View of Living room from Breakfast nook
Large elegant open concept medium tone wood floor living room library photo in Austin with beige walls, a standard fireplace, a wood fireplace surround and a wall-mounted tv

This amazing custom pool and wet edge spa in Weston is the perfect outdoor getaway! Complete with custom stepping stones, sun shelf, and LED bubblers, this project is sure to please family and guests!

Danny Piassick
Large 1960s concrete floor and gray floor great room photo in Dallas with beige walls, a standard fireplace and a brick fireplace

Tom Marks
Eclectic one-story wood flat roof idea in Seattle

photography by Juan Lopez Gil
Small trendy girl dark wood floor kids' room photo in New York with blue walls

“People tend to want to place their sofas right against the wall,” Lovett says. “I always try to float the sofa a bit and give the sofa some breathing room. Here, we didn’t have floor outlets or any eye-level lighting. Incorporating table lamps allows for mood lighting and ambiance. We placed a console behind the sofa to bring in large-scale lamps, which also helped fill in the negative space between the sofa and the bottom of the windows.” Photography: Amy Bartlam

Photo: © wlinteriors.us / Julian Buitrago
Home bar - mid-sized traditional carpeted home bar idea in New York

Custom metal hood, superwhite countertops
Open concept kitchen - large transitional l-shaped dark wood floor and brown floor open concept kitchen idea in Phoenix with a farmhouse sink, shaker cabinets, white cabinets, white backsplash, paneled appliances, an island, marble countertops and marble backsplash

Beautiful Custom Traditional Coastal Colonial Home of 4,877 square feet two-story home. Photos by: Latham Architectural
Entryway - traditional entryway idea in Los Angeles

We loved adding this beautiful, custom-made wrought iron scrollwork patio enclosure and step rail to our customer's home. It's always a joy to work with our customers and provide the beauty and lasting quality of handmade wrought-iron designs they're dreaming of.

Custom Home in Bucks County PA designed and built by Trueblood. [landscape design: Jerry Fritz]
Elegant two-story stone exterior home photo in Philadelphia

These homeowners desired a complete custom remodel of their kitchen, laundry, and mud room. By improving the footprint of the overall area, our design team transformed this awkward layout into luxurious, inviting, and sophisticated spaces. The high-end kitchen boasts a timeless, all-white palette with everything from an oversized island with Bianco porcelain countertops with laminated edge and antique brass crystal chandelier pendants to Sub-Zero appliances and Waterstone luxury faucets. The dramatic solid surface slab backsplash is a stunning architectural feature and provides the perfect backdrop for the custom-made vent hood and 60” Viking double oven and range. Custom cabinetry, featuring ample storage with pull-out spice and utensil drawers, was designed specifically with the cook in mind and are as beautiful as they are functional. The decorative glass doors, undercabinet lighting and European style brass Cremone bolt hardware add the finishing touches to this dream kitchen.

Whether it is a simple reach in closet or the large walk in closet of your dreams, you are in good hands with Huntington closet. Our “On staff” designers will come to your home, listen to your needs, measure your space, and provide you with a unique design solution that suits you perfectly. In our own wood shop, we will custom make each part of your closet to fit your unique space. We do not use any “pre made- cookie cutter” closet kits. Plus, we only use materials made right here in North America. After your closest are custom made right here locally, our “on staff” installers will show up to your home, always on schedule, and install your custom designed, custom mades closet, leaving your home cleaner when we are finished, then the moment we arrived. With all we have to offer at Huntington Closet we are the only intelligent choice for all of your closet solutions. Overpriced closet franchise companies, based out of California or do-it-your-self box stores cannot deliver the value, service, and quality you will receive from The Huntington Closet Company.

Whether it is a simple reach in closet or the large walk in closet of your dreams, you are in good hands with Huntington closet. Our “On staff” designers will come to your home, listen to your needs, measure your space, and provide you with a unique design solution that suits you perfectly. In our own wood shop, we will custom make each part of your closet to fit your unique space. We do not use any “pre made- cookie cutter” closet kits. Plus, we only use materials made right here in North America. After your closest are custom made right here locally, our “on staff” installers will show up to your home, always on schedule, and install your custom designed, custom mades closet, leaving your home cleaner when we are finished, then the moment we arrived. With all we have to offer at Huntington Closet we are the only intelligent choice for all of your closet solutions. Overpriced closet franchise companies, based out of California or do-it-your-self box stores cannot deliver the value, service, and quality you will receive from The Huntington Closet Company.

