Park City Luxury Home Tour | Summit Estate Project

In the living room, the first thing you see is the view. The view from standing here and here and here and here. That's our Diet Coke. It's my third Diet Coke. Welcome to our Summit Estate Project. This is a new build located in Park City and it's about 10,000 square feet. We designed it from the ground up starting about four years ago and it's so fun to see it come to completion. The architecture is modern, but we've softened it through textural materials and lots of interesting layers. There is so much more beyond this massive pivot door, so come on in. Our clients wanted an eclectic style that still had the Studio McGee perspective. You'll see that reflected throughout the entire home from every single design choice in both the finishes and the furniture and accessories. When we first received the plans, there was a lot of drywall happening in this entryway and then high transom windows, and I didn't want it to feel cold when you walked in the door, and so we decided to carry the stone from the exterior onto several walls and then also add a timber detail. It helped lower the line of sight so that the entryway felt cozier, and it also just added texture and warmth that wouldn't have been there if we had just white walls. We had a few options when it came to space plan. Ultimately, we decided that a round table in the center was the best way to go, because if we had put a console here, it would have been the same height as a table right next to it, and then we would have ended up with a lot of empty space in the middle, and we had to fill another wall in the back over here. On a round table, I always have some source of height. Since this is a vacation home for our clients, these are actually usually faux. We put real in for the photo shoot, but I think that having a central point of height and then creating levels and layers around that center point is the key to styling a round entry table. One theme that you will see carried throughout the entire home is our clients' love and our love of vintage rugs. We take clients on trips to round tops so that they can scour the market with us and find pieces that really have meaning to them. How great is this ski patrol flag? We went big and bold, and you had the shot of red when you first walk in the door, and that gave us a lot of inspiration for then what came next, which is over here. Our clients fell in love with this little piece of artwork that has actually like a red velvet mat, and I love mixing up and surprising people with scale when we are designing homes. Once you know this, you'll start to notice designers playing with scale when it comes to artwork, and sometimes it's really big, sometimes it's perfect, and then sometimes you intentionally go too small because it feels interesting and makes you kind of tilt your head to the side and take a second and look at the artwork more closely. The entryway opens up to the stairwell and the living room. But first, bar number one. Believe it or not, this is not the only bar in the home. This is bar number one, and it opens up to the living room for the ultimate entertaining hangout space for our clients. We were inspired by a color blocking effect, and then one of my favorite parts are these English taps and then a copper sink. From here, we'll move into the living room. In the living room, the first thing you see is the view. It's just gorgeous everywhere you turn. So it was important when we were developing a seating arrangement to allow the seating to not only cozy up by this double-sided fireplace, but also so everyone could appreciate the views and then hang out together. And we had a pathway leading to the kitchen and the dining room on both sides of this floating fireplace so we needed really clear pathways around everything. Also, these are doors, so we needed pathways behind the furniture. So we worked through quite a few different arrangements, and the way it landed, it feels like it was always meant to be this way, but it took us a few iterations on the drawings to get the plans to just feel natural. And I think that part of the decision-making process was incorporating selections that had curve to them so that everything didn't feel so blocky, especially with all of these huge rectangular door systems and windows that we have throughout. We carried the stained ceiling from the exterior into the interior, and then we did this directional lighting. And I think that it fits the style of home because it's more modern, but it also was helpful because we could spread these out throughout the entire room instead of doing a chandelier that was off-center in the space. When we are designing these custom homes for clients, it's really awesome to get to a place where we understand their aesthetic enough, where we can present something that we know that they're going to be excited about. And we're also going to be able to deliver on the Studio McGee style that they came to us for. And this coffee table is one of those moments. And I think that it becomes this statement that our clients were looking for, but also feels just like a natural fit with every other selection. Over on this side of the room, there was some debate about whether or not to do a bar here. And we felt like, wow, that's a lot of counter