Southern Living Unveils 2015 Idea House

Furniture World News Desk on 6/27/2015

On June 27, Southern Living, the brand that celebrates life in the South, will debut its 26th annual Idea House, providing creative ideas and inspiration for prospective and current homeowners. Located at Bundoran Farm, the home’s partners include interior designer Bunny Williams, Keith Scott and Julie Kline Dixon of The Rosney Company Architects, Jayson Collier of Summit Custom Home and luxury travel and real estate company Natural Retreats. The house is open for public tours until December 27.

“The 2015 Southern Living Idea House brings together some of the most talented names in the business to create a product that truly celebrates southern style,” said Sid Evans, Editor-in-Chief, Southern Living. “We’re excited to provide our readers with a sourcebook full of inspiration and help them create their ideal living space.”

Award-winning designer and Charlottesville native Bunny Williams approached the house’s interiors from a pragmatic, yet inspired, point of view, creating a space that blends timeless design and quality antiques with a lived-in, collected feeling. Bunny drew elements from the natural climate, such as a red-colored Persian rug in the Entry Hall that matches the red clay in Virginia, and purchased many of the accessories from antique shops in the area. Work by local artists is featured throughout the space, along with new items from Williams’ Ballard Designs line and her first-ever line of beds for Bunny Williams Home collection. The house is emblematic of Williams’ modern vision, a sense of history, and the confidence to take the unexpected path. Both a trailblazer and a tastemaker, Williams’ style is classic, but never predictable.

The 2015 Southern Living idea house is located just fifteen minutes south of Charlottesville and the University of Virginia, at Bundoran Farm by Natural Retreats, a conservation-based development where over 90 percent of the 2,300 acres are protected as a working landscape. Bundoran Farm was chosen because it is one of the South’s, and the country’s, only conservation communities centered on active agricultural production. Nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, home sites are set amongst equestrian pastures, apple orchards, vineyards and mature hardwood forests.

The house was designed by Keith Scott and Julie Kline Dixon of The Rosney Company Architects, who reinterpreted the classic Virginia farmhouse through a contemporary lens. Inspired by materials and forms historically used in the Piedmont, Scott and Dixon incorporated stone structures, bookend chimneys and porches that blend traditional Southern style with modern accents. Jayson Collier of Summit Custom Homes brought their vision to fruition. Collier is also the Southern Living 2014 Custom Builder Program Member of the Year.

Southern Living’s August issue, on sales July 24, will include an editorial package featuring interviews with the partners and photos of the house. Additional content, including videos and online exclusives, are currently live on www.southernliving.com. The house will remain open until December 2015. For more information, including daily public tour bookings and tickets, visit www.southernliving.com/2015ideahouse

The Southern Living 2015 Idea House Project Team:

Developer: Natural Retreats

Builder: Jayson Collier, Summit Custom Homes

Architect: The Rosney Company Architects

Interior Designer: Bunny Williams

Landscape Design Architects: Water Street Studio

Sponsors of the Southern Living Idea House include Ballard Designs, Lennox, Sherwin Williams, Sunbrella, Southern Living Plant Collection, James Hardie, J.Jill and Torani.

See below  videos with Idea House Interior Designer Bunny Williams on SouthernLiving.com:

Bunny’s Tips for Outdoor Entertaining
http://thedailysouth.southernliving.com/2015/06/15/the-love-list-talks-outdoor-entertaining-with-idea-house-designer-bunny-williams/

Bunny’s Formula for a Well Decorated Home
http://thedailysouth.southernliving.com/2015/06/15/miss-mustard-seeds-interview-with-bunny-williams/

Bunny’s Design Inspiration
http://thedailysouth.southernliving.com/2015/06/22/la-dolce-vita-on-the-art-of-inspiration-a-conversation-with-bunny-williams/

About Southern Living: Southern Living celebrates the essence of life in the South, covering the best in Southern food, home, garden, and travel. Reaching more than 16 million people each month, Southern Living connects consumers to the region's rich culture through a variety of print, digital, mobile, tablet and event platforms. Headquartered in Birmingham, Ala., the rapidly expanding Southern Living brand is part of Time Inc., one of the largest media companies in the world.

About Natural Retreats: Natural Retreats is a luxury travel and real-estate development company specializing in spectacular, unique destinations that balance elegance, adventure, and an uncompromising commitment to personal service. Spanning the United States and Europe, Natural Retreats offers a variety of accommodations including resorts, inns, lodges, castles, and private vacation homes, as well as extraordinary experiences that allow guests to make lifelong memories on their vacation. To learn more about Natural Retreats, view its worldwide portfolio of properties and experiences, or to book travel, visit www.naturalretreats.com.

About Summit Custom Homes: Jayson Collier, Southern Living’s 2014 Custom Builder of the Year, is known for unique craftsmanship and attention to detail, and for working with clients to not only realize their vision, but to create what they did not even know was possible. He and his father Jayme are second generation builders who bring more than 45 years of custom construction experience. Summit Custom Homes of Virginia is a residential design/build firm built on a passion and respect for the Virginia countryside and the endless design options it offers – from expansive walls of windows that reveal a jaw-dropping Blue Ridge Mountain vista to elegantly rustic exteriors that blend seamlessly into the region’s celebrated landscape. Learn more at www.summitofva.com.

About The Rosney Company Architects: The Rosney Company Architects believes in creating well crafted, thoughtfully designed buildings that honor and draw inspiration from the site and context within which we build. As a small company we are able to work closely with our clients to create architecture that is tailored to their needs and aspirations.

About Bunny Williams: Bunny Williams Inc., the interior design arm of her companies, was formed in 1988. Her ever-growing home furnishings collection, Bunny Williams Home, was founded in 2008 and will launch a flagship showroom in the summer of 2015 in NYC. For 25 years, with her husband, antiques dealer John Rosselli, Williams ran and owned Treillage Ltd., a unique decorative home and garden shop that became an institution in New York. Her most recent book, On Garden Style, published by Abrams in April 2015, offers Williams’ inspiring tips on garden design. Since 2011, Bunny Williams has announced several licensing partnerships including a line of paper goods for Caspari, several mirror collections for Mirror Image Home, indoors rugs for Doris Leslie Blau, outdoor furniture for Century Furniture, outdoor rugs for Dash & Albert, and decorative pillows and throws for Pine Cone Hill, tabletop, decorative accessories and holiday for Ballard Designs and mantels and fireplace tools for Chesney’s. Late summer 2015, Williams will launch her first fabric collection with Lee Jofa.

About Waterstreet Studio: Water Street Studio is a multi-disciplinary environmental design firm that provides landscape architecture, civil engineering and master planning services to both public and private sectors. Their projects range from residential garden and estate design to institutional campus planning, hospitality, and rural conservation landscapes. Water Street Studio’s collaborative platform lends to each commission excellent design, sound engineering expertise, business acumen and an acute understanding of natural systems in an effort to create economically viable, environmentally responsible and culturally engaging landscapes.