RENOVATION

personal SPACE In last month’s issue, we toured the upgrades designer

Angela Belt made in the living spaces of her first home. Here she shows us how she layered on comfort and beauty upstairs.

A faux-grass ceiling and hanging plants bring natural elements into the meditation zone.

T H E P R O J E C T The bedroom, bath, and office in designer Angela Belt ’s home in West Hartford, CT, were perfectly functional, but blank gray walls and uninspiring decor were zapping more energy than they were giving. “I wanted each room to nurture the people spending time in them,” Angela says.

T H E G OA L Create “me spaces” that would creatively inspire Angela and her husband, Leon, who is an art director at ESPN. A big part of Angela ’s mission as a designer is to intentionally source pieces from underrepresented Black artists and makers. If there’s an opportunity to use work by a person of color in her home, she says, she makes a point to do so.

T H E R E S U LT Bold contrasting colors, personal collections, and smart storage blend in rooms that both soothe and energize. “It ’s important to me to have space to decompress,” she says.

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dare to dare to add drama add drama

“I built the room decor around this energetic Lulu and Georgia headboard,” Angela says. Contrasting the coral with blue Orange Grove wallpaper from Anthropologie makes each color look more saturated. She added nubby texture with the same hues in bedding from Jungalow.

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use what use what you have you have

The credenza, which has moved with Angela for more than 10 years , became an anchor point for a gallery of prints by Black artists (sold through Society6) and keepsakes , including a blue dish she found during her honeymoon in Paris. She turned a petite window nook into a meditation area “to ground myself and clear my mind.”

design design for storage for storage

As the only working bath in the house, this space needed to be reconfigured with enough storage for the family of four. Angela replaced a fl ush-mount mirror and pedestal sink with a medicine cabinet mirror from the BHG Collection at Walmart and a vanity sink with drawers in the same footprint. A basket tucks underneath, and a shelf adds a towel bar and room for SampleHAUS bowls to hold cosmetics.

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start start with a bold with a bold pattern pattern

“I found this sofa from one of my favorite Black-owned businesses , called Albany Park ,” Angela says. “I loved the pattern and used it as a base to pull other colors out in the room.” Dark walls make the decor— including a hip-hop heads framed print by graphic artist Dale Edwin Murray and a green retro side table—the focus.

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Angela explains the definite purpose she had in mind for these saturated, organic tones.

D E E P D I V E Clare Paint

B E D RO O M

“This deep teal continues the color from the bedroom wallpaper but in a simpler way. I wanted to make the room feel like a hotel suite, and the color glows bright in the daylight but calms at night.”

O M G R E E N Clare Paint

BAT H RO O M

“This green is rich in color and doesn’t make the little bath feel small. I originally picked a lighter shade that felt too kiddie for the space, but this shade is the perfect pick-me-up to energize me in the morning.”

S O O T 2 1 2 9 -2 0 Benjamin Moore

O F F I C E

“My husband wanted dark walls, like in an edit studio, that wouldn’t distract while he’s working on animation and video projects. Charcoal isn’t as deep as black, so it allows light to refl ect in the room.” ■

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