Balancing act

Nothing accelerates a home project quite like a new baby. Decisions must be distilled. Creative confidence brought to the fore. Concepts realised in record time. It’s the kind of urgency you’d never suspect of this gorgeous Cape Cod-inspired home, a layered and luxurious space that feels cohesive and entirely unrushed.

Owners Minerva and James had just welcomed their third child when they reached out to interior designer Kate Connors with a dilemma. “They contacted me after buying this house,” Kate says. “It was recently rebuilt and highly finished, but they didn’t wantfurniture with them,” she recalls. Fresh start indeed! So, with no window coverings and not even a chair to sit on, “everything had to be sourced and ordered – and time was of the essence.”