Annapolis Home – Winter 2012

Gina Fitzsimmons of Fitzsimmons Designs filled the living room and kitchen with regional, natural colors that have become more beautiful with age. She explains that it all began with the humble oyster. “The oyster was the impetus of my color scheme,” she says. Inspired by its raw beauty, she fashioned a 4 x 6 area between two columns built of driftwood with oyster shells that are unusual and cool to the touch, and as weathered as ancient stone.

She consumed hundreds of these ambulatory hermaphrodites with her husband Terry and created their creamy hues by washing them afterward in the dishwasher. Her stonemason sanded each one down individually before attaching it. The rug came from old oriental rugs re-stiched together and then re-died.

— Source: Annapolis Home