For this apartment in a 1915 Kansas City, Missouri building, interior designer Kelee Katillac dressed up every room by installing chandeliers and decorating with gemstone colors. For her design ideas, read Katillac's interview.
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Foyer
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In the foyer, designer Kelee Katillac stained the entry floor's diamond pattern herself.
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Living Room
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Designer Kelee Katillac dressed up her stripped-down apartment in a 1915 Kansas City, Missouri, building with neoclassical moldings, crystal chandeliers, silk curtains, and furniture from her forthcoming Kelee Katillac Couture Collection. The living room's Emma side chair is based on a vintage Henredon design.
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Living Room
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A framed midcentury wallpaper panel brightens a dark living room corner.
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Yellow Leather Chair
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A Park Avenue bergère from Hickory Chair is upholstered in a Valtekz patent leather.
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Dining Room
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Jane Austen — inspired ballgown curtains and matching silk blend on the walls — Vervain's Caserta Satin — give the dining room its romantic, rose-quartz flush. An antique Breton armchair, slipcovered in linen cut from a vintage tablecloth, stands out like a white rose. Below the chair rail, Kravet's Velvet Gate anchors the room.
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Dining Room Shutters
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Silhouettes hang from dining room shutters covered in Isaac Mizrahi's Glow Stripe.
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Dining Room
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When you entertain a lot, you can never have too many tables in the dining room.
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Drawing Room
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Katillac and architectural interior designer Steve Heiffus, her husband and partner, created their "drawing room" by fusing the living room and sunroom. It's an eye-catching mix of peaceful blues and happy yellows, lustrous silks and nubby linens. Katillac Couture's Jane shutters, with neoclassical French cameos, "bracelet the room and accessorize the ballgown curtains," she says. A Pasha chair by Pedrali marries Louis XV with modern technology.
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Curtain Rod
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Gold-leafed cast-iron birds perch on rods. Bows add a couture touch to the curtains.
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Drawing Room
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In the drawing room, the curtains and Katillac's Audrey Salon fauteuil, named for Audrey Hepburn, wear her Empire Gown silk in blue chalcedony, inspired by the gemstones.
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Checkered Shutters
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Jane shutters are painted Katillac's own Directoire Grey.
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Bedroom
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The mats on the Piranesi Grand Tour engravings and framed fabric behind the bed are the same silk blend as the curtains, Sophia, from Katillac's Couture Collection. The Greek key trim is custom-embroidered.
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Bedroom
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"Aquamarine symbolizes flow and harmony," Katillac says, "while being vivid enough to be sexy." Antique pier mirrors flanking the window lend instant architecture and height.
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Master Bedroom Tiebacks
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Oversize tiebacks gather the curtains in the master bedroom "like a brooch on an Empire-waist gown," Katillac says. She drew the urn and had it embroidered.
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Salon
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A striped Mykolas linen bath sheet by Anichini adds an informal note to the salon's formal antique Italian settee.
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Salon
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A 19th-century Swedish chest stands beneath the Venetian painting that inspired the salon's blue silk-covered walls.