these homeowners did not need, so the design team was able to incorporate the extra square footage into the pool bathroom, allowing for the large vanity and wall storage in rich walnut wood with reed detailing. The reed pattern is repeated in the black chandelier and on a horizontal plane in the wallcovering. Shell stone flooring from the pool deck flows into this space. Outdoor Kitchen: Florida living is all about the indoor-outdoor connection, and many spaces mirror each other, and this house is no different. Outside the kitchen is the complete outdoor kitchen with a grill, storage, and an island with a sink. Plus, there’s an outdoor dining room complete with a table from Harbour Outdoor and chairs from Azzurro Living, as well as a living area. “You see the continuity of the inside living room furniture to the outside, and again, we used neutrals — cream and gray — on the upholstery, but we’re adding pops and tying back to the interior palette with the rust stripe and teal dot pillows,” Fisher explains.
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Rear Elevation: “In Florida, life is all about spending time outdoors in and around the pool,” Orgren says. “This one’s got an especially generous outdoor living space with an outdoor kitchen with its own island, a great dining space, and a nice outdoor lounging space with a full-sized wood-burning fireplace. And there’s also a pool bath, so you’re able to enjoy your entire day outside enjoying the tropical weather. And the pool itself is great — the lot is wide, and the long pool reflects that.”
Written by Heather Shoning Photography by Dan Cutrona Photography Interior Designer:
Architect:
Jeffrey Fisher Home 852 1st Avenue South, Suite 200 Naples, FL 34102 239.234.5564 www.jeffreyfisherhome.com
MHK Architecture 2059 Tamiami Trail East Naples, FL 34112 239.331.7092 www.mhkarchitecture.com
Naples Flooring Company 900 5th Avenue South Naples, FL 34102 239.263.1213 www.naplesflooring.com
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Resources:
Waterside Builders 1400 Gulfshore Boulevard North, Suite 106 Naples, FL 34102 239.430.3883 www.watersidebuildersinc.com
Builders Glass of Bonita 24181 South Tamiami Trail, Suite 4 Bonita Springs, FL 34134 239.947.1505 www.buildersglassbonita.com
Tru-Flo Plumbing 5567 Taylor Road, Suite 2 Naples, FL 34109 239.777.0180 www.trufloswfl.com
Legno Bastone Wide Plank Flooring 168 Commercial Boulevard Naples, FL 34104 239.206.1898 www.legnobastone.com
Wilson Lighting 2465 Trade Center Way Naples, FL 34109 239.592.6006 www.wilsonlighting.com
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