If you live in clutter, your mind never has time to relax and regroup,” says Tracy Davis of Urban Dwellings. Diving headlong into her first appearance in a showhouse, Davis actually put her uncluttered touch on two of the estate’s most vital rooms: the kitchen and the master suite.

Known for her ability to marry the past with the present, Davis has created a master suite that is spacious yet pampering, and that manages to balance stateliness and everyday livability. Working at a swift pace to finish the master suite, Davis says she found particular design camaraderie with Foreside Design’s Deb Kingry, who validated several of Davis’s decisions along the way. “I wanted to capture the romance of the era this house was built in,” she says. “So I set out to create a bedroom that feels more like a European suite—open, with light flowing through.”

The bedroom, with its juxtaposition of a soft-edged, feminine palette and dashes of dark, masculine wood tones, feels like a private sanctuary within the house, a space to let the day’s dramas wash away. In fact, by annexing what used to be an adjoining room, the bedroom gained a luxurious master bath.

Davis decided not to interrupt the threshold between the bedroom and bathroom with a door, which allows for a seamless flow between the two spaces. The long, sun-filled bathroom is lavishly appointed with shiny “his” and “hers” sinks, a steam shower, a claw-foot tub, and a generous walk-in closet at the far end. The bathroom’s crowning touch, however, is actually located just outside its window.

When Davis worked as part of the kitchen design team, the decision was made to extend the room out slightly in order to pull in more sunlight. This kitchen renovation ended up allowing a new deck to be added off the master suite above. Today, just beyond the window that flanks one side of the handsome claw-foot tub sits the perfect accoutrement to a romantic night under the big Maine moon: a hot tub.

“I like a challenge,” Davis says modestly of her first showhouse experience.