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Bradley Nesbitt STYLIST Bradley Nesbitt is a Nashville-based freelance editor, stylist, and social media manager who turned her discerning eye to etsy to find Denver’s best handmade decor—including the printable pictured above—for this issue’s “The Best Of Etsy” (page 22). “After relocating from Denver to Nashville, I love that I can get the best of mile high design in just a click with these amazing local etsy artisans,” she says. She also got a dose of Denver’s thriving furniture-making scene as she collected local pieces for “Home Made” (page 42). Nesbitt has contributed to Southern Living, HGTV Magazine, Country Living, Coastal Living, and Luxe. Jon Rose PHOTOGRAPHER Born in Texas and raised on the iconography of the American West, award-winning portrait photographer Jon rose looks for stories in the interactions…

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IMPROVE FLOW When space is tight, an L-shape layout with specific prep and cooking zones allows multiple chefs to work together. Tip: Consider defining workspaces with different finishes. In this kitchen, white cabinets and leathered black granite countertops delineate the cooking areas. The walnut island (with a red granite slab) is for staging. RECLAIM SPACE Eliminating a half-wall made room for a built-in breakfast nook that doubles as a home office. Tip: Add comfortable cushions (upholstered here in Brentano’s Coquette fabric) and plenty of outlets for workfrom-home ease. USE TEXTURE Smaller spaces benefit from subtle visual cues to tie them together. Dinner layered diamond patterns both on the floor and in the tile backsplash to give the room interest. Tip: Save space (no armoire needed) and get a style boost…

WHILE MANY DESIGN PROS KEEP A close watch on style blogs and design trends, Geoff rey Keating unapologetically looks the other way. The Colorado Springs furniture-maker, a fifth-generation woodworker whose ancestors built churches throughout the rural Southwest, believes high-quality design isn’t defined by whatever is popular at a particular moment. Instead, Keating approaches his work with a reverence for sustainable materials and style—both of which need to stand the test of time. So perhaps it’s not surprising that the 39-year-old calls his aesthetic “contemporary antique.” His pieces, made out of responsibly harvested and salvaged wood, are situated timelessly on the design spectrum between stark modern and fussy traditional. “I make pieces that stay relatively the same in terms of design and structure— pieces you won’t have to throw away every…

COVER From “Home Made,” page 42 Grasshopper Lounge Chair in brown hide, DoubleButter, 17 Galapago St., 303-246-5759, doublebutter.com. CONTENTS Page 6 Succulent sculpture in gold, Waterstone Succulents, etsy.com/shop/waterstone succulents; Gazelle Sideboard in aniline dyed walnut and ivory shagreen, Newell Design Studio, 303-298-8572, newelldesign studio.com; Changing Guard wallpaper, Lizzie Allen, lizzie allen.co.uk; “Colorado Canyons” by Ross Eugene Braught, David Cook Galleries, 1637 Wazee St., 303-623-8181, davidcookgalleries.com. SETTING THE BAR (CART) Page 24 Interior Designer: Barbara Bork, Lola Gray Home & Design, 2516 Broadway St., Boulder, 303-997-8230, lolagrayhome.com. Setup: Bar cart with mirrored shelves, belted ice bucket, ribbed decanters, and platinum-banded glasses (set of four), all available through Lola Gray. BREATHING ROOM Page 28 Interior Designer: Kristi Dinner, Company KD, 605 Ogden St., 303-355-1840, companykd.com. Kitchen: Custom chandelier by Tracey Barnes, 720-425-7931,…

ONE DAY EARLY IN OUR MARRIAGE, I mentioned to my husband that I wanted a tiny table to put beside the old club chair my parents had passed down to us. The chair has no particular pedigree, as furniture heritage goes, but it was in my childhood home for my entire life, and I loved it for the practical and sentimental comfort it gave me. A few months later, on Christmas morning, my husband set before me a small table, just large enough to hold a cup of coffee and a hardcover book. Sleek and simple with a warm brown finish, the table was exactly what I had wanted. Delighted, I asked him where he’d found it, as I had experienced no luck tracking down the perfect piece. He grinned…

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YOU’RE HOSTING: A Bridal Shower Go to: The Entertaining Shoppe Yes, you could celebrate your best friend’s upcoming nuptials with a shower decked out in kitschy plastic baubles—or you could visit this Denver-based website, whose owners curate a beautiful selection of party goods for just about any themed event. We have our eye on the Kitchen Wedding Shower with a farm-to-table feel; the setup is complete with pretty galvanized cake stands, burlap table runners, and vintage flatware. Bonus: For each theme, the Entertaining Shoppe off ers free menus, activities, playlists, and more, making you look like a party-throwing genius. (We won’t tell.) theentertainingshoppe.com YOU’RE HOSTING: A Harvest Party Go to: Idea Chíc As the first frost approaches, it’s time to pull up all those squashes and pumpkins and gather friends…

