Jeff and Beth Wardeberg’s Signal Mountain home.Jeff and Beth Wardeberg are ready to celebrate the first Christmas in their Signal Mountain home since remodeling it earlier this year. Dolores Wolfe, the family’s go-to interior designer, also decorates the home for Christmas each year, arranging their collection of trimmings in bright, elegant focal points for every room.
Built in 2001 as the personal residence of builder Mike Hall, the Wardeberg home sits long and narrow alongside Signal Mountain Golf & Country Club’s fifteenth fairway in Old Town. Under its hipped roofs is a smooth façade punctuated with board and batten shutters, hinting at the Old World European influence that continues inside with soaring vaulted ceilings accentuated with heavy wood beams.
Simple white lights decorate the exterior of the home, but its interior holiday embellishments have more punch and pizzazz in bright reds and golds. Dolores builds arrangements that complement the family’s existing décor. With year-round gold and red accent colors, the living room lends itself to a traditional Christmas color scheme.
This year, the living room tree, matching mantel arrangement and chimney wreath wear fun, multi-colored lights; wide, sheer ribbons; and sprigs of red berries. Traditional Swedish Tomte ornaments, tiny dolls wearing red winter gear, decorate the kitchen tree. “They’re something I grew up with, and I can remember when and where I got many of them, so they’re very special,” says Beth. Both hers and Jeff’s sides of the family have Scandinavian roots.
The Wardebergs’ new kitchen and master bath aren’t part of the family’s seasonal trimmings, but they do yield a more functional and up-to-date place to celebrate this Christmas. After seven years in the home, the family was ready for an update and called on Ana Woodworks’ Carol MacKinnon to design the layout for the new kitchen. Dolores helped select materials like countertops and tile, and Tim Burns Construction also worked on the transformation.