Located in The Ramble community in Biltmore Forest, this year’s Southern Living Idea Home features all the innovations that appeal to the most modern sensibilities while aesthetically and beautifully blending into the natural beauty of the western North Carolina mountains. At more than 3,500 square-feet, this year’s house showcases favorite design trends in fresh new ways.
Crossville collections were specified for three of the bathrooms. In one of the two upstairs bathrooms, the team chose Crossville’s new Cursive collection for the shower walls, utilizing the 3”x6” tiles in an intricate basketweave pattern in the Ghost hue.
Coordinating beautifully with the walls, the team installed Crossville’s Jazz Age collection in the Louis colorway for the shower and bathroom floors. Offering an authentic, aged hardwood patina, the designers wanted the style of visual distressed hardwood yet in durable porcelain, and taking the design in an inventive direction, they installed the 1”x3” in a herringbone pattern providing a stunning finish for the shower and bathroom floors.
“The Crossville products we used blended well with the natural materials throughout the home and helped achieve the early-20th century meets early-21st century aesthetic we wanted to define. The shapes and profiles allowed us to be creative with placement and pairings,” explained Lauren Liess, Principal of Lauren Liess Interiors.
For the second upstairs bathroom, the team again chose Crossvillle’s Jazz Age in the Louis colorway but mixed up the installation with the 2”x2” mosaic in a straight pattern for the shower walls and floors.
Inspired by quartzite and shifting sands, the thin, multidirectional striations of Crossville’s Familiar Territory add to the beauty of the aged hardwood patina look for the flooring of this main level bathroom.
In the main level guest bathroom, Crossville’s stunning State of Grace collection was installed in the shower floor. Selecting the 2”x2” mosaic in a straight pattern, the nuanced, marble-inspired graphics in porcelain tile offers Italianate beauty to this mountain dream house.
“Crossville was very responsive to our needs and understood our vision for the overall theme and the consistency we wanted the finishes and fixtures to have,” said Liess.
The Southern Living Idea Home will be featured in the upcoming Sept. 14 magazine issue. Check it out on newsstands today!