stools between the living room and then the kitchen right behind us. So we opted to do a bistro table and swivel chairs, and then just have this be a bar counter. And speaking of stools, I think that that is a perfect lead-in to the kitchen and the dining space. Welcome to the kitchen. This kitchen color is one of my favorites that we've ever done. You know I love green. It's my favorite color. And seeing it in this deep, moody hue is absolutely breathtaking. The design started with a range. Our client wanted something that made a statement. And we fell in love with the idea of doing a dark green la conche range. And we color matched the cabinets and the range so that you got this really high impact with everything being one color on the surrounding edges of the room. There were some challenges when it came to figuring out the layout of the kitchen. The range isn't actually centered, and we needed to make it look like it was centered. One of our solutions to making this kitchen feel balanced was doing a door that looked integrated into the cabinetry so we had a balance between what was happening on this side of the kitchen and match it on this side. The refrigerator is completely seamless. You can't even tell that that's the refrigerator. You can see how small I look in context with everything around me. The range hood is huge. We did a plaster, and then we did that dark stain that you see on the ceilings and you see on the timbers throughout the home. And we carried that with this really cool, you see this band detail, and then that transfers into these thick open shelves with the brass railing that ties in with the bar that we did in the basement. A few other noteworthy things in this kitchen. Our clients fell in love with the idea of doing stone on all of the walls and carrying that from the fireplace, and I loved that idea as well. And so we carried that all the way around the entire room. You'll also notice the cabinetry doesn't go all the way to the ceiling. There's a few reasons for this. One is these ceilings are very, very tall, and our drawings started looking top-heavy, so I brought them down a bit. The other reason is because we wanted to be able to see more stone if it was going to be carried around the room. And lastly, after years and years of saying your cabinetry must go to the ceilings, we are seeing, in design, the cabinets changing a little bit, which is a bit English-inspired. Okay, I'm gonna take you around to the backside of the sink because there are a few things I wanna show you over here. So one is in the soapstone, we have these carvings here so that you can brush everything into the sink, and also it's just a great design detail, an unlacquered brass faucet. And I love that this is a more traditional shape against a lot of the modern architecture that's happening in the home, and it still just feels right. It gives that nice juxtaposition that I'm always looking for when designing. On this wall here, we have an appliance garage so that we can hide the toaster and keep it clean but accessible. Over here, we have this great sconce moment. I say anytime you have an asymmetrical window or maybe just an extra gap that you don't know what to do with and you don't feel like art is the solution, a sconce is a great way to fill the space but also illuminate the room in an interesting way in the evening. This sconce, we did a custom shade in a fabric that matched the cabinets again so that we could really lean into that monochromatic look. Over on the other side of the room is the dining room. And we do a lot of long tables at Studio McGee. And as a client, we can customize all of these McGee & Co pieces that you see. And so this is our Orville extension table, and we've just done it in a very, very long length. We have a long island and a long table, and this was a lot of chairs to sit in a room together. So what we decided to do was do the counter stools and then do two long benches so that you get a break in the height and reduce the amount of chairs everywhere. So you can see that the chairs with backs are balanced on each side, and then we get this nice dip so that your eye isn't just looking at 20 chairs. These benches aren't just any benches. They are made from an outdoor fabric with this really great leather grommet tie detail. So they're removable and cleanable, and this is the level of attention to detail that our clients get, and you can really just feel it when you walk into the home. Like the dining chair situation, we needed to figure out how to choose the lighting above the island and the dining table so that they could coordinate but not compete with each other. And we decided to do three large pendants down the island and then do something more linear down the dining table. I think that if we had done multiple fixtures over the table and multiple fixtures over the island, it would have felt like too much and your eye wouldn't know where to go, and now everything just feels intentional. And of course, the most important thing is that this chandelier did not impede the view. Last but not least, we love a good dining hutch moment, and behind me, we have this dark cabinet here, and we've styled it with all sorts of beautiful kitchen and dining accessories and some vintage artwork as well. Behind me, you see a gorgeous