Interior Designer Spotlight on CLT’s Amy Vermillion’s Stunning Remodel of a Foxcroft Home

Scoop got the chance to catch up with interior designer, Amy Vermillion, and she took us through a before and after of a home she remodeled in Foxcroft. If you haven’t heard of Amy Vermillion you might be a little behind the times ~ just look at her Instagram with over 18,000 followers!  

We love, love her work. If you’re interested in seeing more of her projects, check out her portfolio on her website here. Amy’s style is clean, serene & comfortably elegant – while she works on all sorts of homes & projects (including private/corporate jets), this contemporary beauty on Lemontree Lane caught our eye. The attention to detail and the meticulous melding of the new with the original is just lovely to view ~ scroll down to see exactly what I’m talking about.

Master Bedroom Before:

Master Bedroom After:

Kitchen Before:

Kitchen After:

AMY: I chose Antique White Quartzite for the counters, for its durability and beauty. My clients are cooks and entertainers and wanted something easy to maintain.  People tend to confuse quartzite and quartz.  Quartz for the most part is man made and less expensive.  Quartzite is a natural stone…it has the look of marble and the properties of granite, and it does tend to be more expensive than marble.

AMY: I fell in love with the existing doors in the house so I designed the kitchen cabinetry and hood based on the doors in the house. The existing doors are over nine feet tall with an unusual flat reeded detail. The hood was extremely hard to engineer because we wanted the detail to wrap continuously around the sides and die into the face frame. These are the details that drive us crazy and inspire us all at once. My team is extraordinary and my craftspeople are extremely patient with my love of detail.

AMY: I designed the round handles and had them forged in my hometown on the North Shore of Chicago. Because the flat reeding doesn’t allow for traditional hardware, I had to come up with a design that complimented the geometry of the reeding but was functional to open large doors. The doors on the pantry cabinetry fold back all the way for better access to the interior. The television is housed in the top and all of our client’s dishes are stored in there as well.

Sitting Room Before:

Sitting Room After:

AMY: I found some great chandeliers that we originally used in their Charleston Battery home and there was no place to hang them from the sloped ceilings.  We crafted blocked platforms in order to support the weight of the fixtures and finished them to match the ceiling.

Master Bathroom Before:

Master Bathroom After:

AMY: The shower walls are Calcutta marble honed and the floor is Lagos Azul honed. The counter slab is Lagos Azul.

 
The Added Loft:

AMY: We wanted to add a second story but it proved difficult because of the overall sprawl of the floor plan.  There was a weird loft with a spiral stair that overlooked the kitchen and we couldn’t find a way to utilize the space functionally.  Since it was a loft it couldn’t be used as another bedroom and that’s really what we wanted to add along with a family room.  So we removed the spiral stair, added a functional stairway and ended up with a great guest room and upstairs den.  We used traditional wood ship lap and spaced it with pocket change to look older than the more uniform ship lap of today.  Quarters, nickels and dimes!

Beautiful, yes? It’s kind of amazing what a talented designer can do. 

Thanks to Amy and her photographer on this project Chris Edwards for sharing these inspiring photos. And next time you see a 1970’s rancher on sale and think, nah, no way, remember this remodel, ’cause miracles can happen!