This project involved tearing down a client’s existing home, and building in its place a new home with improved storage, natural lighting, interior finishes, and a more spacious overall floor plan.
The style of the new interiors was intended to be a fresh spin on the craftsman aesthetic, with the usual exposed structural details, but lighter wood finishes, painted trim, and a more lively color palette than seen in typical craftsman homes. Key priorities were durability and ample storage for a busy family with many collections. We designed creative built-ins for almost every room, including floor to ceiling bookshelves around the fireplace and in the master bedroom, walls of cabinetry in the mudroom and kitchen, storage towers in the bathrooms, and over-sized islands in the kitchen and master closet.
Having lived on the site previously, the homeowners were well in tune with which views should be maximized and where lighting challenges existed. We planned large windows for every room, with plantation shutters on the front of the house for privacy, but left large exposed windows facing to a heavily wooded back yard. We added creative lighting throughout, including cascading glass pendants in the stair well, colored glass sconces in the hallways, a large focal fixture over the dining table, and a custom wood master bath fixture, designed by the homeowner with small pinholes to sprinkle stars of light onto the walls in the evening.