Picture homeowner Bob Wolfe in a rakishly tipped fedora, shaking cocktails at a stylish bar while his lovely blonde wife, Laurie, greets guests warmly at the door.

Susan Bednar Long is an interior designer residing between Connecticut and Texas. Trained at a design firm in Los Angeles, she later moved to New York City where she cut her teeth designing retail stores for Ralph Lauren.

This year, the holidays will twinkle even brighter and bolder thanks to the design partnership between Sister Parish Design and Mayflower Inn & Spa, Auberge Resorts Collection.

The couple wanted their mid-century Tom Babbitt-designed guest house renovated and updated, but with the original layout and sensibility retained.