hallway that leads to the guest wing of the home, but first we're going to take you to the primary suite. I love this primary suite because I think it's a great example of how to take modern design and make it feel classic at the same time. We did a dark charcoal grass cloth on all of the walls. Dark grass cloth is a timeless material. It adds texture and color, and it really just sets a cozy feel for this space. The beams are the same texture and tone that we've used throughout the rest of the home on the ceilings, and so that provides some continuity. And then each selection is interesting. There is not a single piece in this space that isn't a little bit funky or just kind of catches your eye. By incorporating some of the finishes, like a really simplistic fireplace around, a really calming vintage rug, those give us some nice grounding elements to balance out some of the bold choices we made in the rest of the styling. So let's talk about this bed. We did a dark brown stain that ties in with the ceiling. This pair of pattern artwork is one of my very favorite features in the room. We did a custom fabric mat, and the colors in that fabric tie in with the grass cloth, and they act as almost a secondary pillow of sorts. Interesting color combinations and pattern combinations give us that playfulness that our client was looking for. And then even the quilt has a red stitching throughout. We've thought through every single layer. Even the lamp over here. It is a fabric lamp and shade, and it looks like it ties in perfectly with the grass cloth. I'm loving this look these days, where you take a color or a texture or a pattern, and you repeat it throughout a space for maximum effect. So from here, I'm gonna take you into the primary bathroom. In this bathroom, we did a green stain on the vanity, and I'm really excited about how it turned out. It allowed us to show the wood grain, and for a mountain home, that felt really appropriate, but it also added color, which is very fitting for our client. And we did this long vanity with a leathered quartzite stone on the top, and the leathering basically just gives it kind of a texture to the stone. And then we did unlacquered brass fixtures throughout the space, and I love that they're already starting to patina. To me, the sign of a high-end luxury home is when you incorporate materials that are natural and have a little bit of age because they are authentic. I think that this moment here is a good time for me to point out how a lot of the window treatments were installed in this home. So we have all of these huge windows, and sometimes we had room for drapes, and others we didn't. And here, you can see these little slots here. That is where the shade pockets go, and this is designed from the architectural phase we call out where those go in a home. And so those just pocket up there, and then when it's time to close the shade, you just push a button, and then everything goes down. This artwork behind me is actually a piece that our client's mother painted, and the gold frame actually matched all of our fixtures. And when we work with clients, they often come with a love of artwork and pieces that they've collected, and so they will gather the pieces that they want to move in with them, and then we help them select the most fitting location for their pieces throughout the home. We've taken you through all of the main spaces in the primary suite in this home, and now we have several guest spaces to show you. I am of the mindset that when you have glass that has no grids throughout the entire home, that you lose a little bit of hominess. And so I usually look for opportunities to incorporate grids in a couple of spaces, even if it's just a breezeway. And so we came up with just basically a formula or system, and this is how we approach windows. So we said all the big door systems are going to be clear glass so that you look out to the view, but then if we have a moment where we can create this paint effect, like the stairwell or on this breezeway here, we'll add grids. And you can see that that adds a bit more personality than just a plain window. It's all about that mix to get the Studio McGee aesthetic. This guest suite is probably my favorite guest bedroom in this house. This was actually going to be in the closet because they needed a floor-length mirror, and it arrived and we were like, that needs more presence in the room. And then you turn to the right and you are wowed by this bedroom. There will be suitcases. Those can kind of slide underneath or someone could use it as a desk space. This way, it's just very versatile. Now, when I walk in this room, I'm like, I can't believe it was any other way. When we first designed this, it was just going to be kind of like a light neutral. We pivoted and presented to our client the idea of going with this paint color, and I am so glad that they were trusting and open to it because it's awesome. I love it. It's an unusual color. It's still neutral. It speaks to the mountain landscape, and it also allows this marble on the fireplace to really stand out. This marble has greens and a little bit of purple in it, and if it was a light neutral behind it, it kind of just would have blended into the wall. This is also the same slab that's in the bar area on the main level. We