After Doug Fowler and Mike Lambert found the perfect house at the River Club in Indian River Shores, Mike applied his artistic skills to designing a pool that mirrored the architectural lines of the home’s exterior.
The living room sofa had to go. The size, the shape, the color–everything about it was wrong. Whenever Doug Fowler and Mike Lambert set foot in the living room and saw it, they groaned. Other than that, their new River Club house was perfect. With three bedrooms, den, gourmet kitchen, spacious family room, and a pool Mike had designed himself, the partners couldn’t have been happier with their choice.
It was the sofa that was giving them a headache since it was the first thing anyone saw when they came through the front door. Frustrated, Doug and Mike knew they needed help, and they got it, thanks to a serendipitous introduction to interior designer Andi Beck.
“Every year we throw a big Oscar party and Mike, who’s the best cook in the world, caters it himself. There were 40 to 50 people, and Andi was there with one of our employees,” says Doug, recalling how their paths crossed. “It just happened to come out during our conversation that she had done a lot of interior design work in South Florida as well as a couple of projects here in Vero Beach."
Read the entire article in the January 2008 issue
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