Take A Look Inside A Spectacular Aspen Abode by Local Interior Designer Barbara Glass

By Linda Hayes By Linda Hayes | June 11, 2023 | Home & Real Estate, Home & Real Estate, Home & Real Estate Feature,

Reflecting Roaring Fork Club’s architectural style, this 4,500-square-foot cabin is a respite for the extended owner family.

Interior Designer Barbara Glass takes a casual approach to a Roaring Fork Club home.

Introducing the interior palette, the entry features an antique console by Brendan Bass and an Isberian Rug Company runner.

“EVERYONE ALWAYS ASKS ME where I source things from,” says Aspen-based interior designer Barbara Glass (barbaraglassinc.com) with a chuckle. “Well, literally everywhere! It’s important to take that approach. More fun than just pulling from one particular place and more interesting for the overall project.”

Made Goods barstools tucked under a leathered Taj Mahal counter at the casual bar area.

Glass started with fabric, textiles, and soft goods for a new five-bedroom, two-level, 4,500-square-foot cabin in Basalt’s private Roaring Fork Club downvalley from Aspen. “The clients were an Oklahoma-based couple who wanted a casual family-style home where their kids and grandkids could visit and feel comfortable,” she notes. “Everything needed to be durable and not too formal.”

The multipurpose mud room provides seating and storage.

Big picture, Glass’s concept also needed to align with the materiality of the structure itself, which, designed by Kim Weil of Aspen-based Poss Architecture + Planning and Interior Design (the original architects of the 420-acre Roaring Fork Club, including 64 homestead style cabins), featured chinked cedar siding, a pitched, rusted corrugated metal roof, and wraparound porches. The grassy, pond-side setting and views of verdant Arbaney Mountain counterbalanced with a sense of natural tranquility.

There’s plenty of room for gathering around the ample kitchen island

Riffing off the backdrop of Douglas fir beams and white oak floors specified by the interior architect on the project, Robert Mullen of DEMESNE Design, Glass introduced the intense, dark blue colors she’s partial to, which worked well with the wood tones. Blues in varying shades show up in the Casamance fabric she utilized for the elegant dining room chair seats, for instance, in the Aspen Carpet Services carpet in the primary bedroom and the bench seat cover fabric in the multi-purpose mud room. The color echoes in softer, lighter patterns and tones in other areas, such as the A. Rudin chair and ottoman in the living room and elements of a guest bedroom’s bedding.

Signature blue tones in the main bedroom complement the interior wood palette throughout.

Throughout the home, complementary wood tones are evident in furnishings, including an antique console from Brendan Bass in Dallas, a Michael Trent Coats dining table and Made Goods stools at the bar adjacent to the living room.

The cabin’s comfortable living room

Facilitating the design process and the project’s ultimate success was the consistent sharing of ideas between Glass and the clients, which was relatively seamless considering their long-distance working relationship. “The owners were easy,” notes Glass, who admits to sharing photos ‘the old–fashioned way,’ via pictures over email. “It was not their first house. They understood the process and were good decision-makers. The home has a comfortable feel. It suits them well.”

A guest room bed features an embroidered upholstered headboard and Made Goods nightstands.