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"Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas&amp;#39; Bermuda Home\nDecorator Stephen Ryan creates an island retreat with timeless English style for the stars and their family\n\u201CI said to Catherine, \u2018We\u2019ll be on an island with lots of family and no place to go. Think about that.\u2019 She did and immediately signed on,\u201D says actor Michael Douglas of the Bermuda refuge he and his wife, actress Catherine Zeta-Jones, commissioned decorator Stephen Ryan to design.\n\u201CThough the couple wanted to retain the cedar,\u201D Ryan says of the floors in the living room and throughout, \u201CI was doubtful\u2014I\u2019m not keen on orange wood. However, we refurbished it, and it came out rich rather than orange.\u201D Mulberry Home chair and drapery fabrics.\nDouglas and Zeta-Jones wanted a comfortable living room where they could accommodate up to 14 guests. Ryan describes the area, with plush fabrics and a deep palette, as typically English. Sofas, wing chairs, pillows and panel draped over sofa arm from Mulberry Home.\nZeta-Jones calls the dining area\u2019s blood-red walls \u201Clush\u2014the dining room in my first house in London was painted red,\u201D she says. \u201CIt\u2019s very soothing to eat in those kinds of surroundings.\u201D Drapery plaid, leather tiebacks and chair fabric from Mulberry Home.\nThe fanlighted living room door frames a view of the entrance hall, where a bronze lantern illuminates a painted treillage design, and the media room beyond, where a pair of prints depicting monkeys echo the monkey-patterned pillows, from Lee Jofa, on a leather sofa.\n\u201CI wanted to maximize the height of the master bedroom,\u201D says Ryan. The designer created a canopy of lace panels that cascades from the beam ceiling. \u201CIt\u2019s very pretty\u2014it just works,\u201D he adds. The bed is dressed in silk and stands on a wool rug. Lee Jofa chest fabric.\nIn a guest room that Ryan, Douglas and Zeta-Jones named \u201Cthe white room,\u201D twisted-oak candlesticks are flanked by acrylic-framed collections of intaglio seals. The bench, the armchair and the bed are upholstered in leather. Bedcovering fabric from Lee Jofa.\n\u201CMichael and I like our privacy, getting up in the morning and having breakfast and quiet time with Dylan,\u201D their son, says Zeta-Jones. Tall plantings and a brick wall guard an outside dining area, where highback wicker chairs surround a glasstopped wicker table.\n\u201CHere you feel like you\u2019re really away from the city,\u201D she says. \u201CI love it.\u201D The pool area, which is sheltered by palms and tropical shrubs, features a poolhouse with a shower and a bath. Patio furniture upholstered in a striped fabric rests on terra-cotta tiles."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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