![]() Posted Decemby Carla Sue Broecker & filed under Partyline. Photos by CHRIS HUMPHREYS | The Voice-Tribune “The only way my husband would move is if he had a recliner.†“We went to war over those,†recalls Riggle. When it’s not a landing place for Marsha’s and Mark’s feet, or for the visiting grandchildren, it’s the domain of Izzy, the Riggles’ six-year-old Boston terrier.įinally, there are two recliners covered in chenille cut velvet. Two comfortable Century sofas covered with a durable striae velvet face each other across a big ottoman of metallic smoke pleather “that is best thing I’ve ever done.†#Its judy time palette hautelook full#Similarly, the great room – “where we live†– is full of comfortable, “loungy†furniture. €œI wanted everything to look old,†Riggle said. Other elements include the weathered-looking wood floors that are actually engineered hardwood from Carpet Specialists and light fixtures throughout the house that look old, worn, crackled and layered with paint that is peeling off, but are actually new reproductions. On the ceiling are heavy handscraped wooden beams that are actually made of a polyfilament resin from – super lightweight, but they look like the real thing and add to the old look and feel Riggle and Coleman strove for in the house. It has a built-in stovetop, cabinets and bar stools and serves as a divider to keep people on their side of the room when they venture into “my space.†“We haven’t had it fall through the floor yet,†she shrugged, with characteristic good humor. €œIt weighs 1,200 pounds and took 10 men to carry it in,†Riggle says, and only after it was in place did anyone ask if the basement ceiling was reinforced. But instead of building a wall, she has marked her territory with a 50-square-foot island topped with a massive slab of Carrera marble that she sourced from Triton Stone on Plantside Drive. Though Riggle loves to entertain, Christmas or otherwise, she doesn’t welcome guests invading her kitchen. “I call him ‘my work husband.’ I spend as much time with him, if not more, as I do with my real husband.†€œWe’re of one mind,†she says of the man who has worked by her side for 17 years. In some homes, Coleman admits, he might go the other way – with colorful lights, ornaments and ribbons – but he admits that in this case, as in so many other cases, his taste mirrors that of Riggle. In this case, we’ve gone for a more formal, unfussy feel.†“I like to coordinate the tree with the environment it’s in. €œI don’t just go in and produce a Christmas décor for clients,†Coleman said. €œThere’s lots of texture to the ornaments, if not color,†said Riggle, pointing out natural woven materials, pine cones with sparkles and ribbon embroidered with glitter. #Its judy time palette hautelook plus#Kevin Coleman, Tassels’ visual coordinator and Marsha Riggle’s right hand, did the single tree in the house plus all the wreaths and garlands in a muted monochrome of the same beiges, browns and grays that fill the house. The dining room is a similarly elegant large-pattern medallion damask wallpaper from Anna French.Īnd the Christmas decorations that now deck the halls have the same graceful approach to color and texture. The dominant wall color is Porter Paints’ Revere Pewter trimmed with white. The design intent of the house is a muted, neutral palette. I had 50 people here for Christmas last year, but it never felt like 50.†€œWe love to entertain,†said Marsha, “but we want it to be easy. The entryway flows left into an open-though-formal dining room, and then into the big kitchen and adjoining great room. The 3,300 square feet of living space are almost without interior walls. “I saw a Florida home on the internet that I loved and had it replicated.†€œI built exactly the house I wanted,†Riggle says. Gardiner Park is a retirement community that provides all the house’s maintenance: landscaping, mowing, raking, shoveling, mulching, trimming bushes, the entire four seasons’ gamut. ![]() And we wanted the grandchildren to have the room they needed when they were here.†![]() ![]() “We wanted a big, open living space that would accommodate lots of entertaining but be comfortable and livable when we were alone. €œWe wanted less land and less maintenance,†Marsha said. ![]() Marsha is co-owner of Tassels, so they had access to the very best resources for furniture, decorative and design capabilities. They were building the French Manor-style house from the ground up, so they could guide the architecture and design. They were Empty Nesters – their two grown children and grandchildren living elsewhere. When Marsha and Mark Riggle bought their property in Gardiner Park of Eastern Jefferson County a year ago, they could have built pretty much anything they wanted. Posted Decemby Steve Kaufman & filed under Prestigious Properties. ![]()
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