In this Park Shore home near The Village Shops on Venetian Bay, interior designer Julia Hall Liegeois created a secluded indoor-outdoor retreat with a West Coast sensibility. The homeowners moved from California and wanted a space where their family could relax or host guests, and decided to upgrade the sunroom, which they’d temporarily furnished with a mix of pieces from their previous home. For inspiration, they showed Julia a photo of the Beverly Hills Hotel, known for its pink exterior and banana-leaf wallpaper. “I loved the direction, and we just ran with it,” the designer says.
Julia started by painting the room in Sherwin-Williams’ Rosy Outlook. “It’s a true, good pink,” she says. She then enlisted artist Melissa Del Pinto to paint oversized palm leaves on one wall. Julia added a green trellis ceiling, importing the garden structure into the room—a clever way to create continuity without being literal. “Those were the foundation,” Julia says of the wall treatments and trellis detail.
To impose order and functionality in the large, rectangular room, she created two zones. Close to the pool, a living area with plush seating (done in performance fabrics) is arranged for conversation and movie nights. When all the sliding doors are open, it unites with the lanai to expand the lounging space.
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Top photo: Plush seating upholstered in performance fabric lets the living area serve as a post-pool lounge or game night hangout. Matching flower chandeliers by Stray Dog Designs tie together the living and bar areas.
On the other end, Julia designed a bar area with a kitchenette and billiards table, so guests can naturally congregate between games, drinks and trips to the pool. “More seating would have been repetitive,” she says. “Instead, we decided to make the kitchen-bar area more active.” Above both spaces hang flower- shaped chandeliers from Stray Dog Designs. “They’re funky and fun—new, but they look vintage—and each flower is inset with pink, so it’s a little callback to the walls,” Julia adds.
While the design started with California, the result leans more toward Palm Beach than Hollywood. The skirted ottoman, rattan furnishings and blue-and-white decorative accents soften the room’s theatrical moments with Florida’s preferred relaxed polish. Curved silhouettes and velvet upholstery preserve a dose of Beverly Hills glamour.
The seating area centers on a curved channel-back sofa, a vintage piece Julia had recovered. An ivory octagonal coffee table and a pair of blue velvet chairs complete the arrangement. The console beneath the television was another secondhand find. “I loved that green color,” Julia says. A sisal rug and rattan palm tree lamps bring in natural motifs, while bright yellow and coral throws provide warmth against the cool-toned pastel palette. The pink walls tie it all together—warm enough to harmonize with the tropical hues and neutral enough not to compete with the blue furnishings.
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Designer Julia Hall Liegeois outfitted the space with a green trellis ceiling to bridge the indoor and outdoor spaces. A lavender-lacquered billiards table by Bromme Street Studios and a pair of Slim Aarons prints play into the vintage aesthetics.
Across the room, the kitchen’s green-painted cabinets echo the palm leaf mural. A vintage rattan mirror in an “odd corner” adds some height and bounces light throughout, while bringing in another deco touch, with its fan-like silhouette. “It’s always nice to mix some natural materials like rattan or bamboo into a space,” Julia says. A vintage Gabriella Crespi-style pencil reed rattan lounge chair sits in front with a vintage bronze fish table topped with glass.
At the center of the space is the pool table, which Julia had lacquered in lavender. “It’s not only functional—it’s beautiful,” she says, adding that it converts into a ping-pong table.
To reinforce the sense of poolside glamour, Julia stacked square Slim Aarons sun-drenched photographs along the wall by the kitchen’s glass sliding doors. “Even though the photos are vintage, they feel so modern,” she says. Filling the wall with the prints continues the geometry of the glass doors, creating another visual bridge to the garden beyond.
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On the extended pool deck, Alexander Hutchinson, of Naples-based Rise Architectural Design Group, installed shellstone pavers to contrast the dense tropical foliage. Julia outfitted the distinct lounge area with white woven-rope furniture and loungers covered by a yellow Business & Pleasure Co. umbrella.
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Throughout the room, pieces from different sources and eras blend vintage finds, traditional decorative objects and contemporary finishes. Ginger jars and metal palm-shaped chairs Julia found at Brittany’s Bamboo Barn in North Fort Myers stand with clean glass tables, while Deco and traditional furnishings mingle. “We wanted the space to feel collected, not decorated,” Julia says. Modern-day amenities, clean architecture, flexible gathering spaces and playful touches keep the space feeling current rather than nostalgic.
The layered approach extends outdoors. Blue-and-white striped drapery treats the lanai like a cabana and adds softness. “I wanted something that felt playful, and the stripes bring movement while reinforcing the connection to the water,” Julia says. She enlisted Alexander Hutchinson of Naples-based Rise Architectural Design Group to rework the deck and garden, conceiving the interior and landscape as a single entertaining environment. Alexander focused on updating the dated and constrained materials and layout.
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Details like the blue-striped curtain and green palm leaf chairs from Brittany’s Bamboo Barn in Fort Myers recall Palm Beach’s resort style.
First, he extended the back of the pool deck to create room for loungers and a fire pit. “Especially the fire pit expansion homes in on that desire to have an outdoor space to gather privately,” he says, showcasing how even within a smaller footprint, more intimate zones can be created. For the deck, the landscape architect installed shellstone decking, which stays cooler underfoot than traditional pavers. The material continues in the pool through a new spillway water feature, where the stone is honed to create a smoother, more refined finish. “The three spillovers add to that oasis feel and drown out the traffic,” Alexander adds. Chinese guardian lions on either side pull in the Regency penchant for chinoiserie. On the pool deck, white woven-rope loungers now sit beneath a yellow umbrella from Business & Pleasure Co.
Beyond the pool deck, a shellstone path leads to the beach through layered plantings. Alexander palms establish the tallest layer of the landscape, with traveler’s palms filling in the mid-level space, their distinctive leaves echoing the mural and palm sculptures inside. Underneath, Alexander planted Philodendron Burle Marx, gardenias and drifts of Blue Tango bromeliads. “We didn’t want an overtaking of color, but these have a fluorescent blue spike that’s a cool pop of color,” he says. For the lawn, synthetic turf makes it easy to maintain a green carpet year-round. The result extends the room’s Beverly Hills-inspired glamour into the landscape, continuing the resort fantasy outdoors.
Interior Design: Julia Hall Designs
Landscape: Rise Architectural Design Group