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designed French-style gardens on either side of the entryway
with boxwood hedges in the shape of Xes.
The ceilings, along with a continual theme of Xes and diamonds
throughout the architecture, make the house unique.
“I wanted every room to have something different as far as
the lighting and ceilings go,” said Holly. “Ed maximized the
space and took the ceilings and doors as high as they could
go. There was ample room in the attic to vault the low ceilings
upward.”
MIRROR ON THE WALL
“Ed’s craftsmen are fabulous,” said Holly as she looked at
the living room ceiling. “He was most proud of this room.”
Holly challenged the team to construct beams that look as if
they came from an old barn. The beams are placed together
with square pegs and crisscrossed, forming an X. The couple
built bookshelves on either side of the couch. Opposite it is a
huge mirror. “My mom and I bought that mirror in the ‘90s in
an antique shop in Palm Beach,” said Holly. “When she and
my dad sold their home, the prospective buyers wanted the
mirror as part of the sale. My dad and I fought over whether
we would ruin the sale of the house over this mirror. I finally
won and they told the buyers it had to stay with the family.
They continued to move it into two more houses, and I
insisted that they exclude it from the sales. My mom gave me
the mirror several years ago before we moved into this home.
It’s extremely heavy and difficult to hang. There are two holes
at the top of the frame that bolts fit through to secure it to
the wall. And, because of the weight of it, we had the builder
put a stud across the back inside the wall where we knew we
wanted to hang it. Hopefully one of my children will want it
The front
entrance was
softened and
made more
inviting by
adding circular
openings
and
diamond
shaped
>> benches.
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