The designer created a personal layer by expertly weaving in a selection of the clients’ own items—pieces they had picked up on travels or had lived with for years. “Each existing furnishing they brought with them meant something and was so different,” Hollis says of pieces such as woven baskets the couple purchased while traveling in Bhutan and a painted stool that the wife’s sister brought back from Morocco. “I worked them in, and they ended up adding so much warmth.” Perhaps the most sentimental item Hollis integrated is the rocker in the master bedroom. “We commissioned an artist in Virginia to carve the chair when my son was born,” the wife says. “There’s an inscription on the bottom.” Check out the full tour on Luxe!