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Boot Ranch

A Vacation Home on the Boot Ranch Golf Course

This vacation home sits on the Boot Ranch golf course in Fredericksburg. White walls run through every room of it, and the color and pattern set against them are what tell the story of the design.

That approach lets each room take its own turn without the house losing the thread. An antelope print rug in the living room answers the wildlife in the country outside. Schumacher's Citrus Garden covers the dining chairs. A zebra hide grounds the guest bedroom. None of it is quiet, and all of it belongs to the same house.

There is a second residence on the property, an apartment designed for the owners' parents, and it carries the same style and the same colors straight through. Details matter, and this house is built out of them.

  • A living room seen across a dark console table topped with a pair of white pagoda lamps and a blue and white ginger jar, looking toward a limestone chimney, a black ring chandelier and a television mounted above the fireplace.
  • A bed made up in white quilting with a monogrammed blue lumbar pillow in front of blue and white medallion pillows, framed by an iron canopy and flanked by white bedside tables and lamps.
  • A bathroom with a freestanding white soaking tub against a shiplap wall under a pastel landscape painting, a sage skirted ottoman with a fur throw and a brass tray in the center of the room, and a white marble floor.
  • An iron canopy bed dressed in white quilting and blue patterned pillows, standing on a blue and cream patterned rug, with a bone inlay bench holding a navy velvet cushion at its foot.
  • A guest bedroom with white walls, a carved dark wood antique headboard, floral and leopard print pillows, a navy herringbone throw, and a framed modern painting of pandas above a small folding stool.
  • A white kitchen with a plaster hood, a pale zellige backsplash, a black lantern pendant over the island and four clear acrylic counter stools with brass legs, beneath a reclaimed wood beam.
  • Floating wood shelves on a limestone wall holding blue and white porcelain, brass figures and books, next to a framed geometric painting in pink, blue and green above a woven stool.
  • A bathroom vanity painted mid blue with brass hardware, a gold framed mirror, a scalloped blue and white ginger jar lamp and a green dotted stool tucked under the makeup counter.

A Living Room That Answers the Land Outside

The rug is an antelope print, chosen to talk back to the wildlife in the country around Fredericksburg. It sets the tone for a room that is otherwise held steady by white walls and a wall of windows onto the course.

The ottomans are locally made and upholstered in No. 9 Thompson. Around them sit a blue sofa, green velvet and botanical pillows, a round rattan coffee table and a blue and white garden stool, pulled in wherever another seat is wanted.

A living room with a blue sofa layered in green velvet and botanical pillows, a round rattan coffee table, a cream armchair and a blue and white ceramic garden stool, with a wall of black framed windows looking onto the golf course.

Acrylic and Brass Against Reclaimed Beams

The counter stools are modern, acrylic and brass, and they are what keeps the kitchen from reading as purely rustic. The reclaimed wood beams overhead do the opposite, carrying the weathered, timeless note.

Between the two sits a plain white kitchen: flat panel cabinetry, a pale zellige backsplash, a black lantern over the island and a deep blue range that gives the room its one piece of color.

A deep blue enamel range with a stainless steel cooktop under a pale wood and shiplap hood, set into pale wood cabinetry with brass bar pulls and a white zellige backsplash, with lemons and pomegranates on a wooden board.

Citrus Garden, Laminated for Real Use

The dining chair cushions are custom, upholstered in Schumacher's Citrus Garden. It is one of the most recognizable prints the house makes, and on the dining table of a vacation home it had to survive being used.

So the fabric was laminated. The pattern stays exactly as it is and the surface wipes clean. Cane backs and a white pedestal table keep the rest of the setting light, with the course filling the windows behind.

A round white pedestal dining table set with stacked white plates and colored glassware, surrounded by dark cane back chairs cushioned in a bright botanical print, in a corner of tall black framed windows over the course.

Hotel Calm, in Layers of Blue

White runs through the walls, the drapery, the roman shades, the duvet and the quilt, and that is what gives the master bedroom its hotel quality. The color arrives in blue, in several patterns at once, so the calm still has something to look at.

A custom painted dresser from Modern History stands against the window wall. Underfoot is a rug hand knotted from 100% New Zealand wool. A monogrammed lumbar pillow on the bed is the one piece in the room that belongs to this family and to no one else.