THIS CHEESMAN PARK CONDO WAS THE perfect choice for homeowner Len Keating: historic building, great neighborhood, two bedrooms, not too big. But the 1,343-square-foot space needed a start-from-scratch decor overhaul—something Keating knew he couldn’t tackle alone. Enter Duet Design Group’s Devon Tobin and Miranda Cullen, who set out to transform the nondescript condo into an elegant, masculine-meets-preppy space. “We used fabrics to give it a Ralph Lauren, East Coast vibe and added a few heavier, rustic furnishings to balance it out,” Tobin says. Here, the designers’ top tips for designing big and bold in a small space. Pillow Talk Three rules for perfectly layered throw pillows. Scale: Too many big shapes or too many tiny prints on top of each other are “tough on the eyes,” says Tobin. “Make sure…

Delineating spaces— without making rooms feel closed in—was the goal for architect E.J. Meade of Arch11 when he set out to design a townhome in Boulder. Inspired by traditional Japanese screens, he sketched an open staircase with a wooden lattice—only to have his client ask if there were a way he could incorporate metal into the design. He returned with this dramatic concept. By interweaving ash steps, thin vertical ash supports, and horizontal steel bands, Meade kept the design light—avoiding a heavy-handed metal structure that, he jokes, might have verged on looking like it was built for cage-fighting. The screen serves multiple purposes: allowing light through, supporting the actual stairs, and providing a visual separation between the bedrooms upstairs and the dining area downstairs. “You’re coming downstairs from a private…

DENVER ARTIST MICHELLE WEDDLE’S succulent sculptures so perfectly capture the plants’ otherworldly shapes, you could almost forgive the online buyer who—unfamiliar with the arid-climate species—mistook them for the real thing. After all, the molds Weddle uses to cast her line of plaster creations were made from live plants. It’s a process that took her nearly six months to perfect before she launched her Etsy store, Waterstone Succulents, in spring 2012. “It was a lot of experimenting and trying out different materials,” says Weddle, who initially learned mold-making and casting as part of the BFA in studio art she earned from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007. Even before she started sculpting succulents, agave and desert imagery showed up in her paintings. Weddle says she is as drawn to…

IF YOU THINK BOULDER IS A BASTION of flannel-clad outdoor-fitness freaks, well, you’re right—but not as right as you used to be. Lured by the city’s booming tech scene, coastal transplants have injected a heightened taste for modern design into the People’s Republic. It’s from this melting pot (Patagonia’s ruggedness meets Apple’s clean lines) that design shop Alpine Modern emerged in summer 2014. As owner Lon McGowan created the brand, his primary question was: How do you take a modern home and design it so that it lives in harmony with the mountains and with nature? The answers can be found just off the Pearl Street Mall in the company’s flagship store— founded as LON Little Shop in 2013—where graceful terrariums (at right) from Canada’s Score & Solder share space…

IF YOU’RE GOING TO BE UP ALL NIGHT WITH YOUR NEW BUNDLE OF JOY, you might as well have a nursery you enjoy spending time in. So figured the Wash Park couple who asked Conni Newsome and Ashley Larson of C&A Interiors to design a cozy, modern nursery for their baby girl. “The room is small, so we had to be selective with design components and color palette,” Newsome says. “And they wanted a space their baby can grow into over the next few years.” Here, the designers’ steps for creating a space perfect for naptime, late-night feedings, and everything in between—with decor that will last even longer than those all-nighters (we promise). 1 Make a statement with paint. Instead of choosing a bright color, which can be overwhelming, go…

From Union Station to Larimer Square, a stroll through LoDo reveals some of Denver’s most storied locales. But behind the revitalized district’s charming storefronts, you’ll find work from forwardthinking modern artists—with some dynamic historic pieces mixed in, of course. Here, we take you inside nine of LoDo’s esteemed, provocative galleries and share pros’ best tips for creating your own exhibition at home. 1. VISIONS WEST GALLERY Perhaps no gallery is a better reflection of modern-day Denver. Visions West (with Montana outposts in Livingston and Bozeman) showcases work with Western roots through a contemporary prism: Fort Collins artist Tracy Stuckey’s paintings, for example, manipulate Western mythology by depicting water-gun shootouts and scantily clad schoolmarms. Show To Know: In October, as part of a larger show the gallery will display “Pool Party,”…

Leigh SULLIVAN IS NO STRANGER TO MAKING people feel at home. She’s co-owned and operated some of the most successful restaurants in Denver—including TAG and TAG Raw Bar—and now, as the principal of Leigh Sullivan Enterprises, she oversees branding and marketing for many of the biggest names in the local hospitality scene. But when it came to revamping a 1920 Congress Park bungalow for Sullivan and her husband’s newly blended family of three kids and three dogs, even Sullivan needed a little assist. “Leigh’s kind of a tiny blond bombshell, but she’s also tough as nails,” says her friend and designer Sasha Moinzad. “I’m glad we got to make her home fun and feminine, but with some of it tough and edgy—because that’s her.” Sasha and her brother John Moinzad,…