Elite Hospitality, Inc. introduced the opening of the Tiller Home, a Tribute Portfolio lodge by Marriott. The 76-room boutique lodge positioned in Southern California is located throughout the former Moulton Ranch and celebrates Orange County’s rancher legacy in addition to the contributions of Lewis Fenno Moulton and his spouse, Nellie Gail Moulton.
The Tiller Home is designed in a Coastal Farmhouse fashion, and the lodge additionally incorporates references to the Moulton household’s achievements and rancher heritage, whereas being positioned on the land Moulton cultivated.
Principal of Elite Hospitality, Kevin Akash, mentioned the Tiller Home, like all Tribute Portfolio Lodges, is about giving friends the chance to embrace the historical past of the neighborhood they’re staying in.
“Tiller Home just isn’t a normal lodge, however a lodge woven inside this neighborhood,” Akash mentioned. “We needed to create one thing that celebrated the 21,000 acres of land that Moulton Ranch resided on. Permitting friends to expertise the extraordinary legacy of Lewis Moulton and Nellie Gail and the way a lot their sheep and cattle ranch was a commodity to Laguna Hills.”
Design
Tiller Home features a clubhouse-style foyer and boutique rooms with a customized headboard wall, a credenza, lounge chairs, nesting espresso tables, farmhouse-style barn doorways, and a transitional couch. The lodge’s inside design is credited to Los Angeles-based inside design agency Atwater Inc. Studio and Founder-Inventive Director Stina Funch. The Coastal Farmhouse structure is credited to Huntington Seashore structure agency HMR Structure.
Akash mentioned it was Funch and her group that got here up with the concept to middle the theme of the Tiller Home across the Moulton Ranch.
“It was Stina and her group at Atwater who leaned into the Moulton household story and knew we may do so much with it,” Akash mentioned. “I’ve labored on this enterprise for a very long time, and I don’t assume I’ve ever fallen in love with an organization like Atwater. They’re really boutique and helped us by each step of the way in which. They beloved this challenge as a lot as we did, and it reveals within the completed product.”
Tiller Home contains customized furnishings within the guestrooms and foyer, procured by Eclipse Hospitality, a lodge furnishings producer in Phoenix, Arizona.
“Eclipse did a tremendous job procuring distinctive furnishings for this lodge,” Akash mentioned. “All of the visitor room furnishings is customized. You possibly can’t duplicate this furnishings at one other lodge. Every part is designed for Tiller Home, nothing is shelved, and every bit is a showstopper.”
Anand Patel, principal of Eclipse Hospitality, mentioned procuring customized furnishings for 76 rooms and the clubhouse foyer was a welcome problem.
“This was an amazing alternative and problem for us to acquire and construct all these distinctive items that many companies wouldn’t have the individuals, course of, or flexibility to perform,” Patel mentioned. “It was an honor for Eclipse Hospitality to assist convey the Imaginative and prescient of the Tiller Home to life.” The Tiller Home has partnered with the Moulton Museum to assist friends study the historical past of the Moulton Ranch and the household who ran it. The Museum has donated some introductory artwork items to the lodge, and the Tiller Home has devoted a number of lodge sections to photographs and artwork depicting the historical past of Moulton Ranch.
“We wish the Tiller Home to function greater than only a lodge,” Akash added. “We wish it to be a spot the place friends can study the roots of the neighborhood they’re staying in. Come on by and study a bit concerning the previous whereas having fun with the current.”
