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When the Andrewses bought the 1955 colonial, it was full of dark-stained wood. With the help of Grace Street Home Addi-tions, they expanded the great room and kitchen, brightening the space with Venetian plaster walls, French doors and windows along the back of the house — a view of the pool is essential when one’s going for tropical, after all.

SOFA by CR Laine covered in Sea Blue ultra suede from Hinson & Co.; upholstered OTTOMAN by Ashley Manor with hot pink “Cat-erpillar” Deck Walk fabric; SOFA PILLOWS and white FLOWERPOT from Mecox Gardens, East Hampton, N.Y.; Capiz shell CHANDELIER from West Elm; commissioned PAINTING of Figure Eight Island and Venetian plaster WALL FINISH by Sunny Goode; COFFEE TABLE from Ikea.

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Tranquil Waters InterIor desIgner Jenny Andrews gIves her hampton gardens colonIal a wash of calIfornIa cool.Written and produced by Carrie Nieman Culpepper, Photographed by Kip Dawkins, Styled by Bill Sorrell,Art Direction by V. Lee Aulick

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Interior design: andrews design, 288-0520Addition: grace street home additions, 232-0120, gracestreet.comVenetian Plaster: sunny goode, 287-8523, sunnys-paint.comFaux Finishing (dining-room settee): anne cooper, 317-6341Glass Tile: Best tile, 7490 w. Broad st., 672-6316, besttile.comFaux Finishing (bedside table): anne mclean of goochlandMirrored doors: Binswanger glass co., 321-4000, binswangerglass.comTheresa Pollak Art: reynolds gallery, 353-6553, reynoldsgallery.comrhonda Corley Art: rhondacorley.comTenley F. Beazley Art: figgart.com

serene feeling comes over visitors as they step into the marble-floored foyer with

its soft, bunny-gray walls. From there, each doorway leads to several equally airy-hued rooms — bathed in a muted pink, a subtle

turquoise and a light, butter yellow. At first it feels feminine. But once it soaks in, it’s

obvious this is a calm that suits all. And it’s a good thing, because homeowners Jenny and Ryan Andrews have three boys, twin 7-year-olds and an 11-year-

old. Both parents are also busy entrepre-neurs: Jenny runs her own interior-design

business, Andrews Design, and Ryan owns a sports-marketing firm, Venture Marketing, so a soothing home base was the goal.

“With three boys and seeing fabrics all day, I just wanted something softer,” says Jenny. “I wanted a place that felt like an oasis and that was calm.”

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TOP: In the butter-cream dining room a pink surprise awaits overhead. The ceiling color is picked up in the linen-covered settee, which belonged to Jenny’s mother, and was giv-en new life after a whitewash with gold detailing. (The walls are Benjamin Moore’s “Bone White” lightened, and the ceiling is the living room’s “Peony Pink” lightened.) The French-country dining room set is from Thomas Hines Antiques and is covered in China Seas’ “Chi-nese Frette” in blue. Cream silk-dupioni draperies dress up the room, which is lined with mirrored closets, giving it another splash of glitz. BOTTOM: Jack the cat rests on an origi-nal Dorothy Draper chair Jenny bought at The Greenbrier for her sunroom-turned-home offi ce. The wallcovering is Kelly Wearstler’s “Imperial Trellis” in citrine from Schumacher.

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The opal glass-tile backsplash in the great room’s bar area sparkles with blues and pinks, pulling in all the colors of the room. Tile by Walker Zanger from Best Tile.

Objects of Her AffectionFlower accents pop up in chandeliers and fabric motifs. Jenny coveted a similar chandelier she saw made of Swarovski crystal, and Deborah Valentine of the shop V for the Home helped her fi nd this one made of rose quartz by Canopy Design.

A traditional fl oral fabric by Schumacher softens the contemporary silhouette of the white-lacquer chairs from La Différence. Throughout the house Jenny pairs traditional elements with modern pieces, bringing both to a new level.

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Jenny can hold her own against men: She grew up with three brothers. Two live in Los Ange-les, a place that helped inspire the feel of the house. A visit to the Kelly Wearstler-designed Viceroy hotel cemented the relaxed, tropical feel Andrews envisioned, but because her setting was Virginia, she mixed in local art and a few antiques with the contemporary-with-a-touch-of-glam look.

White-lacquer TABLE and CHAIRS by Calligaris from La Différence, chair FABRIC is “Lace” in aqua by Schu-macher; Oly Studios SETTEE; Hampton Cashmere PILLOWS; Benjamin Moore’s “Blue Bonnet” wall PAINT; Atelier LZC bird PRINT from art.com.

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Fashion as Art

Ryan and Jenny picked up a watercolor by fashion illustra-tor Mats Gustafson at Glenn

Horowitz Bookseller in East Hampton. Gustafson’s work

has appeared in Vogue, ads for Tiffany’s, Bergdorf’s and others.

As a birthday present, Ryan commissioned local fashion illustrator Rhonda Corley to sketch the dress Jenny wore for her big 40th birthday bash.

