The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 165

mch ite- I KiM il ulLc-'y "iiSjf r1- 111 1 1 vi hi T3 A MODEES HOME The Brown house has a blend of furnishings, but the decor of the living room, left, is mostly 18th-century. To balance the Oriental rugs, Mrs. Brown applied 22-karat gold leaf to moldings on the ceiling and on each side of the fireplace and to medallions in the ceiling corners. Her penchant for detail is reflected in the brass motif she designed for the front door, below. Patricia Barnstable Brown 's venture into interior decorating proves she has the right stuff to be a designing woman By Yvonne Eaton "J'i1 i 15 1 I fin A I'M E3 is i Photographed by Gary S.

Chapman Patricia Barnstable Brown has "gone from cheerlead-ing to modeling to television to motherhood and now home decorating." The home she has decorated is her own, near Cherokee Park in Louisville. It was built about 1913, and she and her husband, Dr. David Brown, a psychiatrist, have been working on it for 2Vi years. "Im starting to run down," she says. "But I'll have the rest of my life to get my Rembrandts." YVONNE EATON covers home decorating and style trends for the newspapers.

GARY S. CHAPMAN is a staff photographer. the large stucco-and-stone house that sits atop a hill overlooking the park, on about 1 xh acres. She thought the house lent itself to 1 8th-century decor, much of it English. But the Browns' love of Oriental furnishings, which blend well with the English feel, is reflected in the house.

There also are a few Victorian, French, art deco and contemporary furnishings. Besides decorating, the major changes the Browns made in the house were to add an enclosed pool and to enclose a screened porch between the pool and the Continued Brown quips. "My little boy and I went out and got the furniture in this house I've gone to sheet metal places. I've hauled all the rugs. I hauled the paint.

I hauled the marble. I hauled a fountain." She decided against hiring an interior designer because she couldn't stand to sit and see someone else doing all the work. "I would feel guilty. I love showing off my hard work, and doing it for me gives me a sense of accomplishment." Mrs. Brown wanted the interior to reflect the exterior stateliness of Mrs.

Brown decorated the house with the same precision that she and her twin sister, Priscilla Barnstable, used in cheerleading at the University of Kentucky and modeling for national magazines. But she has been more than the choreographer of the house. She has been a painter, a stone cleaner, a plasterer, a hauler or anything else that required labor. Her son, Christopher, almost 4, was asked at pre-school what his parents did. He said his father was a doctor and his mother was a painter.

But he didn't explain it was the "Porter-paint kind," Mrs. Patricia Barnstable Brown, top, with her son, Christopher, chose primary colors for his room. Between the enclosed swimming pool and the living room is the "marble room, above, which was created by enclosing a porch. Behind the flowers and tables is a spa in the pool area. 14 THE COURIER-JOURNAL MAGAZINE SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1986 15.