A bedroom corner with a pale blue painted dresser with brass pulls, a woven shade floor lamp, a cream skirted armchair with blue block print pillows, a pair of black cowboy boots on the rug and a French door onto the golf course.

A Soaking Tub for the End of the Day

The tub stands free at the end of the master bathroom, which is the whole point of it. It is there for the end of a day spent out on the course.

White marble herringbone runs across the floor. A skirted ottoman sits in the middle of the room carrying a tray, and the vanity wall keeps its towels and trays out on open shelves rather than behind doors.

A double vanity in pale wood with two black framed mirrors, brass and white sconces, open shelves of rolled towels and a tufted sage ottoman, on a marble herringbone floor.

A Guest Room That Does Not Take Itself Seriously

White walls, a carved antique headboard and a modern painting of pandas. The mix is deliberate, and every piece in it is good enough to carry the joke.

A zebra hide on the floor gives the room its rustic Fredericksburg note, and an antique bamboo chair carries the same idea in a different direction.

A bedroom corner with an antique bamboo and cane chair holding a leopard print pillow, a straw hat and a duffel bag on the floor beside it, and a zebra hide laid over a jute rug.

A Landing Spot for Bags, Hats and Clubs

The hall tree is hooks above a bench, and it does the work every entry in a vacation house has to do. Hats go up, bags go down, and the hallway stays a beautiful place to land rather than a pile.

The golf club holder is blue and white ceramic, which is a better answer than a rack in the garage. Shiplap, folk print pillows and a herringbone throw finish it.

A shiplap mudroom corner with caps and a canvas tote hanging on hooks, folk print floral pillows and a blue throw on a built in bench, and golf clubs standing in a blue and white ceramic holder.

Always a Good Idea for Wallpaper in a Powder Bath

A powder room is small, and that is exactly what makes it the right place to commit to a pattern. This one is papered in Les Touches, in blue.

Everything else stays out of its way. A walnut vanity, a white counter, matte black fittings and a black framed mirror hung between two brass and black sconces.

A powder room papered in a blue brushstroke dot print, with a black framed mirror between two brass and black sconces, matte black wall mounted fittings, a white counter on a walnut vanity and tulips in a small painted vase.

An Apartment on the Property, for the Owners' Parents

The apartment keeps the same style and the same colors flowing as the main house, so arriving there never feels like leaving it.

The kitchen and bathroom cabinets are painted Sporty Blue, SW 6522, with brass hardware set against them. A Visual Comfort chandelier hangs over the dining table. The antique dining chairs were reupholstered in a green block print, which is the contrast the ultra modern white bistro table needed, and the modern, colorful art on the walls picks up the green of the course outside.

A kitchenette with blue painted cabinets and brass hardware, open wood shelves, a white round bistro table and antique French armchairs reupholstered in a green block print, under a petal shaped chandelier.
  • A bedroom with a large pastel abstract painting, a green ceramic lamp on a bedside table, a mustard throw across a white quilted bed and a striped upholstered bench at its foot.
  • A cane headboard with a botanical pillow and a blue block print pillow, a green lamp on a white nightstand, a small floral still life hung above and a striped bench across the foot of the bed.
  • Two navy blue slipper chairs with matching ottomans and botanical pillows, facing each other across a gold side table with a ginger jar lamp and a bamboo basket beneath it.
  • A walnut vanity with a white counter, a black framed mirror and a black picture light, rolled towels on an open shelf and a brass basket of red cyclamen.
  • A laundry closet behind navy chevron doors, with a washer and dryer under a counter, a blue dotted wallpaper backsplash and a woven basket, beneath a reclaimed wood beam.
  • A kitchen corner with pale wood cabinets, brass pulls, a white zellige backsplash and a white roman shade over a black framed window, with fruit on a wooden board.
  • A cream leather midcentury armchair beside a rattan side table, with limestone built in shelves and a fireplace laid in black herringbone tile behind it.
  • A built in bunk bed with a wooden ladder, pink scalloped pillows, a round blue fringed pillow and an indigo striped blanket, with a denim throw over the ladder rail.
  • A bathroom with a soft teal vanity, a white hex tile floor, a black framed mirror with a black double sconce, rolled towels on an open shelf and a framed painting of a donkey wearing flowers.
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