Lisa's "Other Life"...

Lori Minneti here...what do they say, turnabout is fair play...well, today's post is about my amazing sister, Lisa Minneti! Yes, Lisa is a wonderful writer, painting beautiful scenes with the letters and words she picks out from the colorful palette in her fertile mine, but during her day job, as a designer with Peabody Interiors, she dips into that same color palette to color the interior world her clients live in. As you can see by looking over some of her design projects in her portfolio, Lisa is a gifted and talented force in her field!

Lisa's work was recently showcased in the current issue of M Magazine.

As you can see from this example, her grasp of how to harmonize colors and textures is exceptional! Find below the excerpt  from the M Magazine article as written by Rick Romano.

Delafield home blends his and her tastes

 

BY RICK ROMANO  |  PHOTOGRAPHY BY DOUG EDMUNDS

Glam meets mancave in a 6,500-square-foot contemporary home nestled in the wooded wonder of Delafield’s Kettle Moraine State Forest. 

The updated domicile came together from 2011 to 2014 in a collaboration between Lisa Minneti, an interior designer with Peabody’s Interiors, and longtime partners Christine and Rob. The couple turned to Minneti to help them update their bucolic retreat with modern touches.

“They wanted to put their own stamp on it,” Minneti says. “They liked the contemporary bones, but they needed to feel like it was their energy.”

Energy abounds in this multilevel home with a rich blend of color and texture. Minneti incorporated an array of gray, black and plum magenta, fuchsia, terra cotta and orange woven through sparkly, industrial lighting and painted and stained wood.

It all works for a home with five bedrooms, six and a half baths, and formal and informal spaces, from disparate parts like the sleek, tall, window-dominated sitting area with zebra fabric chairs, pearl-tone painted floor and black-brown-gray woodwork to the living room’s inviting charcoal gray sectional and orange and fuchsia pillows framed by a stone fireplace and terra-cotta-painted walls.

The centerpiece for Christine is the kitchen, with its sleek, modern cabinetry, local craftsman-made countertop and muted tones — a place where her Italian heritage cooking provides plenty of color and texture.

“I love to cook,” Christine says. “It’s a favorite place where guests gather.”

The entire home, she says, is a larger-than-life favorite for her, Rob and their 85-pound Doberman. She says the home sports more space than they need, but they cherish their current environment, which meets their need for an edgy retreat that both complements and plays against nature’s soft serenity.