Northshore Home magazine highlights the best in architectural design, new construction and renovations, interiors, and landscape design.
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92 New World" feeling. The other colors and materials in the kitchen and main living area, including a white tile backsplash, a wood floor shipped from Belgium, and walls and furniture in a palette of white, cream, and beige, are designed to bring a sense of peace and restfulness to the space. The beauty and tranquility of the design is part of its functionality. The first floor features a guest suite with a bedroom and adjacent office area, a black marble bathroom, and a library with gray flannel and black leather furnishings, all inspired by the style of Ralph Lauren. The guest suite provides many options for ex- tended family visits and future use. "Danielle and I strove to create a serene, timeless home," Skaletsky reflects. "My life is busy so it meant a lot to have it be just beautiful when you walk in." The second floor, accessible by stairs and elevator, has a master suite with a bath and walk-in dressing area accented with mirrored closets. It feels bright and airy yet cozy, with walls in a soft, creamy hue tinged with yellow and a fireplace with a simple white mantle. The upstairs master bathroom is a glossy duck egg blue—a color from Fine Paints of Europe, a London com- pany whose paints are often used to make front doors— like those in Beacon Hill and Amsterdam—shine. Two guest bedrooms and a guest bath share the second level. Skaletsky found that designing for herself was much more difficult than her usual occupation of creating a home for someone else. And designing from the ground up instead of entering an existing property was also a new challenge. "You walk into somebody else's home and you imme- diately have an idea in your mind," she says. "You have an immediate understanding of what the house should be. But when you're starting from scratch and you're starting before the house is even built, you really are kind of all over the place for a little bit. You start at one end, and you go full circle, probably ending up right back where you started. It's a process. It's definitely a process." That process, however, was firmly grounded in Top, The master suite on the first floor includes a black marble bathroom and a masculine-styled library in gray flannel and black leather, inspired by the style of Ralph Lauren. Right (middle and bottm), The second- floor master suite is bright and airy yet cozy, with walls in a soft, creamy hue tinged with yellow and a fireplace with a simple white mantle; the upstairs master bathroom is a glossy duck-egg blue. Two guest bedrooms and a guest bath share the second level. P H O T O G R A P H B Y G R E G P R E M R U