Remember the indelible “cool mom” character played by Amy Poehler in Mean Girls? She wore Juicy Couture sweat suits and allowed underage drinking at home. Designer Juniper Tedhams’s mother, Charlotte Herzele, is a different kind of cool mom. She’s got belly dancing and poetry on her résumé, an Andy Warhol Elvis with an intriguing Factory-era pedigree, and a seriously chic home in Austin, designed by her talented daughter. Now that’s cool.
“Juniper has the best taste of anyone I know. She’s the only person I ever let dress me. I trust her completely,” Herzele says of the soup-to-nuts renovation of her Austin home, a formerly nondescript spec house located on a generous corner lot in a vibrant neighborhood of University of Texas students, professors (Herzele herself is an assistant professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences), and assorted hippies. “The layout of the house was really strange. I could never figure out where I was supposed to be,” she continues.
In keeping with Tedhams’s reliance on a limited palette, the kitchen cabinets are painted the same color as the exterior of the house. Countertops are Belgian bluestone. Range by Wolf; dishwasher by Fisher & Paykel.
Moroccan cement tiles line the floor of the screened porch. Steel tables by Blend Interiors.
Designer Juniper Tedhams oversaw the soup-to-nuts renovation of her mother Charlotte Herzele's Austin home, a formerly nondescript spec house located on a generous corner lot in a vibrant neighborhood. In the entry, a group of Salvador Dalí watercolors hangs above a custom walnut bench by Erik Gustafson for Juniper Tedhams. The 1940 Berber rug is from FJ Hakimian.
