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Best of Both Worlds… A designer combines elegance and livability in a Westfield home

This family of six live casually with high style. KBK designed this traditionally elegant home for formal entertaining and plenty of warm comfortable places to curl up and relax.

We are excited to share that DesignNJ magazine, has featured one of KBK Interior Design’s most elegant New Jersey residences in the current April/May issue, hitting newsstands this week.  

 

The article Best of Both Worlds… A designer combines elegance and livability in a Westfield home features six pages of photos and walks readers through the collaboration between the homeowners and Kingsley Belcher Knauss (KBK), ASID, owner of KBK Interior Design, during the renovation of one of Westfield’s most stately homes, an imposing 1930’s stone-clad center hall colonial perched high on a hill. 

 

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KBK was tasked with designing the epitome of high formal style while creating a comfortable home for a family of six.  “We’re casual people who like a formal look. We do sit on the couches, throw blankets on ourselves and watch television, “ explains the homeowner.

 

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The result is an inviting and serene layering of texture and gilt finishes, using a warm gold and raspberry color scheme with bursts of chartreuse and blue.  Some standouts are an ethereal wall mural that forms a distinctive backdrop to the formal dining room, an English-style library with cherry coffered ceilings and wall paneling, a buttercup yellow sitting room for morning meditation and less formal sunny French provincial kitchen with an adjoining family room/game room designed in an old world style.

 

We hope you take a peek at one of the loveliest homes in Westfield.

 

Designed by KBK Interior Design

KBKInteriorDesign.com

Photos by Paul S. Bartholomew

 

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