Sonya Nutter, Kansas City
WHY SHE’S A STYLEMAKER: Instead of glass, Nutter chose an unexpected material for cabinet door inserts for her newly remodeled master bathroom.
THE BACKSTORY: Nutter discovered the polyester-resin material at Straw, Sticks & Bricks, a Kansas City store in the Crossroads Arts District that sells eco-friendly building products. The resin, made by 3form of Salt Lake City, comes in dozens of colors and includes 40 percent post-industrial content. It’s commonly used commercially, often as restaurant partitions, but it’s catching on for residential projects.
The resin is available embedded with stones, hay, botanicals and other natural materials. Nutter chose twigs for the bathroom she shares with her husband, Jim.
THE LOOK: “We wanted a calm, Asian, Zen-like feeling and this captures it,” Nutter says. “Even though it’s a relatively new material, it’s not trendy. We can live with this for a long time.”
Since the installation at her home, she has seen the resin used as a room divider at Children’s Mercy South Hospital in Johnson County. And, flipping through a magazine, she noticed it used as a ceiling material in a home.
For her remodeled master bath, above, Sonya Nutter chose a polyester-resin material embedded with twigs, below.
