Wall Street Journal
- Location: Palm Beach, FL
- Price: $3,975,000
The homeowners dressed this South Florida bungalow with brilliant colors and tropical prints. It is listed for $3.975 million.
Caroline Duffie and her family were living in Bethesda, Md. when they purchased a Palm Beach vacation home for roughly $3.4 million. After spending summers there, they decided to move to the house full-time.
‘It has really a happy, beachy, relaxed-but-modern vibe. I wanted to keep the Palm Beach style but with a little bit of a younger, modern, stylish twist,’ Mrs. Duffie says.
‘If I showed you the before pictures, it was terrible. It came alive. It was all just beige walls, the whole thing,’ says Mrs. Duffie. The living room walls are covered in grasscloth on the bottom and a Schumacher coral fabric on top. The ceiling is painted and the room’s lighting is shaped like palm trees.
In the kitchen, Mrs. Duffie painted the trim, added grasscloth to the walls and installed custom lighting.
A built-in bench in the kitchen was painted a high gloss white. The chairs are vinyl. ‘I have three young kids, so it has to be comfortable and kid-friendly that you can just wipe anything off,’ Mrs. Duffie says.
‘It’s a small little bungalow. I call it my little jewel box. It’s so charming,’ Mrs. Duffie says of the home.
Mrs. Duffie chose a bamboo-inspired bed frame for one of the bedrooms. The room also has two cockatoo lamps by Mario Lopez Torres and a trellis-inspired wallpaper by Quadrille.
The home has four bedrooms and three-and-a-half bathrooms and spans 2,692 square feet. It is listed for $3.975 million with Lisa and John Cregan of Sotheby’s International Realty.
One bedroom has built-in bunk beds for the children. The yellow wallpaper is a palm tree selection from Schumacher.
Mrs. Duffie loves the home’s location within Palm Beach. ‘You have a private beach with a gate one block over and then you have the lake trail and you’re just able to walk to breakfast with the kids.’
Mrs. Duffie chose a traditional cabana stripe fabric for the pool furniture. ‘I went old school Palm Beach,’ she says.
