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Revival in Blue
Designer Brooke Cole brings new light into a dated Foxcroft kitchen
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CHARLOTTEMAGAZINE.COM // DECEMBER 2021
WHEN BROOKE COLE’S CLIENTS purchased their 1950s ranch, they initially planned to tear it down and build custom. “They started to realize the existing home had a great footprint,” says Cole, principal designer and owner of Brooke Cole Interiors. The couple, who’d recently become empty-nesters, worked with architect Christopher Hensley from Meyer Greeson Paullin Benson Architecture to reconfigure the floor plan and enlisted the team at Four Oaks Builders to gut the house. They brought Cole on to design the interior, which included a kitchen that hadn’t been updated since the 1980s. “The 8-foot ceilings were a challenge,” she says, “but we made it feel bright and airy with light colors and statement lighting.” —Taylor Bowler
COURTESY LAURA SUMRAK
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