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Given that this penthouse residence is surrounded by the natural beauty of Beaver Creek, designer Annie Kern didn’t want its interiors to compete with the area’s postcard-worthy, mountain-ringed panoramas. There already was a lot going on architecturally, Kern observed, from the great room’s vaulted ceiling to an abundance of orange-hued butternut wood. Right from the first glimpse with her clients, who planned to utilize the sky-high home as their family getaway, she wanted to tone down the woodwork, walls and surfaces. “I just thought, ‘What can we do to give your eyes a softer place to land?’ ” she recalls.
