The Lake Forest Showhouse in Illinois is a ticketed event that raises funds for the Infant Welfare Society. This year’s show house featured over 30 interior and landscape designers who brought their highest design minds to the task of designing and decorating a 15,000-square-foot, 30-room mansion located on a 3.5 acre estate.
Three of the designers created showstopping spaces using Cambria quartz surfaces. See how they transformed a first-floor hall and garden bar, a primary bathroom, and a playroom that beckons ladies young and young at heart.
The First Floor Hall and Hidden Garden Bar
Hand-embroidered wallpaper, parquet flooring, and a custom Cambria console encourage meandering. Maybe even take a seat on a saffron color velvet chair tucked into a niche with softly illuminated artwork.
Cambria designs shown: Inverness Blakeley™ and Blackbrook™
Arched niches, clad in Cambria’s Inverness Blakeley design with reeded detailing, provide gravitas to this front hall designed by Lauren Collander.
A custom quartz console provides a modern moment in the front hall. Collander selected Cambria’s Blackbrook quartz design to intersect with the more classic Inverness Blakeley color and pattern. The result is a feminine space with layers of visual and textural interest along with a bit of an edge.
Cambria design shown: Remington Brass™
A curved quartz top, side/backsplash, and shelf are part of an alluring hidden garden bar located under the front hall stairs. The side/backsplash support the shelf—a design trick Collander uses to gain more countertop in a limited space. But her favorite part of this space is how the alloy veins in Cambria’s Remington Brass quartz design catch the light.
Read more about Lauren’s approach to creating a timeless yet unexpected entryway.
Primary Bathroom
A rich walnut wood vanity with elegant reeding and offset drawers lends an art deco feel to this primary bathroom by Ablaze Design Group. Free-flowing brass alloy veining in the satin finish quartz countertop accentuates the gold tones of the un-laquered brass hardware. And the backlit vertical quartz application in the shower provides indirect lighting that is dramatic yet sophisticated, reminiscent of a cascading waterfall feature.
Take a closer look at George’s design choices in this tailored bathroom.
Playroom with En Suite Bathroom
This little girl’s playroom blends a sense of wonder with sophistication—an inspired space with a popular pink and green color palette that, with a few tweaks, could easily become a home office or library.
Cambria design shown: Avalene™
The flexibility of Cambria’s varying quartz thicknesses (including 1cm) allowed designer Theresa Hansen to create bathroom design details reminiscent of the home’s 1890s era. Quartz wainscotting, shower wall cladding, and a custom vanity are intricately fabricated and paired with botanically patterned Jane Churchill curtains and a woodland-inspired wallpaper.
See more of Theresa’s vision behind this enchanted bathroom and playroom.
First Floor Hall and Garden Bar:
DESIGNER: Lauren Collander Interiors, laurencollanderinteriors.com; QUARTZ FABRICATOR: Sprovieri’s Custom Counters, sprovieris.com; GENERAL CONTRACTOR: Platinum Touch Industries, pti-llc.net.
Primary Bathroom:
DESIGNER: ABLAZE Design Group, ablazedesigngroup.com; QUARTZ FABRICATOR: Select Surfaces, selectsurfaces.net.
Playroom with En Suite Bathroom:
DESIGNER: Theresa Hansen Interiors, theresahanseninteriors.com; QUARTZ FABRICATOR: Select Surfaces, selectsurfaces.net.
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