This 1920 English Cottage style home got an update. A 3 season screened porch addition to help our clients enjoy their English garden in the summer, an enlarged underground garage to house their cars in the winter, and an enlarged master bedroom.

Large transitional master gray tile and marble tile marble floor and gray floor walk-in shower photo in Cincinnati with recessed-panel cabinets, gray cabinets, white walls, an undermount sink, marble countertops, a hinged shower door and gray countertops

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Drop-in bathtub - mediterranean drop-in bathtub idea in Houston with an undermount sink, raised-panel cabinets, white cabinets, beige walls and gray countertops

Dayna Flory Interiors Martin Vecchio Photography
Transitional medium tone wood floor and brown floor powder room photo in Detroit with furniture-like cabinets, gray walls, an integrated sink and gray countertops

Shelley Metcalf & Glenn Cormier Photographers
Freestanding bathtub - farmhouse gray tile dark wood floor freestanding bathtub idea in San Diego with an undermount sink, shaker cabinets, white cabinets and gray walls

Charles Lauersdorf
Bedroom - traditional master carpeted bedroom idea in Dallas with beige walls

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Justin Krug Photography
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The back yard patio is the new living room. Let’s discuss. If you’ve tried to purchase an outdoor, propane heater, new grill, or even outdoor seating in the past six months, this is not news to you. We’re all doing our best to manage through the pandemic while still enjoying social connections and time with family and friends. The solution that so many of us have adopted is to spend more time outside. There’s a Norwegian saying that says, “there is no bad weather, only bad clothing.” It’s a mantra worth adopting these days. We have a lot of customers who are ready to bundle up and enjoy their back yards as much as they enjoy their living rooms. But these lucky homeowners have had that opportunity for the past six months. Reading any further may make you pretty jealous, but we hope that it inspires you for a future project in your own back yard.

Inspiration for a large timeless master medium tone wood floor and brown floor bedroom remodel in New York with gray walls and a standard fireplace

This Cobble Hill Brownstone for a family of five is a fun and captivating design, the perfect blend of the wife’s love of English country style and the husband’s preference for modern. The young power couple, her the co-founder of Maisonette and him an investor, have three children and a dog, requiring that all the surfaces, finishes and, materials used throughout the home are both beautiful and durable to make every room a carefree space the whole family can enjoy. The primary design challenge for this project was creating both distinct places for the family to live their day to day lives and also a whole floor dedicated to formal entertainment. The clients entertain large dinners on a monthly basis as part of their profession. We solved this by adding an extension on the Garden and Parlor levels. This allowed the Garden level to function as the daily family operations center and the Parlor level to be party central. The kitchen on the garden level is large enough to dine in and accommodate a large catering crew. On the parlor level, we created a large double parlor in the front of the house; this space is dedicated to cocktail hour and after-dinner drinks. The rear of the parlor is a spacious formal dining room that can seat up to 14 guests. The middle "library" space contains a bar and facilitates access to both the front and rear rooms; in this way, it can double as a staging area for the parties. The remaining three floors are sleeping quarters for the family and frequent out of town guests. Designing a row house for private and public functions programmatically returns the building to a configuration in line with its original design. This project was published in Architectural Digest. Photography by Sam Frost

Justin Krug Photography
Enclosed dining room - large cottage medium tone wood floor and brown floor enclosed dining room idea in Portland with white walls, a standard fireplace and a stone fireplace

Jeri Koegel
Inspiration for a timeless closet remodel in Orange County

Dustin Peck Photography
Bedroom - traditional guest dark wood floor bedroom idea in Charlotte

Master bedroom with gold accented wallpaper, vaulted ceiling, hardwood floor, and attached master bath
Mid-sized transitional master medium tone wood floor bedroom photo in Phoenix with white walls and no fireplace

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The clients bought a new construction house in Bay Head, NJ with an architectural style that was very traditional and quite formal, not beachy. For our design process I created the story that the house was owned by a successful ship captain who had traveled the world and brought back furniture and artifacts for his home. The furniture choices were mainly based on English style pieces and then we incorporated a lot of accessories from Asia and Africa. The only nod we really made to “beachy” style was to do some art with beach scenes and/or bathing beauties (original painting in the study) (vintage series of black and white photos of 1940’s bathing scenes, not shown) ,the pillow fabric in the family room has pictures of fish on it , the wallpaper in the study is actually sand dollars and we did a seagull wallpaper in the downstairs bath (not shown).

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