温暖而充满灵魂 | Susannah Holmberg
A pandemic relocation to coastal Queensland fundamentally changed how this duo viewed their living spaces. By the time they began renovating their Utah ranch – a 7,000-square-foot retreat in the wilderness, lovingly named Bluebird Ranch – Andrew and Allison Jolley wanted to bring Australia’s relaxed but refined use of natural materials, colour and light back to their new home. While Allison was drawn to playful, organic shapes, Andrew “wanted a literal Western ranch,” says designer Susannah Holmberg, who was enlisted to bring the pair's two worlds to life. “It was this sort of fun mash-up,” she says.
But as the renovation of the residence, set on 100 acres, unfolded, the landscape began to take the wheel. The interiors were boxy and, as Holmberg puts it, “classic ’90s, with white tile, big grout lines, and white walls,” but the vast desert setting pulled the couple away from their initial concepts and toward something warmer and more grounded. “As we started choosing materials and finishes, it became clear the house and the landscape were steering us in a different direction,” shares Andrew. “Letting go of that initial vision was actually a turning point. It opened the door to something more site-specific, more risky and ultimately more interesting.”
From the deck of the ranch, the family can watch thunderstorms roll in across the land below, where it shifts from pale rock near the house to the red formations more commonly associated with southern Utah farther down the road. “You almost want to cry when you stand out there,” says Holmberg of the landscape. “It’s just vast, and you have a sense of the age of the planet.” That sense of scale was brought inside the house. Holmberg sought to mediate between the openness of the setting and the need for refuge from it, using warm panelling, plastered surfaces, tile, layered rugs, vintage furnishings and saturated tones to soften the architecture. “There’s something special that happens when there’s no drywall,” she says.
The remoteness of the Utah ranch posed its own issues, as subcontractors were hard to pin down, and some didn’t grasp the vision right away. “There was a little resistance at first. [Some thought that] good design is anything that comes in square with white drywall: ‘Oh, that’s modern, that’s cool.’ So they were like, ‘Why are we putting panelling back on?’ It felt like a bad Hollywood movie, right?” says Holmberg. “But [being] the City Slicker coming in and trying to figure out a common language was rewarding.”
In the primary bedroom, a vaulted ceiling and walls painted in Benjamin Moore’s Deep River canopy a Chris Earle bed with a handmade, multiwood-inlaid feel, set atop the couple’s own rug, a purchase made in Santa Fe. Around the room, Holmberg worked to convey the same collected quality found throughout the rest of the house. “It was important in this particular project to have made a house that feels like there’s a lot of heart in it, a lot of soul in it,” she says. “To have it feel like something that was there forever.”
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