A fi gurative illustration by local artist Theresa Pollak, purchased at Reynolds Gallery, hangs in the dining room. Jenny and Ryan are active in the local arts com-munity, and Jenny sits on the Canvas board at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

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ABOVE: The home’s facade was untouched during the renova-tion, which extended the great room and kitchen in the back.

“Our last house was very bright, which I liked, but I fi nd you get tired of it. It just was not calming. It was happy, but this is happy.”

Jenny went for simple window treatments — Roman blinds or in some cases nothing at all to help achieve a less-traditional look. Also, her goal of tranquil-ity required pastel wall colors with just a few bold accents. “Instead of having color on the wall, I try to put it in the acces-sories, those things you can move around,” she says.

Benjamin Moore “Pink Peony” wall PAINT; Ashley Manor SOFAS recovered in cream Schumacher raw silk; vintage glass COFFEE TABLE inherited; Portuguese needlepoint RUG from Stark Carpet; STOOLS from Worlds Away, covered in Kelly Wearstler’s “Modern Moiré” SILK in glacier for Schumacher; white occasional CHAIRS from Van der Wolks; antique MIRROR from V for the Home; cut-velvet pillow FABRIC from Osborne & Little; PAINTING over mantel by local artist Tenley F. Beazley; “Kelly” fl oor lamp from Anthropologie.

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After studying interior design at VCU, Jenny began working for local designer Barbara Grant, who had a fi rm, Barbara Ltd., in Carytown for many years. “She was tough as nails, but I was given my own clients from the get-go,” says Jenny, who learned how to run a business from Grant. After her fi rst son was born, Jenny went out on her own. Eleven years later, she has designed homes in Richmond, Washington, the Hamptons and Atlanta and done projects for clients as small as six pillows to as many as three houses (which began by just picking out wall-paper for a powder room).

The Benjamin Moore “Bunny Gray” WALLS in the foyer lead up the stairs to this quiet window seat with Victoria Hagan’s “White Doves at Dusk” FABRIC on a structured balloon shade, which coordinates with the graphic “Up-Link” carpet by Stark Carpet. The CHANDELIER is from V for the Home.

ABOVE: The elegant marble-topped BEDSIDE TABLE began its life in a church and was purchased at Robert Rentz Interiors; the blue-linen HEADBOARD and bed LINENS are from Williams-Sonoma Home; articulated reading LAMPS from And George, Charlottesville; Benjamin Moore’s “Ocean Air” on WALLS; PAINTING commissioned from Rhonda Corley. ABOVE LEFT: Osborne & Little’s “Howlettes” WALLPAPER; “Victoria Ghost Chair” by Philippe Starck from La Différence; sheepskin RUG from And George, Charlottesville; MIRRORS by Binswanger Glass Co.

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Andrews added big style to small spaces with her choice of patterned papers. Osborne & Little’s “Howlettes” wallpaper, in the master bathroom and walk-in closet (above), adds an elegant shot of color to a space with little natural light.

The walls and ceiling of the down-stairs powder room are covered in this blue-silver-and-white paper “Fern,” by Studio Printworks.

Doesn’t look like a paper for a boys’ bathroom? Look closely for the cowboys, oil derricks and foot-ball helmets in Paul Loebach’s “Yee-ha!,” by Studio Printworks.

Kelly Wearstler’s hip “Imperial Trellis” in citrine for Schumacher brightens Jenny’s home offi ce.

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Small Spaces

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LEFT: In son Coleman’s bedroom, the DESK and CHAIR are from West Elm; can-vas Roman SHADES are trimmed with a stylized Greek-key pattern in Victoria Hagan’s “Horizon Indigo”; WALLS are painted Benjamin Moore’s “Blue Lapis.” BELOW: The twins’ room is painted Benjamin Moore’s “Morning Sky Blue”; OTTOMAN fabric is “Ferntree” by Schumacher; Roman SHADES are “Kasari Ikat” in turquoise cotton by Schumacher; paper LANTERN is Ikea; bedside CHEST (Jenny’s from childhood) was painted by Anne McLean of Goochland; PILLOW fabric is Lilly Pulitzer.

Everything is accessible to the boys; Jenny just keeps the number of a good upholstery cleaner nearby. Upstairs, the boys’ bedrooms and playrooms are painted shades of blue with blue-and-white fabrics to match. High and low mingle in the spaces: Jenny is just as like-ly to put an Ikea coffee table in the family room as she is a white Schumacher silk ottoman in the twins’ bedroom. Comfort and style aren’t pigeonholed in this house.

Subtle animal-print themes emerge in the carpets, like this blue-leopard carpet by Bell-bridge in the master bedroom.

The “Steele Embroidery” Lee Jofa for Kravet fabric on pillows adds a rhythmic curve to the solid family-room sofa.

Downstairs, a blue-gray zebra motif runs through the living room’s Portuguese needlepoint rug from Stark Carpet.

Kelly Wearstler’s “Modern Moi-ré” silk for Schumacher catches the light and alternates between blue and gray in the living-room draperies and on stool seats.

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“Anything can be cleaned. I’ve never been one to be like, ‘You can’t touch that.’ It’s the way I grew up, I guess. It doesn’t bother me.”Textiles

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