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Spacious Ranch Home with Bonus Room Features Earthy-tone Surprises

The spacious Saluda model home in this year's Parade of Homes combines warm earth tones with some color surprises. The basic color palette is heavy on neutrals, but from the time you step into the large foyer, designer Pam Trussell of Pam Trussell Interiors has created colorful accents to draw visitors into the 3,800-square-foot single-story home-making the home unique compared to other new homes in Lexington, SC.

Totally tan dominates the wall colors, but Trussell greets visitors with an earthy purple sitting room immediately to the right of the front door. "It's a really hot color now and we've used it to show people that bold colors can really make a room pop," she said.

Across the foyer, the formal dining room is painted sea salt, a pale aqua-green color. The wainscoting is antique white to match the rest of the house, but Trussell has enhanced the wall color above the wainscoting by glazing it with gold undertones.

"The whole color palette in the Saluda is easy on the eyes, warm and inviting," she said. "We've combined traditional furnishings with a twist to the transitional by using fabrics with circles and geometric designs."

The master suite in this new home in Lexington, SC shifts to a cooler color combination with soft greens and Robin's egg blue. The four-poster bed, with burl wood headboard and footboard, is topped with a solid neutral bed cover and dust ruffle, accented with toss pillows and shams that bring in the wall and window treatment colors.

Designers look to children's rooms to create memory points and Trussell has focused on a Pirates of the Caribbean theme, with bunk beds that look like boats and that are covered with bright bedding in kiwi green with fish, ropes and anchor designs in yellow and deep purple.

Her favorite room in this luxury home in the Columbia, SC area is the great room, which has clear lines of sight to the front door, the kitchen and the outdoor porch. "It's just so open and inviting," she said. "The fireplace is trimmed out in elegant columns and instead of built-ins, we've flanked the fireplace with lighted glass-front curio cabinets. It's a really unique approach."

The Saluda, built by Dunbar Builders, builder of luxury homes in Columbia, SC and nearby areas, is a four-bedroom, four-and-a-half-bath home. The bonus room above the three-car garage has been decorated to serve as a media room and family retreat.

The Saluda is built according to the Greater Columbia Home Builders Association's Build Green standards and includes many energy-saving and environmentally friendly features.

Lifestone Communities is a residential real estate development firm headquartered in Columbia, SC which builds new homes in Lexington, SC and luxury homes in Columbia, SC. Partners are Walter Taylor, Bill Theus and Andy White, all of whom who have extensive experience in home building and development, building new homes in Lexington, SC within successful neighborhoods across the Carolinas. They previously developed numerous lake and riverfront communities, as well as 50 new-home neighborhoods across the state.