Issue link: http://papercitymagazine.uberflip.com/i/470413
MARCH | PAGE 43 | 2015 For Ed, the blue sky beckons from outside the room's nine windows so that "you always feel like you're outside when you're in there," he says. For Gable, it's all about the clouds. "I can lie in bed and see the wispy clouds in the morning as the sky's changing," she says. "All my life, I've drawn clouds. I'd draw gowns with clouds on them when I was little. I'd draw clouds on everything." Photographer Jeff Scott's Santa Fe clouds hangs over the bed, and photographer Steve Wrubel's palm trees with clouds is positioned on another wall. "I'm always surrounded by clouds," she says, smiling. A grownup sitting area in the master bedroom makes the room a comfortable place to relax, with its vintage-inspired gray Jonathan Adler sofa, vintage Lucite-and-glass coffee table and woven leather lounge chairs from Scott + Cooner. Oatmeal and gray herringbone carpet squares from Flor keep things looking good "between the dogs, the kids and my husband drinking espresso," Gable says. "If something spills, I just pull up a square and replace it." She's used sturdy Flor carpet squares to great effect throughout the house in various shades and combinations of gray, and in pink and white in Everleigh's bedroom. "For houses with kids, it's amazing," she says. Even at such tender ages, Hadleigh and GG have definite opinions about carpeting. "Right now the playroom has gray shag carpet, but they are completely opposed to it," Gable says. "They want pink and purple, but I haven't been able to find the right shade. They won't let me put any more gray in the playroom at all." On some level, however, she must know she's outnumbered, if not out-willed. "At school, they teach you to draw a traditional house," Gable says. " I've had to teach our girls to see our house, so now they draw a white box." And they're already questioning the status quo. "They want to know: 'Why does it have to be a white house?'" she says. "'Why not pink?'" And why not? After all, as Eloise would say, being bored is not allowed. Clockwise from top left: Ed and Everleigh Shaikh. Artwork in the background is by Christopher Martin. Felt Peacock chair by Dror Benshetrit for Cappellini, from Scott + Cooner. Vintage table painted cobalt. From left, GG, Hadleigh and Everleigh play in GG's room. Bunk beds and rug from Pottery Barn Kids. Hand-painted butterfly on wall. Edwardian-style silhouette rendered in cobalt by photographer Fredrik Broden. Mongolian fur and chrome bench from Nest. The yellow chair by Jonathan Adler provides cheerful contrast to the den's gray palette. In the living room, Arne Jacobsen's Egg chair is upholstered in gray flannel suiting from Hadleigh's. Custom storage unit. Glass artwork on wall by Lucrecia Waggoner.