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OPPOSITE: Striped silk draperies lend

drama to windows and French doors in the

living room. ABOyE: A combination of stone,

stucco, and reclaimed wood comfortably

blends the Stadheims'home with its rocky

desert surroundings.

seem to stand still.To capture the effect, Kathy and Rolf Stadheim built

a vacation house that reflects the light inside and out.

A palette ofvibrant rusry reds, burnt oranges, sunset pinks, mottled

browns, and flashes of honey golden hues-rather than shape or

form-drove the home's look and feel, eventually leading the couple

to an oldTuscan architectural style."We're both sensirive to color,"

says Kathy, an amateur artist,"and over the course of five years as we

were thinking about the design of the home, in our minds we always

had the palette."

To carry out their vision, Kat\ and Rolf took their design team-including builder Randy Arnett-Romero, architect Allen Tafoya,

interior designer Billi Springer, and kitchen designer Mick De Giulio,

among others-to Italy for a firsthand look at the sryle."Kathy and

Rolf are joined at the hip creatively, and the message all along was that

they wanted everything to be real," Springer says."Nothing was to be

tricked out or imagined just to get the look. But being real didnt mean

it had to be perfect. Imperfecrion can be good, too."

With 40 rolls of film plus antique furnishings, arrisanal pottery and

a bounty of building materials, including stone sinks, fountains, and

wrought-iron chandeliers, the team rerurned to the couple's boulder-

strewn Arizona site to begin rvork.Today, thanks to mericulous research,

walking through the interiors is like stepping back in time.With

pigmented and hand-plastered walls, heavy ceiling beams, reclaimed-

wood floors, terra-cotta tiles, and deep arches and vaults, the home Gels

as though it's stood for centuries.

As in many European country homes, the rooms feel perfectly scaled. Large public

rooms are balanced by smaller, more intimate spaces.The Stadheims especially enjoy

the dining room, where arched windows and a vaulted ceiling exrrde character. "This is

our favorite room in the whole house," Kathy says. "Itt so cozy, but it's great for dinner

parties, too.'We've jammed 14 people in there."

Combine the venerable architecture with a restrained hand in the furnishings, and it's

easy to imagine a weekend at the Stadheirns'as a stay with relarives in the old country.

The family room, for example, gets its laid-back personality from atos-school painring

above the fireplace, a folk art rooster, and an anlique vault used as a side table. "'We're

pretty casual people," Kathy says."We entertain a lot, so we wanted it to be informal but

not ruscic.'We wanted guests to be comfortable."

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pulpose as a retreat. The color palette that

lnspired the hcrne's styie is reflected in the

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walls are a living portion of the house," interior

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in the master beciroom inrards ofi e vening

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'r .h 'rast:'rcdrocr. nhc:: a prinilivewooden dresser and a vintage iron bed

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lnspired in part by the informal comfort of

shabby chic style, interior decorator Simone

de Looze uses natural linen fabrics to cover

furnishings and tabletops in the iiving room of

Le Porciglia, the holiday home she shares wlth

her husband and children near Siena, Italy.

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