design a lot of guest bedrooms, and there's a couple of things that we're always keeping in mind, and that is, can we fit a king-size bed, and let's layer the linens because we don't know, we don't get the opportunity to ask those people like we do our clients, you know, do you sleep hot? Do you want linen? Do you want, like, what do you want in a bed? We want everyone to love staying here, so we just do a lot of layers. You'll see that the bed styling throughout this home is a mix. Sometimes it's layers of pillows, and sometimes it's just a lumbar. Around this corner, there is a great seating area and gallery wall that our designers carefully curated, and a few more guest bedrooms. So this is the office, and I love this space so much. Let's start with the walls and the ceiling. We wrapped the walls, the ceiling, and the floors in a wood stain. So we have a herringbone on the floors and then vertical paneling that continues from the exterior to the interior, and I love the warm effect that you are in here, and it feels cozy, and then you look out the window, and you see these snow-covered mountains. It's gorgeous. We decided to paint the built-in a charcoal gray, and we wanted that to break up the wood stain, but not overtake the impact of the wood stain, so we still kept the back of the built-in wood and also the countertop. One other thing I wanted to point out from this built-in is the cool hardware. So it has this great cutout. This is brass, and then it's installed, and they do this little notched detail here, which I think it's just those little things in these luxury custom homes that we design that make all of the difference. The layout here is one that we use a lot for our clients who have a lot of monitors and screens. We'll do two desk spaces, so one that's built-in up against the wall where we keep those monitors, and then we'll have a desk floating in the middle so that they can swivel back and forth with a chair that has casters. And I'm gonna take you around to the other side of the room to one of my favorite vignettes in the entire home because of this settee right here. So we did a custom plaid fabric on this settee, and it's adorable, and it's fun, and it's classic, and I love that you walk into this room and you can't miss it. We interview clients and say, what are your interests and hobbies and things that inspire you? In common spaces, not everyone has those same interests, so in an office, you can really go for it. When you have a home in Park City and four kids and you like to ski, a mudroom is very important. We did Benjamin Moore rattan, which is kind of like this hay color, and we carried it onto everything. And then we've just added a few little hints of other materials to break up the paint colors. This has the stain that you see in many parts of the home. It's more of a rough sawn look so that we get that rustic mountain feel. The vertical kerf that ties in with a lot of the vertical paneling you see throughout the home as well. I love that when you're standing in the mudroom and the hallway beyond, you look down into the laundry room and you see the peak of green against the hay color. At least your dirty laundry looks good in the hamper. So when you reach the bottom of the stairs, there's this great wine room behind steel doors and then an entire bar, bar part two around the corner. This bar is directly below the bar that's in the main living room and has the same layout. We wanted to differentiate the two bar spaces but have some continuity between them. We have a vertical stained kerf cabinetry here and it has kind of a rough sawn front so that we get that rustic modern vibe. And then we have the coolest part, which is the Zelige tile that is this blue tone that goes from countertop all the way to the ceiling. We didn't feel like we had to match the stain of the shelves to the cabinetry. Rather, we painted them to coordinate and completely blend in with the backsplash so we got this impact of color on the back wall. In the second bar in the home, we have two wine refrigerators, a dishwasher, and then we have a hammered sink and an industrial faucet. So this bar opens up to a living room area and kind of where they hang out and play lots of games. We have a shuffleboard, a pool table. There are even game tables outside. But I think that the real magic is happening in this living space here. Like, can you even believe that this is a basement? We have tall ceilings. We have views for days out of multiple angles. I think that everything about this says modern mountain home and in the Studio McGee way because we've got eclectic textiles, there's vintage pieces incorporated, and our client loved pattern mixing. Even the ottoman, we designed to have this, it's a blanket on the top, so it's custom with this blanket top and then leather on the sides and then these cylinder legs. The basement ceiling is the wood stain that you saw on the main level, and we also incorporated these directional lights in a tone that really blends in with the ceiling. I also wanted to note that we did concrete floors in the basement. The concrete is going to feel cool and loungy and it really just works with all of the warm wood going on the ceilings. We carried this stone detail from the exterior into several parts of the home, and then this fireplace