Photo: Carolyn Reyes © 2015 Houzz Writer’s Room, main house Design team: Robert Frank Design
Mid-sized elegant home office photo in Los Angeles

Jason Hartog
Large transitional beige two-story wood gable roof photo in Toronto

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Study room - contemporary built-in desk dark wood floor study room idea in New York with blue walls

2011 NARI CAPITAL COTY FINALIST AWARD WINNER This 1970’s split-level single-family home in an upscale Arlington neighborhood had been neglected for years. With his surrounding neighbors all doing major exterior and interior remodeling, however, the owner decided it was time to renovate his property as well. After several consultation meetings with the design team at Michael Nash Design, Build & Homes, he settled on an exterior layout to create an Art & Craft design for the home. It all got started by excavating the front and left side of the house and attaching a wrap-around stone porch. Key design attributes include a black metal roof, large tapered columns, blue and grey random style flag stone, beaded stain ceiling paneling and an octagonal seating area on the left side of this porch. The front porch has a wide stairway and another set of stairs leads to the back yard. All exterior walls of the home were modified with new headers to allow much larger custom-made windows, new front doors garage doors, and French side and back doors. A custom-designed mahogany front door with leaded glass provides more light and offers a wider entrance into the home’s living area. Design challenges included removing the entire face of the home and then adding new insulation, Tyvek and Hardiplank siding. The use of high-efficiency low-e windows makes the home air tight. The Arts & Crafts design touches include the front gable over the front porch, the prairie-style grill pattern on the windows and doors, the use of tapered columns sitting over stone columns and the leaded glass front door. Decorative exterior lighting provides the finishing touches to this look. Inside, custom woodwork, crown molding, custom glass cabinets and interior pillars carry the design. Upon entering the space, visitors face a large partition that separates the living area from a gourmet Arts & Crafts kitchen and dining room. The home’s signature space, the kitchen offers contrasting dark and light cherry cabinets. Wide plank hard wood floors, exotic granite counters and stainless steel professional-grade appliances make this a kitchen fit for any chef.

This custom Arts & Crafts Crown Point Cabinetry kitchen and bar area features, Quartersawn White Oak with a Washington Cherry stained finish. The Island and custom Range Hood both feature, Bee’s Wax over Eco Brown stain and Burnished over Maple. The kitchen and bar area cabinetry have a Craftsman style door with Black Walnut pegs, while the island presents an Old Cupboard door style that blends seamlessly. Additionally, the doors and drawers also feature a soft close element. Photo by Crown Point Cabinetry

Photography by Eric Scott
Example of an arts and crafts kitchen design in Boston

Black stained wood trellis, exterior night time image
Elegant patio photo in San Francisco

Space Crafting
Inspiration for a transitional light wood floor living room remodel in Minneapolis with gray walls, a ribbon fireplace, a tile fireplace and a wall-mounted tv

Mid-sized elegant l-shaped black floor utility room photo in San Francisco with quartz countertops, a farmhouse sink, shaker cabinets, white cabinets, a side-by-side washer/dryer and white countertops

Designed by Teri Magee of Closet Works Gift-wrapping station and Silestone countertop table for craft room
Example of a large transitional built-in desk medium tone wood floor and brown floor craft room design in Chicago with gray walls and no fireplace

Multiple work spaces and ample storage blend function with flair in this well-organized room.
Example of a mid-sized trendy built-in desk concrete floor craft room design in Nashville with beige walls and no fireplace

A mid-century inspired light and bright colors help create a soothing color palette. John Wilbanks Photography
Example of an arts and crafts great room design in Seattle

Architecture & Interior Design: David Heide Design Studio Photography: Karen Melvin
Example of an arts and crafts u-shaped dark wood floor eat-in kitchen design in Minneapolis with a farmhouse sink, recessed-panel cabinets, medium tone wood cabinets, granite countertops, subway tile backsplash, stainless steel appliances and a peninsula

Arts and Crafts fireplace by Motawi Tileworks featuring Leaves & Berries relief tile in Slate. Photo: Justin Maconochie.
Living room - craftsman living room idea in Detroit with a tile fireplace

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Designer: MODtage Design / Photographer: Paul Dyer
Inspiration for a large transitional blue tile and ceramic tile ceramic tile and blue floor powder room remodel in San Francisco with an undermount sink, recessed-panel cabinets, light wood cabinets, a one-piece toilet, multicolored walls, soapstone countertops and white countertops

  Free ebook, Creating the Ideal Kitchen. DOWNLOAD NOW   Our clients came to us looking to do some updates to their new condo unit primarily in the kitchen and living room. The couple has a lifelong love of Arts and Crafts and Modernism, and are the co-founders of PrairieMod, an online retailer that offers timeless modern lifestyle through American made, handcrafted, and exclusively designed products. So, having such a design savvy client was super exciting for us, especially since the couple had many unique pieces of pottery and furniture to provide inspiration for the design. The condo is a large, sunny top floor unit, with a large open feel. The existing kitchen was a peninsula which housed the sink, and they wanted to change that out to an island, relocating the new sink there as well. This can sometimes be tricky with all the plumbing for the building potentially running up through one stack. After consulting with our contractor team, it was determined that our plan would likely work and after confirmation at demo, we pushed on. The new kitchen is a simple L-shaped space, featuring several storage devices for trash, trays dividers and roll out shelving. To keep the budget in check, we used semi-custom cabinetry, but added custom details including a shiplap hood with white oak detail that plays off the oak “X” endcaps at the island, as well as some of the couple’s existing white oak furniture. We also mixed metals with gold hardware and plumbing and matte black lighting that plays well with the unique black herringbone backsplash and metal barstools. New weathered oak flooring throughout the unit provides a nice soft backdrop for all the updates. We wanted to take the cabinets to the ceiling to obtain as much storage as possible, but an angled soffit on two of the walls provided a bit of a challenge. We asked our carpenter to field modify a few of the wall cabinets where necessary and now the space is truly custom. Part of the project also included a new fireplace design including a custom mantle that houses a built-in sound bar and a Panasonic Frame TV, that doubles as hanging artwork when not in use. The TV is mounted flush to the wall, and there are different finishes for the frame available. The TV can display works of art or family photos while not in use. We repeated the black herringbone tile for the fireplace surround here and installed bookshelves on either side for storage and media components. Designed by: Susan Klimala, CKD, CBD Photography by: Michael Alan Kaskel For more information on kitchen and bath design ideas go to: www.kitchenstudio-ge.com

Photos by Starloft Photography
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