Anyone who knows her will confirm that interior designer Blair Moore is as dauntless in life as she is in her career—going so far as to stop by a bar, without fail, each morning before work. “But not the kind of bar you’re thinking of,” jokes the founder and principal of Rhode Island– and New York City–based AD PRO Directory firm Moore House Design, who frequented an oxygen bar one too many times while working on a vacation cabin in Mountain Village, a holiday habitat near the town of Telluride, a former Victorian mining town in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. “We’d get out of breath a lot, so it helped to get a morning boost,” Moore explains, adding that the energy lost from oxygen deprivation was thankfully offset by the enthusiasm of the homeowners—a Los Angeles–based couple with two teenage children—who discovered the designer on Instagram and enlisted her soon after, hoping to create a cozy retreat for skiing and soaking in the year-round mountain magic.
Shortly after her team’s first site visit, Moore booked a flight out to LA. “I wanted to see inside their home and the way they lived. I really wanted to get inside their skin,” she recalls. And she did—enough to observe their bohemian lifestyle, laid-back vibe, and knack for embracing imperfections. “They were always in these spectacular leather jackets and vintage band tees,” Moore says, “and their home reflected that same energy—charming, lived-in, and full of personality, with an edge that felt undeniably them.” Maintaining that edge in LA was one thing, but translating it to Colorado was a different kettle of fish. “The log cabins in Mountain Village have a very ‘home on the range’ vibe—lots of tartan, plaid, and orange-hued log walls. It’s like your grandmother lived there,” the designer adds. The homeowners were eager to bring the home into the present without undoing its past, envisioning a space that blended midcentury furniture, scattered patterns, and traditional mountain flourishes. It was up to Moore to strike the perfect balance.
