Designer Katherine Mondadori proves that a family home can be both sophisticated and functional for raising young children. See how she designed a stylish home that showcases elegant finishes and glam accessories alongside fun-yet-practical furnishings for little ones.

Comfort and style were the two mandates for the homeowners so Ines created zones: the family-friendly rooms use stain-resistant fabrics and kid-friendly furnishings while the “adult” spaces are decked out in more luxe pieces, including the couple’s treasured possessions, like vintage Persian rugs. Ines kept the family room casual and designed it to host a larger group with a custom L-shaped sectional, as well as stools and chairs. The sitting room, on the other hand, was kept more formal for intimate settings with a mix of velvet and silk fabrics, warm metals and glass accents. Upstairs, the boy’s bedroom has a safari-meets-aviation theme, while the little girl’s room is styled with pops of silver, gold and pink.

When Melody and separate approach me to help them design their new home they pretty much gave me a card launch was very fortunate in that they trusted my expertise and taste and I understood their preferences they also had a very clear vision of what they wanted and they wanted a family home that would feel warm and comfortable and would be conducive to raising their young children but they also wanted to be sophisticated and that is because the entertainment quite a bit of both their friends and extended family and also the family room is somewhere there four of them spend most of their time together it was very important to have a lot of very comfortable seating in here so we chose this custom L shaped sectional that really maximizes the seating and here we also added a couple chairs that a pair of still so they can really accommodate quite a few guests in here probably one of the most favorite features of this room is the gallery wall inside the built ins of black and white photographs we wanted to be sure that it’s meaningful to them so we chose photograph as that would remind them of their many travels of swimmers their intros their passions into dining room we actually use the table and chairs of the homeowners already had and wanted to keep paired the dining room table with a beautiful vintage Persian a rock we had a lot of fun with a wall of plates we picked a number of designs from different collections.

it was really a lot of fun putting it together into this little installation the sitting room is a more formal space the little ones don’t venture here very often so we had a little more flexibility in the choice of furnishings and fabrics you will see quite a few plush fabrics and here velvet so velvet it’s quite a few glamorous details and finishes we have a beautiful glass Chandra Levy or brass coffee tables we actually chose. Two brass tables that we put together for a larger piece so that it creates a more intimate conversation area in the master bedroom our jumping off point was the beautiful Persian rug that melody and SAP already owned melody actual real like the color of paint go with I was a perfect space to incorporate that color into the palette we also included some more masculine colors to find a lot of deep gray bricks in here as well as these dramatic silk drapes that to ground the space a little more and again I little bit more panache in this Sun Tzu melody really wanted to settle nada to the theme of African safari while is really into so we thought it would be really fun to marry the two and so you find a very fun Air Force tent in which they can play we have a plane suspended from the ceiling which is really delightful in the daughter’s bedroom we already had the bunk bed so that was our jumping off point and from there we added in the more so for some golds some soft paying six for some hot pinks it’s a room that can really grow with her it’s been a little while since we finish this project and I was so happy to see when we returned that melody and said have not really changed the thing so I’m just really glad to see that they’re enjoying the space as much as I love designing it for them.

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