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VINTAGE MODERN by KELLY PETRYSZYN photos by ALLISON JOY SMITH An interior designer’s personal home mixes old and new beauty.

G em and Clay Interiors owner and designer Allison Smith knows good design is about balance. So while her 8,500-square-foot Bath home is a new build constructed by Old World Custom Homes and designed by Schill Architecture, she incorporated many Old World and vintage elements with fresh modern European ones. “The challenge was to build something from the ground up in modern day that didn’t look as new,” she says. “I like modern European style. I carried that throughout using materials like stone and doing the millwork in a

more French-influenced way.” While a fireplace in the two story great room is new, the fieldstone she chose has an older feel. “We did an over grout treatment to kind of make it look more European and Old World,” Smith says. Bold Sherwin-Williams Homburg Gray on the walls helps emphasize the dynamic design of the great room. “I like high contrast, so I liked the contrast between the light wood on the floor and the dark wall,” she says. When light shines through the room’s massive six windows, Smith likes how

the paint’s natural green and blue tones mesh with the stunning views of Yellow Creek, a pond and a waterfall below. Smith pays tribute to the 7.8-acre lot with a useful and exquisite coffee table featuring an epoxy river, a piece that she designed and her friends, metalworker Jon Bobovnik and woodworker Brandon Jones, crafted. “I incorporated a lot of vin tage and midcentury mod ern furniture in the great room. I wanted a European feel, but I wanted it to be cozy,” she says.

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