Brian Vanden Brink
Home design - coastal home design idea in Boston

The Rainshower™ F-Series combines freedom with the flexibility to create a customized shower that incorporates minimalism design, a comfortable experience and is functional and enticing to use. The super-flat panels blend seamlessly into any décor.

Large danish formal and open concept light wood floor and brown floor living room photo with white walls and no tv

Custom Bunk Beds integrate storage cubbies within and roller-drawers beneath. Original storage closet to right opened-up to create full-integrated millwork closet system to match with bunks - Architect: HAUS | Architecture - Construction: WERK | Build - Photo: HAUS | Architecture

Floor to ceiling windows allow maximum light and a feeling of openness that brings the outside in. All new trims, baseboards and doors in the redone family room. All new, modern lighting was installed. Heated du chateau flooring was added. The fireplace was reconfigured to allow for a wide-screen TV on the family room side of this vaulted, open space. Bruce Damonte Photography

Place architecture:design enlarged the existing home with an inviting over-sized screened-in porch, an adjacent outdoor terrace, and a small covered porch over the door to the mudroom. These three additions accommodated the needs of the clients’ large family and their friends, and allowed for maximum usage three-quarters of the year. A design aesthetic with traditional trim was incorporated, while keeping the sight lines minimal to achieve maximum views of the outdoors. ©Tom Holdsworth

Interior designer Jennifer Hale chose modern kitchen cabinets from European Cabinets & Design Studios to update the look of this 1990s kitchen. The dark gray base cabinets are from Aran Cucine’s Miro collection, with big drawers and long linear handles. The frosted glass and upper warm gray wall cabinets are from the Volare collection. All of the cabinets were custom ordered from Italy. The cabinetry is modern, but the kitchen actually has more of a transitional look, thanks to the Sub-Zero refrigerator, Zephyr hood, and the six-top Wolf range. A white Silestone quartz countertop, black and white glass tile backsplash, and hardwood floor complete the look.

This is a quintessentially urban prewar-into-modern hybrid: a broad, laterally organized reception room whose principal architectural gesture is the corner glazing that dissolves two walls into a panoramic register of treetops and distant skyline. The plan reads as a series of soft, overlapping conversational precincts rather than a single axial arrangement — a pair of swivel-capable lounge chairs anchoring the window wall, a facing pair of high-backed tub chairs, and a deep tuxedo-profile sofa closing the composition toward the viewer — all orbiting an organically contoured cocktail table that performs as the room's centrifugal keystone. The ceiling is treated with a recessed reveal and shallow soffit that traces the perimeter, a device that both conceals drapery hardware and lifts the plane visually, granting the low-slung modern floor plate an unexpected sense of loft. A blade wall carrying a single framed canvas performs critical spatial work, terminating the living volume while permitting an enfilade sightline through to a secondary dining zone beyond, where a glazed wall of ivy-clad courtyard reads as a green tapestry. The geometry throughout is deliberately curvilinear — barrel-backed seating, amoeboid tabletops, splayed tapered legs — set against the orthogonal discipline of window mullions, drapery pleats, and rectilinear millwork, producing a productive tension between architectural rigor and furnishings that behave sculpturally. **II. Materiality, Color & Texture** The palette is a study in tonal restraint calibrated for maximum textural incident. Walls are finished in a matte, faintly striated plaster or grasscloth with a warm ecru undertone that absorbs rather than reflects light, establishing a neutral field against which every surface differential registers. Seating is upholstered in a lustrous chenille or crushed velvet of pale greige, whose short pile catches raking daylight and reads almost pearlescent, while the foreground sofa introduces a coarser boucle in an oatmeal register and the opposing sofa shifts decisively into a saturated tobacco-and-umber channel-tufted chenille, its French-polished rosewood or macassar ebony frame supplying the room's darkest, most reflective note. Stone is deployed with connoisseurial precision: the cocktail tables are honed alabaster or backlit-quality onyx, their translucent creamy strata and honey veining offering a warm mineral counterpoint to the cool, ink-washed abstraction of the hand-knotted area rug, which functions as a painterly ground — a gestural silver-and-charcoal wash pooling beneath the furniture. Bronze, patinated brass, and stainless accents appear in table bases, the vessel-form vase, and the sconce, providing metallic punctuation without gleam. Drapery in a heavy sand-toned linen, edged in a beaded or embroidered tape, softens the glazing perimeter and reinforces the room's tactile vocabulary of nap, weave, slub, and polish. **III. Lighting, Atmosphere & Style Profile** Natural light is the dominant luminous strategy: the corner glazing admits a soft, diffuse northern wash under overcast conditions, which the designer has intelligently accepted rather than resisted — the flat, shadowless quality flatters the velvet piles and plaster walls, and the drapery is stacked to admit maximum daylight while modulating glare at the jambs. Artificial sources are almost entirely concealed or decorative: a slim architectural sconce on the blade wall, a sculptural biomorphic table lamp in white lacquer or ceramic in the dining zone, and an extraordinary petal-form pendant in patinated metal that reads as an art object first and a fixture second. The resulting atmosphere is hushed, cerebral, and quietly patrician — a room of low chroma and high material intelligence, where drama is supplied by silhouette and surface rather than by color or ornament. Stylistically, the project synthesizes into what might best be termed **Modernist Salon** or **Warm Continental Minimalism**: the DNA of mid-century French decorative arts — Royère, Frank, Adnet — filtered through a contemporary sensibility of tonal layering and soft geometry, with an Art Deco undertow in the ebonized woods and channel tufting. It is a scheme of curatorial discipline: nothing is decorative for its own sake, the view is treated as the primary artwork, and every material is selected for how it behaves in light.

In this master bedroom closet, Medallion Silverline maple Winston drawer fronts in the Divinity Classic Paint and accessorized with Hafele closet rods, shoe fences, and valet for maximum storage and organization.

In this master bedroom closet, Medallion Silverline maple Winston drawer fronts in the Divinity Classic Paint and accessorized with Hafele closet rods, shoe fences, and valet for maximum storage and organization.

In this master bedroom closet, Medallion Silverline maple Winston drawer fronts in the Divinity Classic Paint and accessorized with Hafele closet rods, shoe fences, and valet for maximum storage and organization.

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In this master bedroom closet, Medallion Silverline maple Winston drawer fronts in the Divinity Classic Paint and accessorized with Hafele closet rods, shoe fences, and valet for maximum storage and organization.

In this master bedroom closet, Medallion Silverline maple Winston drawer fronts in the Divinity Classic Paint and accessorized with Hafele closet rods, shoe fences, and valet for maximum storage and organization.

In this master bedroom closet, Medallion Silverline maple Winston drawer fronts in the Divinity Classic Paint and accessorized with Hafele closet rods, shoe fences, and valet for maximum storage and organization.

In this master bedroom closet, Medallion Silverline maple Winston drawer fronts in the Divinity Classic Paint and accessorized with Hafele closet rods, shoe fences, and valet for maximum storage and organization.

In this master bedroom closet, Medallion Silverline maple Winston drawer fronts in the Divinity Classic Paint and accessorized with Hafele closet rods, shoe fences, and valet for maximum storage and organization.

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We designed this master bedroom with maximum cabinetry space, used high gloss white lacqer .
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