The most striking section of the open living space is the chartreuse kitchen, a risky design move that definitely paid off. “The color is invigorating,” Leah describes. “It’s like a pucker, honestly, so I didn’t need to go totally crazy with the stone. It’s a quartzite that has some veining—some warm, some cool to just be fresh with the white walls, but also to speak indirectly to the wood floors and to the cabinets.”
The limoncello cupboards are accompanied by glossy white appliances, cream Andersson & Voll for Magis Tibu stools, and a transportive Fares Micue photograph that Leah hung to replicate the experience of gazing out a window, since the kitchen doesn’t have one. “It does feel like we are looking where she’s looking, into this vast expanse,” she says. “It’s giving Sedona limitlessness. And that makes me super happy. It is so unusual.”
Leah filled the hallway with artwork by and of women of color, like a limited edition Lauren Pearce print of her Jamaican family and a huge Bethann Hardison collage that Marryam Moma adorned with actual jewelry. Among all the treasures is the door to the guest bathroom, which is covered in a flamboyant robin’s-egg blue and metallic copper wallpaper with a crane and palm tree motif. A dusty rose vanity and a pearly gray zellige tile shower complete the playful look.
The primary bedroom, with its vintage Moroccan rug and cozy upholstered Moe’s Home Collection bed, is anchored by an ombré canvas piece by Andrea Benítez. It changes from deep purple to magenta to goldenrod as it moves from top to bottom. “I’ve never seen anything like it, the saturation of it,” muses Leah. “It feels like a root chakra energy in your belly rising up into the rest of your body. It’s just incredible to wake up to every day. The size of it works really nicely with that case opening into the closet too.”