2013 NARI CAPITAL COTY, GRAND AWARD WINNER, RESIDENTIAL KTICHEN $80,001 -$120,000 This Old Town Alexandria home was ready for a major kitchen renovation. After 20 years of putting up with the dark, short cabinets and a dysfunctional traffic pattern and layout, the owners were ready to roll up their sleeves and throw this kitchen out the window. Design challenges include a peninsula that was too big for the space, appliance locations that were all over, a stackable washer and dryer in the middle of the kitchen and a lack of storage. The first step toward a remodeling solution was to move the washer and dryer to a new lower level laundry area. That created space for a new built-in refrigerator, microwave/oven cabinet, pantry and angular end cabinets. This move also created more room on the walls of kitchen for added cabinetry and countertops. The cook top was moved to one of the walls with a custom wood hood over it. Having removed the old bulkheads, there was space for taller cabinets and some glass front cabinetry (with inside lights) to display china. Large crown molding, along with big arched valances, legs and corbels made this brushed stoke custom cabinetry really stand out. A big knee wall and a middle post made the breakfast room too closed in and separated from adjacent family room. By installing a couple of structural beams, the space was opened up and dressed up with a large arch opening to replicate the front hall columns. Similarly, the front door separating the front hall to the kitchen was taken off, widened and then had the same panel arch treatment done. Now all the doorways in the home have a very classy, yet sophisticated detailed molding. A previously wasted corner area is now home to a custom hutch cabinet. The middle island, not only improved the traffic flow, but also dressed up this kitchen with its furniture look. The expansion of hardwood flooring, from the front hall into the kitchen and beyond, created a seamless transition to the entire first floor. Use of this highly custom brushed stroke glazed cabinetry in a soft vanilla tone complemented the uniqueness of a slab of granite. The light color tumbled marble backsplash made the glazing of this cabinetry stand out. The transformation of this kitchen was so incredible that no one believes the before photos.

Near the banks of the Stono River sits this custom elevated home on Johns Island. In partnership with Vinyet Architecture and Polish Pop Design, the homeowners chose a coastal look with heavy emphasis on elements like ship lap, white interiors and exteriors and custom elements throughout. The large island and hood directly behind it serve as the focal point of the kitchen. The ship lap for both were custom built. Within this open floor plan, serving the kitchen, dining room and living room sits an enclosed wet bar with live edge solid wood countertop. Custom shelving was installed next to the TV area with a geometric design, mirroring the Master Bedroom ceiling. Enter the adjacent screen porch through a collapsing sliding door, which gives it a true eight-foot wide opening to the outdoors. Reclaimed wooden beams add character to the living room and outdoor fireplace mantels.

The existing quirky floor plan of this 17 year old kitchen created 4 work areas and left no room for a proper laundry and utility room. We actually made this kitchen smaller to make it function better. We took the cramped u-shaped area that housed the stove and refrigerator and walled it off to create a new more generous laundry room with room for ironing & sewing. The now rectangular shaped kitchen was reoriented by installing new windows with higher sills we were able to line the exterior wall with cabinets and counter, giving the sink a nice view to the side yard. To create the Victorian look the owners desired in their 1920’s home, we used wall cabinets with inset doors and beaded panels, for economy the base cabinets are full overlay doors & drawers all in the same finish, Nordic White. The owner selected a gorgeous serene white river granite for the counters and we selected a taupe glass subway tile to pull the palette together. Another special feature of this kitchen is the custom pocket dog door. The owner’s had a salvaged door that we incorporated in a pocket in the peninsula to corale the dogs when the owner aren’t home. Tina Colebrook

What this Mid-century modern home originally lacked in kitchen appeal it made up for in overall style and unique architectural home appeal. That appeal which reflects back to the turn of the century modernism movement was the driving force for this sleek yet simplistic kitchen design and remodel. Stainless steel aplliances, cabinetry hardware, counter tops and sink/faucet fixtures; removed wall and added peninsula with casual seating; custom cabinetry - horizontal oriented grain with quarter sawn red oak veneer - flat slab - full overlay doors; full height kitchen cabinets; glass tile - installed countertop to ceiling; floating wood shelving; Karli Moore Photography

GC: Osborne Construction Architect: C2 Architecture Design: Kole Made. Custom Woodwork + Cabinetry: Loubier Design. http://www.kolemade.com/ http://www.c2-architecture.com/ http://kirk-loubier.squarespace.com/ Photo Credit: http://www.samoberter.com/