Puttin' on the Glitz
Glitz and glamour highlight this year's Junior Symphony Guild (JSG) Designer Showhouse
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Glitz and glamour highlight this year's Junior Symphony Guild (JSG) Designer Showhouse
Maintaining the spirit of Denver’s exciting urban renewal, the 2007 Junior Symphony Guild (JSG) Designer Showhouse is moving into the city’s core, “where new construction and residents are reshaping Denver’s personality,” says JSG president Marie Cramer. Traditionally, the JSG has…
Susan and Paul Valas bought their Greenwood Village ranch house 13 years ago, expecting it to meet their needs for a long time. But just a few years later, the small family of three doubled in size with the arrival…
Vintage and newly made Mexican cabaret dolls strike Williams’ fancy. “I study the creativity in the details—the earrings, clothing, hairdos and the fun names written on the dolls,” she says. A vintage cut-tin Mexican candelabra tree is almost as prickly…
Whether designing a beach house in Barcelona, a chateau in southern France, or a penthouse in New York, interior designer Petra Richards has the same underlying goal: "I always try to make a home out of a house, a place…
When Kent and Vicki Logan were married on Vail Mountain in 1985 they had no idea that they would one day return to build not only their dream home but a legacy as well. Twenty years later their contemporary residence…
Jon Forbes embodies the notion that you can take the man out of the city but you can’t take the city out of the man. During a recent lifestyle-driven transfer from New York City to the Mile High City, the…
If Santa could tarry a bit in the midst of his Christmas Eve rounds, kick off his boots and savor the spirit of the season, he could pick no better retreat than this historic 1908 residence in the heart of…
It was a formula that worked before. The homeowners partnered with interior designer Melinda Douglas on their Denver home just 2 1/2 years prior. So when they were ready to design their Copper Mountain condo, the couple called on her…
It is a home with the makings of a modern, Western-American utopia: A rocky mesa cliff overlooking a golf course with fifty-mile vistas of Colorado National Monument, the Book Cliff mountains, Grand Valley and the high mountain desert. Fresh air,…
Telluride Gold stone and reclaimed boards from Guinness stout vats add natural warmth and Western ambience to the intimate living room. Plush chenille couches and chocolate leather chairs beg guests to relax by the fireplace. Mark Rohrig’s acrylic on canvas…
For most homeowners, the thrill of new construction is a clean, neutral interior with its never-been-lived-in appeal. But for Taryn Walsh, a first-grade teacher who recently purchased a cottage-style home in Bradburn Village, a live-work-play urban development north of Denver,…
This gracious Southwestern-style home is an island of calm just steps away from a busy intersection where Denver meets the southern suburbs. A long driveway embraced by wildflower meadows and fruit orchards leads to the residence, which is set back…
Like magicians, Denver designers Marc Roth and James Pfister transform ordinary spaces into the breathtaking and extraordinary, as they did with this 12,000-square foot Cherry Hills home, which also includes a stunning pool and cabana house overlooking the Cherry Hills…
Lisa Henson knows all about the creative process. As the daughter of famed puppeteer Jim Henson, she practically grew up in a Muppet workshop. A talented TV and movie producer, Henson now runs the Jim Henson Company in Hollywood with…