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-- The guest bedrooms continue the ultra custom trend. Barnard designed a one-of-a-kind bed featuring a persimmon colored, metallic leather headboard and deep walnut frame fitted with claw feet in the spirit of an oversized Chippendale wing chair. Barnard also designed a wall-to-wall headboard installation for a guest bedroom with two twin beds. The headboard is veneered with Sapele wood and features a floating drawer paired with an early 1900's metal desk chair.

-- The children's rooms were especially enjoyable for Barnard on this year's tour. The little boy's room is truly outfitted for a "little man" in deep navy, peanut butter and chocolate hues. With a retro-modern vibe and a stylized mural of James Bond's Aston Martin -- this is one room that he won't grow out of any time soon. The girls' room is a whirlwind of delight. Barnard's wall treatment plays on Polk-a-dots with hand formed clay molds, intricately painted with recycled crushed glass in fields of the girls' favorite things. Inspired by dinner plates, Barnard's artistic installation does not disappoint.


Sandpipers' Holiday Homes Tour member & volunteer Penny Bordokas says, "It is Barnard's keen sense of juxtaposing the ornate with the simple, as well as her awareness for the tastes of the homeowners, that make her designs so unique. It is a skill," she says, "difficult for even seasoned designers to master."


"Sarah Barnard possesses the daring, exuberance and work ethic of a newly sprung professional, yet a highly sophisticated awareness of the craft," Bordokas says. "She is a truly one of the brightest young talents taking interior design to new levels of excitement and inspiration."


Sarah Barnard is an award winning Los Angeles-based interior designer specializing in unique spaces for private residences and commercial interiors. At age 29, Barnard is one of LA's most-renowned rising young designers. She is a LEED AP, a member of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) and the National Kitchen and Bath Association (NKBA). She is also a supporter and design consultant to S.H.O.T. (Save Historic Old Torrance), a non-profit dedicated to the preservation of The Olmsted District. More information can be found at http://www.sarahbarnard.com/


Sandpipers are a philanthropic organization dedicated to outreach programs in the South Bay and surrounding areas. Holiday Homes Tour is their largest annual fundraiser. More information can be found at http://www.sandpipers.org/

Source: Sarah Barnard Design

CONTACT: Sarah Barnard of Sarah Barnard Design, +1-310-823-7331


Web site: http://www.sarahbarnard.com/