You don’t must be a Hollywood director to create a cinematic scene. All you want is a beguiling setting and a forged of head-turning characters. Sadly, once we first walked into the home on this legendary 4,000-acre Wyoming ranch (the previous dwelling of Mary O’Hara, writer of the 1941 novel My Good friend Flicka), the interiors had been what La La Land producers would affectionately name “a flop.” There have been linoleum flooring and tiled counters within the kitchen, gloomy and darkish areas, carpeted loos…the checklist goes on! However when it got here to riveting characters, Remount Ranch had unforgettable ones that shaped the spine of our revamp.
Take the bar, constructed circa 1946 when the place was a dude ranch. We stored it pristine, right down to the vintage pistol wallpaper and brass footrail burnished by cowboy boots over the a long time. Proof it’s as genuine because it will get? A horsehair halter made by Tom Horn, an outlaw Steve McQueen performed within the 1980 Western Tom Horn, presides over the place. The ranch’s authentic 1886 homestead remained, too, full with its log and chinking partitions and kiva fireplaces. On the again of latest library chairs, we put in a chinoiserie toile, glazed-linen material that pioneered your entire coloration palette for the entire undertaking. It has a saturated, mystical really feel that speaks to the owners’ spirituality and might stand as much as the jaw-dropping panorama past the home windows.
No one in Wyoming, the least-populated state within the nation, ought to ever really feel cramped. So, within the adjoining household room, we expanded the footprint by ten toes so the owners’ frequent houseguests—together with grown youngsters and grandkids—would have loads of room to roam. The place earlier house owners turned the outside partitions of the unique cabin right into a courtyard, we created a billiard room with wallpaper I had custom-printed from a Sixties newspaper article concerning the ranch by the Laramie Boomerang.
We repeated the ranch’s Double R monogram all through the house for a completely bespoke feeling.
A private really feel is at all times a should. Even within the components of the property we took right down to the studs, we used naturally aged, reclaimed barnwood as a end to imbue rooms with the heady aura of Wild West historical past. While you’re fortunate sufficient to work on a storied property, it’s important to go large, pulling out one of the best parts of the backstory to propel the design ahead. Right here, we subtly repeated the double R monogram for Remount Ranch all through the house, in all places from the banquette within the billiard room to the railing within the upstairs youngsters’ room. We even remodeled the home-owner’s large assortment of cowboy hats into an artwork set up by hanging them on {custom} hoof hooks made in Wyoming. We purposefully restricted the variety of seats in his book-lined personal examine so it may very well be his retreat, the proverbial man cave.
The home-owner’s assortment of cowboy hats, now a practical artwork set up.
It’s all in testomony to the wildness that thrives right here and might’t be pinned down, from their very own herd of Texas Longhorns to the antelope, bobcats, and mountain lions that sometimes wander the grounds, as if on cue.
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