is really cool because we did a limestone surround that has this really streamlined feel against the very textural stone, so I like that juxtaposition for the architecture of their home. We did this gray marble herringbone. That gray marble ties in even with the tone that's on the bar area. There's another fun surprise around the corner. We designed this built-in to house all of the pool cues and equipment so it's not just stuck on the wall, which definitely is a custom detail and also shows the level of thoughtfulness and planning of our design team. Our design team found these little vintage counters and they were just on strings, but they planned to incorporate them into the built-in, and so then we designed the built-in to have these little counters, and it's just fun and feels very custom. So right here off of the game area, there is a powder bathroom, and there's a few powder bathrooms in the home, and each one of them makes a statement. Our client really wanted bold wallpaper, and we also knew that because this wallpaper had a smaller scale, that we decided to break it up by carrying the stained wood paneling on this wall behind the mirror. So we're gonna head down another really great hallway to the bunk room, but we're gonna stop in the basement laundry room first. Vintage rugs everywhere, views everywhere. So this laundry room is, it's fun. I don't even know how else to describe it. We went all in with the green in this laundry room from the cabinetry to even the backsplash, and I love the contrast of the light gray countertop and how that ties in with the concrete floors, but the best part is the sink detail. So instead of putting the sink into a countertop like we normally would, since we had the folding area over here, and this is a secondary laundry space for our client, we decided to do a floating sink on the wall, and it just adds so much personality. So let me take you into the bunk room. I've mentioned this a few times throughout the tour, but our client, when they came to us, they said, we like funky things and we want our house to feel bold, and unlike anything that you've done before. And so with the bunk room, it was the perfect opportunity to really go big with a bold pattern on the walls. We showed our client a lot of options for wallpaper, and this is the one that they fell in love with, and then we use that as the jumping off point for the rest of the design. I love that you're getting this kind of like dark and moody effect, especially with the additional layers that we paired with the wall color. So we have these plaid blankets and then the dark pillows, and that layering, I think it feels very mountain home, but it is not a generic mountain home. It has a lot of personality. I know a bunk room is definitely a luxury. When we design them, and we design them a lot, we look at the layout and space plan of what we have to work with to decide the orientation of the bunks themselves. And when we have enough depth, like we do in this space, it's nice to be able to turn the bottom bunks perpendicular to the ones above, because then we can get like almost like a little nightstand surface between the beds below. And then we did a vertical stair detail here that is so cool. So instead of just being a wood stair, it has steel connection points on the end that feel very industrial and tie in with the sconces, and then a wood step. The ceiling was another opportunity for us to do repeated fixtures. Instead of just doing one light in the center, we wanted that impact throughout the entire space, especially because this isn't just a rectangular room. It kind of has some jogs in the layout. And so this allowed us to illuminate all corners of the room evenly. And of course, in most kids' spaces we design, we incorporate some sort of beanbag, and we just try to keep it as chic as possible when it comes to beanbags. Up next, we have the bathroom that's connected to the bunk room. I love this cute bunk bath, especially the sink. It's a really long trough sink, and that allowed us to get three faucets in here with plenty of space. But because we have the trough sink, we lost some countertop space, and our designers came up with a really cool solution to create essentially like a cutting board, something that you'd use in the kitchen out of the cabinet material, but then lay that across the trough sink so that you have a place to place your toothbrushes and soap. In the bunk room, the pattern wallpaper was the star, but in the bathroom, we kept the finishes a bit more subdued and let the materiality shine. So quite literally shine. We did this glossy textured cream subway tile on every single wall. So it carries about two thirds of the way up. It goes behind the mirror and even into the wet room in the shower. Then we have the most adorable little hex tile that has a contrast edge that has a hint of blue in it. So it ties in with the trim and the wallpaper detail in the bunk room. Always, always look for continuity between an en suite bathroom and the bedroom it's connected with. Thanks so much for touring our Summit Estate project. I think this project really embodies what I love about design, and that is mixing styles. And we took our clients' personal tastes and put the Studio McGee perspective on it. And this is the result. That's a wrap.